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Cellulite can look better or worse depending on lighting. The shadow test shows you why—and how to make dimples less visible year-round.

As if women don’t have enough out there working against them, the fact that men don’t have cellulite seems like just one more cruel blow. But that’s a cellulite myth. Men can have cellulite. It’s just more prevalent in women.The myth that men can’t have cellulite is one of many that surround cellulite. And while the ‘not in men’ myth is relatively harmless, others can affect our lifestyle and self-esteem. So let’s bust them right now. 1. You’re Out of Shape if You Have Cellulite By itself, lack of exercise doesn't make your cellulite worse. But the loss of muscle tone can result in more fat deposits closer to the skin, which may make cellulite more visible. 2. You Need to Do Lots of Cardio to Improve the Appearance of Cellulite First, any safe physical activity and exercise program helps your overall health and wellbeing and may reduce the appearance of your cellulite. But this myth might make you focus too much on a physical activity that isn’t necessarily the best for reducing cellulite’s appearance. Cardio is great, but strength and resistance training is at least as good, if not better for improving your cellulite. In addition to improving muscle tone, which may improve the appearance of your skin, strength training also strengthens your skin’s connective tissue to make it look smoother. 3. Only Overweight People Have Cellulite Simply not true. You only have to search for one of the many fitness bloggers and Instagrammers who are bravely baring their cellulite in an attempt to help themselves and others live with it and understand that anyone can have it. 4. Cellulite is Unhealthy This might be the most prevalent cellulite myth. The idea that cellulite is a ‘disorder’ or some other health issue is a dangerous myth that can make you feel like you’re living an unhealthy lifestyle. Generally speaking, the healthcare community considers cellulite to be a normal condition. 5. You Can Get Rid of Cellulite With Creams Ah, if only life was so easy. You have a condition that makes you shy away from mirrors and change your outfit before you go out, but all you have to do is rub on a cream and the problem will disappear. Nope, won’t work. The best thing that a cream might do is temporarily tighten your skin, and get you to massage your kin as you rub them in. Anti-cellulite Mass & Slim shapewear is infused with hundreds of tiny ceramic beads that massage your skin for as long as you wear it. That extended massaging action can result in a reduction of cellulite in the targeted areas of your body.

You’ve been waiting all winter to get outside to enjoy the warm summer sun and we have to ruin it by telling you the sun can ruin the appearance of your cellulite. First, it’s not all bad news. You can easily enjoy being outside in summer without worrying about the sun making your cellulite look worse. Mass & Slim Shapewear Shorts $79.95 $99.95 Shop Now Mass & Slim Shapewear Leggings $89.95 $104.95 Shop Now How the Sun Affects Your Cellulite Well, it’s not really the sun itself, but the harmful UV rays in sunshine. And we can all tolerate some sun exposure without any ill effects, but that can be just a few minutes some days if you don’t use sun protection. Over-exposure to the sun’s UV rays can harm your skin in the following ways that can make your cellulite appear worse than normal 1.Damages Collagen Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body. Like all proteins, it promotes cell growth, particularly in the connective tissue throughout your body, including in your bones, muscles, tendons and skin.Collagen makes your skin stronger and more elastic. UV Rays can damage the collagen in your skin, which weakens the skin and makes it more susceptible to the puckering of cellulite 2.Causes Uneven Thickening of the Skin UV rays can cause solar elastosis, which is an uneven thickening of the skin due to overexposure to the sun. The thickened skin can appear yellow and bumpy. Even if you didn’t have cellulite, solar elastosis would make it look like you did. 3.Robs the Skin of Moisture The sun dries the skin in a way that causes it to wrinkle and crack. Even worse, it robs the skin of the moisture that keeps the skin elastic and strong, so it can make your cellulite dimples look deeper. You might need to do more than usual to keep your skin healthy and your cellulite minimized during the summer. Wearing anti-cellulite Mass & Slim shapewear that’s clinically proven to reduce inches and the appearance of cellulite can help. Active Slim Compression Leggings $99.95 $129.95 Best Seller! Shop Now Secret Slim Compression Shorts $94.95 129.95 Best Seller! Shop Now Reviews I am a critical care nurse and these leggings are saving my legs. I am no longer feeling leg fatigue at the end of my shift which has alleviated my knee pain. In addition my legs look smoother. My husband noticed the back of my thighs appeared less dimpled and he was a skeptic. I am ordering a second pair and I am going to try the bra this time too. Leann Kolovitz, USA. I have been wearing my mass and slim leggings for less than a week. I have already noticed tightening and toning in my legs, butt and stomach. I`m also seeing a reduction in cellulite and smoothing of my skin. Very impressed for the first week! I never submit reviews but if you are looking for something to help get u in shape and to look toned, these leggings are the bomb! Worth every dime I paid. I will post back in thirty days with an update but so far I`m extremely thrilled with these leggings! Great results! Pam Crawford, USA. See All Reviews

