Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Is fitness your new year resolution?

New Year often brings with it resolutions aimed at getting back into shape. Although some may start out ambitiously, following through on the promise to lose weight or get toned is often easier said than done. Getting into shape and losing weight continues to remain a challenge for majority . Lifestyles are getting busier, food tastier and clothes tighter, making it difficult for us to keep up with fitness.


Healthy diet and regular exercise remain the key to achieve and maintain your ideal weight . There are shortcuts like starvation, getting admitted into naturopathy centres, massages and such. These methods have some advantages, but only short term. Ninety five percent of so called “ diets” fail in long term. Most people who were disciplined in the naturopathy camp go into low metabolic state where body learns to sustain itself on minimum food by bringing metabolism down. Body fails to burn even the moderately excess food taken at home and weight bounces back.

And what about liposuction? This is something I specialize in and you can trust me when I say even this is not the trump card you can count on in the game of weight loss. Liposuction can not help you lose 20-30 kilos, contrary to what you may have heard or read. After liposuction if you do not maintain the healthy diet and regular exercise, you may gain the fat again. Common sense isn’t it? If you do not have time for exercising and you can not resist food then liposuction will give you only temporary result.

So get ready with your exercise gear and hit the gym , eat sensibly and aim to lose 2-4 kilos a month. Do cardio exercise like running and swimming to lose weight and weights and yoga to build tone and strength. Once you reach nearly normal weight and if still you are not in shape – be it resistant love handles, abdominal flab , saddle bags on thighs or heavy arms- you are then ready for liposuction, for those finishing touches towards the perfect figure.

Best wishes for a healthy and fit new year 2011.



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Is fitness your new year resolution?

New Year often brings with it resolutions aimed at getting back into shape. Although some may start out ambitiously, following through on the promise to lose weight or get toned is often easier said than done. Getting into shape and losing weight continues to remain a challenge for majority . Lifestyles are getting busier, food tastier and clothes tighter, making it difficult for us to keep up with fitness.


Healthy diet and regular exercise remain the key to achieve and maintain your ideal weight . There are shortcuts like starvation, getting admitted into naturopathy centres, massages and such. These methods have some advantages, but only short term. Ninety five percent of so called “ diets” fail in long term. Most people who were disciplined in the naturopathy camp go into low metabolic state where body learns to sustain itself on minimum food by bringing metabolism down. Body fails to burn even the moderately excess food taken at home and weight bounces back.

And what about liposuction? This is something I specialize in and you can trust me when I say even this is not the trump card you can count on in the game of weight loss. Liposuction can not help you lose 20-30 kilos, contrary to what you may have heard or read. After liposuction if you do not maintain the healthy diet and regular exercise, you may gain the fat again. Common sense isn’t it? If you do not have time for exercising and you can not resist food then liposuction will give you only temporary result.

So get ready with your exercise gear and hit the gym , eat sensibly and aim to lose 2-4 kilos a month. Do cardio exercise like running and swimming to lose weight and weights and yoga to build tone and strength. Once you reach nearly normal weight and if still you are not in shape – be it resistant love handles, abdominal flab , saddle bags on thighs or heavy arms- you are then ready for liposuction, for those finishing touches towards the perfect figure.

Best wishes for a healthy and fit new year 2011.



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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Our Biggest Loser

For those of you readers who have been to our office this face probably looks familiar. Olivia has been the office manager at Dr. Walden's for 2 years and she, along with her sister Hannah, is on the current season of the Biggest Loser getting her butt kicked by Bob and Jillian.

We are so proud of our girl who has long wanted to get the weight off and will no doubt return to us slim and trim. I know one of her concerns before leaving for the show was that if she was able to lose all the weight she may be left with saggy skin. This can be a problem after any major weight loss and it is very common for people to undergo a tummy tuck or full body lift as the icing on the fat-free cake once the extra l.b.'s are gone. This is not something people should even think about until the weight is not only gone, but has been kept off for quite awhile. For those who are just getting rid of the weight to save themselves from heart disease and diabetes, then the aesthetic result may not matter so much. For many though, there is the element of vanity which cannot be achieved without a nip/tuck at the end. In those instances I think people should hold their head high on their way to their plastic surgery consultation. I think of it as a much deserved reward for all that hard work! What a cupcake used to be after a job well done! After all, these are not pounds that would come off with a little more time on a treadmill. There is only one way to get rid of excess skin to this degree and that is with a knife.

Well lucky for a Olivia she's got an in with one of New York's top plastic surgeons if she ever needs one....
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

No Granny Sweater Here

Award show season has begun ladies and gentlemen. The dresses, the shoes, the jewelry, the hair and makeup...oh yes and the awards of course! For the next month we will see our favorite celebrities wearing our favorite designers and we get to critique and decide who dropped our jaws and who should immediately fire their stylist and/or trainer. While most people did look amazing at the Golden Globes this week, it was Jane Fonda who turned the most heads. She looked unbelievable in her black George Hobeika gown with winged shoulder tips and silver sequined sleeves. I would be impressed with the way she looked in the gown if she were any age but the woman is 73 years old! She attributes her appearance to always staying active (she has done dozens of fitness tapes) and to having some plastic surgery done. Well someone did something right.

