‘Banning’ certain foods and drink is depressing. So eat more of the better food groups. Eat fruit seven times per day. Heap up on vegies and eat them first. You might find that you’re too full to eat the red meat!

A sudden change in diet can send your bowels to liquid. Snack on fruit and vegies for starters. Don’t gorge on them.

Drink lots of water – especially at parties.

Stop comparing things to steak and French Fries. You’re free now. You can throw out all your old conventional cookbooks! You are now free to think ‘outside the square’ and treat Western cooking as just another cuisine option. Purchase a cookbook with recipes from another culture – with healthy tastes and ideas that are all new to you. Frequent restaurants which are known for a healthy alternative.

Break the news to your partner: you want regular massage!

The Scanning Stage (I Can)

Strip off again and take another look in the mirror. If you’ve been faithfully exercising one hour per day for the first two weeks – you will see results. If you’ve been mindful of your diet, you will see more results. And if you have also been taking herbal capsules, results could be even better still!

Let your mind scan over the past 14 days, thinking about the things you did not enjoy. Maybe you didn’t enjoy that fitness centre and would like to switch to another, maybe the hypnosis was a waste of time, maybe the herbal tablets are too costly, maybe you hate golf. Eliminate those things,

Let your mind also review the things you enjoyed very much – perhaps unexpectedly. Maybe those New Age books got you thinking about other aspects of personal development, maybe the daily exercise made you feel great, maybe you love basketball, maybe you’ve suddenly got a ‘thing’ for sushi bars. Use these to replace the activities and foods you disliked. How is your garden going? How is your window box looking? How is your vegie salad garden? How about joining a bush regeneration program in your shire?

• Meanwhile…you should be really pumping in your interval training sessions now. Work hard, it’s going to be worth it.

• Use affirmations to strengthen you on your journey. This is the affirmation that marathon runner Heather Turland made before she went on to win Gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Maybe it will work for you, to strengthen your resolve when you need it:” I am strong. I am prepared to feel the pain. I am fresh. I have my life together. I am relaxed and ready to endure this journey. I can and I will.”

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Swimming

Swimming is a very good aerobic activity. It helps with heart and lung conditioning. It also helps to develop endurance.

Cellulite impact: A good form of exercise for rehabilitation, pregnancy, young and elderly.

Swimming exercises your:

• Heart and lungs

• Arms, shoulders and upper body muscles

• Hips and stomach

Aerobics

Aerobics is not generally classed as a sport, but more of an exercise activity. However, these are the specific aerobic types that I recommend:

Pump aerobics – this type of aerobics enables you to exercise to music using barbells and exercises that help strengthen and tone your upper body muscle groups as well as your lower body muscle groups – all the while sustaining an elevated heart rate which conditions your heart and lungs and burns fat.

Spin classes – these classes elevate your heart rate and the muscle groups used are mainly “from the lower body muscles.

Circuit classes – you can do interval training while doing these classes – doing exercise using the upper and lower body muscle groups and elevated heart rate.

Cellulite impact: Can be useful if balanced with weight training.

Selected aerobics exercise your:

• Upper and lower body muscle groups

• Arms, shoulders and stomach

• Heart and lungs

Cycling

Cycling is great for leg shaping, and as a sport it is definitely a cellulite buster. Cycling is an individualistic type of sport because you can cycle at any level and progress at your ownpace for any duration, with a friend or just solo.

Consider getting involved in a ‘fun ride’ with a group of other cyclists. To keep check on your exercise zone, you can monitor your heart rate by wearing a heart rate monitor. This piece of equipment is useful for any sporting or exercise activity – check them out at chemists and fitness equipment stores.

Cellulite impact: I highly recommend cycling.

Cycling exercises your:

• Legs calves and backside

• Stomach muscles *

• Heart and lungs

Summary

• Find a sport that you really enjoy, make that your ‘hobby’. But get fit first.

• Join in the cameraderie of others who want to play that sport.

• Get better at it.

•Look forward to those games, playing sport is the most fun way to lose cellulite.

•Keep your body well hydrated drink plenty of water.

