Even in everyday life, having a goal is quite necessary for achieving a given task or reaching your dream, having a long-term or short-term goal for losing weight is quite necessary to ensure that those excess weight come off, these goals should be achievable, do not have a “lose 10lbs in 5 days” goal, those kind of goals are rarely achievable and would even leave you more frustrated than ever, so I advice that you set reachable goals and then work towards those goals with diligence, take out a paper and write out her you are going to achieve those goals, diet-cuts, exercises and any other methodology you intend to use in achieving those goals, you can also have year-long goal for the total amount of weight you would want to lose at the end of the year, these goals when set properly would propel the entire process and enable you lose a sufficient amount of weight