subject: Healthy Weight Loss Goals [print this page] Healthy Weight Loss Goals Healthy Weight Loss Goals
Weight loss is typically measured in one of two ways: pounds and inches. Many popular weight loss clinics and institutions require dieters to weight themselves daily and come in frequently to be measured. Keeping track of weight both weight loss and inches lost can benefit dieters as they attempt to reach their weight loss goals.
In addition to taking it upon themselves to ensure that dieters are actually losing weight...professionals in the weight loss industry are feeling more pressure to be responsible when it comes to ensuring that dieters are accessing healthy weight loss. They are the ones that need to be making sure that dieters are losing weight in a healthy fashion. They have to remember to consider:
1. Healthy weight loss goals: some dieters will start their program off with very unrealistic and sometimes very unhealthy weight loss goals. Any dieter who comes in stating that their weight loss goal is 80 pounds needs a talking to. And many dieters that come in saying that they need to reach their "high school weight" need a talking to.
2. Yo-yo dieting! Lots of dieters think that yo-yo dieting is dieting. It is not a healthy weight loss method. Yo-yo dieters lose weight and then gain it back and then lose weight and then gain it back. This is horrible for the body. The purpose of dieting is to obtain healthy weight loss. This means losing weight and keeping it off.
3. Fad dieting (extreme dieting). There's always some "new" diet out there. And a lot of them either don't work or they are very unhealthy while they are working. If a diet seems totally off the wall or the creators can't explain "why" it works...avoid it.
Some dieters make the mistake of construing weight loss success as a sign of credentials. They place themselves in the position of expert and start making adjustments to their dieting regime. They figure that some weight loss obtained through a certain method will only increase with increased use of that method and other similar lines of thought.
These dieters may figure that a 500 calorie limit resulting in 2 pounds of weight loss per day is just a precursor for their personally created 250 calorie limit that they believe will probably result in 4 pounds of weight loss per day. This is not a good idea. This will not work. This will not result in healthy weight loss and it will probably result in no weight loss at all.
Dieters should not make changes to their weight loss program protocol. Experts designed the protocol and the rules are in place for specific reasons. Making changes in your diet can lead to more extreme weight loss can actually inhibit the healthy weight loss you were already achieving.
