Showing posts with label bikini body. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bikini body. Show all posts

Friday, June 15, 2012

Foods to add in your Diet for a Bikini Body

Foods to add in your Diet for a Bikini Body


The hot winds of summer are surrounding us but here the question arises that how to enjoy these winds in bikini? For this, the body should hold the perfect shape. But, not to worry as now it is easy to carry perfect Bikini body with the help of some healthy dietary foods. A mutual misunderstanding is prevailing in people that abs exercises is enough to get the Bikini worthy body but is it so? Not exactly, consideration of healthy lifestyle is equally effective for a perfect body shape. Every individual aspires to have the best abs and body shape while moving around on beach but this aspiration can be achieved by making some changes in the diet. Have a look at some foods that can convert the amorphous body into properly shaped bikini body by simply cutting extra pounds.
Foods to add in your Diet for a Bikini Body

Grab Bikini Body by adding healthy Foods in the diet:

Peppermint The soothing Food
Peppermint is the all time famous savoring element for tea, toothpaste and gum that has the ability to support easy digestion or to calm a disturbed stomach. An anesthetizing effect of peppermint makes it the best medicine for the crabbing diseases like anxiety, depression, nausea, headaches, menstrual cramps, diarrhea, cough, skin disorders and flatulence. Peppermint is the tranquiller for the muscles of the stomach which indeed helps in increasing the flow of bile that is used to digest the fats. Easy digestion results in lower fat and strong muscles. The less body fat shapes the body nicely with the help of Peppermint. Hence, the soothing effect of Peppermint is helpful for reducing the excessive fat from the body and keeps the diseases away from affecting the immune of the body.

Greek yogurt â€"The better option for flat Belly
Yogurt is the super food that is packed with vitamin B, calcium and potassium. Yogurts carry probiotic bacteria that assist to keep the digestive system fit. Thus, yogurts result in lower level of gas troubles, constipation and bloating. The healthy digestive system sheds the extra calories easily and turns the stomach into shaped and flat belly. Greek plain yogurt is more preferable compared to other packed yogurts as it works like vegetarian and gluten-free element that also satisfies diabetic dietary needs. Consuming 6-ounce of this yogurt delivers 18g protein and 20 percent of daily calcium requirements without rendering fat.


Healthy Veggies to burn calories
The best path to follow for losing belly fat is sticking to green vegetables. These vegetables can be consumed by preparing them in different ways but the best way is ignoring deep fry and eating them raw or sprouted for losing belly fat. Green options like cabbage, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, yellow beans, peppers and broccoli are full o f Vitamins A, K and C to shape your belly. Thus, one can get bikini fit body with the diet full of the fat reducing veggies.


Apple cider vinegar Full of Proteins burning fat
Apple cider vinegar is a very useful component to loss fat that increases the body weight. The acidic taste and strong smell of vinegar can battle with fat when used in any of the food item. It has been studied that the obese individuals who take 1 to 2 tsp of apple cider vinegar daily and continues for 12 weeks lose the glut fat rapidly specially the belly fat. Thus, the proteins present in vinegar shapes the body as the perfect attire to carry bikini. Apple cider vinegar can be taken simply or with honey for working out weight loss, leg cramps and pain, osteoporosis, arthritis, intoxication, reduction of cholesterol and defeat infections.


Apple Killer of calories
Apple is rich source of enzymes that assists digestion process to breakdown fatty deposits in the cells of body. Apples eradicate toxins from the body that can cause cellulite. Apple is popular as the negative calorie food that burns more and more calories in lesser time. Apple of intermediate size holds only 60 to 100 calories due to which it is fatless and includes no salt. It is studied that women taking 3 intermediate apples a day i.e. one apple before every meal lose minimum of 32 pounds in some weeks without altering any diet schedule.


