Your Weight Loss Goal

If you don't know it by know, let me tell it to so that you do. EXCESS WEIGHT puts you at risk for a multitude of health problems. This includes diabetes, high blood pressure, cardio-vascular disease, heart disease... and many other health problems.

If your looking to avoid many of these problems or if you have already been diagnosed with some of these problems you need to set weight loss goals that can help you maintain or recover your health. You can break your weight loss goals into short term goals and long term goals.

You weight loss should not be over ambitious, you did not get into the bad shape you're in overnight and you will not get out of it overnight either. You therefore need to start small and work your way up to a sustainable and healthy workout state that you can maintain without to much effort.

The experts at The National Institutes of Health say that a BMI (Body Mass Index) of between 19 and 24.9 is good for proper health and if that index is between 25 and 29.9 then you are considered to be in the overweight category. If your BMI is above 30 then you are consider to be obese; note the BMI number is based on your height.

Your weight loss goal should include a weight loss plan that corresponds to where you stand on the body mass index, this plan needs to based on how you want to improve your health and not how good you want to look in the mirror. This plan must include a change in diet that helps in your weight and that also provides your body with the nutrition it needs as well as an exercise program that is suitable for your current state of physical conditioning.

To help you with your weight loss goal, do not look at how much weight your going to lose in a given week instead look at how much exercise you're going to be able to do. This takes of the pressure of not seeing immediate weight loss and as you increase your exercise time you will then begin to see the pounds melt away.

The best way to start is with the simple act of walking. A 30 minute walk or walking for about a mile three to five time a week is a good place to start, as you progress you can then add other aerobic exercises and then adding some light weight lifting to the mix.

As an example when I decided I needed to start running I started with in place running at home first just starting with 3 minutes for the first 5 days twice a day, then on the following week moved it up to five minutes by the end of the week. The next week I set a goal of 7 minutes and by the end of the month I was at 10 minutes.

Then it's time to take it to street, starting with small steps again so as not to over tax myself and to get my body acclimated to the new environment. Remember small steps that build up gradually to a full time workout is what your long term goal should be as you embark on maximizing your weight loss routine for better health.

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