My Top Fat Loss Tips

Maybe One Day You'll Be Saying This!

1. Get into a routine with regular exercise. Make sure all the activities you plan are ones you love (we know you won’t do it if it’s not your favourite thing to do!) whether it’s swimming, walking or playing with the kids in a park! Put a date in the diary and go on that date.

2. Put some intensity into your workouts. If you are walking include some 30 second bursts to almost running pace and then slow down, see how your heart beats faster? That also means your body is working harder, you are getting fitter and starting to use up some of that stored energy in your body.

3. Include some resistance training into your workouts. You don’t have to spend hours at the gym, you don’t have to lift heavy weights but you do need to start building some strength, especially if you want to see shape and tone in your muscles.

4. Make a plan. Decide on some healthy meals for 1 week, that’s breakfast, lunch and dinner and add some healthy snacks (for when you get hungry!) Write each meal on a piece of paper or on your computer and try to stick to it. Make notes on how each day went. Be very aware of your hunger levels. Hunger before a meal = perfect. Starving and ready to eat the fridge = eat a little more the next time you have that meal. Plan treats like a glass of wine or small amount of chocolate a few times that week too.

5. Consistency. Ignore the straplines of the magazines. Losing fat is about consistently eating healthily, until you reach your goal. That doesn’t mean you can’t have chocolate or wine it just means you aren’t going to have them every day! 

6. Don’t totally cut fat out of your diet. Most of us need to get 30% of our daily calorie intake from fat (good fat like avocados) not saturated fat in takeaway foods, pizza, crisps etc.

7. Keep Hydrated, I don’t mean you have to drown yourself in water, just keep a glass at your desk or in a sports bottle and sip from it all day. Don’t wait until you are thirsty to drink, just keep nicely topped up the whole day.

8. There is no easy option and no magic wand that can be waved.! You have to eat right and exercise regularly!

9. DO NOT STARVE yourself! You will slow down your fat loss. You will mess up your hormones (metabolism) and store more fat in the long term and find it even harder to lose fat. Learn to love your body (see piccie above) and it will love you back.

10. Eat Your Veggies! Especially the green ones with as many meals as possible, low in calories they fill you up so you can eat more of them.

11. Eat only real food, nothing processed or artificial.

12. Eat lean protein and avoid fatty cuts of meat. White meat is your fat loss friend!

13. Drink water and keep hydrated.

14. Eat good fat, polyunsaturated ( fish, oils, peanut butter soy beans, sesame seeds) and monounsaturated (nuts, avocado, oils, seeds)

15. Avoid refined white grains and carbohydrates. Eat more whole grains and limit the starchy, simple carbohydrates

16. Stress! It's impossible to avoid all stress but limiting the stress in your life will have a major impact on your hormones. Excess stress can restrict the bodies ability to use it's fat stores.

17. REST. The most under-estimated fat loss product you can have and it's free!