Hi! 57kg for 1m73 is actually pretty skinny (but still a normal healthy weight for your height). I’m guessing you probably have ‘skinny-fat’ tendencies: meaning even if you’re slim you have too much body fat and too little muscle mass. 

You may want to try to build a bit more muscle mass. Building muscle means regular strength training, clean eating, and upping your protein intake.

Concerning the workouts, you can back off on the cardio. Focus on basic multi-joints movements such as squats (with weights), lunges, push-ups, dips, chin-ups and presses, making sure your muscles have enough time to recover between workouts. 

Hi Eliza, these may be the things sabotaging your efforts: 
- As you wrote, you “tend to eat a bunch of unhealthy snacks throughout the day”. Choose healthy snacks: an apple & 20 almonds, or celery sticks & peanut butter, or 1 cup of Greek yogurt, or 2 hard boiled eggs, ect.  
- You’re strength-training only once or twice a week. You could aim for 3 times a week and run 4 days a week instead of 5. 
- You’re vegetarian: are you sure you’re getting the daily amount of protein you need? You can calculate your ideal protein intake here: www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bbprotein.htm 

If you already have a flat, tight belly but you want a 6-pack, please take into account that the shape of your abs is also genetically determined. A girl can be 20% body fat and have visible abs, while another girl, leaner and at 18% percent body fat will have no visible abs. When it comes to us women, my opinion is that the appearance of our butt really tells how fit we are, much more than the way our abs look. 

Hello! You don’t need to work more the right side than the left. Our bodies are often asymmetrical (for example one breast is often slightly smaller than the other) so there is no much you can do about it. You can however try to lose both love handles :) There are no specific moves to target love handles since it’s not possible to spot reduce (lose fat in one body part and not in the other). When people lose weight they tend to lose it all over (boobs, face, arms, belly, butt). All the twisting moves I could suggest you would just work the muscles under your love handles but not get rid of the fat.  

Here are a few suggestions to reduce the love handles: 
- eat vegetables and lean protein in every meal
- eat more vegetables
- don’t drink any kind of sodas and fruit juices, drink water only
- cut out all crackers, cookies, candy bars, sugar, pastry
- stop eating Kellogs cereals for breakfast and eat eggs and unsweetened oatmeal
- avoid artificial foods, chemically charged foods
- don’t eat fast food for at least 6 days per week
- don’t go hungry: always have healthy snacks with you
- start exercising 3 times a week (any activity will do if you’re a beginner)
- sleep at least 8 hours per night 
- don’t focus on the numbers on the scale but more on how your clothes fit and how you feel 
- be patient with yourself  

Hi V’Ana,

You seem to be very active which is very good. Keeping up such a routine for 2 months isn’t easy! Kickboxing and Zumba are great, but they are cardio activities, which means you use your heart and a lot of energy doing them, but you’re not developing any muscle mass.

On the contrary, if you overdo these classes, your body will be tapping into your muscle mass for energy. This is even more true if on top of that you don’t eat enough protein. (You need 1 gram of protein per pound of body mass per day if you’re active like you are).

If you don’t develop your muscle mass and keep doing so much cardio, your body just keeps holding on to that reserve of fat around your stomach for survival. 

Try to incorporate some weight training to your routine and reduce the frequency of your cardio classes. If you don’t know what to do with weights at the gym, group classes like body pump are a good way to start strength training. 

I hope this helps a bit,

xxx

Elise