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Patch Blog: How to Fit Into That New Dress

You will look better in you clothes if you gain a little muscle and lose a little fat!

With most of my clients wanting to lose weight, this issue has been a frequent topic. Most women hire a personal trainer to look better. This often doesn’t require the loss of weight. What is really most important is the loss of inches. If you starve yourself you will lose weight. The problem is however that you will often have the same proportions, only smaller. While the truth remains that you can’t spot reduce (except with liposuction), there is a principal called “last on first off.” What this means is, that if you gained weight and it made your hips and thighs bigger. When you lose weight it will come off your thighs and hips first.

The best way to accomplish the sculpting of a more desirable body is the addition of muscle and the loss of fat. You can ask 100 personal fitness trainers and they will have a wide variety of opinions on weight loss. Fortunately the one thing that all weight loss coaches agree upon is consistency. If you stick to a plan of eating better and becoming more active you can’t help but succeed. What I’ve found in my 20 plus years as a certified fitness trainer is: make it doable and make it fun. I can give anyone a program that will work but if it becomes too laborious and uninteresting most people will quit.

Body Mastery is different because you never do the same exercise twice. You never starve yourself and you never feel hungry. Small changes yield big results if you stay consistent!

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