Cellulite cream claims to carry rich nutrients down into the skin. These nutrients then remove the toxins that have built up on the fat cell receptor.

Good non-toxic ingredients include: aloe vera, camomile, sage, seaweed, ivy, algae extract, meadowsweet and rosemary.

Warning: Avoid creams that have Aminophyline as an ingredient. It’s a derivative of caffeine and is a dehydrant. This means that it operates as a cellulite-reducer by drawing water out of the skin and fat cells. Once a person stops using Aminophylinebased creams the cellulite returns very rapidly. However, other types of cream can be helpful.

Yoga

Yoga is a very good source of exercise for someone who isn’t very energetic, or for someone who is very energetic and wants something else. You use your muscles but you also get to learn mind control. Yoga is therefore extremely beneficial in a holistic way.

As a way of getting rid of cellulite it’s not a strong enough form of exercise to stimulate direct cellulite reduction, but for mind control yoga is very good.

In conduction with an exercise program and good diet, yoga will be a big help in your all-round development. Alternatively, if you are a sedentary person and disinclined to attend a fitness centre or take part in an active exercise routine, yoga might introduce you to exercise in a more comfortable manner.

Cellulite-Loss Chair Mats

If you can believe that you can shift cellulite by sitting on a slightly uncomfortable chair mat at your desk, in your car or while watching television – well, you’ve got real faith.

On the other hand, these so-called ‘cellulite burners’ only cost around $15. So if you’re going to buy a chair mat anyway, one of these won’t do you any harm.

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There are different types of water, and here they are graded one to five, from the best to the worst:

• Rain water

Rain water is the cleanest water, because it never touches’ the ground. Catch it yourself in tanks, or buy bottled.

Bottled water will probably contain sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, fluoride, nitrate and sulphate.

• Natural spring water

Natural spring water is also pure water, also containing sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium and no artificial additives. You can purchase top quality water anywhere – in bars, supermarkets, health food stores, service stations – anywhere at all!

• Soda water

Soda water is carbonated water with no additives. You can buy various grades, including generic brands. If you like to know where your water comes from, purchase a soda siphon and make your own. It’s quite good fun. You fill the siphon with water, insert a little ‘bomb’ into the machine, and presto – you will have just created fizzy water!

. Tap water

Tap water is rain water, and rain run-off, stored in water treatment plants. The water is tested, and is sometimes found unsafe for human consumption. If you are drinking tap water, purchase a water purifier just to be on the safe side, although not even this is completely safe as there is no way that it can remove giardia bacteria.

Corroded pipes and the filthy residue in water conduits are a worry. Some tap water carries so much sediment that it ruins domestic hot water services!

• Tonic water

Even though it looks like, tastes like and fizzes just like soda water, tonic water is not just water.

It also contains sugar, flavour, food acid (330), preservative 221 and quinine, which makes it a double whammy if you have a gin and tonic. Cellulite shedders: switch to whisky and soda!

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1. Toning: resistance and muscle framing, and

2. Aerobics: heart and lung framing.

Over the last 25 years aerobics – sweat, sweat, sweat – has been idealised by some as the be-all and end-all of exercise. It is not. Aerobics is only one component (heart and lung framing) and should be given the amount of focus that it deserves.

Dr Kenneth Cooper, the US Cardiologist who coined the word aerobics and has promoted its use for over 25 years, now admits he was wrong in emphasising it above everything else. He now contends that the best way to fitness and burning body fat through exercise is to build flexibility into the response of the heart and lung system by short bursts of elevation followed by sudden recovery, followed by demanding activity again. Again and again. That’s interval framing.

Just as important is exercise that strengthens your muscles and particularly your bones. The only way to do that is to do resistance exercises, remembering that weight training does not require moving heavier and heavier weights until you look like Mike Tyson. It can be any weight:

• Spend 50% of your time doing toning work on your muscles and,

• 50% of your time on aerobic work.

When you do that you will lose fat faster than if you spend all your time doing aerobic-based repetitive exercises that generate sweat. A program that just adds more and more low intensity work with no real emphasis on developing aerobic power or muscle toning power will result in minimal fitness.

Divide exercises evenly between the two and your body will improve in shape dramatically and you will lose body fat much faster.

The result of toning work will be: added lean muscle tissue on your body, changing your body composition in favour of muscle instead of fat. This in turn increases your body’s metabolism and your ability to burn off cellulite much faster. Read Strong Women Stay Slim by Miriam Nelson PhD and Sarah Wernick PhD. The title of the book is true!

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Massage by itself will not be much help in shifting cellulite, but combined with routines outlined in this chapter, it is a great thing to stimulate movement in the deeper layers.

Massage helps boosts circulation (and an active circulation is the number one way to get rid of cellulite). Massage should be in a circular motion, towards the heart. Avoid vigorous massage as this may aggravate the problem.

The best massage oil for your purposes will have a grapeseed oil base.

Sex Stimulates Cellulite Loss

I have not conducted any surveys on whether or not sex is a reliable weight-loss technique – but it is an exercise.

Sex is also a healthy and a natural body functions. It is also a great motivator. In this way sex stimulates cellulite loss.

Knockers, Teasers and Tempters

Some men like to keep their women chubby. Yet if you ask those men, “Do you like your wives like that?”, if they were truthful, they would say no.

It’s not that they don’t love their wives but – apart from anything cosmetic – big people put enormous stress on their hearts, and no one should wish that on their spouse!

When you’re trying to lose weight, some husbands may not be helpful. So keep your cellulite-loss secrets from them if they are knockers, teasers or tempters.

Find strength within yourself believing that once you take a stand, often the support around you will come.

If your partner can’t support you, then your partner should say nothing while you’re doing your program.

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Estrogen programs the cellulite to collect on a woman’s hips, backside and thighs, where fat is stored in readiness for childbirth.

Testosterone programs the cellulite to collect on a man’s stomach, chest and underneath the arms.

Women complain about big bottoms. Men complain about beer guts.

• Spot reduction doesn’t work

Spot reduction doesn’t work. So don’t go wrapping your body while exercising, whether Jerry Hall does it or not! No wetsuit either. Fat will come off once you start an exercise routine accompanied by correct eating habits.

Fat does not come off ‘in spots’ but equally all over the body. The only reason people believe it can be targeted to certain parts of the body is because it is more noticeable in certain areas where there’s less in the first place, like the face.

• Better buy a smaller bra!

‘Am I going to lose my breasts?’ Yes, when you lose weight, you also lose your breasts – because breasts are largely fat!

However, if you are worried about losing your breasts, there are ways of compensating. For example, you can have better looking breasts with exercise -*by developing the muscle tone underneath the breast to support it better.

• Stretch marks are not associated with weight loss

Losing weight off your stomach, your breasts or anywhere else, should not result in stretch marks.

If it were true that weight loss produces stretch marks, you would get stretch marks everywhere when you lose weight.

• Sweat is not essential for weight loss

Give us this day our daily sweat is an exaggeration. You do not have to sweat every day in order to lose weight, and to lose cellulite.

Exercise will break down the cellulite. When you exercise, you probably do sweat. And if you exercise every day, you probably sweat on a daily basis. But it’s a myth that activating the sweat glands is associated with weight loss. Exercise is what makes you sweat, and exercise gets rid of cellulite

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