Are diet and and exercise enough for cellulite reduction?

Cellulite: diet and exercise are essential but often not enough

• Are diet and exercise all you need to beat cellulite?

• Cellulite reduction: diet and exercise is absolutely essential

• Cellulite reduction: diet and exercise is just not enough in most cases

• Mild/severe cellulite vs exercise and diet

• Treatments and creams vs cellulite

• The myth of “For cellulite removal, all you need is diet and exercise”

• Have a skin tightening/cellulite treatment in London with the experts

Are diet and exercise all you need to beat cellulite?

• For cellulite prevention, yes, diet and exercise are essential and enough

• For cellulite reduction, healthy nutrition and exercise are also essential but usually not enough, especially if you want results within weeks and months, instead of months and years

• For cellulite reduction, treatments, creams and other lifestyle changes are needed, always in addition to healthy eating and exercise

Full analysis follows below.

Cellulite reduction with nutrition and exercise: absolutely essential

To get rid of cellulite all you need is diet and exercise, right?

Wrong - in most cases at least.

Healthy nutrition and exercise are indeed absolutely essential for cellulite PREVENTION, as inactivity and unhealthy diet/nutrition are major causes of cellulite.

Furthermore, healthy nutrition and exercise are also 100% essential for cellulite REDUCTION, as you cannot improve something without stopping the habits that originally led to its creation and adopting new, better habits.

So, yes, diet and exercise are important for both cellulite prevention and reduction.

Cellulite reduction with nutrition and exercise: in most cases just not enough

However, in most cases, nutrition and exercise work quite slowly.

Plus quite often they simply do not solve the problem of existing cellulite more than 10-20%, unless you spend your day at the gym and become anorexic, which are not great options, obviously.

This is because some tissue changes in the hypodermis (the skin layer where cellulite is found) just cannot be effectively reversed solely with diet and exercise. They can’t.

For example, exercise cannot have a topical impact on cellulite - this is physiologically impossible, no matter what YouTube says.

And, as we all know, diet does not have a localised impact on cellulite either. In fact, stubborn cellulite is the last to go with diet.

It just doesn’t work that way.

Exercise and diet vs mild/severe cellulite

So exercise and diet usually work well on their own when cellulite is very limited or very recent. And they do not work well on their own when cellulite is extensive or if it has been there for years and decades.

For these cases you need to take more measures, ALWAYS IN ADDITION TO HEALTHY EATING AND EXERCISE.

Examples include:

• Stopping other unhealthy habits, such as excessive alcohol consumption or smoking/vaping, if applicable

• Stopping the contraceptive pill - a major cause of cellulite (discuss with your GP first)

• Reducing your exposure to xenoestrogens, such as BPA in cans, tins and food packaging lining and microplastics

• Having contrast showers on your thighs / buttocks

• Having strong, cellulite-specific massages

• Applying a real cellulite cream, i.e. a cream with multiple, high-purity, high-concentration actives, well researched for the their action against multiple aspects of cellulite

• Having a course of deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency and deep acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation, the strongest SAFE anti-cellulite technologies available today

Treatments and creams vs cellulite

Again, treatments or creams, however great some are, will not be enough or sustainable long-term on their own:

• If we keep making the dietary mistakes that led to the creation of cellulite in the past

• If we keep inactive and expect to keep cellulite (and skin looseness) at bay just with treatments/creams or, for example, contrast showers / massages

It also doesn’t work that way.

The myth of “For cellulite removal, all you need is diet and exercise”

So, just diet and exercise, however great they are, they do not work amazingly well for cellulite reduction is most cases - except in recent or mild cellulite or for prevention.

Whoever advises otherwise are simply ignorant of the facts on the ground: they have either never treated cellulite and/or they haven’t studied the problem of cellulite in any detail at all.

It is really intellectually lazy to make the ignorant statement: “Cellulite is just fat, lose weight and get over it”.

The solution to cellulite removal is a COMBINATION of diet and exercise PLUS treatments, creams and other measures, as outlined above.

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