Winter has entered our domain and with its blustering winds comes women bundling up in scarves and coats. It's all to easy to let body maintenance fall by the wayside, but with Xmas party season just round the corner, it's good to stay on top of things. Liposuction seems a little but extreme, and though you manage to get to the gym once or twice a week, you're not really seeing the changes you'd like.
The Beautytek treatment is one that utilizes micro current energy, and passes low level electrical impulses through the body. The idea is that this process 'stimulates the bodies repair mechanism', allowing you to become smoother with more defined curves. Sounds interesting, right? I headed down to the Meditech Clinic Chelsea to find out.
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Five days have passed since I embarked on my juice fast and it's gone surprisingly well. Yes, there have been some up and downs, and my energy has gone from zero to 100, and then stabilized somewhere in the seventy percentile range, but apart from a slip up with a Solero I've faithfully stick to the plan.
I've gritted my teeth and drank black mixtures of bentonite clay, endured the unpleasantness of a colonic and said no to alcohol, chocolate and fizz even when placed in dire temptation. Today is the day of reckoning, and I'm going to assess how I feel.
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Day five of my self imposed 5 day Hydro Healing juice fast and I'm still going strong. Waking up to hot water and lemon seems so easy I think I may continue it, and quite a few people have said how glowing I look. Then again, I haven't stayed out past 9pm all week, and my conversational skills seem to revolve around my diet, so what I make up in 'glow' I may well be losing in friends.
I had my first slip up of the week today- a delicious Solero Smoothie. Hey, it was really hot outside and I'd just been to a meeting, so I needed some sustenance. Yes, the drinks may be palatble, but lugging four bottles everywhere you go isn't the most easy thing to do. You can leave two in the office, but then there's the danger that you'll drink them all and get to six pm ravenous.
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The last two days have been a whirl of foul tasting cleansing drinks and delicious juice smoothies, and have sped past at a bizarrely fast rate. I've moved from utter exhaustion and mental collapse on days one and two onto a calm zen like taste where I don't even complain about the lack of solids I'm ingesting. Well, not much anyways.
My 5 day Hydro Healing juice fast is still going strong and so far I haven't cheated once. I've got into a strange routine which revolves around the drinks, supplements and body brushing and have become very robot like in my movements.
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Sometimes I commit to things without fully considering the ramifications, and that's just what had happened today. It's a glorious sun filled afternoon and I'm standing in the grounds of Silverstone, grumpily clutching my juice bottle whilst my colleagues squaff red bull and roast leg of lamb.
As we race around the track, the adrenalin rush I feel only slightly counteracts my feelings of exhaustion and my carrot /celery/something foul juice tastes rather dispiriting.
When you sign up for a detox you rather imagine lily filled rooms combined with soft music and massages, not action packed days where you have to constantly field questions about why you're not eating. I'm not embarrassed about doing a detox, I'd just rather my diet wasn't the topic of the day.
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Today is the day my five day juice fast begins, and I'm having a tough time psyching myself up for it. My four juices for today arrived by courier last night, and I swig the one numbered Juice one questioningly at breakfast time.
It's quite nice actually, a delicate blend of what tastes like mango and pineapple and my spirits lift considerably. It's not quite the Frosties and Nutrigrain I'm used to, but I feel like I can manage this.
A quick check of my timetable reveals I'm meant to have had a cleansing drink first, but I'll mix it up and have that next...
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With summer in the offing and those comforting layers of coats being hung up for the season, we've all had that moment where we stare critically ins the mirror. Some toss their head and move on, pleased with their reflection, but if you've lingered longer than five minutes and sighed at your pallid complexion and lumpy body, then a detox may be just the thing to perk you up.
I'm trialling the 5 day Urban Detox which aims to promote all over wellbeing through a programme which involves supplements, juice fasting, and colonics.The idea is to spring cleanse your body of of any toxic build up, rejuvenate you and give you more energy, as well as enhance you outlook and clear your skin (with weightloss as a side effect!).
The downside is that you're not allowed any food whatsoever for 5 days, have to take numerous strangely named supplements (acidophilus with your tea m'dear?) and need to have strange lady stick a tube between your legs twice (yes, colonics are part and parcel of this treatment).
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