Cellulite is normal, yes, but that doesn’t mean we have to like it.
Cellulite is natural. It can affect around 80 to 90% of all females at some point in their lives after they reach puberty. Some believe the ludicrous notion that cellulite doesn’t exist or that it is just fat.
When you consider that every year there seems to be a new and, inevitably, expensive treatment designed to target and eliminate cellulite, it would seem that it is a very real thing.
The trouble is most topical lotions and creams you are supposed to massage into the affected parts of your booty and thighs don’t do that much to get rid of our unwelcome cellulite.
Even if you are not interested in having the most toned and smoothest legs around, it is important to note that cellulite is a sign, a warning sign from your body that you need to do something different.
It tells you that there is trouble afoot beneath the surface of your skin and to get rid of cellulite, you need to take drastic action.
How to get rid of Cellulite
So here are some alternative and inexpensive ways to minimise cellulite, instead of spending money on expensive creams and medical surgeries.
1. Intermittent Fasting
If you really want to minimise cellulite in the long run, you need to start by putting your body through detoxification. This is to help you get rid of all the waste you are carrying around in your body as part of eating a diet consisting of nutritionally dense food.
By far, the easiest way to achieve this detoxification is by practicing what is known as intermittent fasting.
It is one of the most efficient and easiest ways to give your body the deep cleansing it needs. There is striking evidence to support that it is beneficial for improving your health in general too.
There are many different types of intermittent fasting. The name sounds a lot scarier than the process is in practice, though.
Best Form of Intermittent Fasting
The best way to use intermittent fasting to control your diet, lose weight, and reduce cellulite involves a form of time-restricted eating whereby you set a time window in which you allow yourself to eat. This is normally for around eight hours. The rest of the 24 hours you have left are then used as your fasting period.
Although you can’t eat food, but you are allowed to drink plenty of water and can even have black coffee, black tea, and herbal teas. This is far easier than the method described above as it is quick and effective at cleansing your body but does it more gently.
How does it work?
Rather than following the tradition of eating three square meals a day, you can start eating at 11 or noon/afternoon and then finish up at 7 or 8 at night. Once you begin fasting, your body works through its glycogen stores with a process that takes roughly 8 hours to finish.
This helps to shift your metabolism from one that involves burning sugar to one that involves burning fat. This is not anything new, as it is been known for a long time that intermittent calorie restriction, i.e. fasting in the animal world can extend a creature’s lifespan.
During intermittent fasting the 16/8 method a process called autophagy is switched on. This is the system by which our body cleans out damaged cells and toxins and will help to regenerate newer, healthier cells.
Autophagy is like cleaning out the old brickwork, that’s damp and decaying.
When we fast we stimulate the cleaning out of the old cells quicker but also stimulate Human Growth Hormone, which instructs our bodies to start producing brand new cells for the body. It’s a renovation project on our bodies.
When you trigger autophagy, you naturally start to ’detox’.
In animals, as studies are still very scarce on the real benefits of intermittent fasting with humans, fasting has been shown to help improve the functionality of the pancreas, reduce body weight, improve sensitivity to insulin, fight cardiovascular disease, prevent diabetes and improve the efficiency of the metabolic system.
2. Eliminate Sugar and Carbs
Cellulite is made worse by foods that are full of sugar and grain-based carbs, along with those full of artificial flavorings, sweeteners, and colorings. As they play a part in perpetuating deposits of cellulite, it becomes increasingly difficult to get rid of them.
That is why intermittent fasting can help.
3. Switch to Good Fats from Glucose
One of the keys to removing cellulite is making the necessary changes to your metabolism to burn fat for energy rather than sugar.
The interesting thing is that the more you investigate intermittent fasting; you realize that it has been used for many more years, this is not just a fad, it’s a lifestyle. It was used in the older civilizations of man when people ate when there was food and they were hungry, the caveman didn’t overeat.
Final Thoughts
So, does it really work?
The good news is that based on the findings of many studies into the effects intermittent fasting and a low-carb/sugar diet can have on cellulite is that it does work.
It is much better and healthier, not just on the waistband, your hips, and bottom but also your purse and bank account than topical creams and lotions.