Stick to whole grain
Refined carbohydrate items namely white bread and rice induce more insulin in the body compared whole grain. So, it is better to stress more on whole grains like brown rice, whole wheat bread and lentils for the flattened bikini body instead of milk bread and white rice meals. The studies of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition revealed that extra fat can be reduced from the waist by adding whole grains in calorie-reducing diet. Whole grains are loaded with fi ber and nutrients like potassium, selenium and magnesium. The unrefined grains like whole grains contain bran and germ that are refined in other refined grains. Thus, adding whole grains like popcorn, brown rice or ingredients like buckwheat for pancakes or bread can mould the body that fits nicely in bikini.


Olive Oil Container of Mono-unsaturated fats
Olive oil is more preferable compared to vegetable oil for those who wish to hold bikini body. It is practice of many people to replace olive oil with vegetable oil as it is less costly than olive. But, one should move on to the costly alternative to get effective results. Olive oil is filled with antioxidants and necessary fats required for the slim body. Olive oil reduces cholesterol and high blood pressure and even defeats the carcinogenic disease like cancer. Olive oil helps to get bikini body as it contains Mono-unsaturated fats that prevent increase in calorie intake.


Fish The rich source of omega-3 Fat
Out of all the fishes, Salmon is good source of omega-3 fatty acid and protein. Salmon contains lower quantity of calories, sodium and saturated fat. Omega-3 fatty acids mainly DHA and EPA enhance metabolic process of the body and smolder the body fat quickly. The fat is burned speedily with fishes like mackerel, tuna and Salmon as they recover the body’s glucose-insulin reaction in the body. Adding fish in daily diet helps to reduce the fat and shape the body perfectly for being the attractive bikini body.


Eggs Full of Useful fats
Amino acids and pair of protein and fat present in Eggs fill the tummy which in turn helps individuals to stay away from overeating. Eggs are packed with protein that makes the muscles stronger and nurtures the body structure. Now, one should not carve the breakfast and add eggs to stay fulfilled whole day which in turn cuts other unnecessary calorie intakes. Eggs can be included in any meal or snack in whole day.

Almonds Reduce bad cholesterol level
Almonds are healthy source of vitamins, antioxidants and minerals that help to lose weight by diminishing bad cholesterol. Almonds are tasty and resourceful nuts that contain protein and fiber in more quantity. Almonds are rich source of healthy fats and minerals that help in shedding pounds and give the perfect body shape. Hence, one can easily grab the bikini worthy body by consumption of almonds. The magnesium present in Almonds stimulates energy in the body and preserves muscle tissue. It is advisable to take an ounce a day with around 160 calories.


Red bell peppers Bunch of Antioxidants
Red bell peppers are full of anti-oxidants that are recognized as fighting tool for infections. Red bell peppers encourage the digestive system and improve the metabolic process. The faster metabolism helps to reduce extra pounds from th e body and builds the bikini praiseworthy body. Chilies are not the spices to make the foods delicious but they even deliver vitamin C to reduce body pain. They help to reduce weight to much extent.


Green Tea Helper in shaping body
Though it is difficult to reduce weight faster as it consumes lot of energy but it is easy to burn extra fat with the help of green tea. It is explored that a single cup of green tea makes the metabolism better by 8-14 percent. Hence, green tea is the perfect choice for those who want to achieve bikini body faster. Green tea destroys calories sooner and grants all kinds of health benefits to those who wish to bring their body in perfect shape. It is amazing to know that not only green tea but also green coffee is the best supplement to burn calories faster.


Green Leafy foods for betterment
Green leafy foods are best way to stay full with lower calories intake. They supply nutrients like calcium, magnesium, fiber, potassium, iron, vitamins and folate that are helpful in cutting down additional fat from the body. It is necessary to remove extra fat from the body to attain the bikini trendy body. Dishes like spinach in salads, sautéed kale and mustard greens or collards in soups are very tasty as well as shape the body in such a way the lady looks beautifully engraved.
Add these foods in your diet to be the best Bikini figure as early as possible and enjoy the attention of the people.


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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

How to get that killer bikini body Reporter India Online News

How to get that killer bikini body Reporter India Online News ...

kim kardashian bikini body 2011 How to get that killer bikini body
Twenty-six-year-old Ankita is heading for a beach. The thought of wearing a bikini excites her but also giving her nightmares.

