Loose skin and abdominal weight gain after 40 / after menopause

Women in their 40s, 50s and 60s have specific needs when it comes to skin firmness, fat accumulation and cellulite.

Skin firmness deteriorates over the years, not because of the normal ageing process as many people think, but due to the cumulative effect of sugar and excessive carbohydrate intake, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, stress, alcohol intake, smoking and medicine use. The same factors affect blood vessel and lymph vessel health, leading to fluid retention and poor circulation. But most importantly, these same factors lead to the accumulation of fat and cellulite.

Most of those problems start becoming evident by the age of twenty but most women don't pay any attention and get on with their unnatural diet and sedentary lifestyle. By the age of thirty, cellulite, water retention and skin looseness start becoming more serious. However, during their twenties and thirties, due to the action of oestrogen, skin firmness stays at good levels and fat tends to accumulate around the thighs.

What works for a twenty year old does not work as well for a fifty year old

However, by the age of forty, things start to change. Skin becomes loose and fat tends to accumulate in the stomach and arms, due to the decrease in estrogen and constantly high secretion of cortisol, the stress hormone - the end result of putting our bodies and minds under constant stress for decades. Therefore, what works for a twenty year old does not work as well for a fifty year old. Women in their 40s, 50s and 60s have different needs in terms of diet and exercise, and also in terms of body treatments. The emphasis is on arm and abdominal fat reduction, skin firming and sometimes chronic fluid retention, and this is where we focus with our Lipo Consultation and LipoTherapeia treatments. Foods, supplements and forms of exercise that are suitable for abdominal fat loss, skin firming and blood vessel strengthening are suggested.

Our Lipo Active Cellulite Massage, one of the five components of LipoTherapeia, is ideal for skin firming, especially for the arms where fast results are seen, and also the abdomen and waist (love handles). The Lipo Actives Plus, our anti-cellulite cream that focuses on fat loss, works especially well on the stomach too. On the other hand, another component of LipoTherapeia, the Lipo Active Cellulite Wrap is ideal for those women who suffer from chronic fluid retention, and works extremely well in combination with Lipo Actives Classic, our anti-cellulite cream that primarily focuses on fluid retention.

With enough effort by both therapist and client the body can change, regardless of age

Cellulite, after three or more decades is usually firmly established on specific tissues, usually under the thigh and sometimes stomach skin, and cannot be completely eliminated, but can be certainly reduced and softened, with the combination of the right treatments, creams and diet/exercise regime. People think that after a certain age all is lost and cannot improve. However, with enough effort on both the client's part and the therapist's part almost everything can change and the body can become and look much healthier and younger. Here at LipoTherapeia we have always done our best to help women achieve those goals for the last 9 years, and we are ready to do it for you too.