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Ecercise

Exercise helps to pump the body up, sending nutrients and oxygen to the skin and draining waste. Try to do 15mins per day (minimum) and build up slowly. Below are some simple ideas to add to your daily schedule. Fat Burning exercises need to be less effort and more endurance working at 40-60% of max heart rate.

• Power walking
• Cycling
• Skipping
• Running up and down stairs

Bodycare

Skin is the largest organ in the body, and it is also the gateway to a healthy body!

• Body brush everyday to stimulate the circulation and lymphatic drainage which will help the body to rid itself of waste, always brush towards the heart.
• Exfoliate at least once per week to slough off dead cells and stimulate new cell growth, preferably with a nutritious scrub recommended by your therapist.
• At least once per week soak for 15 minutes in a mineral rich salt bath to detox the whole body and re-mineralize the skin. No harmful substances or bubbles!
• Try a Seaweed mud wrap or mud based cream at home, being a vegetable it has a high alkaline content which helps to neutralize the acids and decongest the tissue. Seaweed mud is clinically proven to combat cellulite, and has been used by over one million Italian women for 20 years.
• Open your bowels at least once per day, otherwise the waste will dehydrate releasing toxins back into the body causing free radical damage and congestion in the tissue.

Nutrition

• Water: The fountain of life, water is oxygen, oxygen is energy and we can’t live without it! The body is 65% water and needs hydrating. Drink at least 2litres of water every day to revitalize the body and flush the toxic waste out.
• Cut down on alcohol, it is a carbohydrate and your system will use it to fuel the body instead of burning your fat!
• Don’t drink alcohol before a meal as it absorbs the enzymes and could stop you losing weight! It is better to have a glass with your meal.
• Don’t eat fruit after a meal as it just ferments on top of your food. Fruit is ok to eat 15mins before a meal or ideally as snacks between meals.
• Avoid sugar and sugary drinks; sugar is more fattening than fat!
• Take nutritional supplements: Due to current farming methods there are not enough in our daily food.  Minimum Recommendation: Multivitamin/mineral, Omega 3/6, Anti-oxidant, vitamin C. Apart from feeling healthier, these will help with cell repair and guard against congested tissue which causes the orange peel effect.
• During menstruation, drink more water and eat more fruit and vegetables, less complex carbohydrates/protein/diary, this will assist the body in metabolising whilst under pressure and helps to avoid orange peel congestion in the tissues.