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Nowadays, it has become a necessity to keep oneself in shape, not only for aesthetic purposes, but for medically related purposes as well. The best way to lose weight and keep it off would be through a well balanced diet and a regular exercise routine. Despite this common knowledge, a lot of people are still opting to go for fast weight loss strategies.
There are a lot of products in the market today that guarantee fast weight loss in a limited amount of time. Now, some of these products may hold true, however, the results that you get do not always last long. Before going into more of these fast weight loss products, it would be better to know some facts such as the most number of pounds a person can safely lose in a single week. An average individual can lose between one to two pounds a week through a healthy diet and exercise. This number of pounds is safe, smart, and healthy. Losing more than this amount in a single week may mean you are losing muscle instead of fat which is not very healthy in the long run.
Fast weight loss products promise results fast; however not all of these products are guaranteed to work. And most, if not all of them, have some serious side effects. The use of some of these diet pills may disrupt your metabolism. Diet pills and supplements have also been found to cause digestive problems, heart palpitations and other serious problems such as heart attacks.
The safest and healthiest way to lose weight is to do it properly – through exercise and a proper diet. If you want to facilitate faster weight loss, do it the natural way instead of spending your hard earned cash on fast weight loss products. Here are a few tips to help hasten weight loss:
- Drink a lot of water. Drinking up to eight glasses in a single day is recommended.
- Eat organic foods for breakfast. Good examples would be apples, bananas, yogurt, carrots, tomatoes, and so forth.
- Go for a walk. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Take your dog for a walk around the neighborhood. Try to increase the amount of physical activity you do on a day to day basis.
- Have your last meal of the day at least 4 to 5 hours before going to bed.
- Engage in regular exercise and have a nutritious diet plan – stick to it!
- Stay away from soda and other carbonated drinks. These contain empty calories and will in no way help in your weight loss endeavors.
- Pay attention to what you eat and the amount of food you eat. Control your portions.
- Eat slowly. Eating at a slower pace can have you feeling full and may ultimately reduce the amount of food you eat in every meal.
These are only tips to help facilitate fast weight loss and are not guaranteed to make you lose weight in short periods of time. Remember, proper and effective weight loss takes time – there is no fast and easy solution.

Which foods are good and what should be avoided in weight loss? This is a popular question especially for women who like to prepare their own foods.  What to use, what not to use, what kind of foods to prepare, how much to eat and when.  I have some very good suggestions following, be prepared to take notes;

First some rules: use less fat and sugar and when preparing food always use vegetable oil.  Minimize all products which contain fat cheese.  For bread, eat only rye bread.  Make all your portions smaller.  Avoid juices and soft drinks; drink only water and fatless milk.  Eat in intervals of three to four hours between meals and eat small portions. Eat lots of vegetables, fruits and berries.  Don’t eat pasta or rise and allow yourself only one feast-meal per week.  Exercise up to five times in a week, an hour or an hour and a half at the time.

This means that it’s very important to avoid all industrial vegetable fats and carbonates.  Instead use butter and other good oils like olive oil.  If you eat cheese, I recommend non -fat cottage cheese.  Potato which is starch should be left out of your diet altogether.

Also leave out all white breads, donuts and cakes. Switch macaronis and pasta to rye and oat pasta, because they contain more fiber. I recommend counting calories in the beginning, because some weight loss programs have too low calorie-content recommendations, and this is dangerous in the long run. Count your normal calorie consumption and try to eat 500 calories less per day.

Here’s a great tip for any weight loser; drink 2 liters water per day and you will be amazed how the feeling of hunger will go away by only drinking water.  You will find that after one week your weight is going down and you don’t have a feeling of hunger.  It is always healthy to drink lots of water, so there’s nothing risky in this method, water will also purify your whole system.

Recognize all calorie bombs even before you eat them!  Losing weight is not about eating less, it is about eating wisely and be knowledgeable about what you put in your mouth. To be able to lose weight intelligently you need to eat enough, otherwise you might lose it from wrong places.

