Stop blaming your will power!

While some level of will power is needed in all areas of our lives, when it comes to losing weight the real secret to permanent weight loss is in your blood chemistry.

How your blood type affects your weight

Genuine weight loss and lasting good health comes from the way your body reacts to the food you consume. Foods contain powerful proteins called lectins. These food lectins become important to you when they interact with your blood antigens. How your body interacts with these lectins determines whether those foods cause inflammation, digestive problems, bloating, water retention or weight gain.

Lectin interaction is different from food intolerance

This is more than simple “food intolerance.” At first, you experience a lectin interaction as only a mild digestive problem, or a dull, listless feeling after eating foods not right for you. Over time, the result is a steadily deteriorating state of health, loss of energy and weight gain.

Replace weight gaining foods with foods suitable for your blood type

The good news is that simply by replacing the key weight gaining foods with ones suitable for your blood type you can begin to experience the benefits of a leaner, cleaner, more energetic body.

You will be amazed at how easily you can lose up to 2 kg each week while eating well and enjoying your lifestyle.

The whole story of permanent weight loss

You can accelerate your results by combining the Eat Right For Your Type Plan with a gentle detox, some everyday supplements and sensible exercise, making you feel and look even better. Call Fay, a practising naturopath, at Serenity Lodge Day Spa on (02) 4970 4333 for detox and nutrition advice.

Tips for looking great while the weight is coming off

If you want to accelerate your results even further, check out our Lose Centimetres Fast body contouring treatment that will have you losing over 15 centimetres in your first treatment. Make sure that you come back to this blog post for the special deal for our online members only!

The best thing about eating right for your type

The really great thing is that you will be reducing your size, feeling good and not putting it on again if you continue to eat right for your type. Call Fay at Serenity Lodge Day Spa (02) 4970 4333 for advice about your optimum nutrition.

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Here’s to your good health!
Fay Rayner

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Get Fit In 7 Minutes a Day, 3 Times a Week!

If we’re going to get fit there’s one thing we have to face sooner or later – an exercise programme! Now I know that some people just love to exercise, but if you’re anything like I am you come up with all kinds of reasons for not exercising regularly – I used to tell myself that I was too busy or that I would start tomorrow, or next Monday, or next month, or after my birthday…

I’m one of those people who doesn’t enjoy sweating and I hate that feeling of gasping for air! What’s more I HATE running on a treadmill or sitting on an exercise bike and I am constantly thinking about what else I could be doing with this time.

The 7 Minute Fitness Workout

The great news for me and possibly for you is that I have found a get fit system that makes me feel like I am looking after my body but it only takes 7 minutes, three times per week! It helps to build muscle quickly and muscle mass helps us to burn more fat

When I first heard about it I thought it would be rubbish, but after watching the video my friend sent me it made a lot of sense. So, having gained a little bit of excess weight over the holiday, I thought I’d give it a try and am amazed not only at the results, but also at how easily I can fit these exercises into my weekly routine.

Your own online fitness trainer

One of the best things about this programme is that you can have your own online trainer, do your 7 minutes of exercise at the time that suit you, and at the level that is customized to your needs – all in the comfort of your own home!

I encourage you to check it out here right now – get in the best shape of your life in 7 minutes a day, three times a week and remember my three top tips for looking fit and fabulous in the new year:

1. How to beat those sugar cravings
2. Lose centimeters fast
3. Get fit in 7 minutes a day, three times a week

Remember to let us know how you’re going with each of the three tips by posting a message in the comments box below this article. And if you need specific and personalized help we’re only a phone call away – (02) 4970 4333

Here’s to your good health,
Fay Rayner

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Fit and Fabulous Tip #2 – How To Lose Centimetres Fast!

Before I reveal our secret formula for staying motivated while the changes in your eating habits kick in, I’m wondering how you’re going with last week’s tips for beating those sugar cravings?

Remember to share your handy hints for success in the comments section after this post…

I used to go through that discouraging feeling of being really focused on reducing or eliminating those fattening foods, and feeling like my body was taking forever to start losing centimetres – until I experienced a spa treatment on a cruise around New Zealand last year, when I lost several centimetres and kept it off!

Since then I have seen dozens of women stay motivated to stick to their healthy eating plans by losing a few centimetres fast with our Ionithermie treatment from Serenity Lodge Day Spa.

This short video reveals how you too can lose centimetres fast…

New Year, New You!

We’ve put together a special 3 part offer to help you lose a few centimetres fast in the New Year and you can check it out here.

Next week I’ll share with you my brand new, scientifically proven, exercise program in Fit and Fabulous Tip #3 – Get Fit In 7 Minutes a Day, 3 Times a Week!

