How To Lose Thigh Fat – The Only Way It Works!
If you want to know how to lose thigh fat, you will be pleased to know that simple changes in your life can make a big difference. It is very easy to get overwhelmed with all the information and misinformation surrounding the area of weight loss. If you can eliminate the information overload, you will find that there are some basic ideas that really work.
There are some jokers who would say that the best way to lose thigh fat is with a very baggy pair of pants, ideally black. But this is not very useful! To change the shape of any part of your body, you will need to change more than just your wardrobe!
It is a common misconception that you can selectively remove fat from one part of your body or another. Unfortunately, this is not true. Your genetic makeup controls where fat is stored in your body and there is nothing you can do to change it. What CAN change is the total amount of body fat you have and the tone of the underlying muscles. Both can transform flabby thighs into sexy ones.
We all know that traditional diets don’t work. Even if you do manage to lose a few pounds to begin with, they all build back up when you stop dieting. If you want to know how to lose thigh fat, you must change your lifestyle. Sorry for being the bearer of bad news, but deep down everyone must realize that if you keep living the same way, you will still be who you are. If you want to change your way of being, you must change your way of life.
It doesn’t have to be as drastic as the last sentence sounds. You don’t need to become a ‘my body is a temple’ fan who just drinks prune juice and runs 30 miles every day. Let’s face it, if you only drink prune juice, you will surely end up running 30 miles a day! You just need to take control of two key areas of your life: what you eat and the exercise you do.
I find it easier to start with the exercise question. Let’s dispel some myths first. Exercise is not just what you do at the gym. Your daily exercise is made up of all the activities you do every day: climbing stairs, walking, and (dare I mention it) sex. If you’re fairly sedentary (and most of us do these days), you just need to start doing more of these activities.
I realize that now your attention may be wandering a bit, but if I can give you back the idea of walking for a moment, try to get into the habit of walking for 30 minutes a day, if you can. Maybe on your lunch break. Maybe after you get home. You don’t have to think of it as a formal exercise. Just make up an excuse to get out of the house. Walking to the stores to get a pint of milk. Take the dog for a walk. Go visit friends on foot instead of taking the car. If you start walking for just 30 minutes a day, you will soon start to notice changes in your body.
- Your stamina will start to improve. Where you used to struggle to walk for 30 minutes before, you will soon be able to drive 45 minutes, then an hour.
- Your thighs and tummy will begin to firm up. You may start to see some muscle definition in your thighs when before all you could see was ‘orange peel’.
- You start to feel better about yourself.
- You will have more energy for any other ‘activity’ you want to do (!)
Having made such good progress, it is natural to start feeling good and thinking about how to make further improvements. This is where ambition comes in. Now, just aiming for firmer thighs is not enough. You want to go for the full, sexy beach body that you never thought could be achieved before. This is the time when it will be easiest for you to start thinking about moderating what you eat. After all, when you’re feeling good about the changes in your body, it’s much easier to motivate yourself to alleviate double cheeseburgers than when you’re feeling bad about yourself.
The trick with food is to make sure you have things in balance:
- Make sure you eat enough good things: vegetables, nuts, fruits (especially berries), and whole grains.
- Try to reduce the things that you know they are bad for you: anything with too much fat (I bought hamburgers, mayonnaise, fried bread, anything fried!), sugar and cream in coffee, cakes and pastries.
- Try to eat more often, but less each time. Five small meals spread throughout the day are better than two large ones.
The road to a massive body transformation is made up of many small lifestyle changes. Not a big lightning bolt.