You’ve reached a comfortable weight but not your goal weight. Comfort is seductive — urgency fades, easy gains are captured, external pressure diminishes. Research by Locke and Latham on goal setting shows meaningful goals drive continued effort, and specific demanding goals outperform vague ones. Is your original goal still meaningful, or should it be revised? If you decide to press on, the best-evidenced move is monitoring: across 138 randomized studies, getting people to track progress raised goal attainment, and it worked better when results were reported to someone and written down.
This companion covers why comfort emerges, comfort as trap versus completion, the honest assessment, and what to do either way. (4 min read)
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