How to Successfully Lose Weight - Learn to Set SMARRT Goals

Weight loss advertisements often imply that the system of losing weight being sold is a breakthrough secret. If you buy it and follow it they guarantee you will lose weight. These merchants can do this because anything that deceases your calories long enough will cause a person to lose weight.

Losing weight is a skill. It can be learned and applied. Just like fine woodworking is a skill that is learned over time, so is the skill of living in such a way that we become healthier. Losing weight is not something secret, known to just a few and released in their latest book. The number one skill someone losing weight needs is the ability to set and accomplish a goal.

A goal is merely a realistic step a person will take to get from where they are to a place, condition or situation they prefer. The goal is broken up into a set of tasks that are regularly performed until the step is accomplished. I have learned a procedure to do this called SMARRT. SMARRT is a mnemonic for the words Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Rewarded, and Timed.

Specific Goals are narrow points along the way. Rocks in the stream we jump to to get to the other side. Depending on our jumping ability, they need to be close enough we can get to them, but not so far we fall into the water. A specific weight loss goal would be to lose 10% of your of your body weight. More specifically, to lose all that weight as excess fat and not muscle tissue. Although, if you are way above your ideal body weight, say with a BMI (body mass index) of 30 or more, you have a huge amount of muscle in your legs that will become smaller as your weight decreases.

I invite you to learn more about SMARRT goals from Bruce L Bair. You can read more on this subject in a special report that can be downloaded from his blog at http://www.gettheskinney.com/2008/06/03/free_report/

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