By now, as an avid reader of The Black Purple blog, you know that one of the best ways to improve the appearance of your cellulite is to eat a healthier diet. Not only do healthy eating habits give your skin the vitamins and nutrients it needs for better tone and appearance, but a healthy, balanced diet will also help you to lose weight, which can also improve the appearance of your cellulite. Needless to say, you can find endless ‘healthy’ eating habits online, in magazines and from just about every family member and friend you have. Unfortunately, many long-standing eating habits that were once considered healthy might not be so healthy after all. Here are just a few eating habits you might have started, thinking they were healthy, but they may be anything but. 1.Using Artificial Sweeteners More and more research points to the fact that not only is sugar an enemy of weight loss, it’s simply bad for your health. So artificial sweeteners seem like a better option. Except they may be just as unhealthy and damaging to your weight loss as sugar.Artificial sweeteners can trick you body into thinking it has eaten something sweet. When your body realizes that the promised calories aren’t there, it can force you to eat more. Artificial sweeteners also play havoc with your blood sugar levels and increase your chance of diabetes. And it’s not just the artificial sweeteners you add to your diet, but those that are used in diet and low-sugar drinks and foods too. 2.You Cut Down on What You Eat When You Plan to Go Out Later Here’s another one that seems to make perfect sense. You know you’re heading out tonight for a celebration. So during the day, you cut down on what you eat because you expect to eat more later. But this tactic can have the complete opposite effect than the one you want. When you head out on an empty stomach to a social situation where there will be lots of tempting foods and drink, there’s a good chance that your hunger pangs will make you over indulge. 3.You Eat Too Many Healthy Foods Of course, you should eat as many healthy foods as possible as part of a balanced diet. But it’s a big mistake to think that, because you’re eating healthy foods, you can eat as much as you want. Overeating healthy foods can add to your weight and make your cellulite look worse almost as easily as overeating junk foods. As always, the more steps you take to minimize your cellulite, the better it will look. Wearing anti-cellulite Mass & Slim shapewear that’s clinically proven to reduce inches and the appearance of cellulite.

Cellulite isn’t bad for you. It isn’t a disease. It’s a natural occurrence and, just like there’s no ‘cure’ for other natural occurrences, like your posture, there’s no cure for cellulite. But that doesn’t mean you have to like how it looks and you can take steps to reduce the appearance of cellulite. Just like you would take steps to improve your posture if you didn’t like it. Fortunately, many of the ways to reduce cellulite also happen to be ways of improving your overall health and wellbeing, including managing your weight and eating a healthier diet. One of the least understood methods of cellulite reduction is to improve your blood circulation and lymph circulation. Here’s how doing both helps minimize the orange-peel effect that cellulite has on your skin. Blood Circulation To state the obvious, you need blood flow to stay alive. Your blood picks up vital oxygen from your lungs, and absorbs energy and nutrients that come from the foods you eat, and delivers them to your organs, muscles and other cells. It also carries away waste products from those same cells. Your skin is the largest organ in your body and needs oxygen and nutrition as much as any other organ to stay healthy and strong. When you maintain healthy blood circulation, the nutrients in your blood also help promote the production of collagen, which is the hormone that keeps your skin strong and elastic. The added strength in your skin can make it less susceptible to the puckering that cellulite causes. Lymph Circulation The lymph fluid running through your lymphatic system carries the fats that contain energy and nutrients from your digestive system to your blood. It also removes of bacteria from your cells, which it transports to your lymph nodes for destruction. When you improve your lymph circulation, more nutrients are delivered to your blood, and more bacteria is removed from your cells. Those nutrients help nourish and strengthen your skin. And when your skin cells don’t have to deal with as much bacteria, they can put the added nutrients to work making your skin even stronger and tighter, which reduces the appearance of your cellulite. How to Improve Blood and Lymph Circulation A basic way to improve blood and lymph circulation is to get your heart pumping through increased activity and exercise. Massaging the skin can also increase circulation by flushing away waste from your skin and muscles and making way for blood and lymph to bring their much needed nutrients to your skin. Hundreds of tiny ceramic beads in Mass & Slim anti-cellulite shapewear produce a massaging effect on your skin for as long as you wear it. Not only does that help improve your blood and lymph flow, it has been clinically proven to reduce inches and the appearance of your cellulite.

