The loss of a life in the family affects you so much. I lost my mother recently at 75 and I thought, the best way to handle this – because she’s taught us the best things we know – is to aspire to the good things in her life. She was a very spritely 75 years old. -Although she had quality of life, it was young – I thought – for Mum to go.

I think you should look for the positives in that life to make yourself a better person. If there’s something you need to address in your life, whether it’s an overweight, underweight or cellulite problem, address it in a positive manner. Keep going forward, and if you reach a plateau, seek a way off that plateau. But don’t worry about it too much.

The world isn’t going to cave in because you’ve gone back on what you intended.

Pretend it didn’t happen and get back onto your program. Just don’t give up.

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In the second instance, the results will be much better because the herbal product can do its job as a catalyst (which is its real role), building on the benefits of other lifestyle modification.

What’s the point of going through all this for a five out of 10 result? Don’t you want a 10 out of 10 result?

If you definitely want to shift that cellulite, don’t rely on the herbal capsules alone. Unless you exercise and get onto a good diet, the result you get from any herb will be marginal. For a period of time the stimulant – the power of the compound – will work. But what happens when you stop the course?

Nothing.

It’ll be just like before.

Four Months

Although the recommended period is three months, I think you need four months on any herbal program – to give yourself a chance to let it do its job. Herbs are not like drugs, they don’t hit the system fast. Drugs just zap you. They work quickly; they are refined to do just that. Herbs take a while.

In fact, it takes a couple of weeks before your system starts to even take herbal compound seriously, and four months for the herbs to get into their stride!

Summary

• Check you are not allergic to any ingredient in the cellulite herbal tablets.

• Consult your doctor if you are pregnant or suffer allergies.

• Herbs need at least four months in your system to allow your body to adjust and respond.

• Positive results can be seen within as little as two months.

• Combined with regular exercise and a good diet, a course of herbal capsules will work really well!

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Lebanese, Matzoth (matzos) and Naan bread are simply flour, salt, water and leaven – no fat whatsoever. Choose them, and avoid cheese & bacon pull-aparts and breads that have been heavily worked over.

Pasta

Pasta is an excellent source of complex carbohydrates for energy. Best of all, pasta is low in fat. Transform your simple pasta dish with traditional sauces made from olive oil, garlic, onions, mushrooms, plump tomatoes, fresh basil and pine nuts. And voila, you have a scrumptious, low fat meal to enjoy.

Ice Cream

Ice creams that are genuinely fat-free can be very light in kilo-joules. There are some quite good frozen yoghurts. But check out the ingredients carefully before you believe it is genuinely fat free. It might be low in one thing, but high in something else.

Gelato can be quite low in fat. Frozen fresh fruit juice is probably the best iced product you can prepare yourself at home for cellulite loss. Simply juice and freeze your favourite fruit.

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• Primary activity

As a primary activity you may choose something like walking, jogging, swimming, exercise or weight training. Do that primary activity three times a week, every week.

After a while you should become quite expert in this area. Such activities will certainly contribute to getting your muscular system toned up, as well as getting your heart-lung system working better. More important is that this physical activity is your nominated number one way to lose cellulite.

Be sure to pick an activity that suits your style, with pleasant companions. Exercising in a fitness centre doesn’t suit everybody. Neither does swimming. Choose something you enjoy.

This doesn’t mean you’ve got to reach high activity levels every day. It just means the activities that you do should be done on a regular basis.

• Secondary activity

Your secondary activity might be something you do once or twice a week: shopping, housework, walking the dog, playing golf, gardening, yoga, T’ai Chi. (They are all worthwhile activities if you ‘push yourself when doing them. Their exercise value is important, though secondary.) If you are doing good primary work, your secondary activities will never tire you.

Choose something that you can learn to love – not a hobby that involves sitting at a desk pasting stamps into albums, but one that involves getting out and bushwalking, or bird watching (that’s a form of bush walking), or a passive sport like golf, fishing, bowls or gardening. In fact, anything that gets you out and about.

One person attending a weight loss program told me that after a few weeks the garden had never looked better and she was watching much less television. She loved gardening, and chose to spend one hour a day in the garden as her physical exercise.

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Anyone can start walking. Even in wet weather you can put on a cap and a raincoat and enjoy the great outdoors. Walking is something you can do any time. Instead of driving a short distance, walk instead.

For example, when returning a video or buying the Sunday papers – just walk. And instead of catching the lift or the elevator at shopping centres or at work – walk those stairs.

This should not count as ‘exercise’. Walking is no more than a small change of habits which, if added to an exercise program, keeps your circulation moving around, and keeps the cellulite moving out.

You can, however, turn walking into an exercise if you remember that exercise is not exercise unless you feel a bit uncomfortable during the session. If it’s too much of a stroll, you won’t have done much.

Turning a walk into an ‘exercise’: (Try this when you’re walking the dog!) Prefer a local park to road surface which results in hard jarring on your joints. Go where grass will cushion your efforts, especially if you are carrying a lot of weight.

Work out a walking circuit – then walk it.

Secondly, mark off two points (about the length of a cricket pitch). Walk as fast as you can between those points. Don’t sprint, you may not be able to, so don’t do that! Give it your best shot for 20 seconds. Have a rest for 20 to 30 seconds and then go back. Do a series of power walks between those two points. Start slowly and build up your efforts. You may start with just two-three ‘pace’ or ‘express’ walks, and gradually build it up to 10 to 15 over time.

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