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Your cellulite isn’t physically painful. It doesn’t make it difficult to do anything in your day-to-day life. You don’t have to take any cellulite medication before bed. In fact, there’s nothing wrong with cellulite. It’s a normal thing that over 90% of women and many men have. So it doesn’t affect your life, right? Right? How Does Cellulite Affect Your Life? It’s different for everyone. On one extreme, you might never look at yourself in the mirror or never wear anything that exposes a single dimple on your thigh. But even those who have embraced the body-positive movement and choose to be more accepting of their cellulite, still face it everyday. They might be more comfortable with it, but it still comes up in often, either in conversation, or when they say a photo from a particularly bad angle. And, truth be told, many have to constantly remind themselves that they really are ‘comfortable’ with their cellulite. You Treat Your Cellulite Differently Than Any Other Part of Your Body So why does something that is so harmless cause us so much harm? For many reasons, we let cellulite rule our lives even while there’s no real reason that it should. In addition to feeling that it is unattractive, it can make us feel ‘fat’, unhealthy or even sloppy. And none of those are even remotely pleasant. But the feelings that cellulite conjure in us go beyond those of other similar physical traits. If you have what you feel is a less-than-attractive birthmark, maybe you cover it up when you can, but not always. But you know the birthmark isn’t going away anytime soon, so you live with it. The same is true about any other physical part of us that we aren't comfortable with. You’re not going to get rid of your chubby toes, are you? So Why Do You Try to Get Rid of Cellulite? While you never see an online article titled “12 Ways to Banish Your Chubby Toes”, it feels like you can't go online without finding countless articles like “How to Get Rid of Cellulite Fast”. But, the problem is, like your toes, you can’t get rid of cellulite, fast or slow. The One Thing You Must Do to be More at Ease With Your Cellulite You probably feel that the perfect solution to your cellulite would be to get rid of it. But you can’t get rid of it. And that’s the clue to how to stop letting cellulite rule your life. Their perfect solution is impossible. So stop expecting perfection. Instead, do everything you can to live a healthier lifestyle, eat a more balanced diet and get as active as you can. All of these have the potential to reduce the appearance of your cellulite. In other words, try to stop fighting your cellulite, fretting over it and letting it get you down. Put it to work as a motivator to help you live more healthily. If you want to do something else to help reduce your cellulite, try anti-cellulite Mass & Slim shapewear. They add flattering shape to your body the moment you put them on, and their massaging action helps reduce cellulite and inches off your body.

Ahhh breakfast! Beautiful bright sunshine through the window. Time to slice some bananas and strawberries for your corn flakes. Linger over a cup up steaming java. Read the news. Check your Facebook updates. Ha ha. Yeah right! The reality of breakfast is a little different for most people. It might go something like this: grab a piece of toast, late for work, no time for butter, maybe get a coffee later. Breakfast done. But, unfortunately, the reality of a hurried or non-existent breakfast can make your cellulite appear worse. How a Bad Breakfast can be Bad for Your Cellulite Breakfast gets its name for a good reason. As your first big meal since dinner last night, probably over 12 hours ago, you are literally ‘breaking’ a mini ‘fast’. That makes breakfast perhaps your most crucial meal of the day. It has a significant effect on the eating you do for the rest of the day. If you have a poor breakfast , or skip it altogether, your body is really starved. And your body hates to be starved. It thinks that there’s something wrong. It’s not getting the energy it needs. It feels threatened. Its natural instincts, developed throughout evolution, tells it to go into emergency mode if anything interrupts its energy supply. Your body sees that interruption as a threat to its very existence. So it kicks into survival mode. It conserves the energy it has by slowing down your metabolism. It jump-starts powerful hunger pangs to make you eat.  That makes it more likely to overeat later in the day. And more likely to eat poorly because you just want to grab something quick, like a sugar-packed muffin, because you’re so hungry. Overeating puts your body into another bit of a tailspin. You load up on energy your body can’t use. You get the afternoon crash, and all the unused food energy gets stored as fat. And that can make you cellulite look worse. How a Good Breakfast can be Good for Your Cellulite A healthy breakfast not only avoids the hunger pangs. It fuels your body to start your day, which leaves your body ticking along nicely. It also means you’re less likely to overeat later on. And more likely to avoid unhealthy snacks to quell the pangs. It all tends to make your afternoon crash less like a crash. You don’t end up with as much or any extra energy your body can’t use, so it doesn’t store any extra fat. And your cellulite doesn’t look any worse. So eat a healthy breakfast please. And if you want to see a noticeable improvement in the appearance of your cellulite, start wearing anti-cellulite Mass & Slim shapewear today.