First, before we get into this, the ‘diet’ in the title doesn’t mean a crash weight-loss diet. While losing weight may reduce the appearance of your cellulite, we don’t recommend using the vast majority of trendy diets that promise a certain amount of weight loss in a certain amount of time. Why? Because even those fad diets that actually do produce some weight loss can have other unwanted and unhealthy side effects. These include triggering your body to go into starvation mode, which can affect your metabolism and make it difficult to lose weight even on a low-calorie diet. Eating a Healthy, Balanced Diet of Quality Food Can Reduce Cellulite Cellulite might be hereditary, or it might be due hormonal factors, or it may just be caused by excess weight. Regardless of what causes your cellulite, transforming your regular diet can help you reduce it. 1. Fewer Processed Foods   Processed foods can include those that are cooked, prepared, packaged, altered and/or added to before you buy them. Many foods that go through a ‘process’ before you buy them have excessively high levels of sugar, salt and unhealthy fats. Just the sort of ingredients that can put on the pounds and make your cellulite look worse. 2. More Raw Foods Fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains are low in unhealthy fats and high in fibre. They take longer to digest, which reduces the chance of the energy they deliver being stored as fat. They’re also packed with nutrients which boosts your energy, so you can use to burn more calories.  3. Increase Lean Proteins Proteins are the building blocks of muscle. More muscle tissue can mean less fat and less cellulite. Foods that are high in proteins include poultry, egg whites and fish Eating a healthier diet is just one way to help reduce your cellulite. Wearing anti-cellulite Mass & Slim shapewear is another. Visit TheBlackPurple.com to learn more.

While there is no shortage of news, advice and even ‘miracle cures’ for cellulite online, on TV and in magazines, it would seem that we really don’t know all that much about cellulite. We know what produces cellulite - or the orange-peel effect on your skin. And we know that reducing body fat, improving circulation and having healthier skin can reduce cellulite’s appearance. But, considering that over 90% of women have cellulite; that it can affect people of average or even below average weights, and there is no way to ‘get rid of cellulite’ it would seem like we still have a lot to learn about it. Cellulite Facts Until then, we’ll have to be satisfied with doing everything we can to reduce cellulite as best we can. Part of that is getting a better understanding of cellulite and the following facts might help you do that. Cellulite is Not Caused by Toxins It seems to make perfect sense. All those ‘toxins and impurities’ in the environment and your diet must be responsible for ‘ugly’ cellulite. Except they aren’t. As we said, cellulite is produced by fat cells pushing up against your skin, which can happen in even the most ‘detoxified’ people. May be More Prevalent in Smokers Your circulation can have an effect on your cellulite. Increased blood flow brings more nutrients to your skin, which can help tone it and make it firmer. In addition to reducing blood flow, smoking is also linked to decreased collagen production. Collagen gives your skin strength and elasticity, which can also help to make your cellulite look better. Too Tight Underwear can make Cellulite Worse Tight elastic bands on under clothing, or any very tight clothing, can cut off circulation and restrict blood flow, which can make your cellulite appear worse. If there is another ‘surprising’ fact about cellulite it is that it is not a simple thing. You can’t brush it away, ‘cure’ it or otherwise get rid of it. but you can do something about it. The massaging action of anti-cellulite Mass & Slim shapewear helps improve your circulation and is clinically proven to reduce the appearance of cellulite.

