Herbalife is simply amazing!! I just took it for less than a month and lost 3 kg! Here are more about what the products can do for you and what you can do to regain a beautiful figure:)
What is Cellulite
It's that dimpling skin that looks like orange peel.
It can be found on the thighs, bottom and even the tummy.
Slim women can have it too.
No miracle cure but there are things you can do... see below
It is an accumulation of fat, fluid and toxins trapped into a hardened network of elastin and collagen fibres in the deeper levels of your skin. Try squeezing some of the skin on upper thigh and if it looks lumpy, you have it. The skin might also look whiter and feel colder than the rest of the body.
Studies show that the majority of women develop some form of cellulite as they age, and some researchers claim as much as 99% of all women develop some cellulite after 30.What are the causes?
Poor diet, stress and lack of exercise, hereditary factors, and hormones seem to play a factor in whether or not you have cellulite. Hormones seem to be a factor because men almost don't get cellulite!
Some researchers believe that cellulite is genetic, while others will tell you that cellulite is caused by eating too much fat, not exercising enough, having poor circulation, collecting toxins in your body, or maybe all of the above.
All muscles in the body are covered with a padding of fatty, connective tissue, which varies in thickness, and is surrounded by a liquid - supplying this "covering" with nourishing and removing waste products.
This fatty tissue is held in place by a network of fibers, and when the system works well, all waste products are removed from this system - resulting in smooth body curves.
When the waste removal system start to fail, waste products start building up, and the connective tissue becomes saturated with liquid, which then thickens and hardens - forming hard pockets that puff up to produce the "orange peel" or "cottage cheese" effect.
Cellulite sometimes happens after pregnancy, (or being on birth control pills) when the system is flooded with estrogen, or after a traumatic experience, since it interferes with blood circulation, or it can be simple toxin buildup - as listed above. My Next Step!
Increase your exercise and watch the diet. Avoid sugary snacks and instead reach for fruit and raw veggies.
Drink lots of water to cleanse your system and flush the toxins from your body cells.
Avoid coffee and switch to herbal teas. Fruit juices are better than soda too.
Swimming is great as is walking and any stretching exercises.
Weight training and exercise. Some fitness gurus claim that weight training and exercise (combined with proper eating) will put a healthy layer of muscle underneath the fat that can eventually replace the fat.
Proper eating. Cutting down on excess fat and eliminating toxins from your body may or may not cure cellulite, but it is probably good for you anyway.
Brushes, massages, creams. Others encourage "brushing" your legs and massaging them daily to provided added circulation, sometimes in combination with thigh creams.
How Does Herbalife Help?
1. Cell-U-Loss - is a unique vitamin, mineral and herbal formula to assist the body's fuild balance. Loaded with Vitamin C, an essential vitamin with antioxidant activity, and potassium, a vital mineral that is often lacing calorie-restricted diet.
Let nature in. Instead of opting for expensive and painful liposuction surgery, let nature takes it course with Cell-U-Loss to help reduce the appearance of dimply skin.
A slimmer, smoother you. Cell-U-Loss reduces fluid accumulation, an effective way to lessen the appearance of dimply skin
Battling dimply skin inside and out. Cell-U-Loss work well with Herbalife's Body Conturing Creme and Body Buffing Scrub.
2.Body Buffing Scrub - cleanse the skin and helps accelerate the natural process of exfoliation, allowing fresh, smooth skin to emerge.
3.Body Contouring Creme - soften and smoothen dimpled skin through exfoliation. Helps improve skin's elasticity and reduce the orange peel look of the skin.
Be healthier, Choose HERBALIFE!
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Are you overweight?
Tuesday 31st July 2007
Why Are You Overweight And What Can You Do About It?
Why Are You Overweight And What Can You Do About It?- By Michael Spira
One of the major obstacles to successful weight control is lack of understanding. In plain terms, ignorance may be bliss but it certainly does not lead to shedding of excess pounds. Glandular Problems
For example, many overweight people claim that their problem is due to their "glands". They believe that they have some kind of metabolic disease that causes them to pile on the weight. In fact, only occasionally is this so. In a very small proportion of overweight people a simple blood test, arranged by a GP, may show that the thyroid gland is underactive. In such a case thyroid hormone replacements may help the weight problem. But I must stress that thyroid problems are rarely the cause of excess weight. Diabetes and Excess Weight
A much more common link between excess weight and metabolic disease is Diabetes. Middle-aged and elderly people who are overweight are far more likely to develop type 2, that is non-insulin dependent, diabetes. Often, merely shedding the excess weight leads to good control of the disease. Diabetes is a serious condition, which significantly increases the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke.
