You should talk with your doctor to help you determine your best weight loss goal in terms of pounds. Your healthcare professional can help you to determine what you should actually weigh. This will help you to pinpoint a good weight not just the one that you think sounds the best. Just as you do not want to weigh too much, you also do not want to weigh too little.

Your healthcare professional can also help you determine how much fat loss you should be trying to achieve. Pounds alone are not enough to lose. If you have a high fat content throughout your body, you will need to achieve a leaner body. This can be done through healthy eating and exercise.

• Your weight loss goals should be for all the right reasons. It should not just be about losing weight because your spouse thinks you are fat or because people say you are getting chubby.
• Weight loss should not simply be a means to a superficial end. For example, you should not just want to lose weight to look good at an upcoming wedding.
• In order to have a weight loss goal to be proud of you need to set some good reasons for wanting to lose weight. Perhaps you want to add years to your life, lower your risk of disease or to improve your health.
• You might want to lose weight so that you feel good about yourself on both the inside and the outside. Weight loss should be something you do for you. It can also be for your family in terms of wanting to be healthy enough to be there for them for years to come.