It’s a well-known story: You pledge to honor a daily elliptical hobbies and count every last calorie. But soon, you’re eating cupcakes at the office and grabbing happy hour mojitos, thinking, Oops, diet over. There is a more robust way: Swap the all or nothing approach for one or two fit switch ups to your daily pursuits. “Doing this may end up in more weight reduction than you ever imagined,” says Marissa Lippert, RD, author of The Cheater’s Diet. In fact, we talked to readers who knocked off 10, 25, even 60 pounds with some easy tweaks.
Borrow their slim down secrets and techniques to transform your body the real world way.