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Part of looking beautiful has to do with your fitness routine. While there is always new equipment being released, it does not mean that this equipment will be better. So, instead of looking for new ways to work out, you should stick with the tried and true ways that have been proven to give results. Here are five helpful hints that will help you get started being both healthier and fitter:

1. Make sure that you allot a specific time in your schedule for exercise so that you do not get distracted. However, when you mark down a time for exercise in your daily planner, it will be harder to come up with an excuse not to do it.
2. Make sure that you stretch so that you do not pull a muscle or have an injury.
3. You should make sure to do some weight training. Slowly add resistance with the use of resistance bands or your own body weight. By doing this you not only build up your muscles but firm them up as well.
4. It is important to understand that your body does well at adapting to situations. For this reason, you want to shake up your training routine some. This will keep your muscles from becoming accustomed to any one particular type of exercise. This will help your body get in better shape and keep you from getting bored.
5. Take the time to exercise your entire mid-section, which includes your abs, back and sides. A Pilates class or a Swiss ball will work great for thinning your middle, getting rid of your love handles and strengthening your back.

Being fit adds to everyone’s beauty.

To look and feel your best, it is wise to stay near your optimal weight. There are many diets available to help with that. The following tricks to sticking with a diet and fitness plan have helped women become half their size:

• Be your own best diet buddy-it helps to have a diet buddy, but the buck stops with you so keep the tempting items out of the house. Avoid going to places that will be tempting.
• Be the strictest the first 30 days. It will allow habits to change and even make changes at the cellular level. Take a day off after 30 days and then start a lifestyle change that gives you a day off dieting and exercise once per week.
• Eat slowly. Give you stomach a chance to let you brain know you are eating. Set eating utensils down in-between bites. Don’t eat in front of a TV; you will finish your food before you even realized you started!
• If you must “wolf down” some food, make it healthy and pick food that has minimal calories.
• Include crunchy food in every meal. Eat food that takes time to chew. This will slow down eating and add to feeling satisfied after a meal.
• Wean yourself from addictive food or beverages that cause weight gain. Make a simple plan to gradually reduce the intake of the item and then stick with it.
• Look at the big picture. Weigh yourself only once a week or less, not every day. Daily weighing can cause discouragement with normal fluctuations. Factor in normal weight gain before menstruating. Maybe even skip weighing in that week. Weigh in at the same time of the day each week.
• Limit eating to before 7 pm each night. If you are going to indulge in a craving, do it at the beginning of the day when there is time to work off the calories with a little extra exercise.

Being at a healthy weight may not be enough to feel beautiful. Reducing belly fat can increase beauty self-image. Belly fat has been a problem for women for centuries! Here are a few ideas to reduce belly fat:

• Eat 6 times a day-this will affect the blood-sugar hormone, insulin. It not only reduces belly fat, but will increase weight loss program efficiency. Fat lose can be as much as 50% more than those who eat the same amount of calories in less than six meals per day.
• Eat “good” fat-the good fat comes from nuts, olive oil, and fish. This will affect waist size by reducing it.
• Eat fiber-rich carbs-studies show that this will allow for the best waist-to-hip ratios with weight loss.
• Avoid eating foods and beverages that increase belly fat-”bad” fats, red meat, alcohol, and processed foods will change hormones that are related to belly fat storage.
• Eat calcium rich foods-some studies show that for women, belly fat reduction can be increased by as much as 81%. It is believed that it aids in the breakdown of fat.

Get enough sleep-proper rest can decrease stress hormone production (which leads to belly fat storage) by as much as 50%.

Beauty involves having close that fit properly and an attractive silhouette, not just the proper weight. Following the above suggestions will help reduce belly fat. A flatter belly will increase self-confidence and provide motivation to include other fitness options into a daily beauty routine.