Reflection On Behavior Change Project

My goal for the behavior change project was to lose ten pounds by the cutoff date. My three short-term goals were losing two pounds, five pounds, and eight pounds. Looking back on these goals, I wish that I would have chosen better dates for these to be completed by. My original long-term goal was to lose twenty pounds, which now seems almost impossible due to me not being able to lose ten pounds in a few months. I was also unable to meet my three short term goals. Although I was unable to reach my goals, I do think that the goals I set for myself were realistic, and if I had been more serious and strict on myself, I would have been able to reach them.
The obstacles that I wrote down originally were fairly accurate, as well as other challenges …show more content…
I forced myself to stay on track when given class time to work on homework, which made a drastic difference in the amount of time I had once I arrived at home for exercising. One obstacle that I was not able to predict was the two-week-long visit from my aunt and her two children. During this time, we ate mostly unhealthy foods, and they stayed in the room that has the exercise equipment, preventing me from being able to use the treadmill or weight bench. I also regained the weight I had lost, as well as a few extra pounds. My two other obstacles concerned food, which was a major factor in my failure to reach my goal. I was surprised at how reluctant my parents were to buying healthy foods, considering they were usually more expensive than the unhealthy food that we usually would buy. I did not …show more content…
I am a very lazy person, and I tend to only do what I want to during any free time I have, ruling out any possibilities of exercising. I was able to exercise off and on, but the instances were so oddly spread apart that I doubt it would have had any noticeable, lasting effect. The times when I actually did work out, my legs and arms were so sore that I did not feel like ever exercising again. Motivation was definitely my biggest challenge, and I still struggle with it even now. I wish that I would have been able to keep a consistent food log, but even that was hard to manage. I was able to keep it for a few weeks, but I stopped around the same time my partner started hers. My partner did encourage me to keep it again, but I kept forgetting