Getting over Pimples - Steps You Can Take.
October 9th 2008 01:17
Having pimples can be a totally horrible, emotionally damaging, and self-esteem destroying experience. When it is just a zit on the chin, a pimple is easy enough to live with. But when those painful, irritating and debilitating eruptions seem to be spreading from one side of your face to another, down your neck and across your shoulders and back, then pimples are beyond painful. They are distressing, embarrassing and can really leave you feeling discouraged, upset, and lonely - especially when you feel too ugly to be seen in public. It doesn’t matter if you are 14 or 40, pimples still have the same effect on how you feel about yourself and how you think others look at you, and how they see you as a person.
Skin outbreaks can happen to anyone (okay, so some “beautiful people” never seem to have a pimple… get over it. It’s in their genes.) You, however, are like those “other” people, the ones destined to deal with lumpy, sore, nasty pimples that dare you to pick, squeeze and poison with gunk from pharmaceutical companies.
Well, yes… you can do that. Picking and squeezing pimples leads to infection, swelling, scabbing and scarring. Nice! (Not!) And those chemical creams, washes, ointments and who knows what else they pimp at you contain enough toxic substances that over time, well - you just don’t know how safe they really are, do you?
There are a lot of factors that affect why your skin breaks out:
Diet - what you eat and drink absolutely DOES contribute to skin outbreaks;
Personal Hygiene - how you care for your skin and products you use make a difference;
Stress - emotional and physical stress, such as depression, hormones, exercise or lack of.
These three areas are within your control to one degree or another. So, here are some long-term, safe and completely do-able steps you can take now that will ease the burden on your skin and help you experience a healthy, glowing, blemish-free complexion.
Let’s start with diet.
You’ve probably heard that chocolate does cause pimples, and also that it doesn’t. So, when it comes to diet, what do you believe - who do you believe? Instead of looking to current expert opinion, why not consider what just seems logical and sensible? That is, the health of your entire body - from the inside to the out - depends upon ONE thing - just one thing: the health of your CELLS. Yes, those tiny little workhorses that number in the trillions and trillions.
Healthy cells will do their jobs - which vary from making tears, to producing insulin, to growing your nails, to fighting infections, to creating the hemoglobin for your blood and millions of other tasks that keep you alive. Your skin is made up of billions of cells. They get the fuel they need to do their jobs from the food and fluids you pump into your stomach. They also need the air - fresh air - because they need oxygen as part of the fuel system to keep them working.
The fuel these cells need include proteins, carbohydrates, fats, water, vitamins and minerals - the six currently known nutrients that you obtain from your every day diet.
“Great,” you say. “I eat meat and bread and fries, and an apple a day.”
Perhaps your diet is not that dangerously poor.
However, there is more than enough scientific evidence, from lots of different sources, that demonstrates the essential nature of your food and fluid intake.
1. Change from eating a diet that satisfies your taste buds, to one that nourishes the very cells that keep you functioning on the planet.
2. Get rid of all sugar - or at least 95% of it - from your diet. This stuff alone is responsible for contributing to pimples, and destroying the function of the immune system which is a key player in healthy cells - healthy skin.
3. Drink plain fresh water. Simple. Your cells when they work so hard produce waste material which needs to be cleansed out. When you do your number 2s in the toilet, you want to be sure you’re helping your body to get rid of toxins out through the intended waste disposal unit in your butt, and not through your skin.
4. Eliminate processed foods. If your diet is prepackaged, precooked, “just-add-water” or “microwavable”, fast-food based, or instant, YOU are giving yourself pimples. Help your body to be your best friend. Feed it properly and it will look after you.
5. Follow this diet plan: 90% of the time EAT well. 10% of the time, allow for snacks, or junk food. It’s the 90/10 rule for diet survival. Think of it this way; over the course of 7 days, your diet is made up of 21 main meals - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Then you maybe eat 14 snacks, and in some diets, some may eat 7 “suppers” - the little snack before bed. That’s 42 times you eat. So, 90% of that is around 38. Now, the 90/10 diet rule means you eat 38 healthy good-for-your-cells meals. Then the other 4 are snacks - a burger, or fries, or a chocolate bar, or cake, or a shake, or pizza… you get the idea.
