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We talked in Chapter 3 about the importance of planning before you start your diet. Well, an integral part of the planning process is deciding what it is you actually want to achieve.

You might be thinking at this point: I’m reading a diet book, so I guess I just want to lose weight! I suspect that if we look a bit more closely at your motivations, we might find you’ve got quite a bit more to gain as well, and you can set goals for these outcomes too. You might want to feel more confident, be able to buy clothes more easily, lower your risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer or other diseases, or improve your fitness. Of course your goal might be as simple as just wanting to get back into that dress or suit you haven’t been able to wear for ages.

Whatever you want for yourself, the art of goal setting is keeping it real and achievable, and also having performance measures or milestones along the way to let you know you are heading in the right direction.

We’ve been very careful throughout the book to keep our promises real and achievable, and we really want to encourage you to do the same with your expectations of yourself. If you set unrealistic, unachievable goals for yourself you also set yourself up for disappointment and failure, and we all know what that feels like from our past experiences of diets, don’t we?