Until then, Here’s To Your Good Health,
Fay Rayner

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Isn’t it delicious to feel the warmth of Spring?

If you’re anything like I am during winter you feel that Spring will never come but here it is!

The only problem with this beautiful weather is that when we start to swap our jumpers for our pretty light clothes we discover that our jumpers have been hiding the results of all those extra temptations we have eaten through winter.

At the time it didn’t seem as if we had eaten that much but here we are, facing the fact that our lighter, pretty clothes no longer fit. They have shrunk during winter!

How to spruce up for spring, fast…

I have a solution for you that is an easy, pain-free and scientifically proven way to melt your cellulite away, leaving you feeling confident and looking amazing. It’s the easiest way to kick-start your new, slimmer spring shape.

What’s more, because I am a qualified naturopath and want to help you make it even easier to keep your new body in the shape you want, I will also give you a FREE consultation to help you with an eating plan if you would like.

Lets face it – we all want to put our best face forward so I’ve also added our mini-facial to really top the package off! In your mini-facial we will thoroughly cleanse, exfoliate, and moisturise not only your face but also exfoliate and massage your hands as a bonus with each treatment! How can you resist the chance for your skin to glow, revealing the beauty you are?

I look forward to seeing you soon becuase it is not much use leaving it for a couple of weeks as those bulges don’t just disappear and you want to enjoy this beautiful weather without feeling self conscious and without needing to spend alot of money on bigger clothes.

To Your Serene Good Health,
ay Rayner

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Are you helping or hindering your largest body organ?

Even though your skin works to nourish, sustain, repair and renew itself 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it actually needs your help to function as efficiently and effectively as possible in the drying winter months.

What your skin needs

Proper nutrition, sufficient hydration, appropriate exercise and adequate rest are the keys to maintaining your skin in tip top condition all year round. You and I both know however, how easy it is to let a hectic lifestyle, when we take our body for granted, to neglect the care of our skin.

How to restore dull crocodile skin to glowing, healthy skin this winter

How closely have you looked at your skin lately? In winter we cover up because of the cold and so we do not really notice just how dehydrated or scaly our skin has become. Because we wear bulky clothes we do not worry that we have eaten badly and maybe we have put on a few kilos.

Will your skin be ready for spring next month?

Your body and skin can look great with the help of our winter specials and day spa packages. They’re always available, but the huge savings end on the 31st August.

How Serenity Lodge Day Spa’s winter packages nourish your skin

Deluxe Facial with natural, certified products from La Clinica:

• We massage a delicate cleansing cream into your skin, removing makeup and surface impurities.
• Then we apply a gentle exfoliant for a deeper, thorough cleanse and gentle skin buff.
• A masque to absorb impurities is then applied. After it is removed, we wrap hot towels around your face to remove any flaky, dead cells, thoroughly cleaning your skin.
• Your skin is then indulged with a soothing, moisturising balm to protect against winter dryness.

Silky, Soft Hands

We use our hands all the time and remember to moisturize them only sometimes.Time to give your hands some relief from the harshness of winter:

• What we would like to do for you is remove dead, dry skin on your hands with our exquisite exfoliating treatment.
• Next we apply a luxurious moisturising cream while giving your hands a beautiful massage, relaxing all the muscles.

Aromatic Hot Stone Massage

Serenity Lodge Day Spa clients have a favourite treatment – our very special aromatic hot stone massage, which feeds your skin with beautiful aromatic fragrances while you are being massaged with the soothing heat of volcanic stones. You can feel the warmth relaxing those tight muscles. When your muscles are relaxed your body can function so much more effectively.

Body Detox

How well have you been eating lately? If you find yourself answering, “Not as well as I should,” then a thorough body detox will help and if you read our blog post on this it will show you how remarkable this process is.

So now you have helped your skin and your internal organs. What else could we possibly help you with – that extra cellulite or those extra centimetres! Take a quick look at our videos on Lose Centimetres Fast page.

Lose Centimetres Fast

Doctors in France invented this method to help people with arthritis, who because of their pain and lack of movement gained a lot of weight and centimetres, causing even more pain. The doctors discovered that with this amazing method, Ionithermie, that as well as easing their pain people lost centimetres and were able to become more active.

We are qualified and authorised to provide this exact same treatment to help you lose centimetres fast, tone your body and help your circulation.

We guarantee you will lose centimetres in your first treatment. You may need more than one treatment, depending on how much you want to lose.

Now with giving your body this attention you are going to feel wonderful and your skin is going to glow. In a matter of weeks when you want to start wearing your spring clothes you are going to be thrilled with how you look.

