Five Weight Loss Ideas to Survive the Holidays

Five Weight Loss Tips for Surviving the Holidays

Holidays are upon us again and one would just hope that the holidays would zoom past without gaining an ounce.  Nice thought if there wasn’t sugar, pies, cakes, cookies, parties, drinks, and the small granny face saying, “oh honey, just try one, you will just love this”.  How are you to survive the holidays when you are trying to control your weight?

Weight Loss Tip #1:   Use the holiday from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day as a maintenance plateau period for your current weight.  Trying to lose more weight during the holidays could lead to bitter disappointment and an attitude of “oh well, I ate that, I might as well eat another.”

Weight Loss Tip #2:  Try to eat something filling (like a snack bowl of brown rice) before attending a cocktail party, where the passed hors d’oeuvres quickly snack you into caloric overload.  Office parties, holiday gatherings seem to be filled with either junk food or high calorie foods, so if you eat something before you go that is filling, you will be less tempted to overeat.

Weight Loss Tip #3:  Avoid or limit the sugar temptation.  Sugar highs or sugar lows really hurt your body as it tries to balance the glycemic index.  Sugar tolerance affects the glucose in the body, affecting mood swings and your body’s ability to process the sugar.

Weight Loss Tip #4: Drinking the sweet drinks will pack on more empty calories than eating a piece of pie.  Limit the alcohol to drinks that are low in calories, like vodka, or gin.  Try to avoid the mixers like soda, juices, or other high calorie drinks.

Weight Loss Tip #5: Eat five to six meals a day with as many thermic foods as you can eat.  What is thermic?  Food is fuel and look at the thermogenic effect of the foods that you are eating.  This means that the food burns more calories processing than is actually contained in the food.  Three great examples are: Broccoli, Cayenne Pepper, and Ice Water.

As you head straight into the holidays full force with the Thanksgiving, “big meal” kickoff, keep your perspective on eating as fuel and energy for the body.  Don’t be tempted unless it something you really love, then remember that a small bite will keep your taste bud curiosity satisfied.  If you are going to overeat, remember to keep it thermogenic.  For more information on thermogenic foods, review the information at FITworks.

Get Beautiful for the Holidays

Why Choose the Non Surgical Facelift??

After performing almost 300 non surgical facelifts in  the last 4 months and seeing the results, we felt like it was important to explain the technical details behind the micro-current.  Yes, you can botox, inject fillers and perform other medical treatments to fill in where nature has left your aging…but nothing works like your own muscles.

Get Beautiful Skin with the Non Surgical Facelift

Steps of the non-surgical facelift
These phases of the non-surgical facelift are the result of nearly 20 years of experience designing proven micro-current technology:

Phase 1.	Gliding Golgi: Muscle re-education step works to restore the muscle tone through stimulation of the Goigi tendon organ.
Phase 2.	The Enhancement of Tissue Repair (ETR): This phase of the treatment is designed to target the appearance of lines and wrinkles.
Phase 3.	Quickstroke: This technique reinforces the results achieved in phase one through a series of faster “reminder” strokes.
Phase 4.	Feathering: The Feathering phase penetrates products deep into the dermis, immediately reducing the appearance of lines/wrinkles and leaving the skin with a healthy glow.

Benefits
Using micro-current facial techniques in conjunction with galvanic current for product penetration, this unique treatment works to re-educate facial muscles, reducing line/wrinkles and improving the skin’s tone and texture.

• Diminished fine lines around the eyes
• A lift to heavy jowls and cheeks
• Improved definition in jaw line
• Super-hydrated skin
• Re-education of facial muscles
• Enhanced collagen and elastin production
• Stimulation of both blood and lymph circulation
• Softening of deep lines along the mouth and nose

Micro-current treatments move well beyond traditional skin care by working to improve both the client’s skin and muscle tone Some of the benefits from this comprehensive treatment include:

Muscle Re-education
Repeated contractions from facial expressions can cause muscles to become shortened and create the appearance of a furrowed brow or wrinkles around the eyes. At the same time, gravity and the underutilization of muscles in other areas of the face can cause a slack or droopy appearance. Treatments target these areas with micro-current to help reverse the signs of aging and replace it with an amazing new radiance and skin that looks even and flawless.

Dermal Nutrition
Our systems utilize a galvanic current to deeply penetrate specially formulated products into the skin to instantly reduce fine, dry lines. Delivering products in this manner is very effective as a super moisturizer at the end of the treatment, leaving the skin with a glorious healthy glow. This step can also be utilized with specialty products to address problems
such as acne or hyperpigmentation. Utilizing this technique to feed the skin improves elasticity, maximizes hydration, and helps reduce, or even eliminate, certain visible signs of aging.

Increased Collagen and Elastin
Exposure to environmental assaults and the natural aging process cause the collagen and elastin that keeps our skin resilient to slowly break down. As we age, the skin’s ability to replace these essential materials diminishes and more gaps and irregularities develop in the collagen mesh, which can lead to wrinkles. Micro-current treatments have been shown to amplify the body’s own natural production of collagen and elastin to successfully lift away the look of deep lines and shallow wrinkles.

Increased Circulation of Both Blood and Lymph
Micro-current treatments encourage the proper circulation of blood and lymph, which are extremely important elements in the condition, color, and overall health of the skin. Once an increase in blood and lymph flow is achieved, the cells receive vital nutrients and oxygen more quickly and cell metabolism speeds-up. Such stimulation of the blood flow will produce healthier and firmer skin.

This is our last month at the introductory price of $1599 for a series of 10.  Get your skin looking younger, tighter, firmer, healthier.

Five Fall Bella Beauty Tips

Summer is officially, unofficially over and you have survived the hottest, saltiest, sunniest days, especially here in South Florida.  The body loves the vitamin D that the extra sun gives us during the summer, but what the hot, humid days do to the skin, nails, and hair is the subject of our fall bella beauty tips.

1. Hydrate the Skin. The sun and humidity have robbed our bodies of water.  Every day you lose water from T.E.W.L. or transepidermal water loss,  as the moisture in your skin evaporates into the air.  Athletes especially runners or tennis players often have dehydrated skin from losing too much water from humidity.
2. Exfoliate Gently.  Because the sun, humidity, salt air, chlorine have dried your skin, compacting the dead skin cells on the surface, they will need to be exfoliated, so that the skin can absorb new nutrients.  Applying moisturizer to skin that will not absorb … well, need I tell you…it is a good waste of moisturizer.  We love Environ’s Derma-Lac Lotion, with a 17% lactic acid.
3. Pack on the Vitamins. In addition to exfoliation, add vitamins back to the skin…the sun and air have robbed the skin of precious vitamins that the skin needs to bring healthy skin cells to the surface.  We like Vitamin A blends the best.  Internal vitamins are as important as external.  Make sure your vitamins are bioavailable and packed with what your body needs.
4. Plenty of Sleep.  Sleep is so important for fall beauty.  Getting your sleep–it may be 4 hours, it may be 8 hours.  You need it for keeping your body in top shape.
5. Water.  Water. Water. 70% of your body is water.  Drink what you are made of.

Fall back into beauty with basic beauty steps.  Take care of you…YOU fall into beauty when you take care of basics…plus smile!