Melting those pounds can be difficult especially when time is not on your side. Losing the baby fat doesn’t have to be mindless boring hours jogging around a track or simply subsisting on a handful of almonds. In the health and fitness circles, here’s the “low down” at what’s Hot and what’s Not when you wany to trim your tummy.
1. There’s Something about Cardio
What’s Hot: Interval training is a guarantee when you want to trim your tummy. Instead of doing the usual jog around the block try some short sprints with speed walking in between. By always challenging your workout you are able to mix it up enough to lose the pregnancy weight.
What’s Not: Long winded runs on a treadmill will not get the results if your body is in its comfort zone. Instead your body gets used to the pace and your heart rate stays at a plateau during your cardio. You may be burning some calories but not challenging your system to burn off the reserve fats it holds. Break out of doing the same workout routine and trimming your tummy will be effortless.
2. You are what you Eat
What’s Hot: The saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” really sums up that in order to trim your tummy you must eat a balanced diet. You shouldn’t remove any of your food groups instead choose the healthy options. Make sure you avoid snacks with high sugar, salt and saturated and trans fats and try and stay away from starving yourself all day and binging on anything you can find when you burn out at night.
What’s Not: Extreme low-calorie diets is like taking one step forward and three steps backward when you are trying to trim your tummy. If you go on a fad diet like cabbage soup for a week, then you are depriving yourself of nutrients causing your body’s metabolism to slow down within that week. So when you finally return to eating normally your body stores the food you eat because it thinks it’s still in starvation mode. Starvating yourself with a fad diet usually ends up in you gaining more weight back more quickly than it took to lose it and messing up your metabolism.
Regardless of the latest fad, try and keep it in perspective. Women have been mothers for ages and they didn’t have to join the latest diet craze to lose the baby fat. You can trim your tummy without resorting to these fad diets or redundant exercise routines it just needs your commitment to a living a healthy lifestyle for healthier you. Here’s to your health!
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