It’s probably been with you since you’ve been an adult. It brings you down everytime you look the mirror. It makes you feel bad. So why should you stop trying to reduce cellulite? After all, even a reduction would make you feel better. You would be more likely to wear certain clothes. And you might feel better about yourself. You Should Stop Trying to Reduce Cellulite to Help You Reduce Cellulite So how's your cellulite reduction plan working so far? Have you seen noticeably less cellulite? Are you wearing that swimsuit you’ve had tucked away in the closet? The answers to these questions are why you should stop trying to reduce cellulite to help you reduce cellulite. The answers probably aren't very good. Your cellulite-reduction plan probably isn’t going very well. You haven’t seen any results. And the swimsuit is still tucked away. It’s the Way You’re Trying to Reduce Cellulite That’s the Problem There’s a reason nothing you’ve tried hasn’t worked. It’s because so much of it is doomed to failure almost from before you begin. Here’s why: It’s Based on Unreasonable Numbers One way to reduce cellulite is to lose weight. But popular weight loss diets promote unrealistic numbers and expectations to help them sell. For example, it’s easy to say all you have to do to lose weight is burn more calories than you eat. But that’s not easy to do in practice. But still you’re encouraged to reduce your calorie intake to 1800, 1400 or 1200 calories a day, and to exercise at a level that will make you lose 5 pounds a week. What’s the problem with all that? Aside from the fact that it simply doesn’t work, it sets you up for failure. When you have a ‘bad’ day and eat just a few mouthfuls more than your calorie restrictions allow, or you only lose 4.5 pounds one week, you feel like a failure. Imagine that, you lost 4.5 pounds and feel like you failed! Other numbers that set you up for failure include having to fit into a size 8 dress, or having a BMI of less than 25, or not even trying anymore because you’re over 50. Want to Reduce Cellulite? Forget the Numbers Forget the numbers or at least try some other numbers. Numbers that are focused on better health rather than trying to reach an unreasonable goal. One Half - Maybe it’s not a number, but it’s the portion of your plate that should be covered in vegetables and fruit at meal times. One quarter of your plate should be proteins, like chicken, fish or beans. And the remaining quarter plate should be whole grains, like rice or quinoa. 7 to 8 - That how many hours of sleep you need each night. In addition to bad moods, poor judgement and higher accident risk, poor sleep contributes to weight gain. 150 - You should get two and a half hours (150 minutes) of moderate to vigorous physical activity every week. 25 to 35 Grams - Lack of fibre in your diet means you absorb food energy faster than you should. When you do, and you don’t burn off that energy, it gets stored as fat. And that can make your cellulite look worse. You should eat 25 to 35 grams of fibre per day. Those numbers are easier to reach. And if you don’t, even getting part way there is still good and should never be considered a failure. Especially if you keep trying. As for your cellulite, if you would like to see immediate improvement, start wearing  anti-cellulite Mass & Slim shapewear today. It instantly adds in flatter shape to your body and thousands of tiny beads massage your skin as you wear it to help improve circulation and remove inches in waist and thigh circumference.

