Get Beach Ready

The reason why people fail to lose weight is because they assume they need to make BIG changes whether it’s getting ready for the beach, or a wedding. They have a tendency to sign-up for gyms, marathons and starting a new diet, while there isn’t anything wrong with it inherently, the problem is most people fail because they can’t stick to it. More importantly, such drastic changes aren’t necessary for sustained weight loss.

The key to losing weight and keeping it off is to make small and sustainable steps that will help YOU to make behavioral changes over time, thus making a significant difference in your over health and lifestyle. Start with something small and manageable, something that you believe you won’t fail at. This process will have you moving in the right direction towards your ideal weight and will make the whole experience relatively pain-free.

Here are 3 Simple Summer Tips to get started:

Go to Bed 15mins Earlier.

Bet you didn’t expect that! Sleep is an important aspect to weight loss because two hormones leptin and ghrelin-are your hunger management hormones and they are controlled largely by sleep. If you get too little sleep, you’ll find yourself constantly hungry and craving for starchy foods throughout the day. When you get the adequate amount of sleep, these hormones (and your appetite) will stay in check. Try it out; go to bed 15 minutes earlier than usual. Once that becomes manageable, add in another 15 minutes. I’m not sure about you, but this weight-loss thing is suddenly sounding more appealing.

Ditch the Sugar in your Drinks.

It has been said before and we will say it again. Ditch the sugary sodas! Studies (Dr. Dana, Yale, 2010) have shown that diet soda sweetened with aspartame or sucralose can increase your appetite. If you find it hard to cut the carbonated soft drinks, opt for a club soda and a squeeze of lemon or lime, or look for sodas sweetened with stevia (a natural sweetener that doesn’t have insulin impact as artificial sweeteners)

Be wary of drinking fruit juices, a simple glass of orange juice can contain up to 25 grams of sugar per serving, which is about 5 or 6 cubes of sugar. Make sure you check the label to see how many grams of sugar per serving it contains.

If you love to drink coffee or even tea, try to cut the sugar, or use stevia (sweetener), this will assist to cut the calories.

Eat Protein at Every Meal

If there is such a thing as secret ingredient, this would be it. Protein is an essential component to your weight-loss strategy. Take at least 30grams for breakfast, which has been shown to reduce cravings and hunger throughout the day. Protein is also essential for building and maintaining lean muscle during the fat-loss process.

Take small steps and adjust your diet, once you start to see positive results, it will inspire you to increase your momentum and achieve greater results in seeing your beach body.

In addition to taking these steps, you can opt to get treatments that will enhance your weight loss. Procedures such as Cool Lipo are great for targeting small areas of fatty deposits that won’t budge. Cool Lipo is a minimally invasive laser procedure that can liquefy fat and improve skin elasticity after the fat destruction process. It’s perfect for individuals who are in good health with realistic expectations on weight loss. The treatment is usually just once off, with the session lasting anywhere between 24mins to 2 hours depending on the area of fat removed. There is minimal downtime after the procedure, between 1-2 days with no intense activity. It can be considered lunchtime, dinnertime or even a weekend procedure.

If surgery is not your cup of tea, why not opt for a non-invasive treatment; Coolsculpting is a fat-freezing procedure that is FDA-cleared, the treatment uses controlled cooling to eliminate stubborn fat that resists diet and exercise. The precise controlled cooling, targets the fat cells and the fat cells are crystalizes (freezes), then die. Over time, your body naturally processes the fat and eliminates the dead cells, leaving a more sculpted you. Once the procedure is over, you may continue as you regularly do. Partnered with diet and exercise, Coolsculpting produces the best results.

Get that beach body now. Head over to Beverly WilshireMedical Centre and have a chat to our friendly staffs about the range of non-invasive procedures we offer. Oh, did we mention that we currently have an offer now on Coolsculpting.