It Happened this Week: Bikini Season, Healthy Geezers and Ann Taylor
Back in Skinny Jeans reminds us that there are more important things in life than being “bikini ready” for summer.
Fred Cicetti, aka “The Healthy Geezer” wonders: Is it Safe to Exercise in Your 70s? The short answer is yes!
Alternative Health Journal offers five great reasons not to fall for the latest fad diet.
Forget weight loss pills. Successful dieters are those who do it themselves through good eating habits and exercise, says a new study by Consumer Reports.
Ann Taylor is the latest retailer to drop size 16 from their stores, reports Big Fat Deal blog.
Lori over at Finding Radiance has a great post about remaining positive about your healthy lifestyle. No more griping. As she says, perspective is everything.
Photo by ClevelandSGS via flickr.
Natural Cellulite Creams
By Grath
Cellulite creams are available in the market if you choose to go the artificial way. Anti-cellulite creams are available at any drug store or retail shop. You need no prescription to buy them. Apply this cream to the region affected by cellulite to remove cellulite.
Natural cellulite removal includes doing things like eating the right kinds of foods and getting enough to drink along with having a personalized exercise routine and getting the right creams and solutions that will help you to remove the fatty deposits once and for all.
With cellulite being an issue for a lot of people today, natural cellulite creams have flooded the market. With this large amount of creams to choose from, it may be difficult to find a natural cellulite cream that is right for you. Do some research, and study the ingredients of each cream. There should be one out there that is perfect for you.
Removal of cellulite is a slow process, and is not an instantaneous process. You will be able to observe the difference in weeks or may be months in some cases after using the cream. This method will be very effective if blended with physical exercise.
Exercises to get rid of cellulite, are there any? Of course there is. In fact exercises is one of the best ways to get rid of cellulite. It burns away the access that they has contributed to your cellulite problem, and it also firms and tones the area helping your skin regain its elasticity.
The cellulite diet a great way for eliminating cellulite and preventing it from building up down the track. However these diets require a high level of determination and sacrifices on your behalf, as you will no longer be able to eat a wide variety of junk foods.
Cellulite sufferers need to alternate there diet a little to remove the toxin build that has helped caused the fat cells to grow. It’s not that you have to eat less, but you to exchange the bad foods for fruits and vegetables that will help detox and remove the toxins. The reason fruits and vegetables work is that they have multiple compounds like fiber, phytochemicals, minerals and vitamins that cause the detox effect.
Cellulite is caused by the fat cells increasing in size, creating separations in the skins connective tissues giving the appearance of dimples on the skins surface. The fat cells become enlarged due to excess fluid build up, toxin build up, not enough exercise and eating a well balanced diet. Cellulite affects both men and women in the same areas of the body.
Treating cellulite naturally through aromatherapy has been done for a few years. This method of cellulite removal coupled with exercise and massages is a nice alternative to the surgical treatments out there which are expensive, unreliable, and which can be a bit risky in some instances. Aromatherapy thus gives a refreshing and natural option to those who seek treatments for their cellulite woes.
Another natural cellulite cure is the combination of exercise and proper diet. Proper diet would regulate the body and the skin while exercise would tone the muscles. It might be hard for one to keep up with this lifestyle at first, but if you are really determined to get that ugly cellulite out of your body, then you should have discipline.
Read about how to reduce cellulite . Also read about cellulite cream and lower blood pressure supplements.
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Revitashape Cellulite Cream
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Looking for the most effective, least expensive way to get rid of that ugly, lumpy cellulite? Everywhere you turn, someone is advertising the best surgical cellulite treatment, or the most effective cellulite cream . But what really are the best approaches to controlling cellulite?
VelaShape Cellulite Treatment
One cellulite treatment that’s garnered publicity lately is VelaShape. A high-tech cross between massage techniques and advanced ELOS treatment, VelaShape is a non-surgical medical treatment. VelaShape treats both the upper and lower layers of the skin and deeper tissues, reducing fat layers to eliminate the deposits that lead to cellulite.
VelaShape’s ELOS technology uses bi-polar radio frequency combined with infrared light, massage equipment, and vacuum. The RF and infrared energy heat the targeted tissues, then the roller massage and vacuum smooth out the skin and help spread the heat throughout the treated tissue.
Kim Kardashian gets rid of Cellulite with VelaShape
While VelaShape hasn’t been in use long enough to prove or disprove its effectiveness, celebrities like Playboy Bunny Kim Kardashian have been willing to pay the high price of repeated VelaShape treatments. Effective or not, at an average cost of about 50 per treatment, VelaShape might be the kind of cellulite treatment only celebrities like Kardashian can afford.
