For any life-changing event to happen, planning and goal-setting are paramount. Planning for a successful outcome is the basic requirement of any endeavour. When Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mount Everest, he wasn’t out for a stroll and all of a sudden found himself at the summit!<\/p>\n
Prior to commencing weight loss, take the time to think about your goals, and work out an exercise and eating programme with targets or indicators of success along the way. Even if the end result falls short of the planned criteria, it’s a likely bet that you’ll be much closer to success than you’d have been without them. An end goal, with mini-goals timed along the way will assist you greatly. Always specify your targets clearly.<\/p>\n
Use the following five D’s to help you get emotionally involved with the result of your efforts. Write your five D’s down in a contract to yourself. You should write your definition of what losing weight will mean – for example great looks, health, fun and so on. Have a clear-cut picture of who you will be and the lifestyle you’ll enjoy when the excess weight has gone.<\/p>\n
Desire (why you’re doing it). This needs to be something that stirs an emotion within you. For example personal challenge, get out from where you are, you owe it to yourself to have better health, to prove to someone you’ve got what it takes, to take control of your destiny.<\/p>\n
Moving on now to Dedication: How much time will you spend exercising each week and when? Put it on a calendar, in a diary, or on the fridge!<\/p>\n
When your friends see how committed you are, they won’t expect anything else from you. Establishing your timetable helps you cope better mentally. You’ll exercise all the better for it.<\/p>\n
A contract illustrates your Determination to see this thing through. Having a written document about the positive direction of your life makes it harder to bottle out of it. Having a plan and targets to work towards gives you a Discipline that helps you to power through the tough times that will occasionally strike you.<\/p>\n
Your contract is a working document designed to assist and strengthen you through the change in your life. Plan your work, and then work your plan with commitment. In a year’s time, both the way you look and your life in general could be unrecognisable to those who know you now.<\/p>\n
(C) Scott Edwards. Visit WeightLossDietWar.com for in-depth diet tips on losing fat<\/a> and lose 20 pounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For any life-changing event to happen, planning and goal-setting are paramount. Planning for a successful outcome is the basic requirement of any endeavour. When Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mount Everest, he wasn’t out for a stroll and all of a sudden found himself at the summit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}