When do you raise your goals?

[kaet]

How often and how much do you change your 'official' goals? Where I live is very hilly, so I upped the initial stairs goal to 15 floors (from 10) on about my third day, but I still haven't upped the steps goal at all from the initial 10,000, even though I'm actually doing 15/16k daily this week.

Part of my issue is that I take my Force off from Friday afternoon to Saturday evening, so it's a push to get even to 10,000 on Fridays and Saturdays, around that time.

[WendyB]

I raise them when I think I can meet them

But if you are doing 15 to 16 a day I myself would raise it to that. Why would you take your Force off for a day?

[kaet]

I'm orthodox Jewish, so I take it off for the sabbath. So far (with my husband's co-operation)

[Shlomo-T]

Good for you, Kaet!   Me, too.  I am sure we both do a lot of walking on Shabbat, but it's all "off the fitbit."  I like the motivation of fitbit six days a week, but Shabbat is a day to be liberated from goals, competition, and to remind ourselves we are not slaves to our ubiquitous technological devices.

[Gershon]

I raise my weekly goal by .025 miles once a week. I have a structured plan for walking each day. Each day is about .025 miles higher than the same day the week before. Therefore, my goal for the trailing 7 days goes up a little every day. I don't follow it exactly, but it's pretty close.

[Gershon]

Correction: I raise the weekly goal by about .25 miles a week.

[Shlomo-T]

I hadn't thought about it, Gershon. I am new to fitbit. But I like your idea of increasing one's goal in increments. I will take it more slowly than you though.. כל טוב

[Gershon]

I started last February. In the beginning, I focused on walking without fatigue and without gain. This worked well, but my progress was slow. In fast, there was little progress until about October.

Now I raise my goal only a 1/4 mile each week. That's the week's total, not daily. In a year, I'll increase my weekly total by 13 miles a week. 

In my opinion, including myself, raise their goals too quickly in the beginning. There is a natural jump as a person gets used to walking or running. But after that natural jump, there may be more progress if progress is intentionally slowed. 

[Algenon]

I would focus on the one goal that helps you the most.  I raise my goal when I have over met my  goal for at least a month.  For instance, I now Have a goal of 20,000 steps and if I meet my goal and go over for a total of 25,000 steps for a month I know it is time to move on. I focus on steps as a goal because it is the movement that has helped me lose the weight not the calories or the active minutes but it might be different for you because no two  people lose weight the same way.  If the caloreis help you to lose the weight, use the caloire goal. If the active minutes have helped you, use that.   I would still see if you can over meet the goal first.  I hope this helps!

[SunsetRunner]

only started recently, but I would raise the goal when it starts being easy to reach