Summer’s just around the corner, but there’s still time for busy ladies to sculpt their bodies into the spitting image of sexiness before the time comes to put on the bikini and hit the beach. If you’re not a big fan of months-long dieting sprees and hours of sweaty gym work, you can hack weight loss by these seven simple tricks and tone your physique in a matter of weeks.
1. Drink to your sexy shape
If you’re trying to bust stubborn fat and get into shape fast, calories won’t exactly be your best friend. To prevent appetite spikes at ungodly hours of the night and keep calorie intake in check, you should drink more water or swap commercial, high-calorie snacks for organic, sugar-free juices and shakes. That way, you’ll get all the nutrients you need sans the inflated calorie count in tow, and you’ll promote whole-body detoxification, and hack a healthy skin glow at the same time.
2. Watch your meal agenda
As busy as your daily schedule may be, try not to consume most of your calories at night. For best weight loss effects, become a front-loader and get most of your calories in before the evening. By moving biggest meals to the morning and early afternoon, you’ll shed weight faster, optimize energy intake during the day, and keep tabs on digestive hitches which often occur after heavy late night meals. On top of that, by replacing heavy dinners with light suppers, you’ll improve sleep quality and hack peak daytime energy levels.
3. A bit of bronze does it
Your muscles aren’t as well-defined as you’d like them to be? No stress: a little fake tan will help make your biceps and pecs look more toned, and you can also achieve the visual effect by a few quick trips to the solarium. If you want to play your ab and triceps game safe, get a tanning lotion or spray tan and trace a line from your sternum to the belly and along the obliques to create an optical illusion of added muscle mass.
4. Clean up your diet act
When you’re looking to shape up fast, comfort food is your figure’s worst enemy. To stay in the speedy weight loss lane, drop heavily processed and ready-made food from the menu and swap them for homemade meals and snacks centered on healthy, organic ingredients. By weeding out butt-widening ingredients from your carte du jour, you’ll nudge fat burn onto the fast track and slice daily calorie intake at the same time.
5. Stretch into sexy shape
Strength training alone won’t help you get into shape overnight, but once stubborn fat starts to melt, don’t be surprised if you start seeing stretch marks popping up at all the wrong places. To make your skin firm and prevent stretch marks from ruining your stunning physique, don some comfy fitness clothing and hit the yoga studio: as innocuous as flows and asanas may seem, they will boost blood flow, speed up weight loss, and reduce the visibility of existing stretch marks.
6. Active recovery trick
If you want to get the sexiest bang for your gym buck, try and activate recovery. That way, you’ll boost muscle bulk and prevent post-workout soreness by a single blow, while at the same time dialling up metabolic rate and expending surplus calories which would otherwise wind up glued to your butt, thighs, and other sensitive body parts. To activate recovery, you can try yoga or go biking, swimming, or jog on non-gym days: whatever workout type works for you will do the activation trick nicely.
7. Team up for fitness
Training motivation is a whimsical creature which can disappear overnight. To stay on the fit and motivated side of the barbell, cajole your significant other into working out with you or find a like-minded gym goer and recruit her to be your training partner. Accountability to your partner in the fitness crime will prevent you from ducking out of training on less than stellar days and you’ll also have someone to wield your force against if you have the competitive streak in your veins.
Getting into shape fast isn’t a mission impossible: in fact, it’s fairly easy if you know how to go about it. Still here? Good: you now know how to make most of your dieting and workouts, so don’t waste a minute longer: whip up a protein shake and hit the gym as soon as possible. After all, summer will be here before you know it.
