Staring at my fat ankles all I could think was how do I get rid of my cankles!
If you're suffering from cankles, the odds are you want to do something about them and you desire to see the results instantaneously. Have faith in me, I've been there and although the cure for cankles is not essentially fast, there are methods for you to disguise your cankles in the meantime. So let me outline a few ways for you to obscure your cankles, while at the same time, getting rid of them as rapidly as likely.
The easiest method to hide your cankles is through clothing. Pants, long skirts and dresses could clearly hide your cankles totally while you work to get rid of them.
If you want this method of cankle camouflage I'm guessing that you're awfully conscious of your cankles so you need to launch a full scale attack against them! Try cutting down on your salt / sodium intake and increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables you eat, as this helps to reduce water retention and weight gain. Also, try gentle exercise (swimming is best) for half an hour every other day and do specific leg movements (such as calf raises) on the opposite days to build and tone leg muscle and lose weight overall.
If you feel a bit more sure about your legs, footwear can be a great means to mask your cankles while still being capable to wear shorts and skirts. Boots that come to on top of your ankles could obscure up your sins, but be sure choose a style that may go with your clothing, the last thing you are trying to figure out how is to draw attention to your lower legs. If you don't like the idea of boots, you can even wear longer socks with your shoes and ruche them slightly around the ankles. This works particularly well if you have "skinny cankles". Proceed with caution here though, your socks can make or break your look and, again, you don't want your cankles to look worse.
If you are opting for footwear to conceal your cankles, I'm guessing you're a little more positive about how they look. At this stage you desire to be doing a half hour's light work out and particular leg workouts six days of the week (taking one day off for the muscle to get chance to repair) to really tone up your body and define your calves. You should also take exclusive effort to drink plenty of water and keep your salt eating low as this can help reduce puffiness in the ankle area.
So the idea of sporting boots or long socks doesn't appeal? Fear not, there are ways to disguise your cankles even when you have them fully on display! This way involves fake tan, which you can rub on yourself or get a professional to do. You will probably have heard of the "double dip"? This is the procedure where your body gets a light all over tan, and then a slightly darker colour is applied around your muscular areas to create the trick of definition, and it is possible to do this at home. I would recommend using a body lotion with fake tan in it rather than a proper fake tan, at least at first, though.
Bearing your cankles like this is a sure sign of cankle confidence so you're probably in the final stages of beating them for good - congratulations! To finally get rid of your cankles you need to step it up a notch. Make sure you're doing a variety of lower leg movements six days a week as there are many muscles in the lower legs that will benefit from this. Some of the best movements are calf raises, lunges and squats and you can find instructional videos for each of these on YouTube. Keep up your swimming (or other light exercise) and really concentrate on eating a variety of fruit and veg each and every day and drinking lots of water.
This full process of getting rid of your cankles may not be that fast, but it may work and with the cankle hiding tips I've mentioned here, no-one have know you ever had cankles in the first place!
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