Effective Body Shaping Strategies for Women: A Comprehensive Guide

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QUESTION: I am interested in a girl that I find attractive except she has a little too many inches on her belly and love handles(pear-shaped). I have told her she is attractive but I also told her she would be more attractive if she would lose the inches on her belly and love handles. She says she wants to but she is having a hard time and asked me to help her research on how to lose the inches. Her rear end is also a little big but I like it so need a way that is either not going to affect the butt or affect it only a little. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ANSWER: Hi Thomas,

There is no real way to spot reduce..meaning to lose weight off one area and not another. Unless you tone up the other areas and build a little muscle. There's no real secret but regular exercise...walking is great, and a bit of resistant training - either weights or bodyweight...lots of water and eating a clean diet with minimal refined sugar and saturated fats. And rotating the starchy carbs depending on each days energy expenditure. For example on non exercise days limit carbs to only morning and lunch.

Hope this helps
Rob


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QUESTION: I forgot to mention that she says she eats healthy, only drinks water and juices, and exercises regularly. Should she stop drinking the juices? Would adding more fiber to her diet help? I read on Yahoo news that a diet rich in whole grains and beans can help melt the belly fat away and I told her. She said that might help because she doesn't eat beans a lot and she does eat whole grains. I also told her that when she drinks juices to try to stay away from ones that have refined sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup in them. Did I tell her the right thing?

Answer
Yes, she should stop drinking the juices..they are high in sugar unless they are freshly squeezed right there and then. Beans and whole grains are carbs and they need to be eaten on a rotational basis. Not too much at night...mainly in the morning and afternoon. Too many carbs makes you put on weight, but you need them so look up the Glycemic Index on Google and find whole grains and beans that are below 50 on the chart. These are low GI carbs..they are much better than high GI carbs. Most popular diets advocate very low carbs...I don't totally agree. I think people need much more protein, low bad fat and medium carbs.

Rgds
Rob