In spite all of the good advice on how to lose arm fat, way too many women are still resorting to crash dieting. Why do they do it? Simply put, everybody wants a shortcut no matter how extreme it may be.
In reality, many of the dirty dieting tactics set women up for devastating failure. Learning how to tone your arms the right way shouldn't be so painful. Here are 6 must do's so that you don't end up hitting a brick wall:
1. Don't try to burn a crazy amount of calories. You are not the energizer bunny, so please don't spend hours and hours in the gym every day. All your arms need to stop jiggling is a short but hard workout (45min. or less), 2-3 times a week.
2. Forget about logging your food consumption. Do this, and your robotic tendencies will make you want to pull your hair out. At one point you'll explode and feel the urge to burn your log in a fire.
3. Pay attention to each meal. Instead of micromanaging everything, simply make sure that each one of your meals is balanced. In other words, include a protein, fat, vegetable, and carbohydrate food item in each meal. This is all you have to do.
4. Forget about counting calories. Even worse than the food log, because now instead of pulling out your hair, you'll want to jump off a cliff. The whole calorie counting mumbo jumbo is based on an outdated closed thermodynamic model. In other words, the flawed idea that a 3500 caloric deficit produces 1 lb. of fat loss.
5. Keep consuming your guilty pleasures. All you have to do here is reduce the size of your guilty pleasure and accompany it with a fibrous serving of vegetables. Do both of these and the negative impact of your guilty food will be greatly reduced, if not eliminated.
6. One alcoholic drink per day. Perhaps it's the stress of modern day living, but way too many of my female clients are loading up on booze more often than not. If you drink more than one serving of alcohol per day, your body will greatly reduce its production of arm-fat-melting hormones.
I hope you aren't feeling intimidated by the process of learning how to tone your arms. Changing your eating patterns is not that hard as long as you are patient and take a healthy approach. And now you have 6 key things that will make the change that much easier!
And remember that trying to get everything perfect in one shot is unrealistic. You will fall off the wagon from time to time. Expect this, and always get back on track as soon as possible.
In reality, many of the dirty dieting tactics set women up for devastating failure. Learning how to tone your arms the right way shouldn't be so painful. Here are 6 must do's so that you don't end up hitting a brick wall:
1. Don't try to burn a crazy amount of calories. You are not the energizer bunny, so please don't spend hours and hours in the gym every day. All your arms need to stop jiggling is a short but hard workout (45min. or less), 2-3 times a week.
2. Forget about logging your food consumption. Do this, and your robotic tendencies will make you want to pull your hair out. At one point you'll explode and feel the urge to burn your log in a fire.
3. Pay attention to each meal. Instead of micromanaging everything, simply make sure that each one of your meals is balanced. In other words, include a protein, fat, vegetable, and carbohydrate food item in each meal. This is all you have to do.
4. Forget about counting calories. Even worse than the food log, because now instead of pulling out your hair, you'll want to jump off a cliff. The whole calorie counting mumbo jumbo is based on an outdated closed thermodynamic model. In other words, the flawed idea that a 3500 caloric deficit produces 1 lb. of fat loss.
5. Keep consuming your guilty pleasures. All you have to do here is reduce the size of your guilty pleasure and accompany it with a fibrous serving of vegetables. Do both of these and the negative impact of your guilty food will be greatly reduced, if not eliminated.
6. One alcoholic drink per day. Perhaps it's the stress of modern day living, but way too many of my female clients are loading up on booze more often than not. If you drink more than one serving of alcohol per day, your body will greatly reduce its production of arm-fat-melting hormones.
I hope you aren't feeling intimidated by the process of learning how to tone your arms. Changing your eating patterns is not that hard as long as you are patient and take a healthy approach. And now you have 6 key things that will make the change that much easier!
And remember that trying to get everything perfect in one shot is unrealistic. You will fall off the wagon from time to time. Expect this, and always get back on track as soon as possible.
About the Author:
Writer Katherine Crawford, an exercise expert and former flabby arms sufferer, teaches how to get rid of arm fat. Figure out how to get sexy arms by exploring her blog with advice on how to avoid an arm lift right now!
