Friday, October 17, 2008

Trim your Tummy - What's Hot and What's Not

By Teresa Brown

Burning calories can be hard when you don't have enough time to work up a sweat. Trimming your tummy doesn't have to include hours at the gym or simply subsisting on lemons and maple syrup. Here is a list of what's Hot and what's Not when you need 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. Eat to Live

What's Hot: It's important to keep a well balanced diet. Eating in moderation is the key for your diet to lose your tummy. Eating cereal for breakfast is of course a good choice except when it's filled with sugar and having a few fries for lunch seems prudent except when its high in trans fats. Just make sure you read the labels of food products or ask for the ingredients because ignorance isn't bliss when you want to trim your tummy.

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.

We don't have to re-invent the weightloss wheel and we don't have to believe the diet hype and spend tons of cash on decadent exercise machines or diet plans. The ability to trim your tummy isn't a new invention like these fad diets or exercise routines. We can take a history lesson from the women came before us who lived without the excesses and conveniences of our modern world - they ate less processed food and they had less sedentary lifestyles. So, live a healthy lifestyle by eating right and exercising regularly and save your money. - 15266

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