Imagine that the thing that embarrasses you so much, forces you to avoid certain outfits and makes you cringe when you see it in photos actually had the opposite effect. What if your cellulite was considered attractive? Think of how your life might change. You wouldn’t hesitate to put on shorts or a swimsuit on a hot day. You’d be happy to see your beautiful self in the mirror and you’d always look forward to going to yoga class.Considering that about 90% of women and many men have cellulite, including those who are fit and at their proper body weight, it’s clear that cellulite shouldn’t really be a concern. While it might appear worse if you’re overweight, by itself, it’s not a sign of a disease, abnormality or any other health issue. What’s the Real Problem with Cellulite? If there is one thing that might cause real concern about cellulite, it is how something so relatively harmless can make us feel so bad about ourselves. And that’s the real problem with cellulite. In fact, it might be the only problem.Cellulite isn’t the real issue, how it makes you feel is. How to Tackle the Real Problem with Cellulite If how it makes you feel is the only way that cellulite affects you, then why not take steps to make yourself feel better about it?That might sound way easier said than done, but here are just a few ways to help you do just that. 1. Look for Body-Positive Media Images If there is one thing that reinforces the negative stereotype about cellulite, it is the endless bombardment of impossibly slim and smooth-skinned media images of people we see every day.Fortunately, the Body-Positive movement continues to reverse the trend by encouraging us to accept our bodies just the way they are. The result is a refreshing wave of more realistic body types in places like TV commercials and social media. Especially on Instagram, many plus-sized models and even fitness influencers are revealing their real, unphotoshopped selves for the world to see. By doing so, they make cellulite more acceptable and, perhaps best of all, more attractive. 2. Do What You Can Getting a little more exercise, eating a healthier diet and trying to slowly change your own perceptions are just a few of the things you can do to stop cellulite’s effect on you. It doesn't mean you have to make huge changes all of a sudden. In fact, it’s often better to do the opposite. Simply do what you can, make changes you’re comfortable with, one step at a time. 3. Try Shapewear If cellulite makes you feel bad in an instant, how would you feel if you could be instantly more shapely? Comfortable shapewear can make you feel better and more confident about yourself simply by wearing it. Cellulite-fighting Mass & Slim shapewear is infused with thousands of tiny ceramic beads that massage your skin as you wear it. Not only does Mass & Slim help you look better, but it helps reduce the appearance of your cellulite as long as you have it on. And that can make you feel really great about yourself!

The never-ending quest for ways to reduce your cellulite seems to often lead down the road of weight loss. The idea is simple. Cellulite’s lumpy, dimpled appearance is caused by deposits of fat cells under the surface of your skin pushing between the skin’s connective tissue. As the fat cells build up, they tend to push out against the skin, while the connective tissue holds your skin back.So if you lose fat through a weight loss program, there will be less of it to push your skin out, which should reduce your cellulite. Weight Loss Diets Don’t Usually Work So They Don’t Reduce Cellulite. Simply dieting, especially using fad weight loss diets, can produce a short-term reduction in weight, but keeping it off is a different story. Nearly 65% of fad dieters regain their pre-diet weight within three years of the initial weight loss. So, unless you want to be constantly starving yourself, fad diets don’t work - for weight loss or cellulite reduction. A Diet of Quality Foods Works A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association offers hope for sustained weight loss and cellulite reduction.The study’s participants went on a diet that didn’t slash the number of calories they ate each day. Instead, their diet cut back on added sugars, refined grains, and processed foods. In place of the foods they cut out, they ate more vegetables and whole foods. Here’s the Bonus: They did not count calories. In other words, they generally ate until they were satisfied. The Results: After one year on their diet of quality, nutritious foods, study participants lost and an average of about 12.5 lbs. It might not sound like a lot, but that’s about 9% of the average weight of a 40-year-old Canadian woman.Even better, considering that fat accounts for only part of your body weight, and that most of your weight loss will be in fat, 12.5 lbs is an even higher percentage of your total body fat. If you would like to start making an immediate impact on your cellulite, start eating a healthy, balanced diet, and use anti-cellulite Mass & Slim shapewear. They add flattering shape to your body the moment you put them on, and their massaging action helps reduce cellulite and inches off your body.