As part of the healthy, realistic approach to reducing the appearance of cellulite that we like to promote, we keep an eye on the ‘cellulite’ headlines. Maybe you’ve read some of our cellulite headline busting posts. We like to keep on top of how cellulite is treated in the media because of how misleading the headlines can be, and to stay on top of trends and news that we can either pass along to you - or warn you about. Our Cellulite Newsfeed Goes ‘Off the Hook’ Were we ever surprised when we checked the newsfeed this time. Eight of the top ten stories talked about pictures Demi Lovato posted to Instagram that revealed, in no particular order: “Extra fat” (gasp!) “Stretch marks” (double gasp!!) “Cellulite” (ohh nooo!!!)    And we’re not just talking about the weaselly sites that scrounge for low-lying gossip. Here are just a few of the sites that carried the story. Cosmopolitan - Demi Lovato Explains Why She Posted Those Cellulite Pics W Magazine - Demi Lovato Speaks Out About Loving Her Cellulite, Fat, and Stretch Marks in Body-Positive Posts The Ottawa Sun - Demi Lovato shows off 'stretch marks and extra fat' on Instagram What Can You Take Away from All This Attention to Demi Lovato’s Cellulite? It turns out there’s a reassuring body-positive message about embracing your ‘flaws’ in all of Ms. Lovato’s posts. “I decided to embrace my flaws and — I don't even like to call them flaws, it's just a part of who I am — and show the world that I'm imperfect, but that's what makes me beautiful." www.elitedaily.com Say what you will about our celebrity-obsessed culture, but it’s tough to find fault with a reassuring message. Especially when that message is about living with cellulite, which so many of us find challenging. Anti-cellulite shapewear not only instantly adds flattering shape, but it starts helping to reduce the appearance of cellulite from the moment you put it on. Check out the Mass & Slim shapewear product line from The Black Purple

With the amount of standing required of a flight attendant, compression wear can be a valuable part of their working wardrobe. But flight attendants face even more threats to their health due to the nature of their job. In addition to the long periods of standing, the changes in air pressure during take offs and landings also contribute to a higher than average risk of developing deep vein thrombosis. It means flight attendants need more than regular compression wear. In fact, many flight attendants get a prescription from their doctors for medical-grade compression hosiery. A Comfortable Option for Flight Attendants Fortunately for flight attendants, and everyone who spends extended periods of time on their feet, there are options for their compression wear. One of them is shapewear, including Mass & Slim Shorts, Leggings and Belts. In addition to providing the support that can help flight attendants reduce their risk of deep vein thrombosis, shapewear delivers a number of other health benefits that don’t come from regular compression wear. Helps to Prevent Varicose Veins Mass & Slim’s shapewear is infused with hundreds of tiny ceramic beads that gently massage the skin as you move. The massaging action helps to improve blood flow to reduce the risk of the pooling that produces varicose veins. Reduces Swelling One of the causes of swollen feet and legs is the interruption to lymph flow caused by the flooding of the feet and legs with blood and tissue due to gravity when standing. The ceramic beads in Mass & Slim shapewear improve lymph flow to help reduce swelling. Reduces the Appearance of Cellulite The massaging action of the ceramic beads, combined with increased blood and lymph flow, helps to reduce the orange-peel effect on your skin caused by cellulite. All-Day Comfort: In addition to all its other benefits, Mass & Slim’s breathable fabric make it very comfortable to wear all day, every day.

For nurses, compression support delivers two main benefits. One they learn about in nursing school, the other they learn about after trying to find ways to relieve the physical stresses of 12-hour shifts. In the classroom, nurses study the benefits of compression hose and socks for patients with conditions like peripheral neuropathy and for post-operative patients. Compression wear promotes circulation and prevents dangerous blood clots. While they learn that first benefit before they even become a nurse, it can take much longer for nurses to realize the benefit they themselves can get from compression wear and products like it, including shapewear. The Mental & Physical Stresses of Nursing If you’ve ever had a ‘rough day at the office’, try doing a 12-hour shift as a nurse. In addition to the human issues and emotional strains and stresses, the bulk of a nursing shift is spent on your feet, standing, walking, lifting, bending and sometimes running to meet an emergency. It results in nurses often spending their shifts battling discomfort and pain in their leg and abdominal muscles and joints. How Shapewear can Help With an inherent understanding of how compression wear can relieve many of their patients’ symptoms, nurses can also appreciate the benefits of shapewear to relieve their aches and pains. Improved Blood & Lymph Circulation Shapewear, like Mass & Slim leggings, are infused with hundreds of ceramic beads. The beads deliver a massaging effect as you move to boost blood and lymph circulation and help minimize soreness and swelling throughout the day. All-Day Comfort Made of a lightweight, breathable fabric, Mass & Slim leggings can be worn comfortably under your scrubs. Support & Shape Working like compression wear, Mass & Slim leggings offer support for muscles and joints in your abdomen, upper legs and ankles. And they deliver the added benefit of creating a flattering shape from the moment you put them on, in addition to helping reduce the appearance of cellulite. See for yourself. Many nurses have already discovered how Mass & Slim shapewear can help them get through a shift in more comfort. Please visit The Black Purple website to learn more.