Following the above recommendations will make you lose weight – guaranteed. 

But you need to be strict and persistent with your diet.  If you try to lose weight too fast, it can be dangerous to your health, you don’t want to lose your muscle material when you diet.  I recommend using a good program that is proven to be healthy and consult only people who have experience in this field.  Remember that your diet should consist of enough vegetables, fibers, water and proteins.  When following a proven program, your weight will go down because your adipose tissues are going to be reduced. There are some effective programs on the market that promise fast results but losing muscle and all water from your body is not permanent weight loss, it is yo-yo weight loss, because you will gain it back in few weeks. Go the healthy way and you will be able to lose weight and maintain the results.

There are some main reasons why people fail in their attempt to lose weight. I will list here the most common reasons and how to avoid those pitfalls.

Let’s concentrate first on eating; there is a reason why we eat – the main reason should be only hunger, but there can be also emotional reasons for eating. It is very important to face any emotional eating issues. This may be as simple as identifying alternative activities or as intensive as seeking professional help. Feeling depressed, negative self image, negative response from other people can trigger eating-protection-system which leads to weight gain. You just got to get over this habit, because it will render all your other efforts useless.

If you try to follow a super strict diet and have an “all or nothing” attitude, it will turn to “nothing” in 99% of time. I have always taught my students to be patient and love themselves. Being too hard on oneself is going result in an explosion sooner or later and all that was lost is gained very fast. If you try a diet that rely on one type of food or cut out entire food groups, it’s simply going to be too hard to stick to and also very unhealthy in the long run. Ask anyone who tried the green tea diet or similar programs.

 There is an old proverb: “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”. This is so true, and therefore whatever you do, don’t skip your breakfast! A balanced good breakfast will get your metabolism going and help you from getting too hungry and overeating through the day.

Don’t try to cut down too many calories in the beginning; your body needs to adjust slowly to new changes. Reduce your calorie intake is the key to weight loss, but if you try to cut too many, you won’t lose weight at all thanks to the metabolism’s “starvation” mode. As I have said on my blog and my recommended programs and articles; count your normal daily calorie intake (before diet) and try to reduce it by 500 calories per day.

If you are very strong mentally, you can probably do whatever you like without support, but most of us need some sort of shoulder to lean on from time to time. This is especially true in weight loss. We need a friend to talk to about problems and we need them to support us in our efforts in life. We need to talk to someone about the dilemmas that losing weight brings us. If you think about it, one of your motives is how others look upon you. If you are alone on a deserted island, you would not care about weight loss so much would you? Of course there are other important reasons also, but don’t be alone, talk to people and find someone who listens to you and preferably has gone through the same struggle before.

Keep a food diary and write down what and how much you used to eat and how much you eat now. Make a habit of writing down everything what you have eaten during the day; you will be surprised how much this will affect your overall mission.

People tend to set unrealistic goals for themselves and then they feel bad when they fail meet them. If your body is used to certain amount of sugar a day, don’t cut it all off immediately. Cut it to half first and in one week or two weeks cut it to half again. This way you let your body time to adjust to changes and everything feels more natural and easy. You have to have a goal; you want to lose a certain amount of weight, but don’t try to be too hard on yourself.

Exercise is recommended for every dieter, but if you are not used to exercise, you have to start slow here also. Start simple and increase slowly for best results.

Have one feast meal per week! Eating is also important; it gives us feeling of well being and happiness. So even if you are on a diet, enjoy one feast meal per week for your overall balance. 

I know you are making these fat loss mistakes because I did too! Based on my experience from losing over 80 pounds and finally keeping it off, here are some tips for avoiding these common dieting mistakes.

YOU ARE TRYING TO DO TOO MUCH TOO SOON

Trying to go from Sedentary Slob to Super Dieter on a Monday morning? Not so smart. It is a great way to ensure you will be back to the couch by mid-day Wednesday. You can’t expect to undo years worth of damage overnight.

