How to Balance Uneven Weight

Peoples' bodies distribute weight differently. While some people may have a more proportioned distribution of weight, others may feel as though their weight distribution is uneven. The way your weight is distributed has to do with genetics as well as your lifestyle. While you can't do much to change your natural body structure, you can take control over your diet and exercise routine, which helps you balance out the uneven weight in certain areas of your body.

Instructions

Losing Weight

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  Evaluate your diet. If you feel like certain parts of your body are heavier than others, and your goal is to slim those sections down, you need to adjust what you eat to help you shed pounds and get to a proportioned distribution of weight. Familiarize yourself with the food pyramid and healthy dietary recommendations. For instance, the Mayo Clinic suggests eating lean proteins, low-sodium foods, foods that do not contain added sugars, and whole grains if you are trying to achieve healthier eating habits.

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  Exercise on a regular basis. While there is no such thing as spot-training to lose weight in specific sections of your body, you can get your body, as a whole, in shape by performing cardiovascular activities and resistance training workouts. This type of exercise increases your metabolism and helps you burn calories so your body looks better-balanced. Good exercises for weight loss include spinning, running, jogging, cycling and using the elliptical machine. Resistance training workout ideas are pushups, sit-ups, squats and lunges.

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  Cosmetic surgery may be an option. Women who have pear-shaped bodies look toward breast augmentation to balance their wider hips with a more-proportioned bust. Liposuction is another option for people who want to remove excess fat from certain problem areas on their bodies.

Putting On Weight

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  Consume more calories if your goal is to put on more weight to balance your uneven weight distribution. Eat more proteins and carbohydrates if you intend to do heavy weightlifting to build muscle or perform a lot of physical activities. Egg whites, lean beef, chicken, fish, spinach, buckwheat and plain yogurt are ideal foods for helping stimulate muscle growth.

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  Build your muscles and tone your body through strength-training workouts. If you feel as though your biceps are underdeveloped in comparison to your quads and calves, focus on toning your biceps muscles through arm weights and specific exercises, such as biceps and triceps curls, shoulder presses and back rows. If your goal is to put more muscle in your legs, focus your training exercises with more quad extensions, leg presses and calf raises.

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  Give yourself at least once rest day per week when you do intense training. This allows your muscles to relax so you can give them a shock the next time you go to the gym. Training without rest can lead to injury, such as muscle or joint distress.