Nessie| Category: Body, Weight loss, Recipes |
A simple wrap can be a mixture of a clay and some natural sea salt. To the simple wrap you can add more complex ingredients such as herbs and up to 2 tablespoons of an essential oil.
Here are a few ingredients that you can use at home for body wraps:
- Clay
- Salt: Sea Salt, Epsom
- Herbs: Alfalfa Leaf Powder, Calendula Powder, Chamomile Flower Powder, Fennel Seed Powder, Ginger Root Powder, Lavender Buds Powder, Neem Powder, Parsley Powder, Rose Petal Powder, Rosehip Powder, St. Johns Wort; (more…)
Nessie| Category: Body, Weight loss |
Body wraps can aid in healing of skin problems, tone and tighten the skin, improve circulation, alleviate muscle and joint pain, treat acne, detoxify the body and help mobilize fat so it can be eliminated from the body naturally. The effect of the wrap is determined by the ingredients that you chose to use. In order to do the wrapping at home you only need a mixing bowl, heating pot, wrapping sheets and it is also helpful if you have an electric blanket.
Instructions For Body Wrapping
Your skin grows daily. There is a continual layer of dead skin lying upon the surface of the skin. This needs to be exfoliated daily. (more…)
Nessie| Category: Body, Weight loss |
Body wrapping is an inch loss and cellulite treatment program and don’t expect to lose weight. The body wrap is an advanced development that works on shrinking the adipose tissue of fat called cellulite that is found directly below the surface of the skin. It detoxifies your body, tightens loose tissue, exfoliates, smoothes and softens your skin.You will look and feel as though you have lost weight which can encourage you to stick to your diet and exercise programs. The treatment should be sustained by a healthy diet.
How Does the Body Wrap Work?
The concept of the Body Wrap is such that it improves those areas of your body that you want to work on the most or the areas from where is harder to get rid of the fat. Wherever your tissue is the softest and flabbiest, the “wrap” will firm, tone and reduce more than the averages. (more…)
Nessie| Category: Nutrition, Motivation, Weight loss, Recipes, Strange Diets |
At first, when I saw The Flavor Spray I said “this is hilarious!”, but the more I think about it, the more I like it! The flavor spray “contain zero calories, zero fat, zero cholesterol, zero carbohydrates and FDA-approved Food flavoring” how they say.
When I’m on diet I always crave for all the bad aliments and this could be the key to overcome them, but I wonder how would a green salad with chocolate flavor taste like?
It’s great that you could add smoked bacon flavor on steamed vegetables and stay thin, but I think is hard to find a basic aliment to spray on the desert flavors and still have low calories.
I think it’s worth trying it though, as it costs only $5.95/spray of 2.0fl.oz./60ml and you can get a discount for special packages. Unfortunately, they have limited countries they deliver.
Nessie| Category: Body, Weight loss |
The intragastric balloon is designed to provide short–term weight loss therapy. The silicone balloon is placed endoscopically (click for the video) (through the mouth and oesophagus under sedation) and filled with liquid so it partially fills the stomach and creates a feeling of fullness. The maximum time a balloon can be left in place is 6 months, after which it must be removed.
There are two main indications for using an intragastric balloon:
- Pre–surgery for weight loss in severely obese patients to reduce surgical risk.
- Weight loss in obese patients who have significant health risks related to their obesity and who have failed to achieve and maintain weight loss with a supervised weight–control programme. The patient should have a BMI above 35.
Like other weight loss surgeries, the balloon is a tool and works best when you use it properly, following a low calorie diet. Surgeons usually prescribe medication to reduce your stomach acid production whilst the balloon is in place. Most of the people do not experience any complications, but you should be aware of : (more…)
Nessie| Category: Nutrition, Recipes |
I like crackers because they are made of whole grain flour with extra-fibers, no sugar or additives added, you are satisfied with 2-3 slices for a meal and have only 32 cal/slice.
Here is a healthy snack or even a breakfast:
- 3 crackers;
- low fat cheese;
- 2 tomatoes;
- pepper, salt or any seasonings you prefer.
If you eat the crackers in the morning, you could have a green tea also.Take 1 large glass of green tea and squeeze 1/2 lemon in the glass. Eliminate (more…)
Nessie| Category: Nutrition, Weight loss, Recipes |
A lot of people skip breakfast for vary reasons like:
- they don’t have time;
- they try to lose weight;
- they eat an early lunch;
- they are not hungry.
This is a big mistake if you are trying to lose weight. Studies show that those who do not eat breakfast will overeat later in the day with more snacks and food for the rest of the meals. Also, eating breakfast gets your metabolism going, and so whatever is eaten in the morning is metabolized better, so you should eat breakfast especially if you are on a diet!
Here are some breakfast ideas, fast and healthy: (more…)
Nessie| Category: Weight loss |
I think it’s obvious that your body stores fat wherever you have fat cells and that’s way people undergo liposuction to remove fat cells from a particular area of their body, but they don’t realize that they end up causing a redistribution of fat to other locations that might be less desirable.
For example, if a person follows an unhealthy lifestyle that results in the accumulation of excessive body fat, then they undergo liposuction to remove that body fat from their abdomen for example, (more…)
Nessie| Category: Tips |
For me is always a challenge to go shopping. I mostly crave for all the bad food, I buy a lot of stuff just because they are on sales or maybe just because and when I get home I realize that I did not get that thing. So here is what I do to avoid that:
- Never go shopping when you are hungry;
- Always have a shopping list;
- Always respect it;
- Don’t pass through the sweets department. Make a detour if you have to;
- Read the entire label of the products and pick the healthiest ones;
- When you get to the cashier don’t look (more…)
Nessie| Category: Exercise, Weight loss |
There is no food, no exercise, and no herb that will cause your body to remove fat from only one place. If you want to reduce body fat, you need to start consuming fewer calories than you body needs on a daily basis. In time, your body will start converting fat into usable energy, and fat stores will begin to vanish.
If you are a man, remember that abdominal fat is probably the last fat that will disappear from your body! First your body will remove fat from your face, arms and legs, then it will remove fat from your upper torso, your chest, upper thighs and buttocks, and lastly it will use the fat stored in your abdomen.
For women is a little easier to lose abdominal fat, because (more…)