Professional Cosmetic Hair Removal Treatments

• Laser Hair Removal - a trained professional uses a laser beam or light pulses to destroy the hair bulb, which results in long-lasting hair removal. This treatment can be performed on most parts of the body, although it can be expensive and painful. Multiple sessions are often required for best results.
• Electrolysis – these hair removal treatments completely destroy the hair follicle and may use chemicals (galvanic electrolysis) or heat (thermolytic electrolysis). You should only work with a highly trained hair removal technician for electrolysis.
• Medication - a doctor can prescribe oral medications or topical creams to prevent or slow hair growth. For example, Vaniqa is an FDA approved cream that is prescribed to slow facial hair growth in women.

While these hair removal options may require a larger initial investment than at-home solutions, the results should last longer and save you time.

Weight-loss medications that your doctor may prescribe are meant to support, not replace, a healthy diet and exercise plan. The most successful weight-loss medications work as appetite suppressants, helping you to prevent overeating and learn to practice consistent portion control. These can help support a weight loss plan, but lifestyle changes must be learned if you’re going to keep the weight off once you stop taking the medication.

Additionally, weight-loss medications aren’t for everyone. It’s unlikely that a doctor would prescribe weight-loss drugs to someone looking to lose an extra 5 or 10 pounds. These prescriptions are usually reserved for people who have a BMI of at least 30, or a BMI of 27 or higher with obesity-related medical complications, such as high blood pressure.

Although weight-loss medications shouldn’t be considered a magic solution to dieting troubles, they can help people who are overweight or obese regain control of their health. An appetite suppressant can help you make the transition to a healthy diet, curbing your desire to overeat. As you begin to lose weight, you’ll probably notice an improvement in several health conditions, including blood pressure and cholesterol levels. After about a year, most people can expect to lose 5 to 10 pounds more with diet, exercise, and medication than they would without using a weight-loss medication.

Talk to your doctor to determine if weight-loss medications may be the right course of treatment for you.

Strength training isn’t just for people looking to build bigger muscles or “bulk up”; it’s just as important for people wanting to lose weight. Strength training builds lean muscle mass, which helps to rev up your base metabolism so you’ll burn more calories and lose weight more easily. Regular strength training can also improve your stamina, strengthen your bones, and boost your attention span.

Strength training workouts include anything that focuses on using your muscles to the point of exhaustion. While most people think of weight lifting, either with free weights or weight machines, you can also get a strength training workout using your own body weight or resistance bands. Push-ups, pull-ups, squats, and abdominal exercises allow you to strengthen your muscles from the comfort of your home using your own body weight for resistance. Resistance bands can be purchased at sporting goods stores or from large retailers like Target. These large elastic bands allow you to do a series of exercises using resistance to stress your muscles.

Body weight, resistance bands, and weight training can each give you results when done 2 or 3 times a week. You’ll probably notice your stamina improving first, followed by an increase in your overall strength and a more toned appearance.

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All my life I’ve been very athletic, handball, weight, running. Injured my shoulder about five years ago and had to drop out of that. I went from 175 to 200 pounds in about three years. Decided to diet and get rid of it. At the end of two years I’m 210.

I got in the mail a card from Dr. Holloway, decide to come here and check it out. And I was very impressed, it’s elegant. Ok, people are nice, friendly.

The most important thing is diets don’t work. They sell millions and millions of copies of diet handbooks. You see programs on the air; order this food for 90 days you’ll lose weight. Oh I’m sure you will, but when you quit, when that 90 days food runs out you go right back to eating the way you were.

I went off the program for 30 days, and the first two weeks I put on seven pounds. Then I went back to about 1200 calories a day, and by the end of the second two weeks I lost the seven pounds. It’s a change of life style, you know. When you get off a diet, you can’t go back to barbeque, ribs, and donuts. You know, it just doesn’t work.

If you record everyday what you eat, and you keep it under that 1200, you’ll lose three pounds a week every time.

