Best Way to Beat Cellulite

By Joyce Vedral
eDiets Guest Columnist

Yes, you can get rid of cellulite, but there's no magic cream to melt it away. The only way to zap it is to work out the right way. How does this work?

Cellulite is bunched up fat that clings to the tissue beneath your skin and gives your skin a crater-like appearance -- something like an orange peel, or the more popularly thought of, cottage cheese.

The fitness pros at eDiets can show you how to combine exercise and nutrition to get the best results.

As you exercise and challenge the muscle in a specific way, you develop a long, sleek muscle under your skin, and the bunched up fat no longer shows through. In effect, the cellulite is gon

Many women have it on their thighs. Though that is the area we will talk about today, you can reduce cellulite anywhere on your body.

I used to have plenty of it myself, but now I don't have any! Take a look at my photos -- I'm not 16! If I can do it, believe me, you can, too. It's a science! If you do the workout, it has to work.

How long does it take to see results? By working out the right way you can eliminate much of your cellulite in 12 weeks. To speed up the process, add more exercises to your routine. Here is a good start:

Front thigh cellulite Be Gone Standing Leg Extension

Position: Stand straight with one hand holding the back of a chair for balance.

Movement: Keeping one leg straight, bend the other by raising your knee as high as possible. (See my start photo). Extend your working leg out as far as possible, flexing your front thigh as you go. Without resting, bend your leg and return to start and repeat until you have done 12 repetitions. Repeat for the other leg. Without resting, move to the next exercise.

Front-back thigh Cellulite Be-Gone Wide Leg Semi-Squat

Position: Stand with your legs a bit more than shoulder-width apart, toes pointed outward, and hold a dumbbell with palms facing your body at the center of your body as you see me doing in my start photo.

Movement: Feeling the stretch in your front and back thigh muscles as you go, lower yourself to a comfortable position -- not quite to a normal squat. Flexing your front and back thigh muscles as hard as possible, return to start. Repeat 12 times.

Go back to the first exercise and repeat both exercises two more times for a total of three times each.

You can eliminate cellulite from your entire body by zoning in on the cellulite areas with carefully formulated exercises. For more cellulite zapping exercises, visit Joyce at joycevedral and get a copy of her Cellulite Be Gone package deal.

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Ageless Joyce Vedral, a grandmother with the bone density and shape of a woman half her age, has penned the #1 New York Times best-seller Bottoms Up!, as well as Gut Busters, The Fat-Burning Workout, Definition, Weight Training Made Easy and Bone-Building Body-Shaping Workout. Joyce has been a frequent guest on Oprah, Montel Williams and the Today show.