“My friends are planning trips to the beach this summer and I’m panicking. How can I get skinny fast so I don’t look like a whale in my bathing suit?”
In my opinion, skinny in a bathing suit is not something we women should strive to be. Come to think of it, I’ve never thought a skinny guy in a bathing suit looked all that great either.
The idea of getting skinny fast isn’t the healthiest option. What you should be doing is planning for a bathing suit body for next summer but I can appreciate your need to be able to show your face at the beach without covering your body with a long flowing caftan that doubles as a beach blanket.
Here are some ideas to consider:
Start working out now! The more muscle you have, the better your curves will look. Exercise and more muscle tone will also help to minimize the look of cellulite. More muscle will also raise your metabolic rate and help you to burn more calories even when you aren’t exercising.
Start a low carbohydrate diet. By cutting out sugars and starchy carbohydrates and focusing your diet on meats and vegetables, you’ll drop a great deal of water weight in a short period of time. While this is a difficult diet to maintain over a long period of time, it is a great way to drop ten to twenty pounds of excess water weight.
If you get to beach season and still feel you need to drop a few extra pounds, consider a tan. Try a safe and skin friendly spray on tan to minimize the look of cellulite. A tanned person at the beach always looks thinner than a bright white person.
Nothing safe will make you “get skinny fast” but these suggestions should help you get to the point where you don’t feel as self-conscious at the beach. Once the crisis is over, start planning your beach body for next year!