Experts are of the opinion that with the right diet, exercise and a little camouflage, she can have a happy sun and sand holiday. There are many who choose shorts and t-shirts over swim wear because they lack the confidence mostly because of extra flab.

Fret not, says Althea Shah, vice president and fitness expert at Gold’s Gym, Mumbai. “One must work out harder on stubborn parts like inner thighs, love handles, back and triceps â€" these are the most prominent places for fat accumulation and visibility,” Shah said.

Exercise and dietary amendment
€œStart with at least three days a week to do any form of a cardiovascular activity â€" walking, jogging, stair climbing, etc, and follow a simple exercise for every body part, alternating between upper and lower body workouts,” she added. Apart from exercising, a little focus on what you are eating can do wonders. Nothing much is required, just dig out green leafy vegetables from your fridge, to satiate your hunger, said nutritionist consultant Geetu Amarnani, adding one can also have salads and soups. €Avoid oily foods because that can make you feel bloated,” she said and that “it will help in getting rid of those extra inches on the waistline.”

Drink lots of water
Amarnani has more useful tips to help you in getting into shape. ”Women basically dread bulgy thighs and sagging fat on the abs. But fat on abs is just like fat everywhere. So get desired results by balancing diet and exercise. Drink eight-10 glasses of water a day, it detoxifies you and helps in getting rid of accumulated salts leading to water retention,” she said.

Laser Surgery
If you want to get rid of the flab quickly, technology comes as a saviour but at a cost. Rajesh Khurana, president of Timpac Healthcare, says there is a non-surgical treatment called VIP Complex and there is a surgical treatment called Vibration Amplification of Sound Energy at Resonance (VASER) that can help one get into shape.For VIP complex, one has to shell out Rs.1,000-2,500 per session, whereas for VASER it may cost anywhere from Rs.50,000-150,000 depending on area to be covered. One month’s advance planning is a must for this treatment.

Camouflage the heavier parts
Finally, if you are too lazy to do all this or you don’t want to shell out extra bucks, Delhi-based designer duo Narresh-Shrivan is the answer to your problem. ”We make customised resort wear for women to hide the flaws of their body. If a woman feels she has a nice back and a broad lower body, we make a swimsuit according to her preferences that can camouflage her heavier part,” said Narresh Kukreja. “This can be done easily with geometric prints and sensible use of dark colours,” he added.

Don’t forget the sunscreen lotion
Nowadays a tan is not a problem as waterproof sun blocks are easily available. ”Use skin screen all over your body, not just on your face. Re-apply it after three-four hours’ gap for extra protection. For hair, use a cap or any kind of headgear before you enter the sea,” said Shobha Sehgal, head, beauty, VLCC Health Care ltd. ”Take bath and moisture your body once you are out of the sea. Do not let the salty water dry on your body or hair. Go for a deep conditioning treatment for hair post-your beach holiday,” she said.
And one should not ignore the age-old sun protection tools â€" umbrella or cap. “It is always a good idea to carry them,” said Sehgal. Also, carry an aloe vera gel as it helps in healing the skin after sun exposure. Follow these tips and take the plunge!

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Holy Craft: 6 weeks to a bikini body or why I had a tummy tuck instead


Baskin Robbins wins. 

I'm normally an open book, but wasn't quite sure how I was going to approach this topic on my blog,
so I guess I will just dive right into it.


Almost two years ago (this May) I had a full tummy tuck.
The technical term is an abdominoplasty.


