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Cellulite
Health | April 06, 2015
Ladies, we definitely need to get over our OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior) with cellulite. It’s not a disease or a flaw or the result of losing out on the genetic lottery. It’s also not an indication of being out of shape or unhealthy unless you know for certain that your body fat percentage is less than ideal and that you need to shed some pounds. There are much more important signs of being out of shape and unhealthy then some cellulite on our buns or thighs.
Upwards of 90 percent of women have cellulite. From overweight to skinny to athletic (yes athletic!) women have cellulite. It’s just how we are made.
Cellulite has more to do with the nature of our skin than anything else. As Vanessa Bennington points out in a great piece on cellulite and female athletes, the structure of skin for men (and very few women) tends to behave like a compression sock while for most women the skin behaves like a pair of fishnet stockings. In other words, a man could conceivably have more fat on his thighs than a woman, yet the woman would have cellulite because what little fat she may have still pokes through the gaps due to the structure of her skin. Again, it’s just how we are made.
It’s really too bad that magazines, TV shows and blogs obsess about cellulite and insist on shaming celebrities as well as everybody else for having some. Even worse, those ideas and images can get into our heads and have a terrible affect on our sense of self and wellbeing. That, in turn, shifts our focus away from true health and wellbeing and toward neurotically obsessing over things that are, in fact, normal. Never mind the fact that in this day and age of photoshop we rarely get to see what real, strong women actually look like in the first place!
All those creams and weird brushes that promise to get rid of cellulite are just pointless gimmicks. What we should really be focusing on is eating healthy and kicking butt at the ZGYM. Diet and exercise go a long way in ridding our bodies of unhealthy fat and, therefore, diminishing the amount of cellulite we may have. Again though, don’t obsess over it!
Let me now what you think about cellulite and how you got over it (or are getting over it). 🙂
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Cellulite is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I finally joined the gym and am hoping losing fat and gaining muscle will help make it less visible. I would be completely happy with myself if it weren’t for that nasty bulge of weird stuff under my bum. I won’t even wear short shorts in the summer anymore 🙁
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Admittedly my diet is not 100% clean. For the most part I do pretty well though. I am happy with the way I look however whenever I see you working out Z I feel so much more motivated to keep going. I do not see anything wrong with you at all..perfect! I love your workouts and how it has transformed me inside and out. ♡♡♡♡
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Cellulite is definitely in my genetic makeup. So I try not to obsess but it is a struggle with all the media images around. It’s a part of this woman’s package. I do notice that it gets worse if I start eating a lot of unhealthy fats (fast food restaurants, excess sugar). It gets better when I eat healthy fats (olive oil, nuts, avocado) and build the muscles in my legs which smooths it out. I only have two options- big soft thighs or big hard smooth thighs. I prefer the latter. Even if you have cellulite you can still be shapely and fit. Obsessing over it doesn’t get you very far. Trying to focus on your well-being overall basically increases your attractiveness.
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Women should consume CLA often and keep doing zgym. Simply as that.
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curitiba, parana, brazil
I don´t have cellulite or maybe I have very less…when I was 15kg more than I am now I used to have lots of cellulite specially on my abs, butt and legs…now after losing weight, they also went (thanks God!) but I am aiming to have an abs like Zuzka…oh God your abs are looking soo good now, better than ever…what have you been doing to get this six packs? Tell us please! This is a very nice topic for next coffee talk…:) see you, take care.
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think she does her workouts (shes working out for more than 8 years I think) 😉 and is very consistent with her diet!
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curitiba, parana, brazil
Yes Lisi, I know about it. I started dieting now and I realized a huge change in my body after 4 months of dieting following almost same diet as Zuzka. And yes she has been working out for many years…but I do hope to have an abs like her one day 🙂 this is my dream! Thanks, see you take care.
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Yeah. Cellulite sucks. I have it on my butt and thighs. But, I eat about 75%good///25%naughty and I’m ok with that. I’m healthy and fit and I think that HAS to be good enough for me. Or I’ll go nuts! And I take comfort in the fact that my 3 year old daughter whose never eaten jjunk food and has cellulite. Like you said, it’s how most women, even little women, are made.
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seattle, washington
Zuzka, guys have it sometime as well and the scars and other skin imperfections that seem to freak people out about themselves.
On your shoulder is that an scar from an injection?
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Hi Zuzka!
Its springtime so everybody talks about cellulite 😀 I just had via work, a class of “what cellulite really is” and the main point was that its all about our PH balance in the body, if youre too acid then you will have cellulite.
What do you Zuzka think of this? Or what do you think of the bodys ph balance?
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helsinki, finland
Cellilite dosen’t look good, but I don’t think it that much. Sometimes I might see those “not good looking spots” on my skin, but it dosen’t bother me at all. I’m more intresting to be in shape and live healthy life, which means that I feel good, inside and out, so cellulite is just something what is there and there, and I’m fine with it 🙂 Thank you again such a nice post <3
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I guess I am one of the lucky ones, cellulite tends to stay off me as long as I don’t get into the overweight category. That said i am covered in stretch marks so you can’t have everything! I think it is important to just accept the best you can be and stop worrying. I got a chronic long term condition (not life threatening) but does put everything into perspective, whats a bit of cellulite! 🙂 x