Considering the movement towards more acceptance of cellulite, we were hoping we wouldn’t have to bust any more cellulite headlines. Media stories with headlines designed to get you to click on them, rather than to actually offer any real fact or truth, continue to be a major problem.Why are misleading cellulite headlines a problem? Because they continue the myths surrounding cellulite, including that it’s a health problem and that it can be ‘cured’. By itself, cellulite is not a sign of any health issues. So it can’t be cured because there’s nothing to ‘cure’. The idea of ‘curing’ bumpy skin is as ridiculous as ‘curing’ smooth skin. Let Bust Some More Cellulite Headlines!! 1. 6 Exercises to Help You Get Rid of Cellulite in 2 Weeks If you’ve read any of our other cellulite headline-busting posts, you can probably understand the issues we have with this headline. First, there’s no ‘getting rid’ of cellulite. Second, it’s not even recommended that you lose more than a couple pounds in that time. In other words, this headline promises something that’s impossible, and it promises that it will happen in an impossible amount of time.On the plus side, the exercises listed are worthwhile. 2. 7 Best Exercises to Get Rid of Cellulite on Buttocks and Thighs Fast Here’s the ‘get rid’ of thing again. But this time it’s coupled with yet another impossibility. While exercise can reduce the appearance of cellulite, you can’t target an area of your body. Sure the exercises listed are good ones, and they might help you improve your muscle tone and reduce your weight. But they will be doing that all over your body.Even worse than the headline, further down in the article, there is a graphic titled: How to Get Rid of Cellulite on Buttocks, Legs and Thighs Exercises in 30 Days. 3. The Four Grades of Cellulite and How You Can Fight Back Clever. Very clever. Many websites know that the ‘get rid of cellulite’ angle is wearing thin because most of us know better. So they write headlines to make something sound more complex and scientific, even when it isn’t either one. Cellulite is cellulite. Yes, some cellulite appears worse than others, but it has never been officially categorized by ‘grade’. Giving is such a classification also makes cellulite sound like it’s a problem. Cancer tumors have grades. Cellulite does not. If there’s one sure thing you can do to help your cellulite look better today, it is to try on one of our line of anti-cellulite Mass & Slim shapewear. Each one instantly adds flattering shape to your body and delivers a cellulite-reducing massaging action for as long as you wear it.

A good therapeutic massage not only makes you feel great and can help you deal with a number of physical and mental ailments, but there are also benefits of massage therapy for reducing cellulite. It makes perfect sense when you think about it. Cellulite appears on your skin. Massage treatments manipulate your skin and the underlying soft and muscle tissue. So it's no surprise that something that appears on your skin can be reduced by something that treats your skin But it’s not always enough just to know that something can help. The more you know about how massage therapy can work to diminish your cellulite, the more likely you are to use it and enjoy its many other benefits. 1. Massage Improves Blood Circulation Your skin is the largest organ in your body. But, unlike almost every organ, which are mostly located in your abdomen, close to your heart, your skin is at the very ‘end of the road’ of your circulatory system. So improving blood flow at and under your skin can really make a difference. Blood brings oxygen that promotes healing and growth, and nutrients, like collagen and elastin, that strengthen the skin and make it more elastic. All of which makes it less susceptible to the puckering of cellulite 2. Improved Lymph Circulation If blood brings nutrients to help strengthen your skin, your lymph fluids help to take away bacteria, toxins and other waste materials that are not good for your skin. Without good lymphatic drainage, you may be prone to more acne, signs of aging and thinner skin. so you can imagine how thinner skin will make your cellulite look. Infused with hundreds of tiny ceramic beads, anti-cellulite Mass & Slim shapewear massages 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.

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.

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

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.  

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.