Make 2025 Your Year of Successful Weight Loss with a SMART Goal!

Getting closer to the beginning of a new year, you may find yourself thinking about what you’d like to accomplish in 2025. If weight loss is at the top of your priority list, you’ve got a lot of company. A 2023 Forbes Health/One Poll survey found that about 34 percent of Americans make a resolution to lose weight every year, but research shows that most abandon these goals by the middle of February.

But this year, you’re determined—you will succeed. To make the path to your goal easier, you need to make a SMART goal, a well-known acronym that can be applied to weight loss. Here’s some more information about what SMART stands for and how it might look as you try to get rid of excess weight with a qualified medical team.