CAMBRIDGE, MA (June 19, 2014) – Saturday June 14th New York Times Best Selling Author, EXTRA host & Boston native Maria Menounos shared top diet and fitness tips and debuted her newest book –The EveryGirl’s Guide to Diet and Fitness: How I Lost 40 lbs and Kept It Off-And How You Can Too! at CambridgeSide Galleria. Attendees learned tips from health and fitness experts, today’s top fitness fashion and tech advances, and more.
Maria’s EveryGirl Weight Loss Journey Tips that helped her drop the weight:
1. Set a Deadline. You can’t just say, “I want to lose weight…someday.”
2. Weigh Yourself. Once you’ve written down your start weight PUT THE SCALE AWAY.
3. Buy a Journal.
4. Write Down Everything You Eat in a Week.
5. Review and Assess What You Ate.
6. Cut Back Slowly.
More from Maria’s Book –
EveryGirl Rule 1: Being Healthy Is More Important Than Being Thin – Maria discusses the pressure we all feel from Hollywood, media, and culture to be thin, thin, thin! The EveryGirl must focus on a healthy lifestyle and choose good fats and carbs like olive oil and whole grains over unhealthy low-calorie crutches like diet soda and energy drinks.
EveryGirl Rule 4: Don’t Attempt a 180 – How many times have you said, I’m never eating carbs again? Rather than make enormous, drastic changes, Maria’s strategy is to ease out of old habits and into new ones slowly and realistically for maximum staying power.
EveryGirl Rule 8: ABM – Always Be Moving – If you think exercise only comes from multiple hour workout sessions with your personal trainer, you’re wrong! Maria’s tips to incorporate small, cumulative activity throughout the day help to keep your metabolism up and the weight off.
EveryGirl Rule 10: Make No Comparisons – Pam Anderson has the most amazing body. No wait, Gisele Bündchen has the most amazing body. Actually, Kim Kardashian has the most amazing body. Or is it Kristen Stewart? Natalie Portman? Beyoncé, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez? It’s all subjective, which is why it’s not worth comparing ourselves to them or anyone else.