Skin Hydration Beauty Tip ~ Advice For Health

You're losing the weight, but noticing your skin is getting a bit...baggy. Are you stuck with it? Not necessarily despite what you may have seen on those 'make over' shows. Not everyone who loses a lot of weight have problems with "bagging, sagging" skin.

Understanding about your skin (the largest organ in your body by the way) may help you better appreciate why fitness trainers and nutritionists tell you to exercise. Your skin is not some circus tent that remains stretched out like a deflated air mattress after losing large amounts of body weight.

Your chances of having excess skin once you reach your healthy weight will depend on how much you lose, whether you included exercise in your weight loss plan and how quickly you lost it.

Beautiful Skin After Weight Loss

Remember your body didn't gain the weight overnight and your skin adapted as your body grew. There are many factors that will determine how much loose skin will be left, including how long you have been overweight.

You have heard time and again when losing weight, 'drink plenty of water' and it's true. Water has an added benefit beyond helping your body flush out toxins as your weight goes down, it also nourishes your skin. Drinking at least 32 ounces of water daily helps your skin adjust as the weight comes off and helps to restore its elasticity.

Losing weight slowly helps to prevent or even eliminate that 'droopy' appearance of excess skin following weight loss. Best to lose one to three pounds a week and drink plenty of plain water to keep your skin hydrated.

Include Nutrient Dense and Water Rich Foods

An excellent way to stay hydrated besides drinking water is wot begin to add water-rich foods to your meal planning.

Research shows that drinking water with your meals may not be an effective method for reducing calories or curbing your hunger pangs.

For women who started eating water-rich foods such as zucchini and other high water content vegetables during meals, they cut back on calories because they ate less and felt full.

Ultimately the best way to protect your skin as you lose weight is avoid sodas and other sugary drinks, pass on the diet supplements, limit your caffeine intake and definitely eliminate saturated fats.

As someone who wants to eat healthy to lose weight, this should come as good news. Eating foods with a high water content, you are not required to limit your portion size as much with these foods.

For example if you can't live without pasta salad, then load it up with cucumbers, tomatoes, sprouts, zucchini and lettuce. Eat to you feel full and satisfied, because it will have roughly the same amount of calories without the veggies. But the added benefit is you are keeping your skin hydrated.

Adding extra veggies to all your meals gives you a larger portion of that dish without increasing your calories. When eating away from home, request an extra salad or serving of raw vegetables on the side.

It doesn't help to increase your vegetable intake if you add a ton of salt or other "salt-enhanced" flavorings to them.

For lunches, go for the plain soups or the fresh fruit and veggie platter. Make it a habit to regularly include water-rich foods with each meal. You'll continue to lose weight, keep your skin hydrated from the inside out and not feel guilty about that basket of strawberries you polished off after dinner.

Remember your skin is living tissue

The more you can do during your weight loss to help it remain supple and hydrated will mean the less sag you're going to get later.

How easy is this going to be to add to your weight loss routine?

Unless you have serious collagen damage - you need a bit of patience, eat healthy, stay hydrated and get your vitamin D and omega-3 EFAs. It doesn't get any easier than that.

Dani Price, writer, personal coach and avid healthy eating promoter who practices what she preaches (most of the time). At Natural Weight Loss [http://www.naturalweightlossnewsletter.com] just for women seeking tips and articles you can really use to help fight the battle of the bulge.

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