[MandyMarieLove]

Hey, I am trying to lose a lil' fat and gain some more muscle, just not too much, enough to look sexy and ton my legs. I want a diet that will be easy to succeed with and not too hard to keep on track.

I also want to know some excercising techniques, lol. Even a nice website would be great! Lol. I have an exercise mat, a tremill, and small excercising weights, lol.

About Me:
Most of It's In My Legs.. BIG THIGHS!
I would also like to tone up my upper arms..
I would like to tone and ab my stomach as well. :]

I'm not looking to lose too much weight, just some fat.. and I want some muscle..

CAN YOU HELP ME? :3

[Eileen G]

A brilliant website for showing you how to do exercises is ExRx (Exercise Prescription) on the Net It has little thumbnail videos showing you the right way to do them all.

To lose bodyfat, you need to get your diet in order. Bodybuilders have a saying "Abs are built in the kitchen, not the gym". In other words, it doesn't matter how much muscle you have if it's hidden beneath a layer of fat.

The simplest way to overhaul your diet is to replace white carbs (sugar, bread, rice, pasta, potatoes) with green vegetables and lots of them. If you normally eat a sandwich for lunch, keep the filling but eat it on a huge green salad. At dinner, replace any potatoes, rice or pasta with piles of green veg, and you'll save around 500 calories a day, without reducing the amount you are eating.

Try to eat fresh unprocessed food, not stuff that comes in packets or boxes. Base your diet on eggs, oily fish, fresh meat and chicken, lots and lots of green veg, olive oil, some dairy, some fruit, some nuts, some wholegrain.

When exercising, work hard. There's a lot of nonsense about the Fat Burning Zone, but the truth is that hard work will give better results. That means run, don't walk, or cycle hard up hills, don't putter along.

In the gym, concentrate on compound lifts like squat, bench press, deadlift, stiff leg deadlift, lunges, bentover rows, dips, pull-ups, military press, hyper-extension, woodchopper. They will hit legs and arms and bum and tum as well as burning lots of calories.