Giving birth and motherhood is perhaps the most incredible of all human experiences. But it would be that much better if only you could relieve the swelling and pain, feel more comfortable and get back into your pre-pregnancy shape faster and easier. That’s not too much to ask, is it? Fortunately, there are compression wear options to help you. From post-partum girdles to the waist-training corsets sported by Kim Kardashian after she gave birth, there are many garments that offer the support new Moms need around their abdomen and that helps reduce swelling and discomfort.  Moms who’ve tried postpartum compression wear have reported a number of benefits. Abdominal Support Compression wear can support your muscles and tissue and help them return to their normal size faster. Pain Relief Compression wear helps improve your posture and support your back to reduce the back pain. Give You a Mental Boost Compression wear can help put everything back into place and help improve your confidence and self-esteem. Makes You More Comfortable Having everything ‘under control’ gets rid of feeling like your body is all over the place.  Despite all the benefits, postpartum girdles and waist trainers are not without some controversy and concern about using them. Many experts warn of the dangers of wearing them too tightly and the fact that keeping them on for too long might actually make you stomach muscles weaker over time.  If you are interested in using postpartum compression wear to help with your recovery, but are concerned about wearing heavier girdles, Mass & Slim shapewear offers you an option that gives you the best of both worlds. Every Mass & Slim garment offers a gentler level of compression that gives comfortable support and helps to improve circulation, which helps reduce pain and swelling. And they come with the added benefit of instantly covering and improving the shape of your stomach and waist from the moment you put them on.  

 “No one ever died of cellulite and it doesn’t have a direct correlation with any underlying disease.” That quote is from dermatologist Brent Schillinger and it appears in a great article titled “The Truth About Cellulite”. Why do we think the article is so good? It’s one of the most honest and fair assessments of cellulite, and our current fascination with it that we’ve ever read. And it echoes what we’ve been telling you for years. Cellulite isn’t bad for you, almost every woman has it, you can’t get rid of it and there’s a strong movement towards accepting it. That last point is interesting. Yes, it’s healthier to accept cellulite for what it is, which is that’s it’s nothing that anyone should stress over.  But it doesn’t mean that you have to like it. Like a mole in the wrong spot, or too-long toes, you can accept your cellulite, but it doesn’t mean you wouldn’t rather be without it. Put Cellulite to Work for You Unlike your toes, which would require expensive toe-shortening surgery, you can indeed do something about your cellulite. The ‘Truth’ article tells you that, while it’s not a treatment for cellulite, “lifestyle changes can reduce the appearance of cellulite” and “being active and eating healthy can reduce the chances of getting cellulite, or at least help improve the appearance of it.” Great! You really can reduce the appearance of your cellulite. And that’s all you really want to do because we know, like long toes, cellulite isn’t bad or unhealthy, you just want to make it look better.  Except, what if you have a bit of a hard time with that “being active and eating healthy” bit. Let’s face it. If your cellulite has been a concern, you’ve probably tried dieting, jogging and gym memberships, or who knows how many other ‘remedies’, mostly without any long term results.  So, what are you to do? First, don’t give up. Second, use your desire to reduce the appearance of cellulite to help you start to make the healthy lifestyle changes that will be the difference. But we’re not talking about jumping on the latest fad diet or spending more money at a health club.  Instead, take the first small steps to eating healthier foods and slowly increasing your activity levels. When you give yourself more achievable goals, you give yourself more chance for success. So, while you used your cellulite to motivate your efforts before, this time you’ll be more likely to stick with it. If you want to see results sooner, slip on some Mass & Slim shapewear which will immediately add flattering shape to your body. And, as you wear it, it’s massaging action will help reduce the appearance of our cellulite.

