Shyann Walker (@lifeOfShy) is a YouTuber and social media influencer who regularly shares about weight and fat loss. In a recent viral video, she reveals her strategy for getting her dream body in just a month. “If you're like me and you have been very inconsistent, especially with your fitness,” she says. I know I wasn't the only one who set my own personal fitness goals, and I feel like I dropped the ball. I'm going to share with you exactly what needs to be done in order to get back on track and reach your goals in 30 days,” she says. “I'm gonna be sharing with you the three simple, small, teeny, tiny, tiny, tiny little things that I'm gonna be doing in order to get my dream body. Your dream body may look different from my dream body,” she says, admitting she has been every shape and size. “Right, no, I am 150 pounds. My smallest was 130 or 135.”
At Her Smallest, She Wasn’t Happy
She says that when she was at her smallest, she still wasn’t happy. “I wanted to be lean. I wanted a flat stomach, but I was not happy. The mistake that I made was I was overworking my body and not eating enough,” she says. “Right now, my ultimate goal is just to keep as much muscle as I can and lose fat, especially in my midsection. But my lower body is perfect for me. Like my butt.”
Get in Alignment with Your Goals
She starts sharing “what you need to do to lose fat and either build or keep as much muscle as possible” before getting started with the first tip. “You have to get in alignment with your specific goals. Whatever that looks like for you, your nutrition needs to align with your goals. That is the bottom line.”
Step 1: Make Nutrition Your Top Priority
She admits that she is “a foodie” and loves to eat. “I love to cook, and I just love good food and a good meal. But to me, when my goal was to lose fat, I was eating less. Obviously, if you want to lose fat, you have to eat less or move your body more. There's no getting around that. And I was doing both. I was eating less, and I was moving so much. I think I was averaging about 15,000 steps a day, but my protein was not there. For example, I would only eat once or twice a day. I would skip meals because I just wanted to get there so, so, so quickly. Right now, nutrition trumps everything. Like nutrition is my number one priority right now, and I'm kind of shaking myself out of this eating every single day.”
Write Down What Your Goal Is and What You Are Eating to Get There
The first thing that you're gonna do is write down exactly what your goal is and what you're going to be eating to get there. Since her goal is “to keep as much muscle as possible and lose fat,” she explains that she needs to get 140 grams of protein every single day, regardless. “My protein trumps everything,” she says.
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Make Protein a Priority, But Allow Yourself to Eat Carbs
She starts the day with a protein shake with two scoops of protein powder, “a huge, huge, huge salad with my choice of protein” topped with 25 grams of protein. “For dinner, my meal of choice, I love carbs. I'm not going to get rid of carbs,” she says. However, she knows she will end up binge eating. “For breakfast and lunch, I don't have to do carbs because that gives me something to look forward to towards dinner, and this is what works for me. I love potato fries,” she says. “I love it, and I'm not gonna deprive myself of that.” Other carbs she likes are sweet potatoes and bread. “That last meal will have my carbs and that way, I'm not setting myself up to be so restrictive to the point where I hate my life, I hate my diet, and I just hate the process.”
Step 2: Train Intentionally
Step number two is training intentionally. “I feel like it's so obvious, but I think that people overcomplicate it to the point where it doesn't work,” she says. “It really did help me because I was training my lower body so hard and so heavy that I was taking two to three rest days in between. That helps with glute growth. But that doesn't help me if I want to lose fat. Not working out for that period of time is really hurtful to my progress. But it helped in the sense that my legs got so much bigger, my butt got so much bigger.”
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To Lose Weight, She Needed to Amp Up Her Cardio
For her specific goals of weight loss, “I need to put my cardio on the same level as my strength training. For strength training, I think I can get away with four times a week. Cardio, I need to get my cardio every single day.” What works best for her “is to get a step goal,” she says. “My step goal is 12,000 steps. I always try to go a little bit over what the minimum is. That way I know that I'm doing more than what's required. And then on the days where I only get 10,000, I'm still doing what's required of me.”
Make It Work for Your Lifestyle
“You have to make it ideal for your lifestyle. I will never give up weight training or weightlifting unless I have to. I love lifting weights, and I love building muscle. I love how it makes me look so cardio, and that is gonna go hand in hand. If I'm doing 30 minutes of cardio, it'll be 30 minutes of weight training. And that won’t be the StairMaster for me because getting my steps in is easier. I can literally do that walking at work,” she says.
Stay Consistent
Most importantly, “stay consistent with it and make it a priority,’ she says. It's a non-negotiable. I was not doing that a couple of weeks ago. It was just like, you know if I can make it, I can make it. I got too much going on. No, my health is my number one priority,” she says. “Therefore, master your plate and your nutrition, and every single day, move your body at least seven days straight.”
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Step 3: Do Not Spend Rest Days on the Couch
Number three? “This was a game changer for me, and I'm a hundred percent sure it will be a game changer this time around. My rest and recovery days will not be spent on the couch laying slumping the day away,” she says. “That is where so many people don't take into consideration active recovery when you have these specific and huge goals.” Instead of laying on the couch, go for a walk, “even if it's just a 15 to 20-minute walk,” or a bike ride. “I don't know if I was the only person who was taking my rest days a little too literally and meaning like I can't move my body, but that was not good for me.” And if you enjoyed this article, take advantage of these 15 Quick Ways to Lose Body Fat Percentage in a Week.
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