SMART Goals For Weight Loss Examples

Let’s look at how you can use SMART Goals For Weight Loss. I’ll show you examples of a big SMART goal to achieve your ideal weight and how to set smaller goals to help with building habits that help with weight loss.

What are SMART GOALS?

A smart goal is a Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-based Goal. Let’s look at this a bit closer.

Specific – Your goal must be very clear and exact. A specific goal would be to be a size 10 dress size.

Measurable – You need to know exactly when you’ve achieved your goal. And, ideally, be able to track your progress.

Realistic – Is your goal realistic for normal people? Sure there have been stories of people who have lost 5 stone in a month (probably). But that’s not realistic and not at all healthy.

Achievable – Is this goal achievable for you? Big goals are great but if you constantly set goals that are unachievable for you personally, that’s just going to demotivate you. Be realistic.

Time-based – What is the date you will achieve this goal by? This may be a specific time and date. It might be for the whole of this month, for 15 days, by the end of today…

Also, check out SMART GOALS for healthy living.

SMART Goal setting for your ideal weight

Here are some examples of Ideal Weight SMART GOALS

• I will be a size 12 dress size by the 23rd of December this year.
• I will weigh 9 stone 2 pounds by the first of December this year
• I will comfortably fit into my size 10 Jeans by Christmas

I recommend that you write this goal down and create some sort of progress chart to measure your ongoing progress.

Let’s say you currently weigh 10 stone 2 pounds and you want to weigh 9 stone 2 pounds. You could create a very simple chart starting with your current weight and dropping 1 stone at a time. Something like this…

SMART Goals for Weight Loss – Habit building

Along with your big SMART weight loss goal, I encourage you to also set SMART habit goals to help you achieve your ideal weight. These goals tend to be for a few days, a week, a month or even one day. Here are some examples…

• I will decide on an eating plan for weight loss by Sunday evening – Here are some to check out Weight Watchers v’s Intuitive eating, Noom or just create your own.
• I will plan my meals for the week ahead on Sunday evening
• I will walk for a minimum of 15 minutes daily all of this month
• I will exercise 3 times this week (by Sunday evening) – Here are some ideas – My 5 Favourite Indoor Workouts With Lucy Wyndham Read and check out these FITNESS CHALLENGES for people who don’t typically like exercising
• I will make sure that I eat a minimum of 5 fruit/veg portions daily. I will track this until the end of this month.
• I will walk 10,000 daily steps for 30 days – Check out my Water and Walking Challenge
• I will take the 30-DAY WEIGHT LOSS MINDSET CHALLENGE to help build a really positive mindset for weight loss success
• I will listen to a weight loss hypnosis download every night before I go to sleep to help retrain my mind

Setting yourself goals in this way is a great way to build healthy habits for weight loss success. Whether that’s to help you eat better, get more active or work on your mindset.

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