Thursday, July 2, 2009

Skin maintenance for weight loss

When we are trying to achieve sustainable weight loss, we have to make changes in not only our eating, drinking and exercising habits, but we must also make substantial changes in our hygiene habits as well. When making a change to be healthier, we go through a detoxification process. The main ways our body uses to get rid of those toxins are through your urine, stools, breathing (exhaling) and through your skin. It is therefore normal for your skin to go through phases where a few pimples appear throughout the process, but eventually, they will go away.

Since the skin is a very important protection and breathing organ of your body, if you want to achieve the best weight loss results, you have to take care of it. One of the very efficient way to take care of your skin is to get rid of the dead skin cells on the surface of the skin daily, to allow your skin to breath and evacuate toxins.

Here is my suggestion: use a dry brush, made out of cactus hair (or another natural fiber) that you can spray with a mix of distilled water and tea tree oil before using. Then you take no more than two minutes and you brush your body from the feet up towards the heat in long strokes. You brush the thighs, buttocks and abdomen, all those places where the circulation does not flow well. Then, brush your arms, specially under the arm close to your arm pits. You brush your back as far as you can go. But do not brush your neck or face because the hair of the brush is too harsh for the skin. If you do this daily, you will see a difference in the softness and texture of your skin. Your body will be able to release toxins more easily through the skin.

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