hipbonesandrunningshoes:

kissmeemi:

she has such a nice body! envyyy

Jealousss :)

muffintop-less:

Realize that your body NEEDS calories to function properly… most women are told they need a MINIMUM of 1200 a day (but even that is dependent on your height, age, etc)…

In other words, your bodies ORGANS use up calories during the day… your heart pumps blood, your brain thinks, your muscles help you move, etc.. even the act of eating and digesting food burns calories!

In addition, anything you do during the day burns calories (including sitting)…. the more lean muscle you have on your body, the harder it has to work to maintain itself while these actions are occurring (and thus more calories are burned).

When you starve yourself, not only are you NOT losing body fat (sorry girls, you’re losing muscle and water which is why the scale changes).. you are also hurting your precious organs in the process!! 

I eat a MINIMUM of 1500 calories a day, I workout for about an hour and I manage to stay below 15% body fat. Why? Because I eat clean and have built enough muscle to keep my metabolism high! Over the holidays, I ate SO MUCH food.. WELL over my caloric maintenance… yet my body didn’t change! If I had been skinny fat, or lacked muscle.. it would have been much easier for me to pack on the pounds!!!

Lift weights, eat clean and DON’T STARVE.

muffintop-less:

Women’s Weight Training Myth #1 -Weight training makes you bulky and masculine.

“Due to the fact that women do not, and cannot, naturally produce as much testosterone (one of the main hormones responsible for increasing muscle size) as males do, it is impossible for a woman to gain huge amounts of muscle mass by merely touching some weights. Unfortunately, the image that may come to your mind is that of professional female bodybuilders. Most of these women, unfortunately, use anabolic steroids (synthetic testosterone) along with other drugs in order to achieve that high degree of muscularity. In addition, most also have good genetics coupled with an unbelievable work ethic that enable them to gain muscle quickly when they spend hours in the gym lifting very heavy weights. Believe me when I say that they do not look like that by accident. Women who conduct weight training without the use of steroids get the firm and fit cellulite-free looking body that you see in most fitness/figure shows these days.”