With exactly one month to go until the official beginning of the
summer season in the UK, perhaps now is the perfect time to start
thinking about achieving that body fit for the beach you have always
dreamed about, but not quite done much about!
During winter and even early springtime, it is easier to cover up
those extra pounds with a bulky sweater and jeans, but when the
temperatures start to soar and it simply becomes too hot to bear, shorts
and t-shirt are more appropriate to survive without pouring with sweat.
Unfortunately, this means there is just nowhere for the fat to hide.
The thousands of patients Medical
Specialists™ Pharmacy help each and every year will already be aware of
the fact we have a fantastic range of weight loss treatments such as
Alli, XLS-Medical and Xenical, which for suitable patients can work with a healthy diet plan to really shed the pounds and give you your confidence back.
However, there are also a number of alterations to your lifestyle
that you can implement today – a month before summer begins – to help
you lose weight and achieve a body to be envied on the beach! So when
you hear the dreaded words ‘beach season’, you need not book the
earliest flight to Siberia, where nobody dares to venture outside unless
covered head to toe in thick clothing.
Here Medical Specialists™ run through some useful tips to lose weight and tone up:
. Plan your meals
If you speak to any weight loss expert, they will undoubtedly tell
you planning what you are going to eat and when, has been proved to help
dieters stick to their goals. By mapping out your meals it will enable
you to manage your time more efficiently and make preparing the meals
easier. It can be the difference between a stressful week and one which
is stress-free. The process of preparing your weekly meals is so
important that fitness experts and those involved in fitness
competitions, consider it an absolute necessity.
. Don’t skip breakfast
Make sure to fill yourself up at the start of the day with a
well-balanced breakfast that consists mainly of carbohydrates and
protein. This will help to keep hunger pangs at bay so you don’t gorge
on junk food come dinner time. Your metabolic rate is slowed down as a
result of you obviously not taking in any food during sleep and by
eating breakfast, you will wake up your metabolism and get it revved for
the rest of the day.
. Snack smartly
It was previously thought that snacking in-between meals was an
absolute no-no, however health experts now state it is far better to
satisfy hunger between meals with a healthy snack such as fruit, instead
of ignoring the hunger and risking a junk food binge later on. Fruit
also contains plenty of water and good carbohydrates, meaning you will
feel full for much longer.
. Watch your alcohol intake
Those few beers after work may help you to unwind after a stressful
day at the office, but have you considered hitting the gym instead to
help distress and release endorphins; aka ‘happy hormones’. There are
hundreds of empty calories in alcohol that do no good for your
waistline. Did you know that drinking just 5 pints of lager each week
equates to around 44,200kcal over the course of a year – roughly the
equivalent of eating 221 doughnuts. Alcohol can also induce massive
hunger cravings for fatty junk food, which only adds potentially
thousands more calories – Have you ever wondered why all those takeaways
are packed out after your night out on the town?
. Consider high intensity exercise
Want to get fit and quick? It might be worth engaging in some high
intensity interval training (or HIIT for short) exercises. HIIT
exercises result in a big calorie burn within a short time period. Don’t
be fooled though, HIIT workouts are far from easy and require you to
give three or four times more effort in the 20 to 30 second bursts that
such exercises are comprised of. The hard work here means your body is
unable to bring in sufficient oxygen and a ‘debt’ is built up that must
be accommodated for after exercising has finished so normality is
resumed. This means your metabolism is boosted for hours after you leave
the gym!
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