Other options for cellulite removal include spa treatments–often also quite expensive–or liposuction, which is not only expensive but dangerous. While many people want to see their cellulite reduced or, better yet, eliminated, the prohibitive costs and inherent risk of these procedures leaves most of these people at a loss for what to do.
Cellulite Cream – Most Economical Option for Cellulite Treatment
An alternative to pricey medical, surgical or spa treatments is cellulite cream. Not all cellulite cream is created equal, so make sure you check out cellulite treatment reviews to find the best cellulite cream. Many cellulite cream reviews and sites such as cellulitetreatment.org list RevitaShape as the most effective cellulite cream available.
RevitaShape Cellulite Treatment
RevitaShape contains innovative ingredients make it one of the most advanced cellulite creams available today. RevitaShape increases circulation, drains fluids from target areas, and activates the breakdown of fat cells that congregate to make those cottage cheese-like cellulite deposits. Some cellulite creams merely cause tissues to swell, disguising the pits and bumps of cellulite. RevitaShape actually works to address the root causes of cellulite.
RevitaShape rates very high in all categories, including firming and shaping, fat reduction, fast results, and improving skin texture. Reasonably priced and highly effective, RevitaShape is the cellulite treatment for the rest of us. If you want to improve the appearance of cellulite deposits and prevent future cellulite buildup, give RevitaShape a try.
By: Linda Cole
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About the Author:
Linda Cole was trained as an aesthetician before becoming a full-time freelance writer. She uses RevitaShape before bathing suit season. While cellulite treatment cream does not get rid of cellulite permanently, it is certainly the most cost effective cellulite treatment.
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Cellulite is known by a lot of different names: orange peel syndrome, the mattress phenomenon, hail damage, cottage cheese skin, and really really annoying.
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Healthy Recipe: Salmon Florentine
Don’t fear the fish! If you’re like me, you’re hesitant to cook fish. There seems to be potential for things to go wrong and then it tastes fishy. But with this salmon entree, you can’t go wrong. It’s a one-dish meal, complete with a bed of spinach for your fish to rest atop. The subtle flavors will wow your friends, but the easy prep won’t stress you out. Courtesy of the American Heart Association, it’s rich in omega-3 fatty acids and so yummy!
Salmon Florentine
Serves 4
Vegetable oil spray
4 salmon fillets (about 4 ounces each)
1 tablespoon salt-free all-purpose seasoning blend
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon paprika
2 medium garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon water
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 to 8 cups fresh baby spinach leaves
6-ounce jar marinated artichoke hearts, drained and chopped
Cooking Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Lightly spray a 13 9 2-inch baking pan with vegetable oil spray.
Rinse the fish and pat dry with paper towels.
In a small bowl, combine the seasoning blend, oil, pepper, paprika, garlic, water, and salt. Brush the seasoning mixture over both sides of the fish.
To assemble, put the spinach in the baking pan, covering the bottom. Put the salmon and artichokes on the spinach. Lightly spray with vegetable oil spray.
Bake, uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.
Photo by adactio via flickr.
Diet Talk: How Words Can Work Against Us
MSNBC ran an article last week titled “Blow your diet? Blame your brain.” It raised my hackles for a number of reasons.
- If you aren’t on a diet, you can’t blow it.
- It once again blames the victim. Or, in this case, her brain.
- The lead-up to the discussion of the studies it reviewed talked about how public service announcements “…exhorting the fat and flabby among us to get more exercise might have an unfortunate and unexpected side effect: They can inspire people to eat more….”
Hello? Just look at the words used in that sentence: “…exhorting the fat and flabby among us….” How in the world could that inspire folks to take care of themselves? Okay, maybe public service announcements don’t use words like that. But I wonder how many do use words about loving our bodies and taking care of them, as opposed to tired chatter about calories, pounds, fat, health risks, etc., etc., etc.
Two studies mentioned in this article intrigued me.
- One examined how many raisins students ate after viewing posters encouraging exercise vs. those encouraging togetherness. They ate more when contemplating exercise.
- The other showed that just the idea of low-fat turns us off. Brain reward centers actually respond less when people think a food is low fat, even if it really isn’t. End result: Less satisfaction.
I posted a few weeks ago about how I thought the phenomenon of “control fatigue” might set us up for acting in ways that aren’t in our own best interest and wonder if the results of these studies aren’t telling us something similar. Such reactions might be a signal that we’re overwhelmed with all the negativity — whether it’s perceived or real — that we see in common advice about eating and living well.
With these most recent studies, I’d say they just add more weight (pun intended) to our contention that Americans — and increasingly the rest of the world — need to seriously rethink the focus on calories, fat, pounds, the numbers and focus on how we can become intrinsically inspired to take care of ourselves.