A simple healthy diet is one that contains 50% fruit and vegetable, with at least half of these in a raw form. The other 50% is made up of 25% proteins - lean meat, eggs, lentils, fish, soy or other beans (as unprocessed as possible); and 25% carbs - wholegrain, whole-meal, unprocessed breads, pasta, rice, crackers, other grains and cereals. There are lots of experts who would readily dispute these diet percentages, but for now, you are simply looking for an answer - and if you start with this diet method and stick with it for at least SIX weeks you will start to notice a very major difference. You will naturally begin to lose excess weight (a bonus), and YOUR SKIN will show signs of healing.
When it comes to personal hygiene your skin needs nourishing on the outside so you need to be cautious about using chemicals to treat pimples. The temptation to use some kind of instant-fix will be there. However, if you stick to pure non-chemical non-animal-tallow soap (those made with coconut or natural oils are best) and warm water, then follow with pure rich moisturizers, you will be helping your skin. You also need to use natural skin care treatments. Try honey, pure olive oil, cinnamon and salt, combining a teaspoon of honey and oil with a generous shake of cinnamon and salt mixed in. Spread that gently over the infected pimples and let it sit for a good 30 minutes. Then rinse off well with a clean cloth and very warm water. Follow with good pure moisturizers (those made with olive oil are excellent).
As for stress - do exercise in whatever form you can manage. For some this is swimming, walking, playing sport, yoga, running. Do what ever your body allows you to do. If you are injured or experience other mobility issues, do whatever you can manage, but do something. Stretch, weights, water/aqua-robics - anything is better than nothing.
Take high-quality nutrient supplements. Again, some may dispute this. The challenge for you would be to start with Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) at doses of least 1000mg. Check with a health professional before you start and get the appropriate advice. However a high quality Vitamin C at this dose is only likely to do you good. It is a water-soluble vitamin and is not stored in the body so you must take it daily in this dose - or as prescribed by a health professional. If you are told - without evidence to support - that you only need 250 mg, seek a second opinion.
Also recommended is Vitamin B, and E, Zinc, Magnesium, Calcium and one of the high-quality algae powders or tablets, such as spirulina or barley grass - tastes horrid on its own, and best as a capsule. Of course, seek professional advice regarding any of these.
Just taking these basic steps will make a difference to clearing your skin of pimples - with these steps, all that's left for you to do is give your skin and body time, at least six weeks. Get your calendar and cross off each day as it passes and if you need to, take photos of the affected skin so you can see from day one to day 42 just how much difference there really is.
This is a life long plan, not a quick fix, and is intended to help you experience healthy skin and a great glowing complexion now and for years to come.
Skin outbreaks can happen to anyone (okay, so some “beautiful people” never seem to have a pimple… get over it. It’s in their genes.) You, however, are like those “other” people, the ones destined to deal with lumpy, sore, nasty pimples that dare you to pick, squeeze and poison with gunk from pharmaceutical companies.
Well, yes… you can do that. Picking and squeezing pimples leads to infection, swelling, scabbing and scarring. Nice! (Not!) And those chemical creams, washes, ointments and who knows what else they pimp at you contain enough toxic substances that over time, well - you just don’t know how safe they really are, do you?
There are a lot of factors that affect why your skin breaks out:
Diet - what you eat and drink absolutely DOES contribute to skin outbreaks;
Personal Hygiene - how you care for your skin and products you use make a difference;
Stress - emotional and physical stress, such as depression, hormones, exercise or lack of.
These three areas are within your control to one degree or another. So, here are some long-term, safe and completely do-able steps you can take now that will ease the burden on your skin and help you experience a healthy, glowing, blemish-free complexion.
Let’s start with diet.
You’ve probably heard that chocolate does cause pimples, and also that it doesn’t. So, when it comes to diet, what do you believe - who do you believe? Instead of looking to current expert opinion, why not consider what just seems logical and sensible? That is, the health of your entire body - from the inside to the out - depends upon ONE thing - just one thing: the health of your CELLS. Yes, those tiny little workhorses that number in the trillions and trillions.
Healthy cells will do their jobs - which vary from making tears, to producing insulin, to growing your nails, to fighting infections, to creating the hemoglobin for your blood and millions of other tasks that keep you alive. Your skin is made up of billions of cells. They get the fuel they need to do their jobs from the food and fluids you pump into your stomach. They also need the air - fresh air - because they need oxygen as part of the fuel system to keep them working.
