The key to weight loss sometimes is small goals, small things and keeping it reasonable. Sometimes we say that I am going to lose 7 pounds in the next 7 day. That’s a rather impossible goal unless you are just planning on losing water weight and then subsequently gaining it back right after. But they also have to be specific. Sometimes we get to New Years and then we say I am going to lose weight this year. A lot of people do this. Or they say I’m going to lose 100 pounds, in what timeline?
If you get to the end of the month and you’ve lost 8 pounds, which is actually just right and great, many times you will get frustrated because you’re only at a fraction of your 100 pound goal. So realistically if you say this week I am going to lose 2 pounds, it is more likely to be achieved, and if you say if I fulfill so many goals in a row, then I get this incentive, then great. But you have to keep it realistic, specific, and short term. If you put it out over too long a period of time, you will just forget among other things, and all in all it never really works out the way you want or think it will.