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As we start the new year, many of us are in the habit of setting health goals for the upcoming year.

It's kind of nice, right? We have a new year. It's a nice blank slate. We can get started with some health goals.

What do you want to accomplish with your health this year? You know, some people set the same goal each year.

It's to lose 15 pounds or maybe it's 30 pounds.

And for some, it's a little bit bigger.

It's 100 pounds.

But, you know, this last week I was talking with one of our clients and she decided that she'd make a more realistic weight-lost goal.

She told me, you know, Teresa, I decided that I will lose one pound per month, and then in two

years I'll be down about 25 pounds. That is better than I've done for years.

And to lose this one pound per month, she has set small, important health goals or habits she needs to do.

She is making a plan.

She's writing down the habits she's working on and recording daily how she is doing. She is serious about sticking to her

plan. And so, you know, in the topic of today in goal setting, she's done some very important things

or taken some very important steps. The first step is almost backwards. It's saying,

well, what do I want to happen? What is going to be the result? The next step is almost backwards. It's saying, well, what do I want to happen?

What is going to be the result?

The next step is to set up a strategy as far as how you are going to get to that result.

The next, we need to have a method for tracking.

How are we doing on our progress on these habits?

And then fourth, I think it's really good to build an accountability, and that can be with

a spouse, that could be with a dietitian or nutritionist at nutritional weight and

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