If you typically eat three meals per day, start slowly by adding a snack – either in the morning or the afternoon, then work your way to six small meals every 2-3 hours. This approach to fat loss is called kaizen, a Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement throughout all aspects of life. Making a small change once a day or once a week leads to a constant state of improvement.

YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE QUICK FIX

I was convinced I had a Loch Ness Monster in my colon and that was making me fat! But the colon cleanser I purchased only left me with a very sore butt, some leafy-looking things in the toilet and not a single pound lost.

Now I was convinced that I needed a super-duper-ultra fat burner – one that would melt away the fat while I sat on my butt doing nothing!

After thousands of dollars and lots of false hope, I realized that the only way I was going to achieve the lean body that I desired was to come up with a solid nutrition and exercise plan, and to add supplements that were backed by solid science.

YOU ARE LETTING OTHERS KNOCK YOU OFF-TRACK

My family is full of enablers – they mean well, but they were not sensitive to the fact that I was serious about staying on track with my weight loss diet. “C’mon a little bit won’t hurt” or “you can diet tomorrow” was all it took to convince me to eat. Within 30 minutes I had eaten myself stupid and undone all of the positive progress that I had spent the past week achieving.

Let those around you know how important it is for you to lose weight and what it means to both you, and them, if you do not achieve your goals.

YOU ARE NOT GETTING BACK “ON THE WAGON” IMMEDIATELY AFTER FALLING OFF

I would usually fall off my diet toward the end of any given week. It was at that point that I rationalized that, since I was “off the wagon” I would wait until Monday to get started again!

This probably won’t come as a big shock, but science now has proven that weekends can wreak havoc on your waistline. That was the conclusion of Washington University researchers, who found that even people on strict diet and exercise programs lose weight more slowly than expected because they eat more on weekends.

The verdict: People don’t need a holiday to eat more; they tend to do it every weekend because human lifestyle patterns can be very different.

There were two key takeaways for me from this:

1.The best time to get back “on the wagon” was at your next meal – do not wait until you’ve done more damage. 2. Do not let the weekends be different than any other day – stick with your plan whether it is a Saturday or a Wednesday

YOU ARE TRYING TO BE PERFECT EVERY DAY

Life is not perfect – and your diet plan shouldn’t be either. You can’t expect yourself to follow your program to the letter every second of every day until you reach your goal. If you do, you will ultimately fail. That is why you need to apply the 90/10 rule to your nutrition and exercise.

The 90/10 rule is very simple – if you are following your weight loss diet plan 90% of the time, then you will not be hurt by the 10% of the time that you are not. Your weight loss diet should include a minimum of 5 meals per day, with 6 meals being ideal. Following the 90/10 rule with 6 meals a day (or 42 meals a week) means that you have 4 meals a week where you can go off your program without halting progress, as long as those meals are reasonable.

Same rules apply to exercise. Let’s say your schedule permits you to work out 4 days per week. So in a month, you have 16 workouts – and following the 90/10 rule, you can miss 1 or 2 workouts without derailing yourself. However, you should save your “skips” for times when you really need to skip – like a poor night’s sleep, illness, or hectic travel schedule.

YOU ARE NOT SETTING REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

It took you your entire life to get to this point, and you expect to reverse all of the damage in 3 weeks? That is what a lot of diet products would like you to believe.

You absolutely MUST set goals, but they MUST be realistic. What is realistic? one to two pounds of fat per week is a reasonable goal. The more you have to lose, the higher you can set your expectation. But if you are approaching double-digits with your expectations, you are setting yourself up for failure.

The greatest problem when it comes to diet and weight loss programs is for many people weight loss is not permanent. It could be a matter of days, weeks or months; the simply fact is that most people during this time put back most or all of their lost weight. This can cause anxiety, anger and frustration at the time and effort put towards following a weight loss program that has not delivered the desired results.

So whose responsibility is this far this lack of permanent weight loss; is it the person doing the diet or the diet plan that is being followed itself?

