What Should I Eat To Lose Belly Fat

Diet does play a very important role in your battle against the bulge. But this does not necessarily mean that you have to starve yourself just to lose belly fat. In fact, when working towards a leaner silhouette, your body will need the appropriate types of food to fuel exercise and support your body’s metabolism. Read more

Who Needs a Gym Membership?

Ok ladies, what is your biggest excuse for not exercising? Let’s hear it! I’M TOO BUSY! There is work, children, homework, laundry, house cleaning and dinner to make. Who has time to work out? I’ve found the perfect solution. It has been working so well for my family.

All you need is to use bodyweight exercises to warm-up, short burst resistance training supersets (using bodyweight and dumbbell exercises) to boost your metabolism, and then finish your workout with short burst interval training to burn fat in a surprisingly short amount of time.

My fitness coach, Holly Rigsby, has structured the Fit Yummy Mummy System so that you can do the workouts in one of 4 different formats - but each way requires no more than 90 minutes per week!

1) First, you can do the 15-minute resistance training portion followed by 15 minutes of interval training. This workout would be done three times per week, preferably with a day of rest between workouts. In total, only 90 minutes per week required!

2) In the second option, you can do the resistance training and interval training on alternating days. That way, you’ll workout up to six days per week for 15 minutes each day - again, no more than 90 minutes per week. I am doing this pattern right now but next week I think I want to switch it up and try the 3X’s/week. Variety is the spice of life!

3) In the third option, you can choose to do one component in the morning and the other component at night. So if it works for you to start your day with 15 minutes of intervals or resistance training, and then slip in another 15 minute workout later in the day, that works too. If you do this, stick to the three day per week schedule, for a total of 90 minutes of exercise each week.

4) Or finally, you can use a combination of the above - whatever suits your schedule. Just aim to do three short burst resistance and three interval workouts each week.

As you can plainly see, this system is flexible and adapts easily to your busy and even hectic lifestyle. You don’t have to worry about blocking off an hour or two each day to get to the gym and back. All you need are 15-30 minutes and a small amount of space in your house and follow along with these workouts. So no more excuses and make your health a top priority!

3 Rapid Fat Loss Tips

If you just wanted to lose fat then there are simple tips you can follow. But when you’re also trying to build muscle then the balance can be a hard one to find.

You cannot just cut out the carbs and stick to aerobic exercise to burn off the calories because you will start burning off the muscle growth you have worked so hard to build up.

Watching What You Eat

This sounds easy and you’ve probably heard it all before but you really do need to start watching what you are eating. Not only that but you need to start counting your calories too. You need to have a deficit in calories if you want to start burning off the excess fat. You can maybe look towards using fat loss supplements too which will help speed up the process.

Working Out Your Workouts

You need to have a good balance between cardio workouts and weight training. This means you will be able to maintain or increase your muscle growth whilst at the same time burn off the fat. If you alternate the days between each one, you have a very good balance that will suit your body.

Measure Your Results

You need to write down everything you are doing in your fat loss quest.

- How often you are exercising.
- How long for.
- What are you eating?
- Have you lost any weight?

By doing this you will instantly be able to see if you are increasing or losing weight. You can then adjust your diet or exercise regime to suit the results.

These tips may sound simple but you’ll be surprised how much of a benefit they will be when you actually use them. You can even add goals to your plan and this may get you working harder to reach them.

Thanks for reading!