When you put on too much weight or you lose it, after you give birth, or since each time you have your period your breasts are dubling in size, you get those evil looking stretch marks.
Theoretically, once you get them, you cannot get rid of them anymore.
Well, certain things can improve their appearance and reduce them considerably. Such an example is this cream from The Body Shop. It's cool because it is not sticky - don't you hate sticky creams, especially in summer, when it gets extra hot?
In order to get good results, you should apply two times a day, in the morning and in the evening.
I am still using Dove for cellulite and it is working, and I like the fragrance, but I hate the texture: it leaves not a greasy feeling, but it is sticky in a way.
I have tried and am planning to buy as soon as I finish my Dove cream, Body Focus Cellulite Serum from The Body Shop. I love the way it feels on the skin, how fast it is absorbed and the fragrance. I am quite positive that it works because I have not had any TBS products that would not.
It is not really a cream but a gel, rich in caffeine and vitamins that decrease the orange peel appearance of the skin.
My second buy will be Body Focus Sculpting Body Mask.
I am sure that if I combine the two of them with hot and cold showers and some massage I will be able to go swimming this summer without problems. :)
If you're out of ideas, you can try reflexology and massage for weight loss.
Reflexology can help with your pituitary glands and the thyroid. It can also help with water retention, by stimulating the kidneys. In any case, you will also need to control your diet during reflexology sessions.
My friend tried reflexology for three weeks. She said it kind of helped, but it wasn't an amazing help. She was also dieting. Probably you should find a very good reflexologist if you want it to work. Doing it by yourself is not the same. However, if you want to try your hand at it, buy this book I've gotten for myself: "Reflexology - A Step-by-Step Guide", by Nicola Hall. I bought it for 8 dollars a few years ago.
As for massage - it works pretty much the same as reflexology, but it has more advantages by rubbing your skin and helping your muscles. Honestly, I would opt for this choice. I have my own electrical massage tool, with different speeds, and I used it for two weeks at some point, 10 minutes on each leg. If you combine it with cellulite cream, after a shower, and before bed, it really works! You will wake up at night with sweaty legs. Trust me! I was changing pants two times till morning.
Showers can help you burn fat faster. Scottish showers are the most successful ones. They alternate 1 minute of hot water with 30 seconds of cold water and they shock your body very nicely.
Hot water increases your body temperature and thus increases metabolism temporarily, but I don't suggest you use very hot water because it is also responsible for causing skin and blood vessel damages.
If you do want a very good massage though, for your cellulite, use your shower on maximum pressure - to the point of hurting - and keep in on your problem areas for 5 minutes. It's massage and massage is needed when you try to get rid of cellulite. As a matter of fact, next to weight loss, massage is the one that will help you most in treating and preventing cellulite.
I decided to make a list of some firming creams that can help get rid of the cellulite on your tummy, legs, and butt. Make sure however to compare customers review before buying.
1. Body Firming Cream from Clarins 2. Cellulite Rx LipoLift Firming Cream - Beauty.com - Price: $48 3. Dove Intense Firming Cream (tried it and it was good) - Price: about $15-20 4. Avon Super Shape Anti-Cellulite and Strech Mark Cream - Price: $8-17 5. Avon ANEW Clinical Lift and Tuck - Price: $15-18 6. Neutrogena Anti-Cellulite Treatment - Price: $16 - 19. (I also thought Neutrogena was a good brand) 7. Shiseido Body Creator Aromatic Sculpting Gel - Anti-Cellulite - Price: $50 8. Lancome Aroma Fit Anti-Cellulite Sculpting Concentrate - Price: $33 - 40 9. L'Oreal Dermo Expertise - Sublim Slim Day (there is also one for Night) 10. Nivea Body Good-bye Cellulite
Green tea has been consumed for more than a thousand years in India and China. However, the western society started discovering its benefits only much later.
While some say that two glasses a day are enough to keep you healthy, others suggest that ten cups a day would be the correct number. Anything in between is good. The only side-affects that green tea might bring is insomnia, due to the fact that it contains caffeine. It would be recommended to decrease the amount of coffee and have green tea instead.
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What green tea can do for you?
Well, first, through its components, it reduces the risk of cancer by being a very powerful anti-oxidant. Cancer rates tend to be low in countries that consume large quantities of green tea, such as Japan. Green tea prevents bladder cancer, breast cancer, esophageal cancer, colorectal and lung cancer, pancreatic, skin, and prostate cancer, and stomach cancer.
