Instead of rushing out and buying your dream bathing suit, tape a picture of it on your bathroom mirror and/or refrigerator to help keep you motivated to eat healthier and to get moving.  Face it, bathing suit shopping is stressful and can be de-motivating, wait until you feel good about yourself and your hard work before you hit the stores. Who knows maybe by then it will be on sale!

Achieving your new summer body isn’t about starvation.  It’s about making healthy choices.  I love and live by the 80/20 rule.  If 80% of ALL your meals are compiled of healthy choices, you are eating every few hours, and exercising then you can have a few pleasures to keep you from going off the dead end.

Drink your water.  It helps cleanse your body of harmful toxins and by not taking in enough water, it can cause cellulite to appear more dramatic and making it harder to lose weight.  Water is crucial to living a healthy lifestyle and keeps your body working in proper order.

I know it doesn’t make sense but when you eat frequently you will increase your metabolism.  When deciding what to add to your new eating plan, consider adding more fruits, vegetables, lean meat, fish and dairy.  You’ll want to avoid highly processed foods that remove many of the nutrients your body needs.

Don’t believe the hype! The information on the front of the foods may be misleading, make sure that you read the back of the box, and read the ingredients.  If it has more than 5 ingredients or you need a PhD in biology to understand what’s inside, leave it on the shelf.  Limit the sweets/junkfood.  These food contain empty calories while will only add on the pounds sabotaging your efforts to lose weight and get bathing suit ready.  If you must have something sweet, try having some fruit. Craving salt’ Try reaching for a pickle. Need more grocery shopping tips, just click here.

Want to lose belly fat’  Get some sleep.  The average adult needs 7-9 hours of sleep, how much are you getting’  Without proper rest, the body can’t repair itself and when your body lacks sleep you more likely to reach for junk food to give you a quick rush of energy.

Keep your stress levels in check.  Increased stress levels can lead to increased levels of cortisol in your system.  This hormone is your enemy if you want to lose belly fat and increase muscle.  When we have too much of this hormone in our blood stream it causes or body to store fat around belly, decrease muscle building and reduce our immune system.

Remember there are no quick fixes to weight loss.  Cher once said, “If the perfect body came in a bottle everyone would have one.”  To get bikini ready, start by choosing a healthy lifestyle that includes good food choices, exercise and a good night sleep.

Do you have any other tips you’d like to share on how to get bikini ready, just leave them in the comment box.

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Do you hear the call of your swimsuit’ How are you feeling about putting one on’ Will you be ready for that first day at the beach, or do you have a spring vacation planned and that day is coming sooner than you would like.  TV infomercials and magazine ads all promise you that if you use their product(s) you’ll lose the most weight in the shortest amount of time.

Let me tell you, these “lose weight fast and easy” schemes don’t work.  These weight loss systems may help people drop some pounds, but fast weight loss results are mostly water weight loss, and water weight can be regained just as fast as it’s lost.  If you want to be ready to bust out your bathing suit this summer, don’t invest in fast fixes.

Here are some of the more typical schemes that have been touting fast weight loss to everyone who wants to look great in their swimsuit.

1. Spot reducing – There is no such thing as spot reducing. Our bodies are smarter than we think, if we want to lose weight in our thighs, by just working your thighs you won’t lose the weight there and only there.  You can’t attach something to your belly to lose belly fat. Sorry folks any exercise program or product that tells you their product can do that is not being truthful with you.
2. Fad diets – Sticking with eating just one food or doing a cleanse isn’t nutritionally sound and can make you sick.  Any diet that asks you to cut calories to a dangerous level less than 1200 calories/day is starvation. When your body goes into “starvation mode,” it holds onto fat, not knowing when the next meal will come.  That can sabotage all of your efforts weight loss efforts.  I know it sounds counter intuitive but you need to eat to fuel your weight loss.
3. Liquid nutrition – These diets are popular because they are widely available, inexpensive and effective with initial weight loss, which is typically water weight.  Liquid diets tend to over use lean muscle and slow your metabolism, thus, making it even more difficult for weight loss to be maintained post diet.  Eventually, liquid diets can lead to the development of muscle cramps, anemia, dizziness, menstrual abnormality, and constipation.  Substituting healthy meals with shakes will not help you lose weight and it may cause you to overeat because you will remain hungry because you won’t feel satiated Healthy eating habits will provide your body with the vitamins and minerals you need without added calories.

You want your body to be the best it can, right’  We have 17 weeks to get ready to show off our bikini body. If you exercise and eat healthy, you’ll achieve your goal in time for bathing suit season.  All the magic potions and weight loss schemes in the world won’t get you where you want to go any faster. Those fast fixes are not really fixes at all when you inevitably end up in worse condition than you started in.

Are you looking for a good sensible fitness and nutrition program that will help you to look great and feel fantastic, just shoot me an email to get started.

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