Aspiring Spirit

Almost all women generally are afflicted by the word: cellulite. Becoming obsessed with cellulite appears to be the newest national pastime. Hold on just a second! Don’t you deserve to arm yourself with the right information before starting the war on unsightly fat?

I’m guessing you are not an infant, or in your teens, you may be in that “lucky” segment of the statistical findings that indeed, knows the hate to speak aloud term, cellulite, but are yet to show any interest in what it does. And then there are those of us, who live in the real world. The majority of women who have that recognized on sight uneven, dimpled, don’t shoot me for using the term: ‘cottage cheese’ like skin who are hoping to find an answer for the targeted cellulite we want to either improve or make less visible.

Mind you, as I see it, it’s not fair. Of course, you have not ever just decided to yourself that you wanted three wishes: cellulite, cellulite, and if not too much trouble, more cellulite, right? But reality is very real, indeed. You’ve been convinced that your hips, stomach, back, legs, quads, plus the epidermis that surrounds each, that aren’t normally prone to cellulite, but as you already know, have indeed caused you to be more self conscience and enough is enough, you want to take the necessary actions to get back in control.

You might be as as skinny as a number two pencil, babble on to anybody who’ll listen about how much you can eat with not a single reason to count calories, without adding a single, discouraging pound to be gained as a result. Even you aren’t out of the reach of cellulite. You may exercise, watch your health, and only eat foods that a ‘certified’ health nut would approve of, and yet cellulite does not seem to care, and it is almost inevitable it will be showing its ugly head like those pesky weeds in your garden. Not welcome, of course. How to get rid of cellulite is a decades old issue that hundreds of thousands of people will wisely choose their words, fight tooth and nail just to tempt you of the ‘cure’ in a box, bottle or toothpaste like tube that will solve cellulite difficulties as if you had a magical wand - poof.

That definitely does upset me.

The truth of the matter is that, the fat hiding under our skin, cellulite, at least how we think of it, those fatty areas found on your body that wouldn’t be missed if they vanished, not many of the ‘remedies’ in stores and online are worth the real results, hidden in the fine print.

There are thousands of cellulite minimizing products being promoted currently. And those who tell you to avoid one, only to try another, often have a direct affiliation with your potential sale. That kind of information that is looking out for you.

If you can think of it, odds are it’s been tried: anti-cellulite creams , the supposed best exercise for cellulite, the latest cellulite treatment, putting their ‘cellulite therapy” in a spa - implying an endorsement, wear anti cellulite shirts, cellulite removal via a dermatologist prescribed routine that keeps you in his or her office for life, cellulite home remedies certain to have you fiddle around with oils, rubs, and baths, has one objective in mind: to make you buy into what they’re selling.

Or maybe you have taken the hook, line and sinker for that so inspiring testimonial, printed blurb from a health and diet magazine, look at me then and look at me now photograph as proof that what they not so ironically are pushing really works - And guess what? - it sheds: fatty deposits, cellulite, cottage cheese, or whatever you want to call it, or so they keep telling you and me.

Do not despair. Maybe I can shed the light on what you are reading in the mainstream media, and squash the cellulite myths and the totally outrageous, before this cellulite conundrum gets too big for it’s own britches - oh, the irony. Save yourself the unnecessary stress being obsessed with cellulite.

Being someone who once didn’t care about cellulite reduction, she ate what she wanted, but stayed healthy diets with nutritional foods, diet and a demanding workout routine that includes: jogging, weights and swimming. But, that was then, she’s concerned about now. Paula found a bit of cellulite, began to research the facts and lies about fat, cellulite and dieting with immense focus, obsessed with cellulite, some have said. What was uncovered was not just disappointing, but shocking considering the advances in the health industry. She is currently on a course, a mission tired of the cellulite reduction treatments offline and on in conventional media and online.

- Paula Penn