Today I did arms at the gym so I thought I’d share my arm workout with you.

Triceps

This exercise can be done as depicted below, or one arm at a time. 12reps 5 sets.

Pushups x20 (if these are too difficult, Google ‘female pushups’)

Tricep pushdown on the cable machine. Find a weight that is suitable for you, then do this until you can’t do it any more.

Biceps

Bicep curl. 12reps, 4 sets.

Hammer curl. 12reps, 4sets.

Remember, doing these exercises will not make you look like a huge body builder! All you’re doing is toning your arms and removing the ‘bingo wing’. Building muscle is more effective for weightloss than cardio; your body can hold more calories and you look better naked.

Now this diet is quite extreme so I wouldn’t suggest young girls copy me or girls of a healthy weight, but I have a few weeks until a photo shoot and less than 7 weeks until the Hooters annual bikini contest, so it’s time to hardcore diet <3

What I’ll be Eating.

It’s best for your metabolism to eat little things several times a day, rather than 3 huge meals a day, that way your body can deal with the calories better.

Breakfast: Medium sized bowl of cereal with semi-skimmed milk and sweetener.

Snack: Carbs allowed – probably vegetarian sushi, nom nom nom.

Lunch: Protein and fruit

Snack: Non-carb-snack e.g. carrot sticks

Dinner: Protein and vegetables e.g. vegetables and Quorn, vegetable and prawn stir fry, vegetable omelette.  

When to eat: No carbs after 5pm, No food at all after 8pm.

Drink: Lots of water and hot water with lemon.

My Goal Weight.

Height: 5’8”

Heaviest Weight: 158 lbs

Current Weight: 137 lbs

Realistic Goal Weight: 126 lbs

Dream Goal Weight: 119 lbs

Exercise.

Gym 3 or 4 days a week

-  Cardio; treadmill, spin bike, stepper, cross trainer.

-  Abs

-  Gluts & thighs

-  Arms

Work (waitress) 2 days a week

-  7 hours on my feet, lots of walking!

Day One!

Okay, I won’t be posting a blog of what I’ve eaten every day because you’d all get very bored and… CBA! I’m a busy woman; full-time 3rd year double degree with approaching deadlines, a job, the gym, boyfriend and social life… I don’t have time to keep taking pictures of carrot sticks and telling you that my legs look super fat today haha! But I will try and post one or two times a week.

Breakfast:

Medium sized bowl of Special K Red Berry with artificial sweetener and semi-skimmed milk.

Snack:

Banana

Lunch:

Small salad comprising of lettuce, cherry tomatoes, blue cheese and some mustard/mayo sauce thing. Also 2 scrambled eggs and a few grapes.

Snack:

I was so hungry when I got back from the gym that I ate one before I remembered to take a picture haha! I just saw this is Waitrose, it’s really nice and low carb! All three rolls are less than 200calories! They’re Prawn Rolls which are rice paper rolls stuffed with prawns, vermicelli noodles, carrot, lettuce leaves and coriander. Yum yum! (I’m a vegetarian but I do eat prawns, nothing else.)

Dinner:

I ate this far too late at night but to do uni work in the library all day then going to the gym at 6pm or 7pm means that I’m not going to get any dinner until 8pm or 9pm :/ Eating that late at night is a huge NO for dieting!! I just boiled a load of vegetables and eat them with vegetarian gravy. Eating late at night isn’t too bad if it’s just veg.

Exercise:

I went to the gym with my friend Belinda (lovebeli.tumblr.com), this was my first day back so I didn’t do anything amazing haha!

-  Treadmil; 3 mins warm up, 11 mins running, 5 mins walking at incline 11.

- Gluts and thigh exercises

-  Abs exercises

-  Stepper; 5 mins at level 8

-  Cross trainer; 5 mins at level 4

I’ll be back in a few days ;)

Charlotte Elizabeth x <3 x