This series looks at the weight loss plateau that most people experience. When trying to healthily lose weight as a way to reduce your cellulite, you may reach a plateau in your progress when, even if you continue to use the same methods that were successful so far, the pounds stop coming off. And you might even see some of the weight returning. It’s a very discouraging moment in a weight loss journey and it often forces people to stop trying.  In Part 3 of the series, we started to look at ways to push through the plateau. Today we look at four more… Ways to Push Through the Plateau  1. Be Conscious of Why You’re Eating From ‘automatic’ eating just because its snack time, to unconscious eating, like what you might do after a bad day at work or when you’re watching a tear-jerker movie, eating when you’re not really hungry probably hurts your weight loss more than you think. Every time you reach for something to eat, try to think about if you’re actually hungry and really need to eat. 2. Eat Enough While portion control is important, overdoing it can also make further weight reduction almost impossible. Your body needs enough fuel and nutrition to help it continue to adjust to its new homeostasis. Cutting too many calories when you hit the plateau can make your body fight against your efforts. 3. Change Your Activity Routines Your body adjusts to your new activity levels just like it adjusts to your new diet. If you added a daily walk to your schedule, your body might initially burn off some calories to fuel the new activity. But after a while, that new activity level becomes normal and your body might not need to burn any extra calories to fuel it. But by changing things somewhat, perhaps by trying some stair climbing, you give your body a new challenge to meet. 4. Take a Break Just like continuing to cut calories will not likely get you over the plateau, working out harder can also backfire. Exercise too much and you might trigger your body into demanding more calories for all the extra work. Calories that can actually put on more weight.  No matter how you choose to lose weight to help improve the appearance of your cellulite, it helps to give yourself a quick win. Mass & Slim shapewear helps you look and feel better by adding flattering shape to your body from the moment you put it on. And it helps you lose inches around your waist and thighs as you wear it too.

This series looks at the weight loss plateau that most people experience. When trying to healthily lose weight as a way to reduce your cellulite, you may reach a plateau in your progress when, even while you continue to use the same methods that got you this far, the pounds stop coming off and you might even put back on some of the lost weight. It’s a very discouraging point in a weight loss journey and it often forces people to stop trying. In Part 2 of the series, why discovered why you hit the plateau. In this post, we’ll start to look at ways that you can get through the plateau and stay on the path to lower weight and reduced cellulite. How to Push Through the Plateau The problem with most weight reduction plans, even the best ones, is that they don’t adjust for getting over the plateau. Just like a physical journey, where the first part is as easy as hopping on a plane and getting really far, really fast, that plane can’t drop you off at your final destination. It will get you most of the way, but when it drops you at the airport, your journey stops, until you realize you have to change your mode of transportation to a bus.  Similarly, when you hit your weight loss plateau, which is like landing at the airport and suddenly stopping your journey after getting really far, you need to make adjustments to how you get to your goal to get back on track.  An article that appeared recently on WomensHealthMag.com used interviews with dozens of people who hit the weight loss plateau and broke through it to outline some of the best ways to do so.  Portion Control Adjusting your eating habits to get rid of the sugar-, salt- and fat-laden foods in your diet is a great first step. But just because you’re eating healthier foods doesn’t mean that you can’t still be eating too much food. It’s a mistake to think that because what you’re eating is healthy you can eat more. It’s important to track how much you’re eating, including snacks, to make sure you’re not eating too much. In Part 4 of this series, we’ll look at four more ways to help you get through the weight-loss plateau. In the meantime, if you want to start reducing the appearance of your cellulite right now, while instantly improving your figure the moment you start to wear them, take a look at our Mass & Slim shapewear.

In Part 1 of this series we discovered that people who try to reduce their cellulite by healthily losing weight often reach a plateau in their progress. The plateau happens when, while still using the same healthy changes to diet and increases in activity that produced initial results, the pounds stop coming off. It’s a point that can prove so frustrating that many people give up hope and abandon their efforts. But you don’t have to.  Why You Hit the Plateau The general direction of many good weight management programs is to eat less, eat healthier foods and increase your activity levels. If your do all of these properly and the weight usually starts coming off fairly quickly. But, while you feel you’ve finally found the way to healthily lower your weight, your body has other ideas. Luckily for us all, our bodies’ systems have one main focus: keeping us alive. One of the basic ways that your body uses to gauge that everything’s okay is to maintain a state of ‘homeostasis’, which basically means keeping everything stable. In other words, if things are unstable in your body it could mean a threat to your health, so your body does what it can to get back to that steady stability to reassure itself that everything’s okay. When you start losing weight, even healthily, your body can work against you because it sees the weight loss as a threat to its homeostasis. But, because you’re eating a healthy, balanced diet, you give it the nutrition it needs to make the transition.  Unfortunately, your body then starts thinking that your new routine is the new homeostasis. So, after you manage to lose those first pounds, your body says, “cool, this new weight, diet and activity level is now normal, so let’s stop here”.  And you hit the weight loss plateau. In Part 3 of this series, we’ll start to look at ways of getting through the plateau.  In the meantime, if you want to start reducing the appearance of your cellulite right now, while instantly improving your figure the moment you start to wear them, take a look at our Mass & Slim shapewear.

