Goal Setting

Goal Setting

March 7, 2013    Thursday

Weight: 186.6 lbs. BMI=29.66

Weight in ounces: 2985.6

March 8, 2013    Friday
Weight 185.4 lbs. BMI=29.47
Weight in ounces: 2966.4

March 9, 2013    Saturday
Weight: 185.2 lbs. BMI=29.44
Weight in ounces: 2963.2

March 10, 2013 Sunday
Weight: 184.6 lbs. BMI=29.35
Weight in ounces: 2953.6

March 14, 2013 Thursday
Weight: 183.2 lbs. BMI=29.12
Weight in ounces: 2931.2

Here is one of those plateaus.  I have weighed in at 186.6 lbs. for the last three days.  I have been running three miles each day, staying with my process of diet and exercise and it is knowing that I am following a process that prevents me from having emotional issues about not losing more now.  Early on, at a higher weight, my weight loss was quicker but I knew it would slow, and change.  As I reach a lower weight, with the exercise, some of the weight is the change from fat to muscles mass, and that will change again once I stabilize.

I am listening to Brian Tracy's audio program, "The Psychology of Achievement" which is a six CD program with advice.  I first listened to it in 1987, actually when it was on cassette audio.  The technology has changed, and he has updated the program, but the basic program is unchanged.  The essence of his program is success and it is a achieved by setting goals.  I've used the techniques I learned from Brian before, but like many of the things in life for us, I get away from it.  I get busy studying languages and get away from my daily program.

In setting a goal, it must be personal, positive, specific.  President John F. Kennedy said, "It is our goal to place a man on the moon and return him safely to earth by the end of this decade."  There it was, clear, visible, specific.  He did not say someday but before 1970, by the end of the decade of the 1960's.

When I began to lose wait for my program, I used what I knew about medical science, weight for a male my age, and I determined my weight should be 160 lbs.  I then subtracted that weight from my existing weight, multiplied that weight in lbs. by 16 for ounces per pound, and then divided that weight in ounces by 4 for my intended weight loss of 4 ounces each day and projected that information in time and allowed myself a reasonable time for errors.  So, I could then state my goal as:

My goal is to weigh less than 160 lbs. by October 1, 2013 by healthy choices and actions.

Brian Tracy says that we should have a present tense statement such as "I weigh 160 lbs." no matter what the weight is at the moment.  These are actually affirmations.

I weigh 160 lbs.
I earn $350,000 per year
I drive a new Subaru Outback

Affirmations are powerful tools.


I did not finish writing this at the time and I wanted to finish the goal statement before I moved on and began new entries.

Stephen J. "Red Boots" Payne
Body by Payne