6 steps to meet your dream body goals

Number 3 is essential!

With spring just around the corner, you may be thinking about fresh new ways to shake up your well being – from the inside out.

Louise Parker, body transformation expert, shares her top six tips for real, long-lasting diet and fitness changes that last all year round:

Change can start at any time

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A ‘diet-free’ weight loss and lifestyle change that can be started anytime – because it is a sustainable method that needs to last forever. One of the top tips would be to ask yourself, whatever programme you are considering, the question ‘Will I still be maintaining 70% of this in 5 years time?’ If not, move on, it’s useless and it will do you more harm than good.

Learn to ‘eat beautifully’

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Make sure you stay in touch with your dietitian. Eat in a highly nutritious way that will encourage really satisfying fat loss and not eliminate your food groups. Once you reach your goal, eat in balance. It’s important to learn how to include life’s celebrations into your new style of eating.

Work out intelligently

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You’ll be amazed how you can transform your body by focusing on exercises that simultaneously burn fat and really sculpt your body. It’s often 20 to 30 minutes a day. The trick is not to stop – just keep paying your daily rent to your body. If you don’t stop, you won’t stop. It’s all about habit.

Think successfully

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You have to utterly believe that you can achieve stunning results, inside and out. You have to let go of the mentality of ‘I always fail’. If you’ve failed at diets in the past, you are not the failure.
The diet is the failure, because it was unsustainable. Once you’re following an intelligent, kind programme, you will find freedom dieting and reach your best body.

Don’t obsess about your weight

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Do check it, but no more than once a fortnight on ordinary bathroom scales. We’re looking for trends and if you pop on every day, you are literally wasting your time. Water, hormones and all manner of things will affect your total weight.

Difference between ‘weight loss’ and ‘fat loss’

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Focus on reducing your fat loss, whilst maintaining your very precious muscle mass which fuels your metabolism, improves your bone density and most of all, sculpts a beautiful figure.

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