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Some shellfish is richer in fat than others, so choose the lowest in fat and don’t douse it in creamy sauces or drizzle it with butter or deep fry it. Try sushi or sashimi. Try seafood on a bed of salad or freshly steamed vegetables and rice.

Oysters have 2.4grams of fat per 100 grams, mussels 2.0 grams, scallops 1.5grams, clams 0.7grams, school prawns 0.8grams, king prawns 0.9grams, lobster 0.9grams, Balmain Bugs 3.0grams, abalone 2.0grams, crabs 5.5grams, cockles 0.6grams, kina 5.4grams, cuttlefish 0.7grams, octopus 1.3grams, squid 1.7grams.

Shellfish is low in saturated fat and high in protein. Shellfish is rich in B vitamins and is a useful source of trace minerals. But take care to eat fresh and well prepared shellfish to avoid bacterial contamination and illness. Pollution is the problem with seafood.

Fish

Fish is a good source of protein and generally low in fat, although not all are low in fat – sardines, trout and herring are oily fish and tinned fish in oil is probably the oiliest way to buy any fish.

Smoked fish is usually an oily fish that suits this method of preparation. Sorry about the warnings, but otherwise, fish is great. Try fish with loads of salad – and enjoy it in small tasty portions.

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Negative reinforcement doesn’t work when you are trying to build self-esteem. Don’4 put pressure on yourself by boasting about the cellulite you are going to lose. Don’t ‘shame’ yourself into it.

Overweight people often get derided by others, so don’t set yourself up. Do the very opposite – rise above, even if you do feel a bit ashamed of yourself.

Don’t ‘announce’ your plan. Keep it low-key, keep it to yourself and tell only the people you want to tell. Remember people will notice. And when they start noticing you will get definite positive feedback. This beats making an ‘announcement’ and having everyone checking you for results.

Remember: In other peoples’ eyes the results are never enough.

So remember – you’re doing it for yourself, not for them.

Also remember: There is an anti-climax to getting it ‘right’.

Get it wrong and you attract lots of attention; get it right and most people ignore it – some because they’re jealous!

Don’t expect adulation just because you got fit. Here’s an analogy: if a railing around a verandah is crooked, then everyone notices. If no one trip or stumbles up a flight of stairs – nobody comments on the fine carpentry. The same applies to matters of health.

But you know deep down how tremendous you feel!

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Adjusting Your Goals

After you’ve kept a seven-day record of what you eat and of relevant physical activities, you will have enough self-understanding to create your own weight loss diary. This will be your guide as you make lifestyle modifications as appropriate to your cellulite problem.

As you read further into this book you will better understand the sort of things you should modify, for example, coffee intake. Maybe your seven-day log reveals you drink seven cups a day – why not cut that to three? Then two? Adjust your goal in a month’s time. Write another seven day log four weeks’ later to compare.

One relatively easy way to diminish your intake of negative substances, like tannin, caffeine, nicotine, etc, is to have none in the morning. I bet you can go until midday, any day, without any of those substances.

Try it.

Keep a record of your achievements.

Action Plan

• Visualise the Ideal You

• Turn to the back of your diary and jot down some attainable goals to help you achieve your target,

• Keep a seven-day log of everything you eat and drink and relevant physical activity,

• At the end of the seven-days, take note of aspects of your behaviour which conflict with your cellulite-loss goals.

• Using the seven-day log as a platform, write a four – week program which is realistic, attainable, and which you can live up to!

• Think in 15-minute time frames – ‘baby steps’.

• At the end of the month, keep another seven day log of everything you eat, drink and relevant exercise. It should be a much healthier than what you wrote five weeks ago. It should encourage you.

Now that you’re encouraged – keep going.

As a female you like to attract males. And to do that, you first have to attract yourself.

Top Seven Reasons Why People Break Their Resolutions

1. Demands for ease,

2. Small failures lead to frustration instead of stronger resolution,

3. The conquest seems ‘hard’,

4. They forsake the long^ term advantages for short term social pressure,

5. Lack of gratification cannot compete with the appeal of hedonism,

6. They have a low frustration tolerance,

7. And, they are ‘waiting’ for something which will never arrive. They don’t see the resolution as an end in itself.

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