Thin Skinny
Thin Skinny
With so many female celebrities concentrating on being thin and skinny, many women fall into the thin skinny trap. Don’t let this happen to you! While it might be considered “IN” to be thin and skinny, it certainly isn’t a healthy way to be. Many more successful female celebrities are saying “Goodbye” to being thin skinny and instead are getting into shape.
The first thing you need to do however, is to love your body. That’s right… Love your body no matter what! No matter what your current size and shape is, love your body. After all, it’s really all you’ve got and if you let your body down, your body is certainly going to let you down.
There’s a lot you can do to start loving your body and still be thin and skinny but IN SHAPE! Interested? Read on…
- Take the stairs whenever you can even when you ride an escalator!
- Try to speedwalk everywhere you go… That is, swing those arms and twist those hips to get your gait up to speed.
- Eat a healthy, balanced diet that includeds food from all the food groups.
- Eat whole grain breads instead of white enriched flour bread.
- Drink water! If you need it to taste a little better, try a wedge of lemon or lime.
- Park as far away from the entrance as you can and then speedwalk to the entrance.
- Stop eating when you’re full. The slower you eat, the faster you will feel full.
- Avoid all processed foods.
- Keep track of your daily caloric intake.
- Burn calories with some kind of exercise.
Believe it or not, just following the above tips will help you not only maintain a thin skinny physique but these tips can help you stay in shape. We’ve all seen thin skinny women who, in reality, don’t really look that good. Don’t get caught up in the thin skinny look without being in shape.
Your body will adapt to a decrease in calories by lowering your metabolism. Please don’t decrease your calories by starving yourself. Your body will sense that you’re starving it and will hold on to as much fat as humanly possible. Avoid extreme thin skinny diets that tell you to focus on a certain kind of food. Your body has a lot of different parts that require different kinds of nutrients… Hence, you need food from all the food groups to maintain a healthy balance of nutrients to all those parts.
Are you too thin and skinny? How would you know?
Be honest with yourself… Look in the mirror and ask yourself the following:
- Do you have a body mass index of less than 2 to 3 points below average for your height and weight?
- Do you experience menstrual irregularities or even lack of menstruation?
- Have you ever been diagnosed with anemia or any deficiency in vitamins or minerals?
- Are your bones visible through your skin? Specifically in the rib cage and collarbone area?
- Are you more than 15% under the normal body weight for your height?
If you answered YES to any of the above, you might have an eating problem. You might even be malnourished!
Remember… It’s important that you love your body. One of the best ways to show your body that you love it is to get strong… Get in shape and yet maintain an attactive, thin, muscular structure instead of being thin skinny.
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