When you get where you want to be, then you kick it back up to 1800, 2000 and you’ll hold your weight. You won’t gain or lose anything. But it’s the life style change, it’s not a diet.

If children can be encouraged to consider fitness activities of varying levels of intensity with as much interest as watching TV or playing video games, physical fitness can become a lifelong habit. For overweight adults who are trying to achieve weight loss, aerobic exercise can be a good way to start a new fitness regime. Get your heart and lungs pumping with biking, skiing, skating, walking, running, climbing, and swimming. Aerobic exercise is cumulative in nature, so three ten-minute walks throughout the day are just as good for you as one thirty-minute walk. Alternating through the week with your aerobic exercise should be strength training. Start off slow, with light weights, and do bench presses, bicep curls, squats, leg extensions, and abdominal crunches. Don’t push yourself too hard, and make sure to warm up and cool down every time.

Not all exercise is for everyone. Depending on how overweight you are, walking or swimming may be the best solution to avoid exhaustion, joint problems, and back pain while working towards your weight loss goals. Strength exercises may be better relegated to a more advanced routine once you have increased your fitness level.

If you’re trying to practice healthy eating as part of your medical weight loss routine, you may be confused by conflicting information about certain foods. One minute this food is good for you, the next minute you’re told to keep it out of your diet. Get the facts about what’s good, what’s bad, and what should be eaten in moderation.

Healthy Eating Food Facts

• Coffee: Research suggests that coffee actually offers a lot of health benefits, including reduced risk of diabetes, heart attack, gallstones, Parkinson’s disease, kidney stones, and cirrhosis. However, some research does indicate that drinking black coffee may cause thinner bones in women, so it’s advised that you add milk to your coffee or make sure you’re getting enough calcium from other sources. Drinking coffee also shouldn’t replace drinking plenty of water during the day.
• Chocolate: Although chocolate is high in calories, dark chocolate contains antioxidants that can reduce your risk for heart attack, stroke, and high blood pressure. Dark chocolate contains less sugar than white or milk chocolate, so it’s definitely the best way for you to indulge your sweet tooth.
• Oatmeal: It’s true that oatmeal, like other whole grains, can help lower your cholesterol and is a great source of fiber. However, eating a breakfast of only oatmeal—especially the instant kind—will probably leave you feeling hungry sooner rather than later. Experts recommend starting your day with a meal that includes some protein to prevent overeating later and to stabilize your blood sugar levels.
• Eggs: The bottom line is that eggs are good for you. They’re an excellent and inexpensive source of protein. It’s true that egg yolks contain large amounts of cholesterol, but research has not linked egg consumption to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. If you’re trying to control your cholesterol levels, chances are there are other culprits in your diet.

As a general rule, healthy eating constitutes a diet that balances fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains.

I used to work in theatre and I had a crazy schedule. You know you wake up at like noon to go to work, and you don’t get done till about two. I lived in New York City, very fast paced. Always flying from this city to that city, so I was basically on a diet of coffee and maybe eating one meal a day. And then one day, I just looked in the mirror and wow I don’t feel like that person, I don’t feel like I look like that person. And I realized that I just became really unhealthy.
So I started to make changes, and I started going to the gym, and making healthier eating choices. But it was very, it was kind of an inconsistent response. And when I have the opportunity to come and work with Dr. Holloway and Life Style Solutions I really jumped at that.

One of the best set of tools that I’ve gotten is the consistency of breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks in-between. That it is really counterproductive to just not eat, because obviously yes you’ll lose weight if you don’t eat. But you will, eventually your body is going to be like oh no. So the consistency of that and the consistency of what you’re eating. Looking at not only your calories but your fat and carb intake. So something can be very low calorie, but be extremely high carb and if you aren’t paying attention to all three of those. You’re not going to get the balance that you need to be healthy and to fuel your body but also to reach your weight loss goals.

