Usually, when we lose weight, we think of how we will look better in our favorite pair of pants.  We don’t often think of our pants as a means to lose weight.  There are pants on the market that help us to reach our weight loss goals.  There are several types and brands of weight loss pants.

On Amazon.com, you can find Neoprene Workout Pants for $52.95 to help you get more out of your workout.  Neoprene is a synthetic rubber that traps your body heat which causes your body to sweat while trying to cool off.  If you wear neoprene pants while working out, you’ll probably find you have lost several pounds right after your workout from water weight loss.

You must rehydrate if using neoprene pants or suits during a workout as excessive sweating can lead to dehydration.  Since your workout could lead to dehydration, and this kind of weight loss will be temporary, the best method would be diet and exercise for lasting and safer results.

Another type of weight loss pants are called the LipoContour pants.  They were designed by an Italian cosmetic surgeon.  Initially, they were designed to help liposuction patients recover faster and more comfortably after surgery.  Then, it was noted that an extra added effect of wearing the LipoContour pants was a slimming effect and possibly even a cellulite reduction as well.

The LipoContour pants are made of 2 thin, tight layers of mesh with a reinforced panel for the tummy that extends to the knees.  The LipoContour pants need to be worn 8 hours per day for a period of 8 to 12 weeks to see the slimming effect.  The pants, themselves, do a massage action that increases blood flow and helps to break down fatty deposits thus decreasing cellulite.

Another kind of weight loss pants are actual caffeine pants called Lytess leggings.  This type of weight loss pants are manufactured with fibers of caffeine and shea butter microcapsules.  The slimming action is caused by the friction of everyday activities.

According to their website, after 18 days of use, you should look visibly trimmer.  They state that clinical trials showed up to a 1.2 ” reduction on thighs and up to a 2.1″ loss on hips after 21 days of use.

Lytess leggings do not make you sweat and they are designed to use either as an undergarment or they can be used as activewear by themselves.  They are like a second skin and are form-fitting.  The price of Lytess leggings is $70.00.

There is no replacement for smart and sensible eating and an active lifestyle to maintain a healthy weight.  But, if you are looking to accelerate your weight and cellulite reduction, you could try the addition of weight loss pants, read the reviews and decide for yourself which type is safest and best for you.

So, I’m very excited because I got a great coupon for a local herbal therapy wrap business which I’m going to have next week. It’s my first professional herbal body wrap treatment, and I honestly have no idea what to expect, although I know what I would like to see.

Herbal body wraps have actually been used for hundreds of years as a way to promote body contouring, reduce cellulite, and help to soften and heal the skin.  Some people even say that regular body wraps help their skin to heal faster and also help to diminish old scars and make them a lot less noticeable.

I certainly wouldn’t complain if I decide to go with a series of herbal wraps after this first one and experience a reduction in cellulite and a reduction in the appearance of a scar that I have on my leg from getting a birthmark removed!

What I really want to have the herbal body wraps for is to see if it will help to contour my butt and thighs and belly a little more, and help to increase my weight loss results as well as my workout results, adding even more dramatic measurement differences.

Many women and men say that they experience inch loss with regular herbal body wraps, and that is what I’m looking for, although I certainly don’t know if I could keep them up forever, and I’m sure that like with everything else, you would have to keep them up on a maintenance schedule to keep your results.

I would also love if they helped to diminish the cellulite on my thighs, buttocks and front of my legs, which has gotten more noticeable with age, and I’m sure because I take estrogen based birth control pills, that doesn’t help either since cellulite is thought to be made worse by estrogen, hence it is a woman’s issue, not so much a mans.

Some people even report a surge in their energy levels after body wraps, so we’ll see if that happens too. I’ll never complain about having too much energy, that’s for sure!

I’ll report back to you after I’ve had my first herbal body wrap and let you know about the experience itself as well as the results. Hoping for some inch loss and cellulite reduction and toning!

If you watch any amount of television, you’ve probably seen the tempting commercials for a balance bracelet that uses magnetic forces to help you keep your balance and to help you perform better athletically.

In fact, many tennis pros use these bracelets, and I’ve seen them on the likes of Jillian Michaels in her workout videos and many other professional athletes, actors, actresses and others in the spotlight. So, there’s got to be something to them, right?

Why else would all these people swear that these bracelets give them some sort of edge in their balance, and even help them to manage pain and to perform better athletically? Well, there is, of course, a lot of controversy about whether these things really do what they say they do or not.

I can tell you that I personally experimented with small magnetic beads that I taped on to my lower back to see if it would help out with some lower back pain I was having, and I don’t know if it was psychosomatic or not (who ever really does know), but I swear that I felt a tinge of relief within a few minutes of attaching these things.

The science behind magnetic therapeutic “jewelry” is a bit shaky, admittedly.  However, if you look at it from this viewpoint, it does seem plausible that wearing magnets may help you in certain ways, with certain problems.

The body works on electrical impulse.  Your brain fires electrical impulses all day long.  Your nerves work on electrical impulses as well. This may help explain the magnetic product’s therapeutic properties when it comes to helping to dull pain.

Perhaps it works as some sort of a pain interceptor of intermediary, which helps to dull or eliminate the electrical impulses that travel  from nerve ending to nerve ending, traveling to the brain and ultimately registering a signal of “ouch” to the senses.

This may seem a bit pseudo scientific, but it does make sense from a logical standpoint, and from a strictly intuitive standpoint. By the way, I’m not even sure what the companies say that make these products as to the scientific theory behind why they work (for some people), but that’s my crazy theory!

