Setting the right goals is an important first step in behavioral intervention therapy. From a health perspective, if you can lose 5-10% of your current body weight, you can greatly improve your health. It is more realistic to set an initial goal of losing between 5 and 10 percent of your body weight, but that doesn’t mean it ends there. Most people focus only on weight loss when it comes to weight loss, but actually focusing on changes in diet structure and exercise habits can help more with the long-term results of weight loss. People who successfully manage their weight usually set only two or three goals over a period of time. Effective goals should be attainable and allow for occasional mistakes (rather than having to be perfect to achieve them). For example, “exercise more” is a good goal, but not measurable. “Walk 5 km per day” is measurable, but is it achievable in the beginning? “Walk 30 minutes a day” is easier to accomplish, but what if you have to work late or have a thunderstorm? In summary, it is reasonable to set a goal of “walking 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week or more”.