How To Get Back Into Your Favourite Jeans

Enjoy the moment when you zip up your denims with our expert action points

Zipping into a snug pair of denims is the dream of many a dieter.

Taking control of your weight and wellbeing is a lifelong project. More than just restricting your food intake for a few weeks, it means changing your lifestyle for good.

That fact can seem overwhelming, especially if you want to lose a big number. The best way to stay focused and positive is to be working towards a goal that excites you.

Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project talks about the difference between resolutions and goals. She says that an objective like ‘eat healthy food most of the time’ is a resolution that you keep. On the other hand, ‘get back into my jeans’ is a goal because it is easy to tell when you have achieved it.

Looking after your health is an ongoing resolution. You will never be finished. But pulling on your jeans is a goal you can reach surprisingly quickly if you follow our expert action points.

Harness the power of your visual sense

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits says that visualising your goal is a great motivator and one of the best ways of bringing your goals to fruition.

The power of your visual sense keeps you focused on your goal. If you lose focus, you lose motivation, so a strong visual reminder of what you want to achieve maintains motivation.

Hang up your jeans where you can see them every day. Alternatively, take a photo of the perfect pair for you and make it highly visible:

• use it as your desktop wallpaper or phone home screen wallpaper
• stick it on the fridge
• carry it in your gym bag and your wallet
• make a Pinterest board of all your favourite denim looks

Use your online diary

At The Biggest Loser Club we provide the menu plans and exercise plans that make weight loss dreams come true. But our real secret weapon is our online diary.

The key to sustained weight loss is maintaining an energy deficit. However, it’s almost impossible to know how much energy you consume versus how much you expend without some kind of tracking tool.

The online diary makes it easy to keep your body in weight-loss mode. And the more you use it the sooner you’ll be stepping out in Levis. By tracking what you eat and how much you move, you can establish the healthy habits that promote lasting weight loss.

A review of recent studies of the role of self-monitoring in weight loss says:

More frequent self-monitoring was consistently and significantly associated with weight loss compared to less frequent self-monitoring.

Discover more about how the energy equation works and the basic maths of weight loss.

Killer moves for getting into your jeans

“What I like about the goal of getting into your jeans,” says personal trainer and author Andrew Cate, “is that it doesn’t rely on hitting a number on the scales.”

“It’s specific and achievable and would give you a great boost once you achieve it. It can be a more meaningful than trying to hit a certain number as the scales don’t always tell the full story.”

Discover more about why your weight fluctuates from week to week.

Any kind of exercise will help your body to burn extra energy and slim down. The main thing is to be consistent and to work out regularly. While you can’t target one area only for weight loss, you can improve your shape for wearing jeans by building lean muscle mass in the lower body and mid-section.

Here are Andrew’s 4 killer moves to get you toned and terrific for your happy denim days:

Lunges

Lunges  are a high-performing all-rounder. They work the glutes, hips and thighs.

Bodyweight squats

Bodyweight squats  engage a large number of muscles, making them a useful fat-burner. They work muscles in the back, leg, glutes and abs and they also open the hips and improve range of motion. Just what you need if you sit all day!

Step-ups

Step-ups  are a functional exercise in that they use an action we perform in the real world. They target the quadand tighten the thighs.

Planks

Planks  activate the deep muscles all around the spine as well as the transversus abdominis which supports your mid-section. They whittle the waist and flatten the tum. You’ll be pulling up that zip in no time!

For more body-changing exercises, visit our Exercise Library.

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