A few months ago, my best friend and I went on a shopping trip and got to hang out for a while after we went to dinner.

I got to play a really fun Wii game with her little girl called “Just Dance”, and we had a blast. I thought it was so much fun!

My friend told me that she plays it so much with her daughter that she thinks she actually stays thin because of it during times when she eats more.

I must admit, that was a great fringe benefit, but I was so entertained by this game that I really wanted it for my own home for pure entertainment value. It also of course didn’t hurt that I’d be getting a little pure cardio in too, but to me that was secondary.

The game was fun, and I really thought it would be great to do with girlfriends or my sister when they came over to visit.

So, for this Christmas, I asked my husband for the new Just Dance Wii game, Just Dance II. This one had a lot of different songs on it, with a lot of different styles of dancing. Just Dance II also has a program that you can follow where you will “sweat” to different degrees, and they are of differing degrees of difficulty, depending on what you are using the game for.

One has one song per day, the other is three per day and the last is 6 per day, for the best sweat.  I tried all of them, and they are all terrific. I was literally drenched in sweat after I completed 10 dances, and the dances really didn’t amount to any more than a few minutes a piece!

The game is very simple too. All you do is look at the fun image on the screen and follow their moves. You get “graded” and scored by how well you mimic the dance moves.  There are fun backgrounds and outfits on the onscreen personalities that match the songs.

There is every genre of music on their imaginable too. I danced to salsa style, reggae, techno, pop, rag time, fifties and sixties music and more.  It’s so fun that you really do forget you are working out, and that’s key to really getting in different types of of workouts and keeping it fresh and fun!

I’d highly recommend the Wii Just Dance II game for anyone looking for a really fun way to get some extra cardio work in, and for anyone looking for some fun dance lessons in the process, and a great party game!

I stumbled across this very interesting story on a new intriguing piece of fitness equipment that you can actually ride outside just like you can ride a bike, only with less friction on your knee joints, just like an elliptical machine. It’s basically a hybrid of a bicycle and an elliptical trainer.  You can ride it around on sidewalks and on the road, just like you would a normal bike, and you can also get up to quite a nice speed on it.

It’s called the Elliptigo, and if you want one, it currently runs you about $3k and as low as about $2200 to purchase one of these high tech bikes.  It looks really friggin fun I must admit!  Basically, you stand on it like you do a real elliptical machine that sits as a stationary bike does, and you start pedaling, and it starts moving, just like a bike.

If you’re thinking like I was, you were probably wondering how hard it would be to get on the thing, and also how hard it would be to balance, since you are standing up on it instead of sitting, but apparently it’s pretty easy to mount, and also just as easy to balance on when you’re riding on it as a bike is.

It is the brain child of a guy and his partner because the one partner wanted to find a way to still get outdoors and enjoy running, but without all the pressure on his joints after he was diagnosed with an injury that prevented him from running any more. Running is great exercise, but it does put a lot of pressure on your joints, and that is why ellipticals are so popular.

Elliptical machines tone you really well and they also don’t put pressure on your joints. Women especially love them because they are great at toning the legs and the butt.  Elliptigo is a very low to the ground design, I’d imagine that’s so that you can balance yourself well and maintain a centered gravity while riding the machine.

It’s reviewed as being a great workout, and gets rave reviews for ease of use and ease on the joints, so I’d say this is definitely worth a look into if you’re looking for a way to get an elliptical workout – outside. It sure would be nice to see the beautiful scenery of the outdoors while getting in a great workout, wouldn’t it?  Talk about a workout flying by!

My husband and I were both way over due for a good pair of running shoes. You know how that can be when you’re trying to watch your money, it tends to fall by the wayside since a good pair of running shoes can run over a hundred bucks. But the fact is that if you run fairly often, which we do in the summer since we have a lot of nice outdoor areas to run in, you should really replace your running shoes about every 6 months to a year for maximum support. The support can break down that quickly, depending on how many miles you run at a time as well.

So, we finally broke down and went out shopping for a new pair for each of us. We really like Adidas shoes, in fact Adidas are the only kind of running shoes that I can even wear. For some reason, Nike and Reebok shoes just don’t fit my fit correctly, and they never feel comfortable or conforming enough. I used to be able to wear them in my twenties, but around ten years ago I found that Adidas were the only shoe I could get away with.

We went to an outlet store near us to shop. The selection is pretty decent, but nothing like the one you’d get at say a Dick’s store or an athletic shoe store. Still, the outlet store knocks at least twenty to twenty five bucks off the price of the shoe from what you’d pay for retail, so I thought that was a great deal.

We each looked and looked, and finally he said he found one called the Glide. He said, well I bet the women’s has them too. Turns out that women’s running shoes also carried the Glide version, called Glide Supernovas. The price on them was $75, which was about a $25 markdown from retail. I tried on a Glide and a Glide 2, which was a little more expensive, but actually not as comfortable or well fitting as the Glide. My husband found the same thing in his shoes as well.

So we both ended up with Glide shoes by Adidas. We tested them out running around the store, and they felt like you were running on air. Literally, you could feel no impact on your joints when bouncing up and down in these shoes. They are amazing, just like walking on clouds. I hope they keep making this shoe for a while, because I’m hooked, and I’d tell anyone that they’re worth trying on if you’re in the market for a great running shoe.

Try to find them at an outlet. You may have to by “last season’s” color, but who cares, all the colors I had available were still in style anyways.