Starling Fitness: Daily writings on Fitness, Diet, and Health

This is about the time people stop working on their New’s Year’s Resolutions. It’s usually because they run into a problem or they have a week where weight loss is slow. It’s very important to have clear criteria to judge whether your week is a success or failure. If you have unclear or unrealistic expectations, it might mean the end of trying altogether.

When you are trying to lose weight, how do you judge success?

How much weight do you have to lose in a week for you to consider it a success?

What if you don’t lose any weight?

How else can you judge your week’s success or failure?

Start thinking about your healthy lifestyle in terms of things you can do. You can monitor your water or vegetable intake, but you can’t necessarily guarantee that you will lose weight every week. Instead of judging your week’s success by the scale, what are you going to judge yourself by?

P.S. I’d like to tell you that you shouldn’t be judging yourself harshly at all, but based on the email I’m getting, I know you are out there doing it right now, so we need to address that issue and find a way to give yourself more positive feedback. Next week, start thinking about how you could stop judging yourself at all.