What are your goals?



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If you haven’t thought of a goal or a reason why you are walking it may be harder to stay motivated for longer. So it is important to have a long term walking goal. 

For example here are some questions to help you work it out: 
 
What is your goal?
Why are you walking? 
What is the outcome you seek? 
Why have you chosen walking as your activity? 
How often will you be walking to achieve your goal? 
When did you want to start walking and when do you want to finish? 
Are you walking to achieve something? 
Who is going to keep you accountable towards your goal? 

To help you see someone else’s response, I will share with you mine: 

What is your goal? 
My goal is to walk 10,000 steps a day.

Why are you walking?
I am walking to lose weight and overall a healthier version of myself. I want to build stamina to also dance and put less pressure on my joints because of weight loss from walking. I want to wear my thin clothes again because they are too cute. Walking is also great for my mind, to help me work out solutions to every day problems and brainstorm more exciting ideas. 

What is the outcome you seek? 
I want to walk and not be breathless when I walk. 

Why have you chosen walking as your activity? 
Walking is just easy. I don’t have to be overly breathless from cardio or put pressure on my joints due to my larger weight. I had already lost 14 kilos just by walking and I didn’t even change my diet. This proves I can do it all again, I just have to keep walking.

How often will you be walking to achieve your goal? 
Every day. However, last time I lost 14 kilos I just walked 10,000 steps over 7 straight days in a fortnight and I still lost weight, just slower.

When did you want to start walking and when did you want to finish?
I started purposely last week. I had started on and off when I started this blog but now I’m back on track.
I won’t be ever finished. Even when I reach my desired weight loss I will keep walking to maintain the weight loss.

Are you walking to achieve something? 
I feel I mentioned it above. It’s to lose weight so I can dance and wear my cool thin clothes again.

Who is going to keep you accountable to your goal? 
Myself but also my blog readers!! If I’m not performing you will be the first to know because I will tell you on my walking for health blog. Also it doesn’t feel great to say, this week I didn’t meet my goal. 

So now it’s your turn. Write your answers down. You can update it as time goes on. 

Other things to think about:

How are you going to track your walking goal?
For example, are you going to check the scales each week or are you just going to wait till you lose a clothes size to know it’s working? And that’s if your goal is to lose weight but you can measure it in other ways if you want. It could be, I don’t puff when I walk up the two flights of stairs anymore. Or it could be I just want to do some activity and walking makes me feel good. 

What’s your timeframe to meet your goal? 
For me I want to see results pretty quickly. Like within 2-4 weeks of some amount of weight loss. And then I want to continue to see weight loss for a year. My goal to lose all my weight I think now will take 1-2 years. So I’m happy to reach my desired weight by Dec 2026 and if it is sooner even better! But again, once I have lost the weight I will keep walking! 

I hope this helps set your walking for health goals.

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