Excess weight and obesity are major health problems. In the UK, one in three adults are overweight, and one in six adults are obese - which means they carry surplus body weight of 20% or more. But Why Are You Overweight? One of the most common remarks I hear from overweight clients is: "But doctor, I hardly eat anything at all. My weight has nothing to do with the food I eat." Ridiculous as such a comment may sound, there is a grain of truth in it. Since the end of World War Two, the amount of food we eat has actually lessened, whilst at the same time our average body weight has risen. Whilst this may seem a puzzle, there is a very simple explanation. During the past few decades we have watched more and more television, we spend more time in front of computers, we use cars where before we used our feet or bicycles, and we use lifts and escalators instead of stairs. We have become less active. So, although we consume less calories now than a few years ago, we also burn up far fewer calories than before. What we weigh depends on a simple balance: the calories we consume against the calories we burn. Or, put more simply, food versus exercise. Yes, we may not seem to eat very much, but if we are couch potatoes we still end up piling on the weight. This is one example of poor public knowledge about excess weight. Another has to do with the best way to shed those excess pounds. Ask most people and they will tell you: "Diet". Again, there is some truth in the answer, but it is far from complete. And What Can You Do About It? For a start, most people's idea of "diet" is to go on some kind of masochistic hunger-driven eating plan, which forbids all of their favorite foods. Yes, as long as you stick to such a program you will probably lose weight, but at what cost? Anyone who has followed such a regime knows that it is impossible to stick to it for long, and when the diet is eventually abandoned all those pounds come tumbling back on even faster than they went away. With experience, and with professional guidance, some people eventually learn that the only way to diet sensibly is to follow a healthy, balanced diet with lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, not much fat, and moderation in all things. This approach, providing it is combined with regular moderate exercise -- such as walking for 30 minutes 4 days a week and weightlifting 3 days a week -- does in fact, yield results.
Note the important features: a healthy balanced diet and exercise. Without exercise it is virtually impossible to lose weight and, even more importantly, to maintain a healthy weight. Which brings us on to another area of ignorance. Maintaining weight is the name of the game. Almost anyone can lose weight. The trick is to keep it off. The tendency to be overweight is a lifelong condition. Like diabetes or high blood pressure, you don't "cure" it - you aim only to "control" it. Unless you continue to work at it, excess weight has an unpleasant habit of coming back. But the process really does not have to be unpleasant. Good healthy food in moderation and reasonable exercise help to shape a fitter and more energetic body, which makes for a more enjoyable lifestyle. Don't Believe the Hype Finally, one more common piece of ignorance. Many like to believe that you can "cure" excess weight and obesity with pills. Sadly, no magic bullet is yet available, nor is it likely to be for many years to come.
The answer for the foreseeable future will remain the same: eat less, exercise more. Don't allow yourself to believe the common points of ignorance to do with obesity. Instead, arm yourself with knowledge. If you need extra help, see your doctor, practice nurse or local slimming club.
Losing weight is simple, which is not to say that it is necessarily easy. But don't make it even more difficult by believing that which is not true.
This article was provided by BodyIsland.
Why Are You Overweight And What Can You Do About It?
Why Are You Overweight And What Can You Do About It?- By Michael Spira
One of the major obstacles to successful weight control is lack of understanding. In plain terms, ignorance may be bliss but it certainly does not lead to shedding of excess pounds. Glandular Problems
For example, many overweight people claim that their problem is due to their "glands". They believe that they have some kind of metabolic disease that causes them to pile on the weight. In fact, only occasionally is this so. In a very small proportion of overweight people a simple blood test, arranged by a GP, may show that the thyroid gland is underactive. In such a case thyroid hormone replacements may help the weight problem. But I must stress that thyroid problems are rarely the cause of excess weight. Diabetes and Excess Weight
A much more common link between excess weight and metabolic disease is Diabetes. Middle-aged and elderly people who are overweight are far more likely to develop type 2, that is non-insulin dependent, diabetes. Often, merely shedding the excess weight leads to good control of the disease. Diabetes is a serious condition, which significantly increases the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke.
Excess weight and obesity are major health problems. In the UK, one in three adults are overweight, and one in six adults are obese - which means they carry surplus body weight of 20% or more. But Why Are You Overweight? One of the most common remarks I hear from overweight clients is: "But doctor, I hardly eat anything at all. My weight has nothing to do with the food I eat." Ridiculous as such a comment may sound, there is a grain of truth in it. Since the end of World War Two, the amount of food we eat has actually lessened, whilst at the same time our average body weight has risen. Whilst this may seem a puzzle, there is a very simple explanation. During the past few decades we have watched more and more television, we spend more time in front of computers, we use cars where before we used our feet or bicycles, and we use lifts and escalators instead of stairs. We have become less active. So, although we consume less calories now than a few years ago, we also burn up far fewer calories than before. What we weigh depends on a simple balance: the calories we consume against the calories we burn. Or, put more simply, food versus exercise. Yes, we may not seem to eat very much, but if we are couch potatoes we still end up piling on the weight. This is one example of poor public knowledge about excess weight. Another has to do with the best way to shed those excess pounds. Ask most people and they will tell you: "Diet". Again, there is some truth in the answer, but it is far from complete. And What Can You Do About It? For a start, most people's idea of "diet" is to go on some kind of masochistic hunger-driven eating plan, which forbids all of their favorite foods. Yes, as long as you stick to such a program you will probably lose weight, but at what cost? Anyone who has followed such a regime knows that it is impossible to stick to it for long, and when the diet is eventually abandoned all those pounds come tumbling back on even faster than they went away. With experience, and with professional guidance, some people eventually learn that the only way to diet sensibly is to follow a healthy, balanced diet with lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, not much fat, and moderation in all things. This approach, providing it is combined with regular moderate exercise -- such as walking for 30 minutes 4 days a week and weightlifting 3 days a week -- does in fact, yield results.
