Questions to consider when setting weight management goals
Setting goals is an important tool for managing your weight. Ask yourself the following:
- Do your goals focus primarily on behavior changes or on achieving a certain weight?
- Is your main goal to improve your health or your appearance?
- Do your goals include changes you can live with for the rest of your life?
- Are the goals you wish to achieve your goals or someone else's?
- Do you think your life will be better (you will be happier, people will accept you more, your life will be more exciting) if you lose weight?
- Do you think that if you could just lose your extra weight, you would then be able to keep it off?
- Is your appearance more important to you than your health?
| Author: | Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS | Last Updated: April 20, 2007 |
| Medical Review: | Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine Matthew I. Kim, MD - Endocrinology & Metabolism | |
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