Developing the Perfect Figure

Daytime talk shows and much of the media has a love/hate obsession with the woman’s body. On one hand hosts like Oprah and the ladies of The View will underline the importance of having self-confidence and loving you for you no matter what. At the same time the cover of every magazine and nearly every Hollywood starlet exemplifies the ideal of female beauty.

The message though is not as contradictory as it seems. Studies show unequivocally that a healthy diet and exercise do improve a woman’s self-confidence and positive self-image – these things also help a woman develop the figure they’ve always wanted.

There are two cycles at play. The first is low self-esteem which leads to little exercise and a poor diet which leads to more low self-esteem. The second is boosting your own self-esteem, which encourages a better diet and the desire to exercise, which of course leads to a better body, better health, and greater confidence.

If you are caught in the first cycle you can break it, and it isn’t all about daytime talk shows and accepting you for you. The trick is to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

Everyone has it within themselves to develop the perfect figure, and we can help.

Step 1: You have heard the saying “you are what you eat” and we all by now know it is basically true. What many don’t know is how to eat, or what types of foods encourage a healthy body.

Here’s the problem, diets are in fact not a scam. You may have been on any number of these miracle diets, it worked for awhile and then it failed. If you haven’t I’ll bet you know someone who has. Everyone claims they have the secret diet that will work in lieu of all others.

The component they are all missing is that all healthy diets work, whether it’s one you saw on TV, or one you made up yourself.

The problem is staying on these diets. Your figure is determined by two things, diet and exercise. Your ability to change these two things is determined by one thing, you. As long as you are calling your eating habits a diet, you are assuming a time limit and you are obsessing over the things you can’t eat instead of enjoying the things you can.

This needs to stop. Throw out the term diet and simply change the way you eat. It’s not a diet.

1. Start slow. No one changes overnight and that massive will you put into that first week of eating healthy, the willpower will crumble. It’s like taking an energy drink instead of getting 8 hours of sleep. The body is going to do what it wants eventually, whether it be sleep or a return to previous eating habits.
2. Learn what it means to eat healthy! Some simply do not know. Many believe they are eating healthy because they are not eating a lot or that starvation is the key. Not eating slows your metabolism. A slow metabolism stores more fat. Sure you’re not eating as often, but your body is trying to hold onto everything you are eating and storing it for your next bout of starvation. Instead invest in fresh foods and slowly replace anything fried and unhealthy with healthier alternatives. Eat small healthy snacks between meals such as salads or yogurt. This will ensure that when it is time for your next meal you are not so hungry that you overeat and it will keep your metabolism constantly active so it does not begin storing the foods you do eat. A healthy body is rarely if ever hungry.

Step 2: Yes, exercise. It’s not as hard as you think. The way men and woman workout to maintain a healthy body is vastly different. The focus for a woman in building the perfect figure should not be massive muscle building, and it absolutely should not be any sort of enhancement drug, over the counter or otherwise.

All supplements encourage testosterone. Testosterone most definitely does not encourage the perfect female body. Women want lean muscle mass. Some exercises include cardiovascular workouts, yoga, and Pilates. Weights are important as any trainer will tell you, but you do not want to “max out” like the grunting Neanderthal in front of the mirror. You’re focus should be lighter weights and more repetition.

But anyone can tell you that. It isn’t the initial workout, like with diet it is the continuation of it. One has to think of the workout not as a short term strategy to a long term goal, but as something fun that one does to relax and improve their mood.

And if you are exercising the right way that is exactly what it is. If you are dreading going to the gym or working out at home than it is only a matter of time before you stop doing it. Instead you have to get it in your mind that it is the feeling of a completed workout that you are after and not the workout itself.

Exercise releases endorphins. Endorphins are a drug in the brain that causes elation. Start slow with your routine. If you don’t want to lift something, don’t lift it. If you want to ride a bike for 1 mile instead of run for 1 mile, do that instead. Make the workout something you do not dread, and push yourself only a little to start. You will feel good when you are done, and you won’t hate going the next time.

Pretty soon, you will want to workout to hit that high. Then you will want to push yourself. You won’t be exercising to lose weight or to fit into a dress, you will be exercising because you like exercising. Once this happens the sky is the limit.

Step 3: You are step three. The cycle of healthy lifestyle = self-esteem or self-esteem = a healthy lifestyle is really asking which came first the chicken or the egg. The fact is something sometime has to be done. If you are not “up to it” do it anyway. A little pain to start is good. Nothing can be done without trying to do it. But you cannot think of obtaining the perfect body as a short term race to the finish line, that is how it falls apart. The key is to change your lifestyle in the ways described so that it is the journey that counts, not so much the destination. Cliché aside, it is true.

What about Mother Nature?

Mother Nature can be a cruel mistress to some and a fairy godmother to others and there is absolutely nothing fair about the situation. But there is absolutely not a person on this earth who “nature” has so cursed that they can never be beautiful. Some women may be surprised that the first thing any man looks at is their body – not their hair, nails, face, or purse, guys are looking first at the midsection, legs, ass, and breasts.

Blame physiology, call them pigs, do what you want but nothing is going to change that fact. A healthy body is 100% the person who owns that body’s choice. Yes it is harder for some, but it is not impossible to get the perfect body, not for anyone.

Exercise and a healthy diet can and will give you an amazing midsection, a perfect ass, and legs anyone would kill for. Some exercises may even improve a woman’s breasts.

Breasts though are perhaps the trickiest part of the equation. This may be why breast implants are so popular, but one does not always need a drastic surgery, or even a major change.

There are natural ways to improve breast size, firmness, and shape just as there are natural ways to improve everything else.

Triactol™ Bust Serum for instance has been clinically shown through dermatological testing to help you naturally enlarge, firm, and lift your breasts.

Women who have used Triactol™ Bust Serum formulated exclusively with Mirofirm™ have reported firmer and more youthful looking breasts within weeks.

Once you’ve changed the way you eat and exercise you will see vast improvents to your body, and if you just have one more thing you want to change about your image look for natural ways to improve your breasts before you try drastic surgery.