Note the important features: a healthy balanced diet and exercise. Without exercise it is virtually impossible to lose weight and, even more importantly, to maintain a healthy weight. Which brings us on to another area of ignorance. Maintaining weight is the name of the game. Almost anyone can lose weight. The trick is to keep it off. The tendency to be overweight is a lifelong condition. Like diabetes or high blood pressure, you don't "cure" it - you aim only to "control" it. Unless you continue to work at it, excess weight has an unpleasant habit of coming back. But the process really does not have to be unpleasant. Good healthy food in moderation and reasonable exercise help to shape a fitter and more energetic body, which makes for a more enjoyable lifestyle. Don't Believe the Hype Finally, one more common piece of ignorance. Many like to believe that you can "cure" excess weight and obesity with pills. Sadly, no magic bullet is yet available, nor is it likely to be for many years to come.
The answer for the foreseeable future will remain the same: eat less, exercise more. Don't allow yourself to believe the common points of ignorance to do with obesity. Instead, arm yourself with knowledge. If you need extra help, see your doctor, practice nurse or local slimming club.
Losing weight is simple, which is not to say that it is necessarily easy. But don't make it even more difficult by believing that which is not true.
This article was provided by BodyIsland.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Count My Blessings
Brought the my class to the outdoors for some fun this morning and as the children were happily running around, i was enjoying the sense of peace that dawned upon me suddenly. The weather may be hot and i may be sweating like nobody's business. However, i feel blessed to be alive, to be able to enjoy the sunshine, to be able to appreciate the beauty of the greenery and surprisingly, to be able to listen to the laughter of the children.
If God did not give me health, i will not be able to enjoy any of these. If i do not have a pair of eyes that could see, i will not be able to appreciate the greenery visually. If i do not have a pair of ears that could listen, i will not be able to listen to the laughter of my adorable charges:)
As i looked at the faces of the toddlers, i understood what happiness and peace mean. To feel peaceful, we must first be at peace with ourselves. Accept ourselves for what and who we are. It is only with internal acceptance and internal understanding that we could move on to greater accomplishments. Happiness may not necessary mean having things that are glamourous or expensive. It is just simply enjoying what we have and counting our blessings.
There are times whereby i sink into self pity as well as depressing. However, as i step back to look at my past experiences, i am thankful for all the love that people around me have showered upon me. I am grateful for all these experiences, for they allow me to learn and to grow.
And to my dear Pb, thanks for standing by me throughout the tough times. When i am sick and grumpy. When i am depressed and angry. Thanks for being my punchbag and accepting me for who i am. Thanks for your encouragement as i strive to regain my previous weight. Thank You.
Brought the my class to the outdoors for some fun this morning and as the children were happily running around, i was enjoying the sense of peace that dawned upon me suddenly. The weather may be hot and i may be sweating like nobody's business. However, i feel blessed to be alive, to be able to enjoy the sunshine, to be able to appreciate the beauty of the greenery and surprisingly, to be able to listen to the laughter of the children.
If God did not give me health, i will not be able to enjoy any of these. If i do not have a pair of eyes that could see, i will not be able to appreciate the greenery visually. If i do not have a pair of ears that could listen, i will not be able to listen to the laughter of my adorable charges:)
As i looked at the faces of the toddlers, i understood what happiness and peace mean. To feel peaceful, we must first be at peace with ourselves. Accept ourselves for what and who we are. It is only with internal acceptance and internal understanding that we could move on to greater accomplishments. Happiness may not necessary mean having things that are glamourous or expensive. It is just simply enjoying what we have and counting our blessings.
There are times whereby i sink into self pity as well as depressing. However, as i step back to look at my past experiences, i am thankful for all the love that people around me have showered upon me. I am grateful for all these experiences, for they allow me to learn and to grow.
And to my dear Pb, thanks for standing by me throughout the tough times. When i am sick and grumpy. When i am depressed and angry. Thanks for being my punchbag and accepting me for who i am. Thanks for your encouragement as i strive to regain my previous weight. Thank You.
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