You are already dieting and paying attention to what you eat and drink, so make sure that your food and beverages are nourishing your skin. Pay attention to ingesting water, electrolytes, and vitamins A, E, and B complex.
Water and electrolytes go hand in hand and must be balanced to properly hydrate your skin. There are many figures regarding how much water you should be drinking daily, but there is so much variation in how much water different people should be ingesting that these figures cannot be taken as law and must only serve as a guideline.
Pay attention to your body; drink enough water to be hydrated. If it feels like water is sloshing about in your stomach or if you are urinating too frequently and the color of the urine is clear to very pale yellow, then you are either drinking too much water or not ingesting enough electrolytes. Potassium, sodium, chloride, magnesium, calcium, bicarbonate, phosphate, and sulfate are the electrolytes that help us assimilate water properly.
Ingesting fruits and vegetables, especially banana or coconut, will help you stay balanced. Many fruits and vegetable, like avocado, mango, and berries, will also have the important vitamins your skin needs. Sports drinks or waters with added electrolytes can help in a pinch, but they often have loads of sugar, which will sabotage your diet.
Avoid Sagging Skin When Dieting
Losing weight on a diet is a cause for excitement and improved health, proof that your efforts are paying off. It would be a shame to still be embarrassed about your body due to sagging skin after working so hard to attain your healthy weight. Luckily, there are ways to tighten your skin and improve its tone and elasticity.
Skin Tightening Procedures
After all is said and done and you have reached your weight loss goals, there are numerous plastic surgeries for “tucking” loose skin so that it is tight against your newly small body. These are a bit expensive and come with some amount of risk, as do all surgeries.
There are also laser procedures that are being increasingly used to tighten loose skin. It is said that they do not pose as much risk as plastic surgery, but they still have a higher price tag than natural, long term maintenance that will continue to keep your skin healthy day by day. Even if you choose a skin tightening procedure initially, topical applications and diet are best used to maintain skin elasticity and tone.
Topical Applications
While you are taking care of your skin and body from the inside, you should also take care of it from the outside. Avoid using complex soaps and washes that dry out your skin. Rinses and balms made with herbs that have tannins, salicylic acid, or both, and do not have harmful plant constituents, will help to tighten your skin. Willow bark and witch hazel are two examples of such herbs.
Topical skin care products that contain copper have been shown to be beneficial for skin elasticity. Olive oil is a great moisturizer all by itself when used sparingly, and many simple and mild soaps use olive oil as a base. Large amounts of sun exposure should be avoided, but a little bit of sun exposure with the proper protection on your skin is beneficial for vitamin D absorption.
Cindi Lewis writes for glossy.com a skin care and beauty products online retailer.
