The new year brings plenty of motivation and momentum, both for your fitness goals and any other personal dreams and goals that you have.
However, in the midst of all this overwhelming motivation, you may come to find that you are setting quite unrealistic, unsustainable goals, such as:
- Losing 30 lbs in a month
- Completely overhauling your life
- Losing your old self and creating a new one
If that is the case, you should come to realize that massive, instant change isn’t really needed.
Even more so, sudden changes may turn out to be unbearable for your body and mind, so when setting goals, do so in an incremental approach.
Realize that your body likes change, but it likes it slow.
Set simple goals, such as:
- Becoming more active
- Making better food choices
- Getting better at managing stress
- Becoming more aware of automatic, self-sabotaging behaviors (i.e eating bad foods daily)
- Improving your sleep
These simple goals will set the fundament for you to achieve and over-achieve other more specific goals.
With these considerations out of the way, let’s discuss two of the most common goals for the New Year – Losing fat and gaining muscle!
