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LOOSING WEIGHT & LOOSE SKIN
To all my fitness clients and especially my esteem client Eliza who So how do we go about losing weight rightly?
asked me a few months back, about losing weight and loose People should realize the importance of losing weight step by
skin. one thing that people should know is that: Losing weight step and with that, to keep it off for good, rather than being a
is a journey: when people are filled with fear and angst they yoyo if you are a youth and a dodo if you are an adult, in which it
tend to have complete panic. When this happens people will is easier to move to a panicked mode which automatically leads
reach out for quick, painless and immediate (sometime fast isn’t to crash diet!
quick enough) remedies i.e. pills, belts, lotions, diets, anything
and everything. Losing weight is a momentous achievement and ought to
be celebrated for sure, but for some having to contend with
Some even go to the extreme; they quit eating completely when loose skin as a result of losing a great deal of weight can be
nothing seemed to be working fast enough. Usually they will see disappointing. You may feel like you’ve won in one area and
their waist lines drop, but also their health. They become weak lost in another, but this is not necessarily the case. In fact, there
and sickly. 2 weeks, 1 month or may be 2 months later they are are some natural ways in which you can increase your skin’s
thin. The good news is they have lost some kilos. The bad news elasticity and tighten the areas in need, over a matter of time.
is they have also lost a lot of other things; either locks of their hair Your results, of course, will depend on how much weight you’ve
start falling off, their sense of humor goes down the drain making actually lost, the length of time your skin was stretched out, and
them more easily irritated. Stretch marks set in, covering their your age.
most intimate parts. Dry skin hang where nothing shall hang. To
some extent finger nails become jagged and brittle. look out for the next post where I will discuss a few
tips on how to tighten the skin and increase elasticity.
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