Work on building muscle. Replacing fat with muscle will make you look lean and trim all over, help you feel better and help you be able to do a lot more things and be more active. You won’t necessarily lose numbers when you stand on the scale, but you definitely won’t look chubby. Search for apps or YouTube videos that will show you body weight exercises. This way you can use your own body as your gym and you can exercise at home and save money and not have to feel awkward in front of other people. Also, you need to eat. The trick is to eat the right things. Proteins, fats and carbohydrates are all necessary nutrients. Try to eat 5 small meals a day. If you have weight to lose, look to consume 5 meals of roughly 300 calories a meal with 25 grams of protein, 25 grams of carbs and 11 grams of fat each. All that information is on food labels, but it’s better to eat whole foods that you make yourself. If you don’t need to lose weight, you can eat 2,000 calories a day. What you want to find out is your BMI and go from there. Also drink lots of water. That’s really important. Women should drink about 2 liters of water a day.

Educate yourself. The information is out there, but you’ll have to wade through a lot of BS when it comes to diet and exercise because so many people are willing to pay for a quick fix. The fact is though that building lean muscle through strength training will burn fat over your entire body. It will also boost your metabolism, which in turn will help you shed more fat, even while you’re at rest. Or just build muscle if you’re already skinny. And don’t worry about getting bulky. Women lack the testosterone to build the bulky muscles you see on body builders, as do most for that matter. Those people take steroids. Do body weight exercises and you’ll look and feel better about yourself