Once you get past the idea that cellulite can be ‘banished’ by brushing or using a cream, you’ve taken the first step toward truly reducing the appearance of your cellulite. But it’s the first step in a journey and, like every journey, there will be twists and turns that can make it difficult at times and make you want to quit. Reducing your weight is a great way to reduce your cellulite because you get rid of some of the fat that produces cellulite’s orange peel effect on your skin. But there’s one twist in the weight loss journey that forces many people to abandon it. The Plateau Phase of Weight Loss Talk to most people who have made a serious effort to lower their weight and they’ll tell you that, after initial success, they reached a point where the weight stopped coming off, even though they kept doing the same things that helped them shed the pounds in the first place. It usually happens a few months into their journey, one that was so far relatively easy, always headed in the right direction, with the weight loss that comes from healthy changes in diet and activity. One day the weigh scale seems to stop in its tracks, no longer heading towards the goal weight. Even after double-checking all the things that have worked so well so far, the scale refuses to budge. In some cases, it back tracks.  It’s the weight loss plateau. It’s a very common hurdle on the road to a healthier weight and it’s one that can prove to be so stubborn, so frustrating and so deflating that many people just give up. They feel like a lower weight, and the cellulite reduction that goes with it, are just not meant to be. Perhaps most frustrating of all is the fact that the plateau often happens when you’re relatively close to your goal weight. In other words, you lose most of what you want to lose, but, no matter what you do, you just can’t seem to lose the rest. In Part 2 of this series we’ll take a look at the reasons why you hit the plateau. In the meantime, if you want to start reducing the appearance of your cellulite right now, while instantly improving your figure the moment you put them on, take a look at our Mass & Slim shapewear.

For many, the New Year might not be such a ‘Happy’ time. As we set off into 2018, it can be a time for reflection on the past year and what you did or, more importantly for this post, what you didn’t do. Even if like most people you don’t set any formal resolutions, the New Year still brings with it the sense of a fresh start and the hope of self-improvement. But chances are you’ll find yourself at the end of 2018 lamenting about what you didn’t do, instead of what you managed to accomplish.  Whether it’s human nature, or our insecurities, it seems like we are very quick to be self-critical while being very stingy in appreciation for ourselves. Imagine if You Spoke to Others the Way You Speak to Yourself “You didn’t get ANYTHING done this year!” “Your job sucks and you don’t have the guts to do anything about it!” “You’re fat!” You would never say things like that to anyone. But it seems pretty easy to say them to yourself. If you can imagine how bad someone would feel if you spoke to them that way, then you shouldn’t wonder why you might not be feeling too ‘Happy’ in the New Year. Your inner voice might be making you feel as bad as anyone would if someone spoke to them that way. Your One Resolution for 2018 There’s one resolution you can make that will probably help you make lots of other changes and improvements in your life. Be kinder to yourself.  If you can start silencing your inner critic, and give yourself credit when it’s due, you’ll probably find you’re in better shape than you think.  It’s not always easy to turn off your inner ‘critic’. But you can start to turn on your inner ‘booster’. Just by taking a minute at the end of each day to think of at least one thing that you did well, or tried for the first time, or accomplished, no matter how small it might seem, you’ll begin to see a transformation. If once a day is too much, try once a week.  The idea is to be the kind of boss to yourself that you would love to have at work. One who encourages and appreciates a good effort, and one who guides you when you stray off course. You can start right now by not shaming yourself about your body. Instead, do everything you can to feel better about what you have and who you are. Remember, it’s not how you look, but how you feel about how you look. Mass & Slim shapewear helps you feel better by adding flattering shape from the moment you put it on.

There are two major reasons why people skip breakfast: they don’t have time and/or they want to lose weight. It’s difficult to argue that skipping what many consider the most important meal of the day won’t save you time. Even if you prepare something to eat the night before, you still have to take time to eat it.  But it’s easy to show you many reasons why skipping breakfast will probably not help you lose weight and can, in fact, make you gain weight. If you’re in a constant struggle against the appearance of cellulite, that weight gain can make your struggle even tougher. Here are just a few ways that not eating breakfast can lead to weight gain and increase the appearance of your cellulite. 1. It Can Make You Eat More Later When you skip breakfast, your appetite kicks into overdrive, which can force you to overeat later on. 2. It Can Make Your Body Store Fat Your body is an amazing organism. It can detect even the slightest threats to your health and wellbeing and immediately setoff powerful defense mechanisms to safeguard against them. When it senses an interruption to its energy supply, like when you skip breakfast, it starts storing fat to preserve energy. 3. It Can Slow Your Metabolism Your metabolic rate is the rate at which your body burns food energy. A higher rate burns more energy, which means less of that energy gets stored as fat. Again, when you go without breakfast, your body sees it as a sign of a potentially bigger problem. So it slows down the rate of energy burn to make the energy you have last longer. There’s no reason to be ashamed of your cellulite, but there’s no reason to make it more noticeable either. There’s every reason to feel good about how you look and Mass & Slim shapewear helps you do just that from the moment you put it on.   

