I say this is especially true in weight loss because weight loss can be especially difficult. Not because it’s hard but because it’s sometimes boring. The trick to most of life in finding ways to make things interesting, making games or trials for yourself and generally finding ways to keep yourself engaged in situations you generally wouldn’t find that interesting at all.
Taking this idea of a challenge much further than a daily or even a weekly target is the 9 week challenge. This is long term and can be difficult to stick to but it allows you to set your target much higher than you would otherwise be able to. Depending on what kind of person you are this can either be inspiring or intimidating. If you’re in the second set of people, never fear!
Break those nine weeks into fortnightly chunks or weekly chunks if you prefer. That way you’ll know what you should be achieving on a more constant basis while having the overbearing target hanging in the distance for you to aim towards.
Try and remember not to set yourself targets you’re never going to realistically achieve, the idea is to push yourself into succeeding not to kill yourself with exertion in the process!