How to lose leg fat is generally a big worry for women. This is because women naturally seem to stock up fat on their butts, thighs, legs, waist and hips. But don’t worry, by the end of this article, you will have all the information you need to combat this problem! So read on… Here are some tips that you can use…The first and most important thing you need to understand is that, “spot reduction” DOES NOT exist! There is now way to lose weight in only a particular part of your body. You have to lose weight overall to achieve leg weight loss! So, lets learn what you need to do to lose weight overall first…
Low Carb, High Protein Diet
As you probably know, consuming carbs leads to the blood sugar level going up. Reacting to this, your body releases insulin and you go into "fat storing mode". And when your body starts to store fat, you know where its going to store it! Your legs, butt, thighs etc. So, as far as possible, try to stick to a low-carb, high protein diet!
Get Your Metabolic Rate Up
If you have a high metabolic rate, you will burn more calories every day. This will lead to more leg weight loss. And the BEST way to achieve that is, building muscle tissue! Muscle tissue requires many more calories for it’s maintenance than fat tissue. This means that if you have more muscle tissue you will be burning many more calories even as you sit around in your living room doing nothing.
So, what is the best way to have more muscle tissue? A weight training exercise program combined with a high protein diet. That’s why, we were insisting on a low-carb HIGH PROTEIN diet above!
Negative Calorie Foods
These types of foods are known as “catabolic foods”. This means that the act of eating these foods, burn more calories than they actually supply! Your body takes up more calories to digest these foods than the amount of calories actually got by eating them! If you have these foods, you do not have to bother yourself with calorie counting. You can eat as much of these foods as you want, satisfy your hunger, and still lose weight! So what are some examples of these foods?
Fruits such as apples, Blue berries, black berries, Oranges, Mangos, Grapefruits, Lemons, pineapples and limes are great examples. Also vegetables such as spinach, Kales, Leeks, peppers, Carrots, Spinach, tomatoes and broccoli are great examples. These foods combined with high-protein, low carb foods would do wonders for your leg weight loss efforts!
HIIT & Weight Training
The best type of cardio exercise to lose weight is HIIT! It stands for High Intensity Interval Training. In this type of exercise, you perform your regular cardio exercise, but in between you give bursts of “high intensity” cardio. This means you sprint as fast as you can in the middle of your jog for a few minutes. Then you go back to jogging. Doing this increases the effectiveness of the cardio exercises triple fold! Your body will keep burning calories at a high rate even hours after your cardio work-out is over. Check out the video below to see and example of HIIT being done with a jump rope. HIIT can be done with any type of cardio workout!
As we mentioned above, you also need to add a little bit of weight training to your work-out! This helps you build muscle tissue and ultimately burn more calories by increasing your metabolic rate!
