I do looser goals/evaluations. I see my primary care physician every 3 months so I use that for health and weight loss evaluation (they weigh me each time on their scale :-)

I've been unable in 15+ years of trying to get an "exercise" thing going and my philosophy on that has changed over the years too so I have backed off on trying to change myself so much; I want to do what I want to do (and, it looks like that's what I'm going to continue to do :-) and don't think spending my time trying to get myself to do something I don't want to do but the outside world says is "good" for me, is what I want to spend my energy on anymore. I'm getting up there in age, started receiving Social Security last year, and don't see any marathons in my future so I'm not going to train like that or even think about it; I have other things I'd rather think about.