{"id":76304,"date":"2022-01-05T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/?p=76304"},"modified":"2022-01-18T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:44:16","slug":"i-want-to-be-xxx-size-by-xxx-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/blog\/i-want-to-be-xxx-size-by-xxx-date\/","title":{"rendered":"“I want to be XXX size by XXX date”"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Frustrated with yourself that you can\u2019t seem to reach your goals?\u2063<\/p>

Perhaps it\u2019s not you \ud83d\ude43\u2063 It\u2019s the way you set your goals.<\/p>

When you don\u2019t have control over the outcome, it becomes incredibly hard to reach your goals – leaving you feeling defeated and perpetually disappointed in yourself. \u2063
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Here are outcome-based goals that I hear a lot: \u2063
>> I will lose 15 pounds\u2063
>> I will be a size 4\u2063
>> I will get to 20% body fat\u2063
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Guess how much control you actually have over achieving those goals? \u2063Zero. Zilch. Nada.\u2063
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Alternatively, here are process-based goals that we can adopt instead:\u2063
>> I will eat up to my protein targets at least 5 days of the week \u2063
>> I will follow a structured strength training program 4 days per week\u2063
>> I will take a 15 minute walk over my lunch break \u2063
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Process-based goals are centered around actions that you *can* control. They are actions that likely move you in a direction that gets you closer to your goal outcome (leaner, stronger, fitter, for example) and focus is on building a habit. We know that what we do often is what leads to the results that we want. \u2063
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You may have only known how to set outcome-based goals because you thought that was your only option. Unfortunately, there is *so* much out of your control when it comes to body weight, body size, body composition that when we set goals with these as our vision of success (1) we may never get there or (2) we end up feeling incredibly defeated when we don’t achieve them.\u2063
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Run your goals through this filter and decide if your goals need to be reframed: \u2063
>> is this something I can control?\u2063
>> do the actions I\u2019m taking lead to the outcome I want?\u2063
>> can I make small actionable steps towards that outcome?\u2063
>> is this something I actually care about deep down?\u2063<\/p>

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Process-based goals are centered around actions that you *can* control. They are actions that likely move you in a direction that gets you closer to your goal outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-habit-change","category-health-behavior-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76308,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76304\/revisions\/76308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}