To answer this question fully; involves firstly looking at the psychology of many dieters, as well as the choice of diets available out there.

Most people think weight loss programs have to be complicated to fit in with age, sex and body type. As I am about to reveal many weight loss programs on the face of it look complicated, however this unnecessary complication is mainly to differentiate it from the competition. It can be very confusing to know which diet plan to follow with so much choice out in the marketplace.

Many weight loss programs out there make themselves different from the competition, by using different daily calorie ratios for the 3 main nutrients found in food. The three main nutrients are proteins, fats and carbohydrates. So for example, what you can have is high, medium, low and zero daily calories of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. There is so many different combinations you can with these 3 main nutrients use to make a weight loss plan. There is little wonder that there is so much competition out there with a vast number of different weight loss plans.

So why do so many diets fail people and why isn’t there one diet out there that has proven to consistently achieve permanent weight loss.

The real answer is to turn the first question around; instead it should read why do so many people fail in their dieting. This leads to answering the second question; there isn’t a diet that guarantees permanent weight loss, because it depends very much on the individual who is carrying out the diet.

So instead of recommending which diet you should follow, you need to understand why people fail diets in the long term, this can lead to stopping the cycle of putting weight back on when lost, thus achieving permanent weight loss.

Generally almost all diets work by using the different combinations of fats, proteins and carbohydrates for your daily calorie intake. In the short term by burning up more calories than you intake you will lose weight.

Recent studies back this up; when the popular commercial diets were compared against other over a 6-12 month period, they mostly showed similar weight loss results. One major study concluded that the person adhering to the diet, rather than the diet itself was the main indicator of whether the weight loss program would work or not.

So what this shows clearly that, the most likely way to succeed in achieving permanent weight loss depends on how well you adhere to a weight loss plan in the long term. So how can this be achieved?

A solution to achieving permanent weight loss lies in looking at making lifestyle changes; developing new positive habits that involve following weight loss programs in the long term. The simply fact changes like this simply do not happen overnight and take weeks, sometimes months to become an integrated part of a persons life.

The sad fact is most people there are looking for a magic wand to end their weight loss problems. Many turn to drugs and surgery for an immediate result. Unfortunately drug use and surgery can have side effects or unknown long term consequences.

So the safer and more effective way to permanent weight loss is to reduce your calories and do your diet program for the long term. By developing these habits over weeks, months and years you ensure that weight loss will become permanent for you.

When engaging in any sort of behavioral change, it is vital to the success of the endeavor that you develop some sort of system of accountability. When you know that you have to report your daily habits, your tendencies will tend to be modified.
When you establish your accountability system, you can set it up so that you are accountable to yourself, to someone else or to both. The methods by which you record your habits are very similar for both internal and external communications. It is necessary, however, that you commit yourself to being entirely honest with your report. Know that the honesty of your report will lead to a change in your overall body weight.
Here are some general methods of accountability that you can use:
Chat it up with a “Buddy”
Find a “buddy” that you can develop a sustainable weight-loss relationship with. Speak with that partner via phone or email several times a week with updates on your individual weight loss routines. Sometimes all you need to make it through a challenging period in your dieting or weight loss is someone to chat with about the challenges you face.
Friday Fess-Up
Weigh yourself each Friday morning. Send the number to your “weight loss buddy” and have your “weight loss buddy” send you her number. Knowing that at the end of each week you will have to report your weight will help you to stay focused on your goal of dropping a healthy 2 pounds a week. You will also have an opportunity to gauge your success against your partners.
The end-of-week fess up can become a small competition between the two of you to see who was able to lose the most weight over the course of the week. By weighing in on Friday, you will also be encouraged to maintain a healthy routine over the weekend.
Chart Your Intake
If controlling the amount of food that you eat is important to your weight loss routine, then chart the number of calories that you eat on a daily basis. Separate a sheet of paper into columns – one for each day. Record each piece of food that you eat along with the caloric content. At the end of the day, tally your calories. Compare the tally against what is recommended by doctors for your weight and body type.
You can either compare this chart with a buddy or retain it for your internal use. Either way, you will have a record of the food you eat to keep you on the right track when preparing and eating food.
Make it Public
Many people have found that participating in public bogs helps them in their weight loss. When you post each day or week what your activities and foods have been, you are opening your lifestyle to critique from readers. Readers can suggest healthy methods to change some of your habits and can offer general encouragement. Take a look around on the Web for the blog that is right for you. Some are more helpful than others.
Most importantly, remember that you are primarily accountable to yourself and to your future. A healthy weight loss plan will help you maintain and active, happy life. A little accountability now will reap larger rewards years down the line. Go ahead: engage.