It also helps digestion, bowl movement, and it helps cure and prevent liver disease, by protecting the liver against toxic substances like against alcohol. It prevents atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, and reduces the total cholesterol levels in your blood and it increases the good cholesterol (HDL). Asians also believe it improves mental processes. They also use it against infections and to boost up immunity.
Green tea controls the blood sugar in the body, so it's highly recommended for diabetes and those who are prone to diabetes. Let us not forget that the blood sugar in the body is also responsible to being hungry and eating more and for losing less weight.
Studies show that green tea is extremely helpful when it comes to losing weight. It boosts up metabolism, stimulating the body to burn calories faster. Actually, a 1999 study of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that men who had green tea and caffeine burned calories much faster that those who didn't have them.
So, ladies and gentlemen, go buy your green tea now! Not the one with sugar that you find as juice in supermarkets, but the real tea that you would brew at home! Oh - and don't add sugar!
Green tea might not contribute directly to getting rid of cellulite but it does help indirectly by recuding your weight and eliminating toxins.
Note: cellulite (definition) is a condition featuring dimpling of the skin. It's not a disease. and cellulitis (definition) is a skin infection caused by a bacteria and appears mostly on the face or lower legs.
If I told you that movie stars suffer also from cellulite I wouldn't make you feel any better, right?
I am just trying to point out a thing which is obvious to us already: once you get it, it's hard to get rid of it. The more you wait before you take action, the longer it will stay with you.
There are afew things that can facilitate the 'getting rid of cellulite' process. Obviously, exercise is the first thing, and losing weight is the second one. According to other sites, however, neither exercise not fat loss will decrease the cellulite. FALSE. They both do, as many of you already know. If you start exercising a lot, particularly for those areas, you reduce it. I've been there, done that, witnessed it.
If you read websites and articles you will realize that everyone disagrees. And if you make a list with the FALSE ways that help you get rid of the orange peel effect, you will be left with nothing to do. To summarize for you: there's nothing you can do, if diet, exercise, water, massage, laser therapy, etc, do not help.
It's wrong. All women know it, because the moment you take action against cellulite, you see the results.
What is cellulite actually? 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.
The causes? Many, including poor diets and hormones.
If you can get rid of it? Yes, you can.
What I started doing and worked, no matter what others say about these techniques?
Exercise: lots of exercise for legs and thighs, especially the ones that build lean muscle. Try yoga or winsor pilates. Why some athletes have cellulites? Unless your exercises focus on those particular areas, you will never get rid of it! Anyway, forget the athletes. Look at some of your skinny or good looking friends who don't have it. Some of them had it but now they don't anymore. Ask them the secret. Exercise they will say.
Losing weight: You will see the difference! Or you think that when you lose weight you don't lose at all from certain areas? You think you can end up with very thin arms and a tight butt and stomach and still have all the kilos on your thighs? I doubt it.
Massage: Whoever told you that it doesn't work, doesn't know what he/she is talking about. Whenever I start my own massage routine or use the electric 'machine' for massage, it helps me. Do it every day, five to ten minutes, even fifteen for one leg.
Creams: They do help, especially combined with massage. Ask the ones who use them regularly! I did so for a month, before summer and I could see the difference! Many of my friends use creams and see the difference. First, in only two weeks, your skin becomes a lot softer, then the orange peel starts disappearing. I have tried Dove Firming Intensive Cellulite Gel-Cream for 10 bucks. There are others too.
Hot and cold showers: They help. Maybe not directly, but the Scottish showers always helped metabolism.
Plastic bags: It sounds weird, doesn't it? Well, a 'tactic' used here, in Romania, by young girls, was to wrap their legs in plastic bags or something similar and then exercise or ride a bike, even sleep. The area perspires thus gets rid of your extra water and the toxins retained in the cellulite tissues. Try it once and see the drops of sweat!
I'm not taking money for this advice, but if I were to take, I would guarantee the results. If you combine all of the above there is no possible way in which you can cheat the fat on your button or legs!
Losing weight and staying healthy is easy, when you care. Forget famishing yourself: there are other ways.
Since I was 15 I've been obsessed with healthy diets, losing weight, sports, and everything included. I read books after books and I collected articles on staying fit and healthy. Even now, 12 years later, I am still reading everything I find on the subject.
I will share with you, step by step, everything I know. Free advice.
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