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How does Massage Help with Weight Loss?

Therapie Clinic — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:34:45 +0000

People trying to lose weight can gain many benefits from massage, and there are a number of different types available at Thérapie Clinic. Massage lowers stress, improves mobility and circulation, and speeds recovery from injury.

It also helps flush impurities and toxins from the system, which is why it’s so important to drink substantial amounts of water afterwards, as then your body can focus on healthy foods (that you should be eating!) and get the maximum nutritional benefit from them.

A Massage Helps after Exercise

The whole idea of getting enough exercise is to feel good while losing weight or toning up-but you aren’t going to feel great if your flexibility is poor and you get sore after the gym or a long walk.

Massage helps reduce soreness and increase flexibility, by kneading the muscles and keeping them loose, so you don’t have to lie on the couch to recover from the gym for a few days-you can get back in there. The more you exercise; the better your flexibility will get, but a massage is of enormous help at the beginning, and is a pleasant reward once you’re fit.

Massage and Body Fat

There are many theories that regular massage helps break up the subcutaneous fat, allowing the fat to be reabsorbed into the body. A massage does not burn body fat per se; but what it does do is improve circulation and lymph drainage, which is instrumental in improving overall well-being.

Stress and Weight Loss

Massage is known to reduce in the body levels of cortisol, a hormone known as the “stress” hormone because it triggers the body’s “fight or flight” response. When your body is in a high-stress mode, the intestines slow or stop the digestion of food, so the body can focus on coping with the stress.

By halting the stress response, you allow your body to digest food properly and keep it from building up in your intestines. When your body functions properly, you feel better and look great, and weight-loss comes easier.

Incorporate Regular Massage into your Week

People striving to lose weight should consider incorporating massage in their weight-loss routine by scheduling a bi-weekly or weekly treatment; ask your Thérapie Clinic specialists what they would recommend for you.

The idea is to improve your body’s function and flexibility, meaning exercise is easier. It also provides an additional set of eyes to watch for and prevent any health problems or injuries caused by diet and exercise.
It’s also a delicious treat and a reward for maintaining your regime; the money you might have spent on take-aways, chocolate, wine or cigarettes is much better spent on improving your health!

Call Thérapie Clinic today on 1890 650 750 and ask about booking your free consultation at the clinic nearest you.

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Lose weight with a food diary

Therapie Clinic — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:27:50 +0000

Weight loss professionals, researchers and doctors have found that people who keep a food journal or diary are much more likely to be successful in losing weight, and keeping it off. Interestingly, one such study conducted over six months showed that those who write everything into their diary are twice as successful as those who don’t keep one at all.

How does writing down what you eat and drink in a food diary make any difference?
Firstly, it instantly increases your awareness of what, how much, and when you eat. Mindless munching is a big problem for those of us who are overweight; particularly when distracted by the telly.

As you’ll discover when you start to keep a diary, patterns emerge over the course of a week or so that make it easy to see how you react to certain events. It helps you identify areas where you can make changes to lose weight.

Unveiling these kind of overeating patterns also identifies the triggers to avoid-not eating breakfast is invariably a major culprit, as is starving all day until you’re hungry enough to eat your own leg by dinnertime; then totally stuffing your face.

Alcohol is another big trigger; it makes people overeat, particularly high- fat and high- salt foods. You know those burger places you won’t dream of going to whilst sober? Yet you’ll queue up at 3am after a few drinks? There you go.

SureSlim encourages you to record every bite. There is no point in lying to your diary; in fact complete disclosure has the effect of deterring you from eating something because you don’t want to write it down and see it in glaring back at you.

Here are some tips on how to make a food diary work for you.

Why are you doing it? What kind of knowledge so you need to gain? Is it to become aware of hidden food triggers, notice problematic eating patterns, or just make sure you’re eating a healthy diet?

It’s not easy hold up the mirror that is a food diary; lots of us feel a bit hopeless or embarrassed. We feel bad if we slip up. Stick with it; you’re not alone and it’s an important tool for your permanent weight loss.