It’s not unhealthy. The vast majority of women have it. There’s nothing you can do to get ‘rid’ of it. So why does it make you feel so badly? In other words, why does something about your physical body that is perfectly normal cause you to have such a negative emotional reaction? Forgive us, but we’re not going to actually answer that last question. There’s not enough space to do so properly in a single blog post. But we will try to help you better deal with your reaction to cellulite.  Of course, the simple answer to the question is that cellulite’s orange-peel effect on the skin is considered unattractive and we all want to look our best. But, considering there’s absolutely nothing wrong with cellulite, our reaction to it is purely emotional. In other words, cellulite doesn’t make us feel physically bad, but it triggers bad feelings inside us. ‘Reduce’ Your Reaction to Cellulite This might sound like a suggested New Year’s resolution, and maybe it is. In 2018, instead of worrying about how something that’s very normal makes you look, try to change your feelings about cellulite and how you look. Sure, that may be easier said than done, but the doing isn’t as difficult as you think. By refocusing some of your activities on your physical and emotional wellbeing, you’ll take the focus off your cellulite, and that just might help you feel better about how you look. Try to Eat a More Balanced Diet No, we’re not telling you to eat less or lose weight. But simply by balancing your diet with the proper proportion of nutrition, it will help you improve your physical health and mental outlook – and that’ll probably help you look better too. Try to Add More Activity to Your Day No, we’re not telling to join a gym and workout five times a week. But simply by walking up stairs instead of an escalator, or parking away from the entrance to the mall, or using a standing desk at work, it can start getting you into the habit of being generally more active. Try Shapewear No, we’re not telling you to squeeze into something uncomfortable. But Mass & Slim shapewear helps to improve your figure from the moment you put it on; and that helps to make you instantly feel better about yourself. Its anti-cellulite massaging action as you go about your day not only helps to improve the appearance of cellulite, but it’s been scientifically proven to reduce inches around your hips and thighs. So now you can make 2018 the year that you start feeling better about your cellulite and how you look!

Every year it gets more and more difficult to keep up your reputation for giving gifts that are different, useful and really appreciated by the recipient.  One of the tricks you’ve probably used in the past is to think about a person’s hobby or interests and find a unique gift based on those. But there’s one interest that that lots of your family and friends might have, but you probably never used it to inspire your gifts. Whether it’s trying to lose weight, eat balanced diet, or get in shape, we all know people who are trying to live a healthier lifestyle. But losing weight or eating healthier foods is often something we do alone. We don’t want it to be front-page news if we aren’t able to stick with it.  But changing your diet and living a more active lifestyle aren’t easy adjustments. The people on your list who are making the effort might really appreciate the support of a thoughtful gift that can help them reach their goals. Here are just a few ideas for unique, useful gifts for the people on your list who are trying to be healthier. 1. Kitchen Tools Yes, this sounds terribly boring, but, no, we’re not talking about spatulas, pots and pans. If you look around, you can find some really cool and unique kitchen gadgets for healthier eating. 2. Meal Delivery Services The kitchen tools help people make their own meals, which is a great way to avoid prepared and processed foods. But if there’s someone on your list that you know will never go into the kitchen, why not get them a healthy-meal delivery plan? 3. Women’s Shapewear We eat better and get more active not just because we want to be healthier. We want to look better too. Anti-cellulite, slimming shapewear helps the person on your list do both.  First, as soon as she puts it on, it instantly improves the wearer’s figure. Second, it’s Tourmaline® ceramic beads gently massage the wearer’s skin as she goes through her day and/or workout. The blood and lymph flow created by the massaging action is clinically proven to reduce hip and thigh circumference, while also reducing the appearance of cellulite. What better gift can you give anyone other than a gift that helps them be healthier. And look great too!?