Why we should all give up on goals already

Sgt Wayne Wood It makes sense to a point. Stop chasing the rabbit or the carrot on the stick. When I was seriously trying to lose weight, I was counting every calorie, and making sure that even if I couldn't get to the gym, my intake was lower than my output. I wound up spending all my time thinking about my weight. Then I hit a plateau where it didn't matter how much I exercised or how little I ate, my weight wasn't changing. I wasn't close to the (admittedly unrealistic) goal I had set, so I saw it as a failure. Forget that I had gone from 435 lbs to 350, it was just a fail. I gained back a lot of that weight. Now I am not focusing on weight loss, just controlling how much and how often I eat, and I have lost ten pounds in two months.

Oh well. I guess setting unrealistic goals can be a bad thing, but used as a time management tool, or a means to get from point A to C, I don't see why you wouldn't establish some sort of framework.