?The
Keys to Mini Skirt Season Weight Loss?
By Registered
Dietitian Jayson Hunter
With summer
quickly approaching women are breaking out their Mini Skirts and
hoping they fit. Here are some of my best rapid fat loss tips for
fitting into your mini skirts.
Losing weight fast is actually
a simple process, but simple is not necessarily easy. There is
effort involved.
Here are three weight loss keys for women to
look sexy in a Mini Skirt:
1) Exercise
Women can lose
weight just by following a nutrition plan on its own, but very few
succeed at it and it takes much longer than when women eat properly
and exercise as well. And not just getting on a treadmill for 30
minutes every other day. Though some women may lose weight this way
it is not the most efficient use of your time. Nor does it maximize
the ability to burn calories if you want to fit into that mini
skirt.
The most effective way to lose fat is by strength
training or some type of interval training utilizing strength
training and cardiovascular exercises. A properly designed program
can burn more overall calories in 20 minutes than 40 minutes on a
treadmill. Also, the X factor in all this is that women will burn
more calories per minute hours after they finished strength training
because of the EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption)
effect. Static exercise on a treadmill doesn't produce this X
factor. Did you know that research shows that interval strength
training can elevate your metabolism for up to 40 hours after you
complete your workout.
This means that your metabolism is
elevated all the time 24 hours a day if you exercise every day or
every other day. Now that is what you want to look great in that
mini skirt.
This is a good thing, a very good thing. You see
speeding up your metabolism is the key to losing weight quickly and
keeping it off for a lifetime. As you get older your metabolism
naturally starts slowing down. Stopping this natural metabolism
slowdown will keep you from gaining that 5-10 pounds every
year.
2) Keep a food journal
You will be amazed at
what you consume and not even realize you did it until you write it
down and reflect back on the day. Keeping a food log is critical to
your successful trek of fitting into your mini skirts because if
modifications need to be made you are able to evaluate and analyze.
If weight loss changes aren't happening like you had hoped the
answer can usually be found in the food and or exercise
journal.
Make sure you record the quantities of what you eat
and what you drink. Many people forget that there are calories and
sometimes lots of calories in what you drink. Review your food
journal at the end of every day and see what you did well and what
you need to work more on. Make sure you note the changes you need to
make for the next day so you can re-evaluate what you improved on
the next day. This is a very important step to ensuring mini skirt
success.
3) Follow the 90% rule
If you can follow a
weight loss plan 90% of the time then that is enough for you to be
successful. Women who find themselves breaking the rules more than
90% of the time then the chance of being successful with weight loss
is not as likely. Your chances of failing increase significantly.
For most women this means you are allowed to cheat on your meals 4
times per week if you are eating 5 meals a day.
These are
just 3 weight loss keys to looking great in that Mini Skirt this
summer. Start implementing these mini skirt weight loss keys and
before you know it you will be looking great and getting comments on
how great you look in that mini skirt.
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for more weight
loss tips and how
to lose weight fast.
Jayson Hunter
RD, CSCS is the author of the Carb Rotation Diet. To discover the 5
absolute truths Every Serial Dieter Who Seeks Rapid-Weight loss MUST
come to grips with visit The Carb Rotation Diet.