Losing weight can often be daunting and some weight loss techniques involve significant lifestyle changes. There are so many simply changes you can make to your diet to dramatically reduce your calorie intake, and increase subsequent weight loss. This article focuses on easy lifestyle changes designed to help you lose at least 0.5kg a week. To lose weight all you need to do is make sure you burn more calories than you consume. To lose 0.5kg a week you simply need to make sure that each day you burn 500 calories more than you consume. So if your weight is stable and you want to lose 0.5kg a week you need reduce your calorie intake or increase calorie expenditure to the tune of 500 calories a day. This may seem like a lot however there are so many easy things we can do to achieve this. Did you know that a 600ml bottle of coke has 285 Calories in it? Or that a slice of chocolate mud cake has 390 Calories? That means if the only changes you made to your daily diet was to cut out your bottle of coke and cake you would lose over 0.5kg a week. At the bottom of the article is a list of commonly eaten foods and drinks and some better alternatives to help lose weight. All you need to do to lose weight is look at the foods you eat each day and then find a healthier substitute. Simply make sure your changes are more than 500 calories and this will ensure weight loss of more than 0.5kg a week. Here are some possible changes to lose more than 0.5kg a week. Weight loss change 1: – Glass of water instead of juice in the morning: 123 Cal savings – Replace butter with extra light margarine: 49 Cal savings – Fat free yoghurt instead of full cream: 82 Cal savings – 20 minute jog: 210 Cal savings – No sugar in coffee & low fat milk: 50 Cal savings Total: 514 Cal savings Weight loss change 2: – One glass of wine instead of two over dinner: 135 Cal savings – Portion size reduction for dinner: 160 Cal savings – No biscuit with coffee: 190 Cal savings – Light margarine instead of normal margarine: 37 Cal savings Total: 522 Cal savings Weight loss change 3: – Water instead of soft drink: 170 Cal savings – 1 hour walk: 240 Cal savings – Low fat muffin instead of cake slice: 120 Cal savings Total: 530 Cal savings Weight loss change 4: – Vegetable snack instead of packaged chips: 250 Cal savings – Muesli bar instead of chocolate bar: 160 Cal savings – Lean ham instead of salami on sandwich: 150 Cal savings Total: 560 Cal savings You can make any number of different changes. The idea of this article is to provoke thought about making healthy substitutes to your diet and lifestyle to assist weight loss. It is important to understand what is in all the foods you eat

It’s nothing new, but exercise is probably the most important predictor of whether you will succeed at long term weight loss and weight loss maintenance. In order for exercise to be helpful in weight loss, you should strive for a minimum of five 30 minute sessions per week. The good news is that recent research has shown that three 10 minute sessions in a day are as good as one 30 minute session. This helps many in combating the old “no time for exercise” excuse. Be certain to find something you enjoy. You’ll be more apt to stick with it. Try walking with a friend, joining an intramural sports league, participating in outings with a group like The Sierra Club, or trying some classes at your local gym. Once you give exercise a chance, you will begin to enjoy its positive benefits on your psyche as well; you will literally become “hooked.”

