Lose the “Muffin Top”

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For many women, this is one of the phrase that doesn’t want to be heard, or noticed. For most it is the last few pounds that need to go. This can lead to crash dieting, unsurmounted amounts of cardio, hours upon hours in the gym with little result, except for that you’re tired, drained, and might’ve lost some of that valuable muscle or that lean look you were looking for.

So what can be done, how can those last few pounds or the “muffin top” be lost?

To put it simple it isn’t going to be easy and thinking it will be easy is going to get you frustrated and discouraged.

Below are some steps that you can follow the help achieve your goal.

Step 1.

Go back to your nutrition plan. This is going to be the end all be all of weight loss.

A few things to take note in this step are the following:

- make sure you are getting enough quality protein 5-6 times a day. This helps keep your lean mass, keep that metabolism fired up, and help level out those blood sugars to keep the fat loss.
- getting enough healthy fats and EFA’s. Good fat burns bad fat. Yes its that simple
- try to eliminate most or all starchy carbs. This includes your pasta’s, breads and potatoes. If you have to have them. Have them post workout when your body will utilize these nutrients better.
- greens with every meal. This helps keep that body in an alkaline state.

Step 2.

Vary something in your training. Something has to be picked up, switched out, or added. Your body has hit a plateau. You have to bust through it.

This is going to be the a good step to see what works and what doesn’t. Here are some things that you can choose to use or lose:

- increase the intensity in your workout. this can come from doing super sets, drop sets, or can be as easy as decreasing your rest periods.
- try interval training for cardio or HIIT (high intensity interval training)
- try adding some plyometric training
- increasing the amount of reps, or weight being used

Step 3.

Implement your changes.

These are just a few of the things that can be done to help you achieve your goal(s) and not everything. Remember you are the only constant in your training, your mindset doesn’t change. You control the outcome. See it. Believe it. Achieve it.

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