My name is Christine Marquette and I'm a Registered Dietitian with the Austin Regional Clinic and I'm going to talk to you about how to trim your inner thighs. Now it is really widely held that you can't really target specific body parts and just reduce fat in very specific areas. The easiest way to reduce inches or body fat is to reduce it in your entire body at the same time by practicing good healthy eating and including physical activity. Now having said that there are some exercises that you can do that will help strengthen the muscles in a particular area so when you do strengthen your muscles in that particular area it does help as you are reducing fat in your diet or fat overall in your body where you have that nice muscle base under there, that will allow some reduction in inches. So as far as your inner thighs you do want to do some exercises for example inner outer thigh lift. You can do these with or without weights. If you are at home you are basically laying on your side, having your legs extended doing leg lifts. If you wanted to add weights you could add ankle weights. In the gym they have machines, the inner outer thigh machines is what they are referred to at some gyms, other gyms will refer to them as abductor and adductor machines. They work both again the inner and the outer thighs so it is a good idea to do both of those. As far as your eating is concerned you do want to make sure that you are following a healthy balanced diet and that means that you are eating at least three meals daily. You are including fruits, including vegetables, whole grains, lean sources of protein every day. So whole grains would include things like whole grain bread, brown rice, oatmeal, whole wheat pasta, those are all really good choices for whole grains. The leans proteins can be any type of lean meat, chicken, fish, any type of seafood, other types of protein would be things like beans, any kind of legume, nuts and seeds would be some of your healthier fats to include and then for your fruits and your vegetables as many whole fresh fruits and vegetables as you can get in the better. That healthy balanced diet in addition to your overall exercise will really help to trim your inner thighs. Another thing to keep in mind is other exercises, we talked a little bit about thigh specific exercise but you also want to include some overall exercise, some cardiovascular exercises such as walking, jogging, running, cycling, swimming, any of those types of things that actually get your blood pumping will help with actual calorie usage so decreasing your overall weight. So those are just a few tips to keep in mind for reducing your inner thighs.
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