We chose to list this separately from the “exercise” category because of the significant weight loss benefits attached to weight training in and of itself. The basic equation is this: the more muscle tissue you have, the more calories you will burn. This is why world class weight lifters must eat thousands of calories a day to maintain their weight. Muscle is active tissue, fat is not. Thus, muscle “burns” a significant number of calories each day for its own maintenance. In her book Strong Women Stay Slim, Miriam Nelson, a Tufts University researcher, showed that a group of women who followed a weight loss diet and did weight training exercises lost 44% more fat than those who only followed the diet. While aerobic activity can help burn calories, muscle’s where it’s at when it comes to giving your metabolism a significant daily boost even at rest.

Keeping a food diary can be a huge asset in successful weight loss. Devote some time each day to record what you have eaten and how much, your hunger level prior to eating, and any feelings or emotions present at the time. A food diary can provide a large amount of self-awareness. It can identify emotions and behaviors that trigger overeating, foster greater awareness of portion sizes, and help you discover your personal food triggers. Study any patterns that emerge from your food diary and identify where you may be able to make more healthful changes. A food diary provides an added benefit of keeping you focused on and committed to your goals. Start keeping a food diary today by printing our food diary.

Many people become more successful at long term weight loss when their motivation changes from wanting to be thinner to wanting to be healthier. Change your mind set to think about selecting foods that will help your body’s health rather than worrying about foods that will affect your body’s weight. The Food Pyramid offers a basic outline of the types and amounts of food you should eat each day to give your body the nutrients it needs for optimal health.

All too often overeating is triggered by stress, boredom, loneliness, anger, depression and other emotions. Learning to deal with emotions without food is a significant skill that will greatly serve long term weight control. The Solution, a book and national program developed by Laurel Mellin, RD, helps participants to identify their eating triggers and respond to them without food. A research study showed that the participants in this program demonstrated a better rate of long term weight loss maintenance than those who simply diet and/or exercise and don’t address behavioral and emotional issues. Chronic over-eaters and “emotional eaters” can be significantly helped by learning new behavioral skills such as those Mellin presents. You can also seek help with behavioral and emotional eating issues from a licensed counselor or psychologist in your area.

A big key in long term weight control comes from receiving encouragement and support from others. You can check to see if groups such as Jenny Craig offer programs and resources in your areas. You may also wish to check with your local hospital to see if their registered dietitian conducts group weight loss programs.

With the advent of “super-size” meals and increasingly huge portions at restaurants, our concept of normal serving sizes is a distant memory. Be mindful of the amounts of food you consume at a sitting. When necessary, divide your food in half and ask for a take home bag. It is all too easy to be a “plate cleaner” even when served enormous portions. Learn to pay attention to your hunger level and stop eating when you feel comfortably full, not stuffed.

Try to remember that “losing 15 pounds in two weeks” is nothing to celebrate. It is important to realize that the more quickly weight is lost, the more likely the loss is coming from water and muscle, not fat. Since muscle tissue is critical in keeping our metabolism elevated, losing it actually leads to a decrease in the amount of calories we can each day without gaining weight. Fat loss is best achieved when weight is lost slowly. Strive for a weight loss of no more than 1-2 pounds per week. One pound of weight is equivalent to 3500 calories. By making small changes like eliminating 250 calories a day from food and expending 250 calories a day from exercise, you can lose one pound (of mostly fat) per week. You can calculate how much time you need to exercise to burn 250 calories by clicking here. You can calculate your caloric needs by clicking here, and then subtract 250 from that number.

Did you ever notice that thin people take an awfully long time to eat their food? Eating slowly is one method that can help take off pounds. That’s because from the time you begin eating it takes the brain 20 minutes to start signaling feelings of fullness. Fast eaters often eat beyond their true level of fullness before the 20 minute signal has had a chance to set in. The amount of calories consumed before you begin to feel full can vary significantly depending on how quickly you eat. So slow down, take smaller bites and enjoy and savor every tasty morsel.

We’ve known for some time that limiting high fat foods in the diet can be helpful with weight loss. That’s because fats pack in 9 calories per gram compared to only 4 calories per gram from proteins or carbohydrates. To many, the message to limit fats implied an endorsement to eat unlimited amounts of fat-free products. Just to clarify, fat-free foods have calories too. In some cases fat-free foods have as many calories as their fat laden counterparts. If you eat more calories than your body uses, you will gain weight. Eating less fat will help you to lose weight. Eating less fat and replacing it with excessive amounts of fat-free products will not.