When I was exploring options on my own, I tried some online food tracking groups, meeting that you can go to, and have a supportive mainly women with you. And I found out that those weren’t for me, it’s a very personal thing. It’s very much about you, and how you feel, and what your relationship is to yourself, and your relationship with food and exercise and all those things. So I couldn’t find a place where I felt really comfortable, and I do have to say I was nervous coming here just because I thought well I don’t want to be judged. Here you are making this great decision and it should be celebrated and a lot of times in other areas I felt I was being judged or scolded or those kinds of things. And I was pleasantly surprised it’s the complete opposite here.

I might be out of the norm, but I’m the girl who high fives you when we reach a goal, and the staff joins in on that. And were all you know, we celebrate. There’s lots of laughter and its very peaceful, its calm, and it’s great. Simply walking up to the facility, Dr. Holloway, you know before you even get in the door he’s calmed you.

I think a lot of times when young people are in the midst of building their career, and they’re really focused on achieving whatever the companies goals are, their client’s goals, or reaching those milestones in their life that they don’t invest in themselves. And so to stop and take the time to invest in yourself financially, in terms of any fees that are associated with that. In a gym, all of that stuff. Its time to really, the more that you invest in yourself the more you can give towards your goals, towards other things. I say do it, I mean it’s… I wake up every day and I think. I told Dr. Holloway this, I wake up everyday and I’m excited, because I know that I’m one step closer to where I want to be.

If your well isn’t full, and your energy level isn’t high, then your gonna go inefficiently about serving the company your work for or building your dreams, or taking care of your family. You’re not going to… it’s going to take longer and if you can just get focused and get everything on the right forward motion. The younger that you are, then the better its going to be ten years from now, the better it’s going to be fifteen years from now. So putting it off just makes it harder, and putting it off also makes, I think it takes a toll on… you know you only get to be 31, 32, 33 once in your life.

So do you want to be 31 and unhappy with who you are and focused on things that don’t make you a better person or do you want to be 31 and full of energy and excited. Because your not going to get that year back. I mean that’s why I would say do it now.

Whether skin aging occurs naturally or due to the effects of sun exposure, the wrinkles, lines, discoloration, and laxity is a direct result of the fragmentation and reduction of collagen, a major structural protein of the skin. Since the cells that produce collagen have also been damaged, they’re not producing the optimal amount of collagen either.

By injecting 11 participants with CL-HA in one forearm and with saline in the other, researchers were able to see increased collagen production in the areas where the CL-HA was injected. Dr. Sachs explained, “Samples of skin injected with NASHA demonstrated evidence of increased newly created type I collagen, especially in the areas surrounding the filler. In addition, fibroblasts were observed at four and 13 weeks following injection to be in a ’stretched’ configuration that correlates with increased collagen production.”

This research is helpful because while dermatologists were aware that soft tissue fillers work by visual demonstration of immediate dermis improvements, the mechanics at a molecular level were never fully understood until now.

Calorie Control

In order to lose weight, you need to eat fewer calories than your body burns during the day. One pound of fat equals a deficit of 3,500 calories, which can seem like a lot until you consider that losing 1 pound per week means cutting just 500 calories per day. You can find out how many calories you need to eat to maintain your current weight by using an online basal metabolic rate calculator and your height, current weight, gender, and activity level. Once you have your baseline, you can adjust your daily calorie intake to reach your weight loss goals.

Physical Activity

One way to lose weight is to consume fewer calories in the foods you eat, but you can also burn more calories through physical activity. Burning 250 calories per day through physical activity can help you lose an additional half-pound per week, or allow you to lose one pound per week while only cutting 250 calories per day from your diet. If you haven’t exercised in a long time, try going for a daily walk.

Strength Training

Working out with weights or resistance bands can help you lose body fat while building muscle mass. Increasing your muscle mass boosts your basal metabolic rate, which means you’ll naturally burn more calories, even when you’re at rest.

Weight Loss Support

Making lifestyle changes can be difficult, but a good support system can help. You may consider joining an online community, working with a diet buddy, or looking for weight loss support groups in your area. A support system that encourages you and holds you accountable can often make the difference between a setback or a step forward in your weight loss journey.