At 5'2" and 105 pounds, most people are surprised that I would need a tummy tuck.
In fact, when I went in to interview plastic surgeons, they both assumed I was there for a breast augmentation...


until I took my clothes off!
Well, let's be honest, even then they probably thought I could use a boob job...but number one priority for me was getting rid of all of the extra skin from pregnancy and tightening up my abdominal muscles.
My body bounced right back after baby number 1.
I literally walked out of the hospital after having my son in my size 1 jeans.
I was young, and in pretty good shape.
Baby number 2 did more of a number on my body.
My stomach shrank back quickly but there was definitely more stretching this time around.
Think of a sock that has lost it's elastic.
My stomach had definitely lost it's elastic.
It was after baby number 2 that I realized that I had to tuck my skin into my pants.
I couldn't wear what I wanted anymore.
As what would seem was becoming a common occurrence, baby number 3 entered our lives.
If I thought the skin in my stomach had lost it's elastic after baby number 2, it was really stretched with baby number 3.
This was me with two weeks left to go!
It literally looked like I ate a watermelon the wrong way.
You can even see that my shirt didn't fit and my stomach was hanging out of the bottom.
Holy cow I was huge!


Turns out my "little guy" was nearly 9 pounds!
That's a big baby for a little mama!
One thing I wish got more attention in fashion/health magazines is that not everyone comes out of pregnancy looking like the stars on the red carpet.
Here's Beyonce just two months after having her first baby Blue Ivy.
gty beyonce dm 120320 vblog Beyonce Shows Off Sexy Post Baby Body
The picture and article titled "Beyonce Shows off Sexy Post-baby Body" isn't from a trashy magazine, but instead is being reported by ABC news.


Here is a picture of Jessica Alba 4 months after having her second baby


Jessica Alba Flaunts Amazing Post-Baby Bod in Pink Bikini!
She credits her weight loss to a 1200 calorie diet that is delivered to her door and exercise.
She told Lucky magazine that she was "basically starving" herself.


Here's another new mom flaunting her body after having twins 



See the subtitle?
"Easy day by day plan that you can do"
Makes you think that you too can have a flat belly just 3 months after having twins.


Motivation!!!

I saw this quote with Gwyneth Paltrow on Pinterest.
It really frustrated me.
You want to know why?



Because I was working my butt off at the gym 5-6 days a week for one and a half to two hours at a time doing hard core workouts with a trainer, and yet, no amount of exercise was going to fix my sagging skin and belly pooch.


I was going to a 5:30 am strength training class lifting weights for an hour, then following that with forty five minutes of cardio on the stair climber or elliptical.
On the days I wasn't doing strength training, I was going to boot camp for an hour, then running a 5k.
Once a week I would work out with a trainer that was notorious for his very difficult military style workouts, think P90X meets Biggest Loser workouts.

There is article after article about flat tummy diets, but no amount of diet would have helped my problem. I ended up with abdominal muscles that had a five inch gap between them (thus giving me the poochie tummy look). The surgery to fix my diastasis recti (the medical term) is not considered a medical necessity, thus, it falls in the category for plastic surgery. It's one of my biggest pet peeves to think that just a few more sit ups or an extra mile on the treadmill will fix whatever tummy pooch you have when in reality no amount of exercise will help.


 


No amount of work at the gym was making a difference. I hated tucking my tummy into my pants and at 105 pounds and someone who was working out hard like I was, I felt like I should be able to wear what I wanted (like a bikini) without being embarassed or even having to think about wearing a tummy slimming line of clothing!


Just a little visual for you. 
This is how my stomach looked when I would bend over. 
The extra skin would just hang. If you look at the picture on the right, you can see there is a hole that would form in my stomach when I would bend over.

I talked to several friends, did a lot of internet research and settled on two local plastic surgeons that I went and interviewed. I had never had surgery before. And while I have a very high pain tolerance, I also have a weakness for needles, so going under and having knives slice me open wasn't exactly enticing to me. 


I may have come close to passing out several times upon the description of the surgery.
One surgeon told me I didn't have enough skin to stretch and that I wouldn't be happy with the results.
The other told me he felt like he could get me the results I was looking for but that I would probably still be left with stretch marks from my pregnancies.


Honestly, it would have been nice to wipe the slate clean so to speak, but I earned those stretch marks.
I suffered with morning sickness that lasted all day for a combined total of 17 months.  I was pregnant for 121 weeks of my life. I nursed three babies for a total of 60 months.  I am a mom.  Stretch marks came with the title.