Body Brushing: A wonderful way to detox your body, great for your lymph system, nervous and circulatory systems, dry body brushing is best done once a day to three times a week, preferably before taking a bath or shower. Using a loofah or natural bristle brush, and start at your feet. Brush toward the heart in circular movements for five minutes. After a few sessions you will notice a more natural glow to your skin, increased vitality, and a sense of invigoration, especially if done in the morning.

Masks: Our skin loves good food. Some wonderful masks that help nourish the face:

For dry/ sensitive skin: 1/2 an avocado mashed and mixed with ground oatmeal. The fat from the avocado nourishes the skin while the oatmeal soothes it.

For oily skin: a mixture of french green clay and pulverized strawberries or cranberries act to draw out impurities while giving your skin the astringent benefits it so needs.

For normal skin: A pina colada for the face! crushed pineapple and banana work wonders–the acid in the pineapple exfoliates the skin while the banana soothes and tightens.

Sea Salt Scrubs: These are yet another great exfolient for all skin types. Adding a bit of almond oil to the salt keeps it smooth and glowing. The salt helps relax muscles and detoxes the skin. Adding herbs to the scrub is great too–lavender to soothe, lemon or mint to invigorate, a pinch of cayenne on a cold day to warm you up, rosemary or calendula flowers to heal rashes or other skin problems.

Bug Spray: As the summer months approach, our thoughts turn to mosquitoes and how to prevent their nasty little bites. Most bug repellents are literally awful for you. Natural prevention is the best recourse–taking 3 or 4 capsules of garlic and 100mg of vitamin B1 create a smell that repels mosquitoes while avoiding sugar and fruit juice, to which mosquitoes are naturally attracted can cut down on your victimization. Using certain essential oils—such as eucalyptus, lemon balm, pennyroyal, citronella, tea tree, and geranium also makes effective bug sprays. Simply add a mixture of the above to a water/witch hazel (3 parts water to 1 part witch hazel) solution and transfer to a spray bottle. Several naturopaths say using these oils works as well as commercial mosquito repellent.

Baths: Warm baths are highly underrated. They soften the skin, relax the muscles and release stress from the body, mind, and emotions. Plus you can add all sorts of wonderful things to them– milk to soften skin, sea salt to soothe sore muscles, a tea of herbs such as lavender, mint, rose petals, chamomile, lemongrass, orange rinds to leave you smelling sweet and and all natural.

Using a form of radio frequency to deliver volumetric heat without damaging the epidermis, the procedure works to melt both subcutaneous and unhealthy visceral fat (that even liposuction cannot treat), reduce cellulite, reshape problem areas, tighten skin and reduce wrinkles. There is no invasive surgery, painful needle injections, inflammation, scars and no downtime for recovery. Patients should not be surprised to see results of up to 3 inches in circumference loss and up to 10 pounds of weight loss in just 6 weeks.

RFAL produces results 560% faster than other forms of non-surgical treatment currently available. The world has waited a long time for an easier solution for unwanted fat reduction, and RFAL literally melts fat extremely quickly and without discomfort.

Good candidates are:

- People who have already tried diet and exercise but have problem areas of excess fat in specific areas, such as the hips, buttocks, thighs, inner knee, back, abdomen, upper arms, cheeks, jowls, chest, and waist.

- People who don’t want to undergo invasive liposuction surgery

- People who have had a liposuction surgery and need maintenance

The treatment procedure is like thermal therapeutic massage which is very comfortable to the patient and operator.

During the treatment many people feel little or no sensation at all. Some people feel a tingling or warm sensation under the applicator or electrodes. This feeling usually decreases or disappears after a few hours as the person becomes used to the sensation. This sensation can vary depending upon the site being treated.