Eat Right For Slim Thighs And Firm Buns

When it comes to achieving and maintaining slim thighs, it’s critical that you understand how to eat to maximize fat loss while supporting lean muscle gain.  This is the best way to make lasting changes to the way your lower body looks. Most women are no stranger to traditional calorie restricted diets or even fad dieting.  While watching what you eat is important for changing the way your body looks and feels, the dieting approach alone rarely work for the long-term.

Part of this is due to the fact that maintaining sexy slim thighs requires a committed lifestyle change ( regular exercise and optimized diet) and and not a quick fix approach (fasting, colon cleanse etc.). It’s unrealistic to expect major changes in the way your body looks and feels while you’re only making minor changes to your life style.

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If you really want to achieve success with your lower body transformation, then you need to know more than how to eat less. Listed below are some pointers for those of you who are ready to make some healthy changes to your diet.

1.)  Don’t eat too few calories.  Sure you need to create a calorie deficit, but what ever you do, don’t cut too many! When you eat too little, your body goes into survival mode and the majority of the calories you eat are stored as fat. This makes it impossible to make noticeable changes in the way your body looks.

Instead of immediately cutting your calories in half, try to slowly reduce the amount of food you eat.  Studies have shown that a calorie reduction somewhere in the vicinity of 20% will allow you to shed fat while maintaining lean muscle mass at the same time.

If you really want to succeed, start small and work your way up.  For instance start your first few weeks off with a 10% reduction in calories  followed by a 15% reduction over the next few weeks. After you’ve been at it a while, go ahead a drop to a 20% decrease in calorie consumption.

2.)  It’s a well documented fact that a calorie restriction in the 40 – 50% range will lower your resting metabolic rate (the number of calories your body burns at rest).  If you want slim thighs, then you need to take advantage of every bit of help your body is willing to give you!  Your RMR is one of the areas where your body will help you out – don’t short circuit this natural fat burning help!

In addition to a reduction in your resting metabolic rate, you entire bodies hormone levels are affected when you restrict your calorie intake too severely.  This hormone swing can make it nearly impossible to burn fat and slim your thighs! remember it’s always better to have your body working with you rather than against you.  The negative hormone swing coupled with a decreased resting metabolic rate and the “survival mode” tendency, is one of the major reasons that people who eat too few calories have a high level of body fat.

So to wrap things up, focus on eating the right combination of the right foods throughout the day, while still managing your overall calorie level.  Make sure that you don’t lower your calorie intake below 40% at any time, and incorporate regular exercise into your slim thighs routine.  Before you know it, you’ll have sexy slim thighs  that you can be proud of!