What do you need to make note of? The most important elements to note would be exact foods and drinks, times, portion size and reasons/events. The location of the meal is also of interest in helping pinpoint problem areas-it’s tough to meet friends surrounded by pints and chips when you’re starting out.

These details help reveal trigger situations for poor food choices. Keeping track of the components of the meal-carbs, fat etc, is helpful for insulin and leptin resistant people; if you’re heading towards Type 2 diabetes, meals high in carbs or saturated fat may cause you trouble. On the other hand, high-fibre meals will improve your blood sugar levels.

Decide when to update it-every day. If you leave it go too long, you’ll just fill in the blanks. The most successful diaries get filled out after every meal; it’s the most accurate and will encourage you to record everything. EVERYTHING. Even the condiments you use-because they can make a huge difference to your carefully balanced program. Don’t get lax about the diary.

Accuracy about portion sizes is very important, as the SureSlim program designed for your particular metabolism works with specific amounts of food at specific times of the day.

They will also give you the amount of each food you should be having, so you need to have a true concept of portion size if you’re out somewhere and away form your trusty food-weighing scale.

Review it honestly; it’s the reflection on your own daily patterns that is key in unlocking the secret to your own weight loss.

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Customized weight loss

Therapie Clinic — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:57:29 +0000

The most successful way to lose weight and keep it off is to find something that works specifically for you.

The best way of ensuring effective, long term change is to choose a weight loss clinic that will comprehensively analyse your body and its requirements, using nutritional science to correct your metabolism with a personalized dietary plan.

SureSlim do exactly that, by teaching you how to nourish your body properly, so you burn fat instead of storing it.

The weight loss consultants know from listening to their clients that a ‘one size fits all’ approach doesn’t work. People vary enormously; different schedules; different eating triggers; different metabolisms; different responses.

Your age, medical history, the kind of work you do, your blood type; all impact the kind of plan you’ll need to make a permanent difference.

It’s vital to develop a plan tailored for you; if it doesn’t suit your tastes or lifestyle, you just won’t stick to it. You’ll tell fibs in your food diary, make bargains with yourself while eating chocolate, and ‘treat’ yourself to a bottle of wine when you shouldn’t. Who are you kidding?

SureSlim create an individualized weight loss plan with you. It’s extremely personal to you, and designed to work for your body. They will measure your blood glucose levels, your BMI, your cholesterol-everything that helps them to build up a complete picture of your body’s current state of health.

These are then analyzed in detail at a laboratory, so an accurate idea of your bloods, hormones, metabolism and all the other factors contributing to your weight can be gleaned.

Your eating habits will be discussed in detail to formulate a picture of how and when you tend to sabotage your own efforts. Your likes and dislikes when it comes to food are also taken into account-no point in making you eat broccoli when you would rather poke out your eye with the fork-so together you can design an effective, agreed food plan.

Real food and real results are the name of the game with SureSlim; there are no supplements, bars or shakes to buy, and you don’t need to track down any rare organic delicacies from boutique shops. Normal food you buy at the supermarket is all you need, and in your food plan you’re told exactly how to prepare it, what amount of it you can have, and when.

There are usually about 6 different options for breakfast, lunch and dinner so you’re not going to be bored or go hungry; in fact most people say that they seem to be eating more on the food program, and losing weight, than they ever did when they were overweight.

Astoundingly, the vast majority of heavy people are in fact malnourished; in the sense that they do not get enough nutrition from the poor food choices they make, and very little of that food gets used as fuel; it just gets stored as flab.

Your consultant at the SureSlim clinic will spend quite a while chatting to you about things you have tried in the past; it helps them get an idea of what does and doesn’t work for you. A lot of people can lose weight on a fad diet or slimming regime; but keeping the weight off proves too hard as they haven’t made any kind of a lifestyle change, thus put on all the weight they lost-and more.

Your weight loss program will tailor your food plan to your ongoing requirements, so that you can maintain your healthy weight once you’ve lost the excess. The first month or two tends to see a relatively quick loss, and then naturally slows to a regular weekly loss until you hit goal weight.

Call SureSlim to book your consultation; take the realistic, achievable approach designed especially for you and become the slimmer healthier person you want to be. Call 1890 650 750 and start changing your life today.

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