The fuel these cells need include proteins, carbohydrates, fats, water, vitamins and minerals - the six currently known nutrients that you obtain from your every day diet.
“Great,” you say. “I eat meat and bread and fries, and an apple a day.”
Perhaps your diet is not that dangerously poor.
However, there is more than enough scientific evidence, from lots of different sources, that demonstrates the essential nature of your food and fluid intake.
1. Change from eating a diet that satisfies your taste buds, to one that nourishes the very cells that keep you functioning on the planet.
2. Get rid of all sugar - or at least 95% of it - from your diet. This stuff alone is responsible for contributing to pimples, and destroying the function of the immune system which is a key player in healthy cells - healthy skin.
3. Drink plain fresh water. Simple. Your cells when they work so hard produce waste material which needs to be cleansed out. When you do your number 2s in the toilet, you want to be sure you’re helping your body to get rid of toxins out through the intended waste disposal unit in your butt, and not through your skin.
4. Eliminate processed foods. If your diet is prepackaged, precooked, “just-add-water” or “microwavable”, fast-food based, or instant, YOU are giving yourself pimples. Help your body to be your best friend. Feed it properly and it will look after you.
5. Follow this diet plan: 90% of the time EAT well. 10% of the time, allow for snacks, or junk food. It’s the 90/10 rule for diet survival. Think of it this way; over the course of 7 days, your diet is made up of 21 main meals - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Then you maybe eat 14 snacks, and in some diets, some may eat 7 “suppers” - the little snack before bed. That’s 42 times you eat. So, 90% of that is around 38. Now, the 90/10 diet rule means you eat 38 healthy good-for-your-cells meals. Then the other 4 are snacks - a burger, or fries, or a chocolate bar, or cake, or a shake, or pizza… you get the idea.
A simple healthy diet is one that contains 50% fruit and vegetable, with at least half of these in a raw form. The other 50% is made up of 25% proteins - lean meat, eggs, lentils, fish, soy or other beans (as unprocessed as possible); and 25% carbs - wholegrain, whole-meal, unprocessed breads, pasta, rice, crackers, other grains and cereals. There are lots of experts who would readily dispute these diet percentages, but for now, you are simply looking for an answer - and if you start with this diet method and stick with it for at least SIX weeks you will start to notice a very major difference. You will naturally begin to lose excess weight (a bonus), and YOUR SKIN will show signs of healing.
When it comes to personal hygiene your skin needs nourishing on the outside so you need to be cautious about using chemicals to treat pimples. The temptation to use some kind of instant-fix will be there. However, if you stick to pure non-chemical non-animal-tallow soap (those made with coconut or natural oils are best) and warm water, then follow with pure rich moisturizers, you will be helping your skin. You also need to use natural skin care treatments. Try honey, pure olive oil, cinnamon and salt, combining a teaspoon of honey and oil with a generous shake of cinnamon and salt mixed in. Spread that gently over the infected pimples and let it sit for a good 30 minutes. Then rinse off well with a clean cloth and very warm water. Follow with good pure moisturizers (those made with olive oil are excellent).
As for stress - do exercise in whatever form you can manage. For some this is swimming, walking, playing sport, yoga, running. Do what ever your body allows you to do. If you are injured or experience other mobility issues, do whatever you can manage, but do something. Stretch, weights, water/aqua-robics - anything is better than nothing.
Take high-quality nutrient supplements. Again, some may dispute this. The challenge for you would be to start with Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) at doses of least 1000mg. Check with a health professional before you start and get the appropriate advice. However a high quality Vitamin C at this dose is only likely to do you good. It is a water-soluble vitamin and is not stored in the body so you must take it daily in this dose - or as prescribed by a health professional. If you are told - without evidence to support - that you only need 250 mg, seek a second opinion.
Also recommended is Vitamin B, and E, Zinc, Magnesium, Calcium and one of the high-quality algae powders or tablets, such as spirulina or barley grass - tastes horrid on its own, and best as a capsule. Of course, seek professional advice regarding any of these.
Just taking these basic steps will make a difference to clearing your skin of pimples - with these steps, all that's left for you to do is give your skin and body time, at least six weeks. Get your calendar and cross off each day as it passes and if you need to, take photos of the affected skin so you can see from day one to day 42 just how much difference there really is.
This is a life long plan, not a quick fix, and is intended to help you experience healthy skin and a great glowing complexion now and for years to come.
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