3 Tips to Remove Stubborn Weight around Your Hips

The curse of being born a woman, especially one with a history of large peoplein the family, is to suffer big hips and thighs and a flabby abdomen. As we age, we compound this problemwith our food habits and irresponsible lifestyle. And when the mirror reflects a large butt and hugethighs one fine day, we despair of ever being able to get rid of it. It’s a sad but firm fact of life that women tend to store weight around their hips and thighs, and that these places are the first to become fat and the last to lose it when we embark on a weight loss program. Yes, it’s unfair, but there areno magic buttons to bring about weight loss in certain spots of our body. We have to adopt an overall plan in order to combat this problem, one that includes:

• Eating less:It’s simple arithmetic – if you want to lose weight, you must eat a lower number of calories than you expend through exercise and other activities. Instead of skipping meals, try eating less during each meal orsubstituting low-fat food (that is lower in calories) for what you eat regularly. There are certain kinds of food that satiate hunger and which are low in calories, so switch to these if you feel hungry all the time.
• Exercising sensibly:When you want to lose weight around your waist, hips and thighs, the best form of exercise is high intensity cardio. It burns fat like nothing else. If you are not used to exercising at high intensities for a long time, you could try interval training, a form of exercise that involves working out at a high intensity for a minute followed by its low intensity equivalent for a few minutes, and continuing this cycle for half an hour or more. So if you like to run, sprint for a minute and jog for the next two until your heart rate almost becomes regular, and continue this routine for 30 minutes or so. It will be hard at first, but it is one of the best ways to build stamina and endurance and also lose weight quickly. Besides this, you need to tighten your muscles with a few strategic weight training exercises.
• Adopting a new lifestyle:When you want to lose weight and keep it off for good, you need to effect a complete change of lifestyle, one that you can stick to on a long term basis, day after day. So if you’re changing your diet and starting a new exercise plan, ensure that these are activities that you will be able to adhere to on a regular basis, not fads that you’ll drop once they become too hard or monotonous to sustain.

Weight loss does not happen overnight, so you need to be patient and dedicated in order to see effective results.

This guest article was written by Adrienne Carlson, who regularly writes on the topic ofonline nurse practitioner schools. Adrienne welcomes your comments and questions at her email address:adrienne.carlson1@gmail.com