My cellulite reduction exercise program can help if you haven’t had children, it can help you after your child bearing years to get you back into the nick that you were in before, and it can help when you’re elderly to stay spritely. I certainly don’t want a body that’s like a rusted out piece of machinery!

So having a problem with cellulite might be doing you a favour – motivating you into exercising and giving a healthier life.

Enjoy yourself without being too radical, enjoy yourself in the company of others and maybe you will find you won’t like the things you used to like.

Nutritional Supplements

Two products I take as nutritional supplements are:

• Juice Plus, which provides me with a natural balance and whole food nutrition from a variety of nutritiously dense fruits and vegetables. It is simply fruits and vegies processed in capsule form with the fibre, sugar and water taken out. The intake of a pure product like this raises the antioxidant levels in blood plasma.

• Reliv Now, a vitamin, mineral and herb supplement which comes in powdered form. Over many years I have tried and sampled many supplement varieties and this has easily-been the best for my needs. Reliv Now helps my digestive system and gives me a real energy lift for the day. . .

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I have advised you to exercise when taking tablets, Why not make absolutely sure you shift that cellulite by combining all of this with some good eating habits too? Work on both the inside and the outside – and what do you have? Answer: results1.

By adding the benefits of the herbal formula, to some good eating, plus some good exercise, all of a sudden 1+1+1 doesn’t equal three. It equals eight or 10 – making the whole effect much greater than the sum of its parts.

For cellulite-loss, the best ingredients are:

• Dried ginkgo biloba extract, assists in blood circulation and stimulates the metabolism of fats,

• Dried sweet clover extract, can increase blood circulation and assists in removing fluid build-up. ., -

• Grape seed bioflavonoids are powerful antioxidants that protect cells and blood from damage.

• Dried fucus vesiculosus extract stimulates metabolism and can help reduce localised fats. Fucus extract also contains a small amount of iodine.

• Evening primrose oil and fish oil are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, a source of energy that increases metabolic levels and helps in diminishing saturated fatty acids.

• Soya lecithin helps break down fats.

• Horse chestnut seed protects and maintains the health of capillaries and may reduce aching legs associated with enlarged or varicose veins.

• Gotu-kola (penny wort) assists in the treatment of inflammation of the skin and aids the repair of skin tissues.

• Juniper oil is beneficial for the relief of mild swelling caused by excess fluid retained in the tissues.

The herbal remedies are designed to clean the cellulite cells ‘ enabling good circulation to disperse the cellulite.

Even though some of the new herbal capsules say you don’t need a stringent exercise program to lose cellulite, I believe an exercise program will accelerate cellulite loss. The tablets work on the inner-layers of fat. So while you’re exercising the outer layers, the tablets are working from within.

A combination of the herbal capsules, exercise and good diet will accelerate results.

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Rice is a very effective carbohydrate and doesn’t have gluten in it, which means it’s very easy to digest. Rice is excellent energy food.

M you had vegetables and rice in the evening you would find you would have a reserve of energy to call on the next morning. True! The carbohydrates will have broken down and been stored m your muscle cells as glycogen, and this is the fuel you need to function.

Tofu

Miso and tempeh (fermented tofu) is a way of obtaining essential nutrients that meat also contains. Yet it is good for you. Far better than that red meat! And delicious!

Oil

We’re meant to ingest natural fats. And nuts and avocado contain natural forms of fat. But the best oils are grape seed oil and olive oil.

Poly-unsaturated products are not worth the fuss. Poly-unsaturated margarine is no less fattening than butter. (But I avoid butter products. When I have a sandwich, I put avocado straight on the bread. Then I add salad. It tastes beautiful.)

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Exercise is the most important factor in losing cellulite. It is even more important than diet and much more important than the latest herbal remedies.

Even so, exercise alone is not the be-all and end-all of healthy living. It’s like a combination lock: you get one combination that’s right and you can’t pull it out. You get two combinations; you still can’t pull it out.

Only when three numbers line up, is the lock opened. Here are your three lucky numbers:

1. Exercise

2. What you put into your body (food, drink, oxygen)

3. Your environment.

Physically speaking, human beings are designed to carry quite heavy loads. Going back over the years, men once used to go into the wild to catch the food to feed the family.

We were never designed to be sedentary. One reason we encounter so many health problems is because we have chosen to be inactive, and the body also responds in three stages, at first the body loses its tone, then its strength and then its shape.

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• Make a list of all the foods and drinks that you consume. Cut out the negative foods as best you can. Cut by 50% what you can’t cut out entirely.

• Put a curfew on all bad habits. Instead of smoking your first cigarette at 9.00am – save it until midday. If you drink your first alcoholic drink at 6.00pm – make that 9.00pm, etc.

• Eat unprocessed food, including fruit and vegetables. If you make a positive effort to enjoy such foods, you’ll lessen the negative emotions associated with ‘giving things up’. In fact, if you fill up on good food you’ll have less room for junk food, and naturally eat less of it.

• Drink more water. Fluid gets rid of fluid. Water also carries oxygen around your body and therefore it feeds everything, especially the brain.

• Consider taking a course of herbal cellulite-loss tablets. Some useful ingredients to look for are Soya Lecithin (which helps break down fats), Ginkgo Biloba extract (which assists circulation and stimulates metabolism of fats) and Sweet Clover (which increases blood circulation and assists in removing fluid build-up). *

• Start with 15 minutes exercise every day, increasing to 30 minutes per day when you feel that you can handle it.

What I have proposed is certainly not a strict program. It doesn’t require radical changes – just a little self-control. Yet it does yield results.

By stimulating your metabolism and exercising on a regular basis, you will start the reversal process, and no matter where the cellulite is – it will shift.

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