Cellulite prevention is almost impossible with today's artificial lifestyle

We have explained elsewhere in this site that cellulite is a multi-factorial aesthetic and health condition that need not bother you if you live a wholesome, natural, active lifestyle. However, given that most of us do not follow such a lifestyle, cellulite slowly and incipiently develops, initially manifesting as mild puffiness, skin looseness and bumpy skin, and goes on to become a serious esthetic condition with excessive skin looseness, connective tissue deformity, fluid retention and fat accumulation that creates fat pockets that are seemingly about to "burst out" of the skin.

Unfortunately for our legs' health and appearance, our job, social life, family life, culture, and modern civilisation in general, prevents us from properly following this ideal, healthy lifestyle that is required to prevent the appearance of cellulite. Food intake is part of our social life not based on what our body really needs; work sometimes becomes too hectic to allow us time to exercise for weeks on end; we choose unnatural chemical methods of contraception; and quite often, after long periods of stress and hard work we may overdo it a little with alcohol.

Therefore cellulite creams and regular cellulite treatments are essential for cellulite prevention

Therefore, since we cannot practically follow a perfect, cellulite preventing lifestyle 100% of the time, the best solution is to follow this ideal healthy lifestyle as closely as possible, perhaps 60%~80%, and then make up for the difference with regular cellulite-preventing treatments such as LipoTherapeia, or good quality anti-cellulite creams, such as the Lipo Actives. Both LipoTherapeia and the Lipo Actives act on several aspects of cellulite in multiple ways, thereby ensuring that your skin stays firm, your subcutaneous fat cells stay under control, and your blood and lymph vessels and capillaries efficiently pump blood and fluid, thereby preventing fluid retention, inflammation and toxin accumulation.

So what is this perfect, health-enhancing and cellulite-preventing lifestyle then?

Cellulite is not something that is natural or healthy - certainly it has no role to play on the human body and it should normally never be found on any woman's legs, arms, or stomach. Cellulite is not something that nature intended to create and has no evolutionary purpose. The diet/lifestyle that prevents cellulite is exactly the same diet/lifestyle allowed us to become the most successful animal of this planet after one million years of trial and error. Fortunately, science in this field has progressed enormously the last few years and we now know that a diet with a high nutrient to calorie ratio (high nutrient density) combined with a high amount of everyday physical activity and exercise is all we need to stay healthy, slim and cellulite-free.

Brainwashed by advertisers, most women think that they eat healthily while in fact they eat pretty badly

Most people think that they know what this means, but according to my experience they don't really know. We are so brainwashed by TV, the government, food companies, established medicine, newspapers and glossy magazines that what we think are healthy foods are in reality cellulite-producing foods. Typical examples are breakfast bars, energy bars, energy drinks, fruits juices, "gluten-free" cookies, "fruit yoghurts", sugar-free/artificially sweetened colas, fat-free/low-fat yet sugar-laden products, dark chocolate, red wine etc. Fad diets, such as the Atkins diet, lose-one-stone-in-a-week gossip magazine diets, lemon juice fasts, and cabbage soup type of diets cause more harm than good by disrupting your metabolism and/or by resulting in the loss of valuable proteins from your skin, blood vessels, bones and muscles, eventually contributing to fluid retention and flabby. In addition, media brainwashing has resulted in people thinking that they can lose weight with "holistic" exercise regimes such as Pilates and mild forms of Yoga, which could not be further from the truth.

For a full analysis of what is the ideal cellulite prevention regime for your specific case, taking into account your overall health, lifestyle and ability, you can book a Lipo Consultation session. This includes individualised diet, exercise and supplement recommendations, according to the principles of the Lipo Diet. The following paragraph contains 20 recommendations on how to prevent cellulite, based on the Lipo Diet, which in turn is based on the natural diet of the human being, as evolved in the last one million years.