One of my biggest hesitations with this procedure is the hip bone to hip bone scar that is left.
These are the drawings the surgeon made the morning of the surgery.  Anything inside the black was going to be removed. Below the line and and above the line were pulled together and stitched back up.
While I was open, my abdominal muscles were brought back together fixing the five inch gap that had been made through multiple pregnancies.
The recovery is one of the worst plastic surgeries to recover from I am told. It was about a 2 1/2 hour procedure that cost us $7000 out of pocket. It was an out patient procedure that required my husband to be on duty for round the clock care for the first week.


I opted to get a pain pump to pump medicine directly into the affected muscles (you leave with two cocktail straw sized tubes attached to a constant drip of medicine, attached with a fanny pack...and really, you can't go wrong with a fanny pack!), and I had two drain tubes that totally sucked...literally and figuratively. The drain tubes suck out the fluid that collects in your abdominal cavity and need to be "milked" twice a day. It's disguisting. Not only that, they are uncomfortable because they are held in by a stitch in your pubic area. They came out 8 days post op.


Before the procedure I went into the pharmacy with a list of about 7 pain medications that I filled. Some were for controlling muscle spasms, others were for the pain.

The meds I took had me in a daze (mostly sleeping) for that first week. I had to have my husband at home. After the pain pump ran out, and the anti nasea patch came off, the daze sort of lifted. I don't actually remember much for about a two week period. While I was recovering my husband and I watched the whole Arrested Development series from start to finish. I could watch it today and it would be like the first time I was seeing it! Don't do drugs kids.


The pain was never unbearable because I was able to stay on top of it with the pain medication.
I had stitches from hip bone to hip bone and on my new belly button for about 3 weeks.  My skin was so tightly stretched that I wasn't able to stand straight up for about four weeks. If you look closely at the picture below you can see two little dots on the sides of my belly button. That is where the pain pump tubes were.

You think you will see instant results, but there is a lot of swelling, so I looked pretty bloated for several months. I had to wear a girdle type garment to snug me in and protect my belly for about 8 weeks. I went off all the pain meds after the tubes came out 8 days after the surgery. My husband headed back to work after the first week and I was at home taking care of my youngest son, who was four at the time. It took me about five weeks to feel like I was back to normal again.
Here's a side view of me at 8 weeks post op. Such a difference from the before.

I started training for my first half marathon when I was five weeks post op. I didn't mean to, I was dying to get back to working out. I started out by slowing jogging and ended up going 5 miles. Less than four months post op I was running my first half marathon. I really feel like being in shape helped me recover more quickly.


Now nearly two years later, I am still glad I had my tummy tuck. My saggy stomach was something I was so frustrated with because there was nothing I could do to change it no matter how hard I tried.
I still hate those women who can pop out babies and look amazing without having to have work done.
I'm not one of the lucky ones, no amount of exercise was helping and I was getting so upset at the magazines that were telling me how easy it was to get a bikini body. My abdominal muscles had separated nearly five inches, there was no amount of exercising that was going to make them go back together again.
pictures of me nearly 2 years post op
As you can see, I still have stretch marks. The stretch marks you can see just above my bikini bottoms are the stretch marks that were above my belly button.

I can wear a bikini to the beach now, but the reality is, as a mom of three in my 30's I wear a bathing suit just several days out of the year. On a daily basis, I can wear normal clothes. I am not limited by the extra skin in my midsection. When I workout my core, I can see results. I'm not self conscious if my shirt raises up a half inch when I lift my hands above my head.
The downside is, I do have to work around my scar. Because I didn't have a ton of skin to stretch (even though I felt like it was a lot), my scar ended up being higher than I would have liked. The scar continues to fade but it does make it an issue when I am searching for bathing suit bottoms. I didn't lose weight, I didn't change sizes, I just lost the extra skin that I was carrying around after gaining a losing a collective 97 pounds. The biggest benefit by far was fixing the diastasis.


So yep, I had a tummy tuck. I went under the knife and got plastic surgery. What's it to ya?