ACHIEVE NEW YEAR WEIGHT LOSS ON ITALY’S LAKE GARDA
With Christmas creeping up fast, now is the time to think ahead and book a post Christmas weight loss programme, to get in shape for 2012. What are your New Years resolutions? I have already started taking the stairs from my 7th floor flat.
Lefay Resort & Spa, overlooking Lake Garda, has designed a wellbeing body programme, which takes an holistic approach to weight loss and aims to help guests change their behaviour to ensure long term benefits.
Lefay’s Scientific Committee have established two broad categories of people with excess weight, Yin and Yang; those who over eat in social situations and those who have cravings and water retention. Although the groups overlap, they allow Lefay’s doctors to identify behaviour that causes excess weight and tailor a long-term programme to tackle it.
The programme starts with a personal consultation to establish the guest’s body and behaviour type. This is followed by a series of massages designed to eliminate excess liquids and regulate water in the body. Energetic Plantar Reflexology is used to stimulate the body and release energy.
Tailor-made treatments such as hydrotherapy, phytotherapy, using over 60 medicinal plants, and exercise and meditation, all focusing on regulating energy and improving well-being make up the rest of the programme.
A detoxifying diet complements the programme. It is designed not to restrict calories but to change dietary behaviour and patterns. The diet is rich in locally grown vegetables, whilst also offering a good balance of protein and carbohydrates, which is easy to replicate at home.
The weight loss programme costs from £1,281 (Euros1,490) including three nights at Lefay Resort & Spa on a full board basis.