One of my clients recently hit her goal of weighing under 88 kilos.

So we talked about the next milestone that makes sense for her, and she mentioned 85 kilos:

"So short term goal after 90kg was 88kg, with a comfortable goal of 85kg. I used to be very happy at this weight."

Cool!

We can make this happen.

But here's what she and I talked about next:

1. Her habits when she weighed 85 kilos
2. What she liked about her look at 85 kilos
3. How she felt at 85 kilos

Because the answers to those questions are the real goals—not weighing 85 kilos, specifically.

The 85-kilo milestone is just the thing that gets us moving in the right direction, and makes the diet feel structured and temporary.

Along the way, we'll closely monitor how she's doing with #1-3, and consider it mission complete when she feels like she's in a good place with them.

Whether that happens at 85 kilos or not.

To me, this is the best way to think about and utilize goal weights:

1. Get very clear on how you expect things to be different at that weight—numerical stuff aside
2. Open things up to a target range, not an uber-specific number

Since long-term "maintenance" is a range, not just one number, and your answers to #1 will be available to you at a variety of weights. Not just the one goal weight.

Also, we're not needlessly waiting until January to make this goal happen.

Sure, "the holidays are crazy"... but can you remind me of the last time you had 2-3 pretty chill months? When fat loss felt convenient and easy?

Oh, that's right.

Never.

So although I won't be having her bring a food scale to Christmas, I will be pushing her to capitalize on the VERY high number of perfectly normal, non-holiday days that shouldn't be treated like Christmas, too.

I strongly recommend that you consider doing the same if you've always struggled with the all-or-nothing cycle.

Waiting until January to get serious about your fat loss goals will likely just keep you in that cycle.

Sam

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