Twenty-five tips on how to prevent cellulite through a healthy lifestyle

1. Make an effort to eat a lot - green vegetables, berry fruits and oily fish, that is. This will help keep your appetite down and your metabolism up, provide essential disease-preventing and fat-fighting nutrients. It is not enough to eat little of the below mentioned cellulite-producing foods, you must eat a lot of the slimming and skin-firming foods too - and these are green veg, berry fruits and oily fish. Please note that large fish should only be consumed up to three times a week, due to sea pollution. However, good quality, molecularly distilled fish oils do not contain any dioxins and heavy metals and can effectively and supplement your oily fish diet.
2. Consider nutritional supplements that naturally boost metabolism and overall health - and of course avoid herbal stimulants such as caffeine and ephedrine. During the Lipo Consultation you will be given a personalised advice on which are the best supplements for you and at what dosage.
3. Eliminate sugar, trans fats (hydrogenated fat), fried oil and margarine from your diet. The occasional sweet, after exercise is OK, but trans fats and oil fried a million times over (as in fast food restaurants, chips, crisps and pub food) are never OK for your health and cellulite.
4. Reduce your starchy food intake, especially if not eaten after exercise: pasta, potatoes, bread, rice, corn etc., with emphasis on the avoidance of all bread, sticky/puffy rice, pop corn, jacket potatoes and other high glycaemic index "complex" carbs.
5. Eliminate processed foods such as breakfast bars, corn flakes, chocolate bars, ready meals and other foods with questionable ingredients or long ingredient lists with plenty of unrecognisable chemical names.
6. Reduce saturated fat intake: cheese, fatty cuts of meat, butter, full fat yoghurt. Saturated fat is as bad as excessive carbs, as it triggers fat cell accumulation and enlargement
7. Never, ever alcohol-binge or food-binge, and of course never combine the two: food and alcohol bingeing flushes your bloodstream with so many excess calories, leaving your body no other option than to store them in your bum, thighs or stomach fat cells, including your (superficial) cellulite fat cells.
8. Never use any artificial sweetener and never drink fizzy drinks - except sparkling water. Artificial sweeteners do more harm than good, eventually leading to sugar cravings and an increased calorie intake. The only safe and healthy sweetener is stevia, a south american leaf extract, currently not available in the EU (blame the sugar lobby and the eurocrats) but freely available in the US, south america and Japan.
9. Do not drink juices - trees have fruits not juice bottles hanging from the branches. Fruit juices increase your blood sugar or triglyceride levels abruptly and contain no fibre - so no benefit in the appetite suppression and digestion department either.
10. Eliminate all added salt, which causes fluid retention and fat accumulation. Prefer potassium-rich salt instead, such as Low Salt, So Low or Solo.
11. Exercise and move a lot: try to cycle to work, go to the gym, roller blade, row, swim, run... Literally anything that increases your heart and breathing rate burns fat and boosts your health, lymph drainage, circulation and metabolism. Unfortunately mild exercise such as Pilates, stretching and mild forms of yoga do not significantly and consistently increase your fat burning, metabolism and circulation. By all means you can add them to your regime, as they are valuable forms of exercise for flexibility, core strength and relaxation, but don't expect to lose weight or reduce cellulite with them.
12. Make sure you specifically walk, swim and/or run a lot - regardless of how well you eat or not. All types of exercise are great for calorie balance and to keep your metabolism at a high level, but vibration-producing exercises, such as running, swimming, vibration plate training, swimming, tennis and other ball games help keep your superficial tissues firm and prevent fluid retention and cellulite. However, please do not go to the other extreme and lie on the power plate trying to eliminate stomach fat, it doesn't work like this: your liver, kidneys and other internal organ will be damaged long before you lose a single centimetre of fat from your stomach because of the vibration. The same applies to sitting on the vibration plate in order to firm up your butt: your ovaries and other organs will be affected long before you lose a few grams of cellulite fat... To replicate the power plate's mechanical stimulation effect on your skin safely try LipoTherapeia, which provides a much higher amount of of stimulation to your adipocytes (fat cells) without the side effects. In addition, if for health reasons you can't run, swim or even walk, LipoTherapeia will also offer the much needed cellulite tissue stimulation, and in combination with alternative exercise and a healthy diet and help keep cellulite away.
13. Avoid toxins and unnatural chemicals, including cigarette smoke and unnecessary drugs (including weight loss drugs, stimulant drugs and all recreation drugs)
14. Specifically, avoid the contraceptive pill, a leading cause of cellulite, and consider other methods of contraception/family planning instead.
15. Avoid herbal stimulants such as ephedrine and caffeine
16. Eliminate constipation, if you suffer from it, in order to prevent fluid retention on your legs. For professional advice in eliminating constipation consider having a Lipo Consultation. To book your session just click the link.
17. Improve your digestion and liver function to avoid the recycling of toxins and boost detoxification. For professional advice in improving detoxification and eliminating digestive problems consider having a Lipo Consultation. To book your session just click the link.
18. Enter pregnancy in a fit state - exercise wise and weight wise. The less extra weight you carry and the fitter you are when you get pregnant, the less cellulite and fluid retention you will develop and the less weight you will put on. LipoTherapeia can help prevent excessive fluid retention, skin loosening, stretch marks and cellulite during pregnancy and can help reduce them after pregnancy.
19. Do not consider liposuction or smart lipo if you do not intend to have a healthy diet before, during and after the procedure (in order to boost their effectiveness and prevent future fat gain in the same or adjacent body areas), and if you do not intend to have a course of post-liposuction treatments to prevent scar tissue, control inflammation and oedema, and help firm up the excess skin left after the removal of fat. The Lipo Actives can also play a major role in post-liposuction rehabilitation, as they contain several anti-inflammatory, fluid retention-reducing and fat-fighting ingredients.
20. Make sure you sleep well to prevent your metabolism from plummeting
21. Make sure you keep stress levels low, to prevent your (fattening and water retention-producing) stress hormones from contributing towards cellulite.
22. Never crash diet and never ever yo yo diet, unless you want to achieve that wobbly look that these kind of diets produce by replacing protein with fat in your body
23. Never believe in miracles and "dirty tricks" that can help you reduce weight and lose cellulite whilst eating "all the foods you like" or by just lying down and having a treatment without making any other effort: the only pounds you will lose are sterling pounds...

The above 23 recommendations are enough to keep cellulite at bay, if you follow them consistently. The less you follow them the more cellulite you will develop over the years. If you are one of those women that can only follow these rules 80% of the time or less, then you definitely need some help in the form of of a good cellulite treatment such as LipoTherapeia and/or a serious anti-cellulite cream such as the Lipo Actives. In this case we are compelled to add two more rules, to the above 23, to make up for your reduced discipline...

#24: Have anti-cellulite treatments frequently...

...to provide the necessary stimulation your "cellulite layer" tissues need to stay firm, smooth, slim and healthy. Once a month is a reasonable frequency - obviously the more the better, with the main limiting factors being budget and time constraints.

#25: Regularly apply a good anti-cellulite cream...

...one that contains multiple ingredients that help with all aspects of cellulite: fat accumulation, fat cell proliferation, blood vessel and lymphatic vessel insufficiency, fibroblast function and proliferation, inflammation and toxin infiltration. Make sure the cream has a decent percentage of active ingredients - in most cases 1% active ingredients concentration will not do much. And make sure that the cream does not contain unnecessary chemicals that may burden your skin and your body. The Lipo Actives are such creams that don't compromise on quality as well as quantity of active ingredients. To try the Lipo Actives click the above link.