10 Questions to

Jumpstart Weight Loss

When clients see me for weight management, they answer these questions before our first appointment.  Most of them find this simple reflective exercise a vital baby step in permanent weight loss. 

1. Where do you get your energy from?  What are you passionate about?

2. Think back to the last time you were comfortable in your own skin. What was different about that time (attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, mood, energy, passion)?

3. What is your ideal weight (even if it seems unlikely)? Your desired weight (the weight you think you could probably achieve)? Your tolerable weight (the highest weight you could live with, even if you might be disappointed)?

4. How did you come up with your desired weight? Why do you want to weigh this specific weight?

5. How achievable is your desired weight?

●When were you last at your desired weight?

 ●How hard do you think it would be to stay at this weight?

●Would your tolerable weight offer the same benefits?

6. How would your life differ if you reached your desired weight? What could you do that you can’t do now?

7. What things that you don’t do now because of your weight might you be able to start doing sooner than later?  

8. What obstacles are in the way of eating healthfully, losing weight?

9. Of these obstacles, which need attention immediately? Which are a lower priority and can be attended to over time? What are some ways around the highest priority obstacle?

10. What are opportunities to take better care of yourself and energize/impassion yourself that you are currently not making the most or anything of? Which could you begin to take advantage of today? This week? This month? List three such opportunities/activities you will take advantage of in the next 90 days.

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