Goals

So I just realized today that every time I've set some goals, I wasn't doing it properly.  You're supposed to set some sort of time measurement on goals and not leave them open ended. I've always set realistic goals, like "lose 5 lbs"...but I never specified WHEN I wanted to lose it. So here is my attempt as setting some timely and realistic goals - let's see how I progress:

Goal 1
Lose 5 lbs or reach 210 lbs - Achieve by August 31st

Goal 2
Lose 5 lbs or reach 205 lbs - Achieve by September 30th

Goal 3
Lose 5 lbs or reach 200 lbs - Achieve by October 31st! HALLOWEEN!!

This is my first set of goals. Basically, my 31st birthday is November 10th and I want to ENSURE that I reach that 200 mark by that date because I haven't been close to 200 lbs in at least 5 years. I hovered around the 205 lb mark last year doing Weight Watchers, but that was about it.

Here are my goals for the remainder of the year:

Goal 4
Lose 5 lbs or reach 195 lbs - Achieve by November 30th

Goal 5
Lose 5 lbs or reach 190 lbs - Achieve by December 31st


Holy crap - this is so realistic! I could lose 25 pounds by the end of the year! That is just amazing to me and really motivates me because I know losing 5 lbs per months is do-able and it's probably likely I'll surpass that goal! But I'm trying to remain realistic here!

And here are the rest of my goals to finally reach my ideal weight of 130 lbs!

Goal 6
Lose 5 lbs or reach 185 lbs - Achieve by January 31st

Goal 7
Lose 5 lbs or reach 180 lbs - Achieve by February 28th

Goal 8
Lose 5 lbs or reach 175 lbs - Achieve by March 31st

Goal 9
Lose 5 lbs or reach 170 lbs - Achieve by April 30th

Goal 10
Lose 5 lbs or reach 165 lbs - Achieve by May 31st

50 lbs lost mark!!!!

Goal 11
Lose 5 lbs or reach 160 lbs - Achieve June 30th

Goal 12
Lose 5 lbs or reach 155 lbs - Achieve July 31st

Goal 13
Lose 5 lbs or reach 150 lbs - Achieve August 31st

Goal 14
Lose 5 lbs or reach 145 lbs - Achieve September 30th

Goal 15
Lose 5 lbs  or reach 140 lbs - Achieve October 31st

75 lbs lost mark!!! HOLY CRAP!!!

Goal 16
Lose 5 lbs or reach 135 lbs - Achieve November 30th

Goal 17
Lose 5 lbs or reach 130 lbs - Achieve December 31st!

That would be a total loss of 85 POUNDS!! WTF?!?! I can do that in just under a year and a half! When I see these smaller goals broken out over this period of time, it seems SO much less overwhelming. I think I have what it takes to just achieve a 5 lb weight loss per month right?!?!

I got this!