I just hate looking at my stomach! Especially as I had to endure two stomach surgeries within a 4 month period from December 2011 to April 2012. Not only do I have an atrocious scar, but I ended up looking pregnant for months, no baby ever came and my stomach will no longer allow me to wear a bikini!!
I have always been self conscious about my stomach. I would look at pictures of myself and my drop dead gorgeous friends at the beach or where ever, and look at my stomach and just go, OMG! Now, when I look at those pictures I think, wow, I really was in good shape then! Just shows you the perspective that time will give you!
In my never ending quest for health, beauty and fitness, I have found some things that are real easy to do, fun, yes it has to be fun! and most of the time are just good common sense.
I hate sweating and hard physical work! Exercising to tone up. Doing crunches to give my stomach that 6 pack ab look. Going to the gym and using the equipment to tone up and build my strength to me is just plain boring. I have tried many different types of exercise to tone up and slim down. Running, walking, boogie boarding, the gym, the weights to get rid of that "rooster skin" look that hangs from the upper arms. I have discovered that if it is not something I enjoy doing for exercise, I will not stay consistent with it, and being consistent is really the key to ridding your stomach of ugly belly fat and unsightly love handles.
You can tone up your stomach, get rid of the love handles at any age. I am not saying that a 70 year old will suddenly get the body of a 20 year old, but you can look good at any age.
It is what you eat and when as well. If you love to dance and that is your exercise, the best time to do it is in the morning prior to eating breakfast. This raises your body's metabolism for the whole day, so it will burn off fat cells faster for you. Every body's metabolism is different, but the faster your metabolism is, the faster you will burn fat.
Eat your main meal for breakfast or lunch! The earlier you eat your main meal for the day the better as far as burning calories. You may want to consult with a dietitian as to what foods you can eat to help you burn fat. You don't have to eat 3 times a day, in fact, many nutritionists recommend eating as many as 6 small meals a day, with plenty of fruits and veggies. I only eat when I am hungry and always try to cut my self off by 6:00 pm. A steak will lie in your stomach undigested if you are eating that steak at 8:00 pm.
Make sure that you give yourself a cheat day! I never say I am on a diet, it just makes me hungrier. I just do the best I can do everyday eating healthy, not giving in to my sweet tooth and not expecting perfection from myself. Perfection and diet are just two words that don't go together, if you know what I mean!
I highly recommend Mike Geary's Truth About Abs. Mike is a registered dietitian, as well as a personal trainer. Having his book is like having a personal trainer to me! He has educated me on what to eat to burn fat, what foods not to eat as well, how to get a toned flat stomach without doing any crunches, really, NO CRUNCHES! His program is not a diet, it is a way of eating and toning up your body to get rid of those horrible fat area's that we all hate to look at.
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Speed Up Your Weight Loss
Aloha!
I really do try to blog daily, but I have been so busy trying to speed up my weight loss with constant and painful exercise that it takes me 22 hours out of 24. I lost 8 ounces last week!
Nah, just kidding!
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But if you made your New Years Resolution, as about 75% of the rest of the population in the U.S. to be losing weight, actually probably more like 99.9% of our population did, sometimes it just feels that way. Like that is all you do is think about not eating and exercising!
I actually have cut off some pounds but I am not sure how much, I can tell by the way my clothes fit. I finally had to give in and go purchase some new threads, then the pounds start to shed! Typical, yeah?
One tip that I always remember is that everything you do is exercise. I think I told you in an earlier blog, or may have been one of my articles, that a test done on hotel maids, half of who were told their work was exercise and half who were not told, the half that was told did lose weight, while the other half did not.
The absolute best stomach exercise is the world is to hold it in as tight as you can, picture your belly button hitting your spine. Please don't stop breathing when you do this. Breathing as you exercise allows oxygen to flow to the muscle group that you are targeting. Anything you are doing that is physical, just focus on your muscle groups you want exercised and tighten them up as you clean, go up stairs, walk into the store, walking through the mall (phew, that I can feel the next day!), especially when with my hubby who is merciless and walks quite quickly!
I highly recommend Mike Geary's Truth About Abs for being a highly educational and enlightening book for all of us who want to rid ourselves of that ugly belly fat and those wonderful love handles. This book has given me a shock at times, when things I think were healthy to eat turn out to be quite the opposite. You don't need to spend the extra to get Soy Milk for instance! Mike is a certified nutritionist as well as a personal trainer, and this book has been wildly successful for him, because he teaches us how to eat food that actually burns fat, so basically it is just a re-educating of how and what you eat.
As for exercising 22 out of 24 hours, Truth About Abs actually is like having a personal trainer as there is a total body workout that takes a whole five minutes daily! Now, if that is not good enough, there is a beginner level, intermediate and finally, yes, expert! Expert meaning the most strenuous five minute total body workout and guess what? This workout does not even have a single crunch in it!
Fill out the form below and I will send you a sample of Mike's book that has tons of info in it, a gift from me to you so you can preview The Truth About Abs.
I really do try to blog daily, but I have been so busy trying to speed up my weight loss with constant and painful exercise that it takes me 22 hours out of 24. I lost 8 ounces last week!
Nah, just kidding!
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But if you made your New Years Resolution, as about 75% of the rest of the population in the U.S. to be losing weight, actually probably more like 99.9% of our population did, sometimes it just feels that way. Like that is all you do is think about not eating and exercising!
I actually have cut off some pounds but I am not sure how much, I can tell by the way my clothes fit. I finally had to give in and go purchase some new threads, then the pounds start to shed! Typical, yeah?
One tip that I always remember is that everything you do is exercise. I think I told you in an earlier blog, or may have been one of my articles, that a test done on hotel maids, half of who were told their work was exercise and half who were not told, the half that was told did lose weight, while the other half did not.
The absolute best stomach exercise is the world is to hold it in as tight as you can, picture your belly button hitting your spine. Please don't stop breathing when you do this. Breathing as you exercise allows oxygen to flow to the muscle group that you are targeting. Anything you are doing that is physical, just focus on your muscle groups you want exercised and tighten them up as you clean, go up stairs, walk into the store, walking through the mall (phew, that I can feel the next day!), especially when with my hubby who is merciless and walks quite quickly!
I highly recommend Mike Geary's Truth About Abs for being a highly educational and enlightening book for all of us who want to rid ourselves of that ugly belly fat and those wonderful love handles. This book has given me a shock at times, when things I think were healthy to eat turn out to be quite the opposite. You don't need to spend the extra to get Soy Milk for instance! Mike is a certified nutritionist as well as a personal trainer, and this book has been wildly successful for him, because he teaches us how to eat food that actually burns fat, so basically it is just a re-educating of how and what you eat.
As for exercising 22 out of 24 hours, Truth About Abs actually is like having a personal trainer as there is a total body workout that takes a whole five minutes daily! Now, if that is not good enough, there is a beginner level, intermediate and finally, yes, expert! Expert meaning the most strenuous five minute total body workout and guess what? This workout does not even have a single crunch in it!
Fill out the form below and I will send you a sample of Mike's book that has tons of info in it, a gift from me to you so you can preview The Truth About Abs.
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