The greatest thing is she looks exactly like herself, no different. She just looks young and vibrant and beautiful. I love that she still has the same face she did 30 years ago (actually she still has the same body too). I think I might have to put some leggings on and watch those tapes of hers. After all, the woman has turned the heads of generations of men. I’m sure some wives out there were waiting for Fonda to look old one day so their husbands would stop drooling. Well no such luck ladies…43 years later and Barbarella is still a knockout.


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The Frozen Globes

Awards Season!!!! Woohoo! January is a tough month to get through with the cold weather, lack of daylight, forced diet to fit into your pants, already failed resolutions, and one of the few upsides to this difficult 31 day period is that it is the beginning of awards season. The Golden Globes serve as the official kickoff, always drawing an A-list crowd from both the small and big screen.

Last Sunday's Globe awards were handed out and the winners were for the most part awarded to the front runners in each category. Natalie Portman for 'Black Swan', Annette Bening for 'The Kids Are Alright', Christian Bale for 'The Fighter', and the list goes on...Luckily for the audience there were no big surprises because animating their face correctly for this scenario would have proven difficult for many. Not all frozen is created equal, and some stars looked better and more natural than others, but for some it's time to let it go just a little bit to allow for some movement and graceful aging. I am all for turning back the clock but taking the battery out of it completely is not the idea. Let's take a look at the nominees for the best injected celebrity of the Golden Globes...



Too Much
Sorry. I love her too but it just is.


Kyra you're making me nervous! Riding that fine line of lookin good and lookin frozen. We'll let you get away with a warning this time.
Hall Of Fame
That "one" time has lasted a lot longer than the average treatment....

Annette looks great! I think she had a facelift and does a moderate amount of maintenance with injections. A great version of a woman her age. Well done.
Something is not right here

J Lo looks great! The perfect amount and placement of injections.

Get those injections in now Giuliana because once you conceive that much desired (and publicized) child you will have to lay off the needle for awhile.

No sign of those rumored Latisse side effects. The spokesperson for the AMAZING eyelash grower is looking radiant with a very smooth forehead and glabella.

Not a chance that this is an all natural look. She probably has a secret injector tucked away in Namibia so no one ever sees her come and go to her appointments.

The injection newcomer. Looks like maybe a little Botox to the upper face. Looking good!

Most likely to go overboard if she hasn't done so already....

What to do when your injector is out of town during one of the biggest nights of the year...Cut bangs!! Really long ones that cover your brow and your eyes.

And the Golden Globe goes to....Halle Berry!!! She is at least part genetic freak to still look this good but injections MUST play some role in this gorgeousness. She is perfection.

See you all at the SAG awards....



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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Bridalplasty Obsession



I finally caught an episode of Bridalplasty and it is official...I have a new guilty pleasure!! I thought reading US Weekly was a good outlet to leave your brain at home and have a good mindless read....well watching my new favorite reality show takes the wedding cake in this department!! Your brain could be on another planet while watching and you wouldn't notice!

So just to get those of you who have been in the dark like myself up to speed on the premise of the show, you have the typical reality t.v. setup with a famous host, Shanna Moakler, and die hard contestants who in this series are vying for the "perfect wedding". By perfect I do not mean the most beautiful flowers and best band...I mean perfect nose, breast, and body. Dead serious. The winner of this E! hit wins their wish list of procedures which according to the show will make them the "perfect bride".

It wouldn't be a reality show without a weekly challenge and in last week's episode the challenge entailed the remaining contestants, along with their future mother-in-law (not joking) to run around Venice Beach doing a photo scavenger hunt of sorts. One task was to take a photo of someone being buried in the sand. See below photo as proof that contestant Allyson's future m.i.l. volunteered for the job. Anything to help out family I guess..


I couldn't help but laugh out loud picturing my own mother-in-law buried in the sand so that I could have a free nose job for my wedding.

So each week the winner of the challenge gets to have a surgery off their wish list which gives them immunity from being kicked off the show while they recover. At this point in the season there are quite a few girls in various stages of the post op process from a wide variety of procedures. This brings me to one of my favorite parts of the show. Now you have all the cattiness that goes along with girls living together competing for the same prize, but with bandages!! There are girls trying to yell at each other but can't because their voices are nasal and they don't want their nasal splint to fall off! Think of it like if the girls on The Bachelor got into a limo accident on their way to meet their "husband" and had to spend the rest of the season in casts. It is hysterical!!

Sadly at the end of each episode somebody has to turn out the lights of their wedding closet (i.e. gets kicked off), done very dramatically at the RSVP ceremony, ruining their chances of becoming the perfect bride. Hopefully they all have nice fiances waiting for them back home to console their big noses and fat thighs. There is always CareCredit...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Country Cup-Size

It has been quite the publicity storm for LeAnn Rimes over the past few years between her divorce from Dean Sheremet and affair with hottie Eddie Cibrian who is now her fiance. Her latest love affair with the tabloids has nothing to do with men and everything to do with cup size. It seems as though she recently added some "dimensions" to her ultra fit body that were on display in a little red bikini this week in Cabo. According to US magazine, she not only went for the enhancement that Cibrian's ex-wife Brandi Glanville had also done in the past, but went to the same plastic surgeon. Hope they don't have post-op appointments scheduled for the same day!

I think she looks fantastic! She clearly works very hard at maintaining her slim, toned figure and the conservative breast augmentation she chose looks very natural, complimenting her fabulous bod. With all the drama of recent years seemingly behind her, she can now look toward the future and bring her new girls along for the ride...
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