Beauty is as beauty does

When it comes to weight loss, there are no quick ways. I believe the reason your progress has slowed down is because of the way you work out.

Running as much as you do will of course give results, but your body won’t look fit unless you combine it with strength training. You should also take a look at your diet, if youre not eating clean your progress will pretty much freeze (: 

Chestpress is great, all you need is a pair of dumbbells. You could also do push-ups with “wide arms”. x

heyy! Well, I totally agree that 6 small meals are better than 3 bigger ones. I currently eat about 5 meals a day with small snacks in between (fruit), but I am going to cut down on my portions as I feel too fed. Hehe, I don’t consider my waist too small at the moment. I am 1,70 m tall and my waist is 68,5. My goal is to atleast drop down another 5cm, if that is possible for my body type (: 
But if you want to slim down your waist, hulahooping, fitness with a focus on your core muscles and most importantly your side muscles and cardio will probably give you the results you want! Hulahooping is great for slimming down your waist. Watching TV has never been more profitable! xx

squats, lunges, hiking, running, biking, (eating healthy). pretty much any activity that involves your legs! Though it will take some time for you to see results, just don’t ever give up and you get what you want (: (Ps: your diet/lifestyle will be extremely important if you really want to achieve your ultimate goals!)

My family was pretty much like yours (and still is in some ways)! We always got cookies, chocolate, pizza, noodles, pasta and hot dogs/hamburgers stored up. What you have to do is simply to join your family more often to the store and tell them what to buy. I’ve joined my mom a couple of times now, and I’ve given her a list of things I need. Try to make them choose healthier and buy more greens, which will make it easier for you to choose healthy whenever you feel like munching something. As long as you got the right stuff around it is easy to choose right, too. 

I usually eat stuff like whole grain cereal with banana/apple/berries,
a box of cottage cheese if im in a hurry, scrambled egg whites with broccoli, natural yoghurt with sliced banana and berries, whole grain crackers with avocado or scrambled egg whites, etc.   (: 

If you’re like me and are short on time to fix your breakfast in the morning, prepare it the night before! 

The key word to keeping to a diet is Discipline. Second of, to avoid sweets etc., you should get rid of everything you feel like eating or drinking: juice, soda, sweets, cookies, bread, red meat (not entirely though), processed food and replace these products with tons of vegetables, berries and fruit. If you aren’t the one doing the shopping, make your parents do it! It took me quite some time before my mom started buying the products I wanted, but it happened, hehe. 

Thirdly, you should always have some motivational pictures available. Personally I have pictures of what I define as “the dream body” on my desktop, my phone, and of course I have this blog. It all reminds me on what I really want: to reach my goal. 

You should also start taking before/after photos. When I took the first photo, everything that went through my mind until the next shot was “Im not going to disappoint myself”. 

The most important thing is to stick through the first 2-3 weeks. After that your mind and body starts to get used to your new lifestyle. If you don’t feel well or are tired after a long day, never use that as an excuse for not working out. On days like that I always do atleast 3x15 sit-ups and squats and atleast 15 push-ups. 

Some workout programs might feel pretty harsh in the beginning, but try to keep up with it for atleast 30 days to see whether it suits you or not. - and don’t forget, 80% of your transformation doesn’t happen at the gym, it happens in the kitchen. Sometimes I put on a special wristband or draw a small + sing on my wrist to remind me throughout the day to think twice about what I eat. 

Hope this helped you out a bit! If you need any further help, feel free to come of anon (ill reply private). 

Good luck :) 


 

Well, the only way to “slim” your arms, would be using weights (dumbbells or normal weights). You shouldn’t worry about getting too much muscles, if you eat right and workout every muscle group in your arms correctly, you’ll see nothing but the progress you want. I’ve put out a link in /post/19057633525/heyyyyy-what-have-you-been-doing-exercising-eatingwise that shows what kind of dumbbell exercise I am doing. 
PS: As with any other body part, you won’t see any change over night. Just keep it up for a couple of months and you will see that all those repetitions actually paid off! 

xo
 

Hii! This is my workout routine: mon, wed, fri: 20 min running, 20 min biking, 20 min stairs. tue,thur, sat: dumbbells full body workout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz0U3N6p6BQ, including 3x15 more on stomach on both sides and mid on a bosu ball. I also do some extra squats and back exercises. When it comes to what I eat, I mostly eat fruit, vegetables, chicken, ham, and other light products like cottage cheese. I usually just try to stay away from bread, pasta, chocolate, soda, etc.. It’s quite easy to keep it up after a few weeks, it’s just tough in the beginning :) 

Good luck! xo