Track Your Goals | Lose Weight | Sugar Detox

Terry Carter

In this 4K motivational video I'll discuss how to Track Your Goals and achieve the success in life that you are looking for.

You have your dreams and you set your goals but now you have to track your progress along the way.

I'm going to use my weight as an example to demonstrate how you can use tracking to reach your goals.

I set a goal to get to 180 pounds. Since I was at 191 pounds that meant that I had to lose 11 pounds.

My first step was to start a sugar and carb detox. For 3 weeks we completely cut out sugars, yes even fruit, and all carbs (breads, grains, etc.).

I still did my daily exercise, lifting weights, stretching, and meditation but really focused on controlling my diet.

We already lived a pretty healthy diet but decided to step it up a level.

To track my weight and my progress I decided that at 7:00 AM every Monday I would weigh myself. This allowed me to get an accurate weight and allowed me to see if what I was doing was working.

Week 1 I weighed in at 191 pounds. By week 2 I dropped 2 pounds and was 189. Week 3 I got down to 185.

So it was working, just by simply cutting out sugar I had dropped 6 pounds.

By tracking your sugar intake and reading food labels, you begin to realize that there is sugar in everything. So many products that we buy at the grocery store, many which you would never think of, have sugar in them.

Sugar is so addicting and taste good, that many companies put it in to not only help with taste but to sub-consciously get addicted so you will buy the product again.

Finding foods without sugar can be difficult but with a little work and awareness it can be done.

Week 4 rolls around and I'm at 185 again. To be exact it was 185.4, just like the week before. The next week 185.4 and then the following week 185.4 yet again. I started to think that the scale was broken.

Four straight weeks I didn't fluctuate at all. Although this can be discouraging since I'm working so hard and sacrificing foods I love to eat but I had to stay the course until I reached my goal of 180 pounds.

The following week I get down to 182 pounds. Finally have a month I start heading in the right direction again and lose over 3 pounds.

Then the next week I hit 181 pounds and then at the time of this video I was 180.8 pounds. So I was 0.8 pounds away from my goal.

The main reason I did this was for health reasons and to overall feel better.

By tracking my weight every week it allowed me to see if what I was doing was working. Is the diet I'm doing working? Is the exercise I'm doing working?

Let's say that one week I was 185 pounds and the next week I went to 187 pounds. Then I could look back and ask myself, "why did I go up 2 pounds?" Did I eat poorly? Did I not exercise enough?

Whatever the reason, I now know that I have to make some adjustments this week to get the results that I'm looking for.

The line to success is never straight, it's a winding road that you have to learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, and find new solutions.

But, if your not tracking your progress then you don't know how close you are to your dreams and your goals.

Even though I'm using my weight in this example you can do this with anything, doesn't matter what your dreams or goals are.

You need to track it, write it down everyday, every week, or every month whatever your system it to track it.

You have to track it, this way you don't do something for 3 months and realize that what your doing isn't working.

All your dreams are possible, all your goals are possible, but track them, and keep an idea of where your at. Also, when you hit small milestones and start having some success you start feeling good about yourself and start gaining some confidence.

I have 0.8 pounds to go to hit my goal and when I do I'll set a new goal. Update I did reach my goal and got down to 179.6 pounds.

Track your dreams and track your goals.

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Thank you for listening,

Terry Carter