Enough of all that guilt, worry, obsession stuff. It doesn’t help. In fact, it does just the opposite. It kills inspiration.
What “diet” words kill your inspiration?
Blogging Contest: And the Winner Is
We received a number of stellar entries to our very first blogging contest in honor of our Mother-Daughter-Sister Month.
Women were asked to write about their relationship with their mother or children and how it has shaped their attitudes towards food and their bodies.
The winning entry by Lauren Herskovic of College Candy touched us because of it’s honesty and humour. In Lauren’s reflections, we meet a mother who was never ashamed of her body and managed to instill the same confidence in her daughter. Nobody’s perfect. But the idea is to live with imperfection and be proud of who you are.
“My mother taught me that my body was my body and it was never something to be ashamed of,” writes Lauren. “She never forced me to eat fruit instead of a brownie, or put me on a diet before I was ready. She didn’t want me to grow up thinking she didn’t like me the way that I was. She always just told me I was beautiful.”
You can read the full post on College Candy.
Congratulations, Lauren, for reminding us of the freedom we can have when we grow up without body shame. Your post is a testament to the importance of unconditional support, self-nurturing and a lot of fun! Please get in touch with us to arrange your prize — a weeklong stay at our healthy weight loss retreat, Green Mountain at Fox Run!
And to our other applicants, thanks for taking the time to enter our contest and to reflect on family relationships. All of your stories are important. They teach us how we become the people we are and empower us to keep the good influences and try to change negative patterns.
Lastly, we tip our hats to all the moms out there who try every day to instill in their daughters a healthy sense of self. It’s not easy, but the rewards can be lifelong.
For more information and parental advice about modeling a healthy body image, see our recent interview with Dara Chadwick, author or You’d be So Pretty If…, and our FitBriefing Feeding Our Daughters (& Sons) Well.
Fitness Interview – Son Trinh, Doctor of Physical Therapy
The following is an interview I conducted with Son Trinh, Doctor of Physical Therapy. He provided some great insight into ways to get motivated to workout, good workout tips, as well as ways to help avoid injury. You can find Son at his web site located at: www.fitnessisthekey.com
1. Could you provide a little background about yourself and how you got into fitness?
My mom tells me that at 10 months, I went from crawling to running. I don’t think I’ve stopped moving since. Fitness came out of those early experiences, a side effect, if you will, but one that I’ve gladly lived with.
“Getting into fitness” didn’t happen in a formal way until I read a book by neurologist Oliver Sacks during a bus ride along the California coast about 6 years ago. He talked about the “music” of movement and its unlocking effect on the brain, the body, and the systems that integrate the two.
Physical therapy stood at the crossroads. That was the case for Sacks and it became the same for me. Many years and a doctoral degree later, I’ve worked with everything from spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, and fibromyalgia, to orthopedic rehab, sports conditioning, and aquatic rehab. Recently, I started my own business with Beachbody, a giant in the home fitness industry.
2. What is your workout routine like?
I’m on my second round of P90X. If you’ve been watching TV you’ve probably heard of P90X along with the list of people who are doing it (Sheryl Crow, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Braves outfielder Matt Diaz, and football greats Brett Favre and Ray Lewis along with the entire Philadelphia Eagles team…)
Under all the hype is a program that works. Ninety days of intensity, consisting of three phases that are each four weeks long (90 days total). The variety lies in alternating between kenpo, kickboxing, yoga, weight-based isotonics and plyometrics.
When I’m not doing the “X”, I typically exercise at least 5 days with one to two days of rest/week. Of course, some weeks will be more intense then others. The idea though is simple: functional and mechanically correct exercises with a balance of strength, power, flexibility and fun.
3. What does your nutrition plan consist of? Are you a big supplement user?
You are what you eat, and you eat what you have. People tend to forget the latter. If you stock up with binge bags full of high calorie snacks, what do you think you’re going to end up eating? So, my first priority speaks to this. I keep as little junk food around as possible. While I certainly don’t discourage the occasional “slip”, I just try to prevent it from becoming a slip and slide into the bowels of unhealthful eating.
I typically eat frequent, balanced and nutrient dense foods (usually 4-6 small meals if possible). I also drink a chocolate or berry shake called Shakeology which contains just about every macronutrient known to man as well as all the antioxidants, phytochemicals, prebiotics, vitamins and minerals that I find impossible to find elsewhere.
Other than that I drink a small creatine based recovery drink after my workouts. My supplement philosophy is that it depends on your goals and your needs. If you’re doing intense exercise and want to build muscle, it makes sense to take in some extra protein, especially if you normally don’t eat much. On the other hand, too much of anything is usually bad.?
