Sensible Eating

The best way of reducing weight is to eat sensibly. Know what is good for your body and what is not. Don't be over strict with yourself-just take a little less of everything. Avoid buffets because they tempt you to eat more. Your brain takes 20 minutes to signal that your stomach is full. All that time you are consuming unneeded calories.

Cambridge Diet

The Cambridge Diet is a low calorie diet which limits you to 1,000 calories per day. It doesn't restrict your intake of proteins, carbohydrates etc.

Exercise

Exercise does much more than just burn calories. It helps to prevent the body triggering the starvation or hibernatory metabolic response. When you feel hungry the body can start to conserve energy. Not what you want. Exercise will resist this tendency.

However, some people overdo it in an attempt to get slim rapidly. Many finally give up because it is too tiring. It is not sensible to expect results in a short period. Additionally, over-exercise causes our blood sugar level to drop and then we feel hungry, and guilty!

For the elderly and handicapped, vigorous exercise is not an option for losing weight.

Also beware of combining a crash diet with on over-strenuous exercise regime. Whilst this may work in the short term you are depriving your body of essential nutrients, and over-stressing joints and ligaments. You'll end up looking and feeling unwell.

Slimming Myths

Super models with their gaunt faces and preternaturally slim frames send all the wrong messages to our young people. These days we are persuaded that beauty and emaciation are synonymous.

People are adopting extreme weight control behaviors in the hope of obtaining that 'perfect size 10' figure. These people look for some magic formula that will make them slim and attractive. Such methods include dieting, fasting, induced vomiting, and exercising to extreme. There is also an increasing incidence of abuse of medications such as laxatives and slimming pills. These methods are useless and frequently damaging.

Eating disorders such as Bulimia and Anorexia Nervosa are also on the increase and this combination of dangerous semi-starvation and lack of personal esteem can ultimately be fatal.

Ultrasonolipolysis

Our philosophy at 'UNISENSE The Slimming Institute' is to lose weight and stay healthy. We use a technique called Ultrasonolipolysis (a form of ultrasound), in which fatty issue is broken down. A lymphatic drainage treatment follows the ultrasound and this allows the freed fatty acids to be excreted. It is essential during the course of the treatment that a person drinks at least three litres of water a day. In six weeks of treatment you can trim up to four inches off your figure. Slimming by Unisense doesn't leave any scars; doesn't require the use of post-treatment girdles (as is the case with lipo-suction) and doesn’t have any harmful side effects. "Losing weight is not about looking glamorous like a movie star, it’s about staying healthy," says Dr. Jean Pierre Naim, creator of the Unisense treatment.

UNISENSE The Slimming Institute, on the second floor of Central Festival Phuket is open daily from 11 am to 9 pm, 076-249717-8