Tuesday Tip: Your goal weight isn’t your goal

Tuesday Tip: Your goal weight isn’t your goal.. 🥅

This is probably not what most of us think or want to hear but it’s probably the most important aspect of long term success when it comes to weight loss. The weight loss industry has conditioned you to think about your weight/ fat loss like it’s a sprint. It’s a race – get to the finish line as fast as you can, any way you can and don’t worry about what happens after. Now the thing with a sprint is that if you want to win you need to go flat out, forget everything else, doesn’t matter if you exhaust yourself etc because you don’t need anything left after the finish – you’ve just got to make it there.

If you’re sprinting in a race and you stumble on the way then you’ll lose, you can’t afford to relax or trip or make a mistake.

So if you’re thinking of weight loss in these terms you’re conditioning yourself to believe you have to be perfect, you can’t stumble, you can’t have a blip, and you’re conditioning yourself to believe it has to be fast, and every mistake is then going to feel catastrophic. You’re also going to feel like reaching your goal weight/dress size etc is the end – doesn’t matter how you get there, just get there right?

But that’s not how it works for long term success. Start to think about your weight loss long term. How long do you want to keep the weight off for? Your answer should be forever right? So getting to your goal weight isn’t the finish line – it’s actually the starting line. You want to live at that weight / size for the rest of your life. So try to reframe your goals and your timescale – it’s not a race and it’s certainly not a sprint.. unless you want to keep sprinting forever.

So start your weight loss/ fat loss journey with that long term goal from the beginning, recognise it’s going to be a marathon not a sprint and you’re going to get much better results!

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