4. Staying motivated can be tough for many people. What are your suggestions for getting and staying motivated to workout?
1. Get a program that works for you. If you like dance, by golly, don’t get going on a yoga routine.
2. Take measurements, set goals, take pictures, and track your progress. You need to know where you were to find out how far you’ve gone.
3. Establish accountability. Let a few people know what you’re trying to do. It’s harder to flake out on others than it is to flake out on yourself.
4. Stay on track. Just because you fell off the train doesn’t mean you can’t get back on. It’s not all or nothing. You WILL slack off some days. Just re-commit and realize that you don’t have to be perfect to get results. The only people who fail are those who let a few missteps turn into an excuse to quit.
5. What are some things to keep in mind to help avoid injuries when exercising?
Very general principles:
If it hurts, don’t do it (there’s a difference between “burn” and pain)
If you didn’t warm up, don’t exercise. Period.
Too much isn’t necessarily better.
Focus on form unless you want to injure yourself and spend the next few weeks or months getting back to where you were.
Train upper and lower, front and back, right and left. Balance keeps you aligned and when you’re aligned you won’t get injured.
6. What are some good ways to warm-up before exercising?
Keep it simple. Run in place, do some “jacks”, and start of with very light weights. Stretch when your muscles are warm. This shouldn’t take more than 5 to 10 minutes.
7. There are so many exercise programs out there. What would you suggest for people who want to keep things simple but stay in shape.
If nothing else, park far and walk more. Take the stairs and ride a bike. Find ways to challenge yourself and relish in the new, stronger, slimmer and happier person you see in the mirror each morning.
Don’t forget, fitness isn’t about having your cake and eating it too. I mean this literally. Some people think that they’ll just work off that 6lb burger later by doing an extra lap. Eating right and moving more is about making lifestyle choices. It’s not about finding the easiest way to indulge yourself without paying your dues.
8. What would you recommend for people who want to break a plateau or add more challenge to their workouts?
Bodies adapt. That’s a physiological fact. That’s why you need to throw the change-up every now and then. Cycle through one program, switch to another one for a few weeks and cycle back. You have plenty of options. Sports, resistance training, hiking, dancing, running, swimming…variety will keep your body going AND it keeps things interesting.
My workout (P90X) already has the variety built in so plateaus don’t have a chance to develop. As soon as the body starts to say, “Oh, I see the pattern…” the workout changes. That’s the key.
9. Is there a fitness myth that you would like to debunk?
“Jocks are dumb.” While I can’t speak for everyone, I do know this: IF jocks are dumb, they would be even dumber if they stopped exercising. Physical activity doesn’t just help your muscles. It makes your bones stronger, your heart healthier and your brain better at processing information. Braun and brain can definitely go together.
10. Is there anything else you would like to add?
Have fun. For ideas on how you can get fit, visit my website at www.fitnessisthekey.com. You can find out how to win 0 to ,000 every day just by doing whatever workout you choose. This is completely free and a great incentive to stay on track. You can also enter to win up to 0,000 by being the most inspiring success story in our Million Dollar Body Game. Finally, you can find out how to make fitness a business that will help you and others to get healthy and stay that way.
World’s Strongest Boy?
I came across this video from the Bar-barians blog and couldn’t believe it. I think it is great when kids take an interest in fitness. Do you think this is too much or does this kid’s parents have the right idea?
Diamond Push Up – Try to Do This Friday
The diamond push up is one tough way to attempt to do a push up but it does add a challenge if you are seeking one in terms of push ups. You will be working out your triceps and chest muscles.
This is tough but a very cool way to do push ups. It is an exercise that you can work up to and be proud of yourself for accomplishing.
Diamond Push Ups
Do you want to try something even harder?
Check out the fingertip push ups done by Bruce Lee. No joke.
How Exercise Makes You Feel
When you haven’t exercised in awhile and start back up again, you may wonder what the heck people mean when they say exercise makes them feel better. I used to wonder also when I got back into working out, but now I’m to the point where I do feel the benefits.
It won’t happen right away, but over time when you exercise regularly, I do believe you will experience some if not most of the feel good benefits exercise offers. The feel good benefits may include:
- Stress relief
- Improved moods
- Better sleep
- Reduced anxiety
- Decreases depression
- Increased confidence
- Improves circulation (feel refreshed)
- Improved social life (meet others who workout at your gym, etc.)
- Look better
Personally, I find that I have more energy, I’m in better moods, and I feel stronger. I even get bummed out when I have appointments that cut into my gym time. Missing a workout makes me moody which I think is a good thing.
If you think exercise is just a chore and it is keeping you from working out, just try it for a few weeks and see if it doesn’t improve how you feel mentally and physically.
