General Hospital's Laura Wright on How She Got This Amazing Beach Body

Laura Wright is enjoying lake life – in her swimsuit. In a new social media post the General Hospital star looks sensational, showing off her fit figure in a bathing suit during a lakeside vacation. "The first four days ❤️," she captioned the Instagram post. How does she approach diet, fitness, and self-care? Here is everything you need to know about her lifestyle tips. 

Laura "was really sick a lot, "in Spring 2019 she told Soap Opera Digest. "I was still really struggling with the end of my marriage [to John Wright, her spouse of 21 years] — feeling better about it, but probably not really dealing with it. And I thought, 'I have to do something.'" She discovered the Beachbody program and had such a great experience she became a coach. "I walk different. I stand different. I sleep different. I love how amazing my body feels," she said about her transformation. 

Wright revealed to Soap Opera Digest that her BeachBody coach encouraged her to share workout photos on Facebook each day. "My coach had me showing up to a Facebook page to post after-workout pictures and that accountability really got into my head," she said. "The workout is only 30 minutes a day and no matter how late I worked, I worked out. If I got home at 8:30 or 9 at night, I worked out and posted that picture. If I had to be at work at 6:30, I was up at 5 doing my workout and posting. I was like, 'This really works!' Then I thought, 'Every workout works. So why did this click in differently for my brain?' And it was the coaching page, the community."

Laura enjoys bike riding. "Playing in Aspen – my heart is so happy !!!!" she captioned a post this summer. The Cleveland Clinic explains that biking, a low-impact aerobic exercise, is great for building muscle, improving strength and flexibility, and improving balance. It can also boost mental health and help other health conditions, including arthritis. 

Laura recommends doing "a lot of meditating and reading," she told FBJFit. "A good book can profoundly impact your life. Two of my favorites are The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz and New Earth by Eckhart Tolle." One Harvard study published in Social Science & Medicine found that people who read books regularly had a 20% lower risk of dying over the next 12 years compared with people who weren't readers or who read periodicals. As for meditation, it helps "clear away the information overload that builds up every day and contributes to your stress," says the Mayo Clinic. Benefits include:

• Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations
• Building skills to manage your stress
• Increasing self-awareness
• Focusing on the present
• Reducing negative emotions
• Increasing imagination and creativity
• Increasing patience and tolerance
• Lowering resting heart rate
• Lowering resting blood pressure
• Improving sleep quality

Laura also enjoys hiking, another great outdoor activity, according to the National Parks Service. Physical benefits of hiking include:

• Building stronger muscles and bones
• Improving your sense of balance
• Improving your heart health
• Decreasing the risk of certain respiratory problems