Remember that your body and skin can look great with the help of our winter specials and day spa packages. They’re always available, but the huge savings end on the 31st August.

To Your Serene Good Health,

Fay Rayner

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The Price You Pay for an Extra 10 Kilograms!

We usually think of fat as an unsightly nuisance. When we are carrying too much weight, we hate the way we look in a bathing suit, or we get upset because our clothes do not fit right. But we seldom think of the health consequences of excess weight.

Those consequences can be substantial, even if you are only slightly overweight. According to the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, gaining just 20 pounds (10 kilograms) in adulthood doubles your risk of diabetes and more than doubles your risk of high blood pressure.

Fat Cells Don’t Just Sit There

For a long time, we believed that body fat was relatively inert and metabolically inactive. We now know that this idea is wrong. Fat cells actively produce a number of biologically active substances. These include hormones that help regulate your metabolism. They also include molecules that cause inflammation.

Researchers at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre and The University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston recently discovered that fat cells actively produce C-reactive protein (CRP), a substance highly correlated with inflammation and an increased risk of heart disease and stroke.

The Most Dangerous Fat

Fat that is stored in your abdomen and packed around your organs is the most dangerous. In 2007, researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis discovered a link between this so-called visceral fat and chronic inflammation.

The Hormonal Secret to Permanent Fat Loss

Their study, published in the journal Diabetes, showed that abdominal fat strongly contributes to systemic inflammation and dysfunctional blood sugar metabolism.

So don’t be fooled into thinking that 20 or 30 pounds of flab won’t hurt you. The leaner you are, the better you will look… and the longer you will be able to enjoy your health.

The Easy Way To Remove Those Extra Pounds

As a qualified naturopath I am here to help you to lose that excess weight with a combination of:

• Food plan, tailored to meet your individual nutritional needs
• Exercise, also tailored to your level of activity and fitness
• Award winning body shaping treatment

Video – award winning body shaping treatment

Lose Centimetres Fast

Click here to learn more about our award winning body shaping treatment, which removes unwanted inches fast, giving you instant motivation to manage your eating and exercise well so you can accelerate the process of shedding those extra pounds and reclaiming the healthy appearance you deserve.

To Your Serene Good Health,
Fay Rayner

Only 4 introductory ‘Lose Centimetres Fast’ memberships left – all fully guaranteed…

Hello, Fay from Serenity Lodge day Spa here with a quick reminder that time is running out for you to secure your best value package on this clinically proven treatment that we guarantee will take centimetres off your measurements, even on your very first treatment.

You can check out an independent video report in one of my previous posts where I shared my excitement at experiencing this treatment first hand, or go straight to the registration page to see another video and register for one of the last 4 memberships with HUGE savings!

Not yet convinced?

Prove it to yourself with a trial treatment, also fully guaranteed to lose centimetres. You can register for your trial treatment of Lose Centimetres Fast here.

I hope you’re one of the lucky four, and I look forward to seeing you at Serenity Lodge Day Spa soon.

To Your Serene Good Health,
Fay Rayner

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Is eating what you want getting you the result you really want?

Whenever someone mentions nutrition if you’re like most people you start to feel bored. When we think of nutrition we automatically think of eating foods we don’t like! It is amazing what our body puts up with from what we put into our mouths. It’s also amazing how we rarely make the connection between what we eat and when we start to feel tired, bloated, forgetful, emotional  or develop excess love handles or low libido! Instead we blame age or menopause or anything else but what we have been putting into our mouth year after year.

We would never think of putting water into our petrol tank because it would ruin our engine, yet we have developed many habits that involve adding pollutants to our body’s engine. The human body is a complex creation. Just think of all the things it does for us automatically, without giving it any instructions, yet we do not stop to think about what fuel we continually put in it. The most amazing thing of all is that you do not have to do anything drastic to make yourself feel better. You can start to make small, gradual changes and begin to experience the difference almost immediately. One simple and powerful difference you can make that will cause a noticeable improvement to how you feel is to cut down your sugars.

How to boost your nutrition by cutting down on sugars

1. Think about all the foods you eat which contain added sugars, then reduce the quantity you consume of those foods. Read the labels on all packaged and canned foods before you buy them, then buy the brands with lowest amounts of added sugars.
2. Do a little research to see if you would consume less sugar by eating a diet of mostly fresh foods as opposed to packaged foods. Plan to have some low sugar, but sweet foods handy for quick snacks and to beat sugar cravings – fresh fruit, dried fruit, nuts are 3 quick suggestions.
3. Enjoy the difference you will feel!

Next post – how what you eat affects how you feel.

To Your Serene Good Health,

Fay Rayner

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