With the Holiday, festive season being over,  it is already time to start thinking about going back to healthy ways of eating and getting that 'bikini body' before summer. Preparing to look good in a bikini doesn’t mean you have to be hungry—it means you have to fill up on the right foods. Feeling satisfied will allow you to follow this regime with ease—which can help lose up to 4 kg in just a week and staying healthy at the same time.

The key to making your body a fat-burning machine is to avoid or lessen starchy carbohydrates. This is because your body is designed to store carbohydrates as energy and if you don’t burn off that energy by exercising it will certainly and always be stored as fat. Our bodies were not designed to eat carbohydrates and can do very well without them. Avoiding them for one full week and then limiting when and how you eat them is the key to permanent weight loss. You won’t feel hungry, and the pounds will fall off from your stomach first, as this is where fat from carbs is stored. That is why beer drinkers and those who over-indulge in bread, pastries and rice have a big tummy.

Carbs also cause huge bloating.  By cutting them out, you can have a bikini flat stomach. Your stomach is not designed to digest large amounts of carbs like bread, rice, pastry, crackers, noodles and biscuits. It’s almost impossible to lose weight if you eat carbs several times a day. For example: if you eat carbs five times a day – cereal for breakfast, pastry mid-morning, noodles for lunch, then potatoes or rice with dinner – your body will be constantly cranking out insulin, making it impossible to lose weight.

Athletes load up on carbs precisely because the body stores them, whereas body-builders avoid them before competing so their body burns fat and their muscles are more defined. Protein is a muscle building food. The body uses it to build and repair muscle, tissue and bones, so if you eat chicken and vegetables, the body will use it rather than store it. If you eat rice or potatoes your body will store that as fat.

So you must avoid bread, pasta, noodles, rice, cake, pastry, biscuits and potatoes and anything with sugar in it to get your bikini body. You must also cut out most dairy because lactose is milk sugar. Avoid salt too as it makes your body tissues store fluid, so cutting it out helps have a bikini flat stomach and a smaller waist. After seven days of limiting carbs or not eating them after lunch you will have a flatter tummy and be leaner. Continuing limiting carbs is the secret to keeping the weight off. 

DO EAT

Large enough meals to not feel hungry – so don’t skimp on portions.

You should have a fist-sized amount of protein, 2-3 fistfuls of veggies, four of salad.

Eat Eggs, Chicken, Turkey or Fish with vegetables (cooked or raw). Cook it in olive oil.

If you must eat something sweet, choose one apple or one piece of other fruit. (Not at night)

Drink green tea – it is proven to burn body fat, especially around the waist.

DON’T EAT anything late at night. You should have your last meal before 7 pm, or eventually 8 pm if you stay up after midnight.  

Avoid bread, Pasta, Rice, Noodles, Cakes, Biscuits, Potatoes, Salt or Sugar, Dairy, Processed foods

By Ljiljana Kostic