Verse for Today… For your Encouragement

“Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security”   Jeremiah 33:6 (NIV)

Are you concerned about sagging skin after weight loss?

The good news is that sagging skin after weight loss is not enviable. Here a list of things you can do to avoid it. If you already have a sagging skin problem, you can use the tips below to help correct the problem.

The key is maintaining and building lean muscle mass. I’m not talking about “Miss or Mr. America” body builder type muscle mass. I’m talking about the kind of lean muscle mass that keeps us strong and healthy and looking great.

When we lose weight too fast (more than 5 pounds per week), we tend to lose mostly muscle mass. Losing muscle, especially just below the skin causes sagging skin because the skin loses its underlying support. To avoid this, try the following …

Ø Lose weight gradually to avoid lose of muscle.

Ø Use body composition (your lean muscle versus body fat percentage) to gauge your progress and not just scale weight. Scale weight alone will not tell you if you are losing more muscle than fat.

Ø Build lean muscle with a resistance training routine

Ø Drink enough water. Keeping yourself hydrated reduces hunger and helps with weight loss and helps to make your skin look smooth and young. You should drink at least 64 ounces of water per day and more if you can.

Following these simple, but important tips can mean the different between feeling and looking sickly or feeling and looking great. Have you ever noticed that some people look sickly and have an overall droopy look to their body after losing weight? That’s because they lost mostly muscle mass, which gives us our healthy looking body shape.

Action step for Today …

Start tracking your body composition. Two of the easiest ways to do this is with a body fat analyzer scale or skin fold calipers. Skin fold calipers are more accurate, but the body fat analyzer is fine too. I like to use a body fat analyzer scale, because it’s convenient. All I have to do is step on the scale and it gives me my weight and the percentage of fat.

Which ever method you choose, just follow the given instructions and you’ll be on your way.

I welcome your comments, suggestions, and questions so go ahead and leave your comments –I’d love to hear from you. Also, if you’d like for me to cover a topic in more detail or cover a topic that I have not talked about yet, just let me know.

It’s importance for you to know that this blog was created for you.  The goal is to build a community of people helping people. So if you would like to share your knowledge on a health and fitness related topic, just leave your comments. 

Be Organic God’s Way!

Edwin

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Are your skin care products fighting against aging?

While on the seemingly never ending search for the perfect anti-aging skincare product, the industry seems to be making a shift away from the engineered and towards the natural.  Skincare products made with green tea are hitting shelves and women everywhere are experiencing the amazing benefits this simple plant offers.  Green tea is good for your skin thanks to the many anti-aging antioxidants it contains.

Anti aging products seem to come in all shapes and sizes these days, with everything from retinol to vitamin C being touted as the answer to all our aging woes.  However, cultures that have known the benefits of green tea have lower occurrences of certain cancers and seem to age later on in life.  Green tea isn’t just for tea time anymore; it’s one of the best anti-aging products to emerge in recent years.

We’ve all heard about the amazing benefits of green tea for our bodies, inside and out.  But very few of us know what the properties of green tea are that makes it so good for us.  Polyphenols are the secret anti-aging ingredient, as they have been proven to eliminate free radicals.  This is a skincare breakthrough that some have likened to the fountain of youth. 

The polyphenols in green tea do much more than just fight free radical damage, they have recently been shown to actually prolong the life of cells which helps to slow down the process of premature aging.  When science combines with natural products, the result is skincare products that can turn back time.  This isn’t your mother’s anti-aging product! 

Extracts of green tea have been used in anti aging products for years.  These powerful extracts have been an important part of any preventative skincare regimen.  However new research into specific polyphenols has shown that green tea skincare products can actually help skin cells to be rejuvenated.  These newly energized skin cells have a longer life which in turn slows the aging process and even repairs damage already done to skin.  Green tea skincare products may just be the anti-aging fountain of youth!

Ingredients in many anti-aging products are often unpronounceable and seem to do nothing more than confuse consumers.  While any skincare products will have some technical ingredients, many consumers enjoy buying and using something that is familiar to them.  Anti-aging products that contain ingredients that are naturally good for you, such as green tea, are becoming increasingly popular.

While skincare products that you topically apply to your skin are important to the anti-aging fight, what you put into your mouth is important as well.  Many skin care companies are marketing anti aging vitamins that can help your skin from the inside out.  Green tea has also been shown to be beneficial to not only utilize as a skincare product but to drink as well.  Green tea truly is a powerful agent in the fight against aging.

As youth becomes more of a hot commodity as it ever was, science searches for new and innovative ways to help us look younger, longer.  Many miracle skincare products have been unveiled throughout the years but nothing ever seemed to be the anti-aging cure we were looking for.  While aging is inevitable, many women and men deal with premature aging, thanks to the many environmental factors, and our lifestyles as well.  By adding green tea not only to your diet but to your skincare regimen as well, we may be able to help turn back the clocks just a little bit.

Action step for today:

This is a simple action step today – drink more green tea!

I welcome your comments, suggestions, and questions, so go ahead and leave your comments. I’d love to hear from you. Also, if you’d like for me to cover a topic in more detail or cover a topic that I have not talked about yet, just let me know.

It’s importance for you to know that this blog was created for you.  The goal is to build a community of people helping people. So if you would like to share your knowledge on a health and fitness related topic, just leave your comments. 

Be Organic God’s Way!

Edwin

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