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Tomorrow morning when you wake up and stand on the scales and realize you had one too many slices of pizza and you need to shed few pounds, think of Bella Pella laser for your weight loss needs. We use the clinically proven Usana Reset program.

As you're comitted to losing those last few pounds, also consider laser hair removal, then come summer you'll be ready for the beach or lake. If you're in the Denver or Boulder area come visit us: Bella Pelle laser

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

12-23-09

Dec. 23--New Year's resolutions for many Americans will mean the latest diets and gym memberships.

But losing weight and keeping it off might be as much about the psychological struggles as the physical changes.

"Some people say losing weight is in the mind," said Judith Horvath, director of the psychotherapy training program at Texas Tech's Health Sciences Center.

The HSC psychiatrist said giving yourself a mental workout can complement healthful eating and exercise regimens.

"I think they need to go hand-in-hand," she said.

Psychological feelings make the holiday season one of the worst times of the year to embark on a program, Horvath said.

"Food can be used as emotional nourishment and to calm anxieties," she said. "The holidays stir up unfulfilled longings in people. People are reminded of the things they are missing out on."

But other emotions make losing weight hard year-round, Horvath said. Feelings of depression, a loss of control, rationalizing weight gain and low self-esteem can make losing weight seem like an impossible task, local experts said.

"Some people don't think they can allow themselves to look their best because they feel like they don't deserve to be a more attractive person," Horvath said.

Most of the morbidly obese patients treated at Lubbock's Advanced Bariatric Surgery Center are depressed, said David Syn, a bariatric surgeon who opened the practice in 2002. Many of them give up the antidepressants when they shed their extra pounds, he said.

They might also feel like they're losing a friend, like they must reach their ideal weight to succeed, or like they've already failed.

"If you look at the laundry list of diets they've tried on their own and failed, that can't have a positive impact on someone's psyche," Syn said.

Syn helps his patients overcome their overeating through surgery, counseling and education, he said.

"One of the great misunderstandings about what I do is that it's just surgery," said Syn, who spends hours with his patients before surgery and follows most for many years after.

"We are empowering people to take back their lives," he said.

Horvath said people striving for less dramatic weight loss can benefit from including family and friends in the process or talking to a professional.

The Texas Tech HSC Psychiatry Clinic provides a free counseling program for patients planning to lose weight, she said.

People should try to find distractions that help them stay away from food, Horvath said.

"They have to find out how to deal with the loss of satisfaction eating provides them," she said. "It's about exchanging the reward of food for the reward of achieving their goals."

This is a question we often receive. The answer is tricky. First the Legal answer:

• The FDA says that laser hair removal isn't permanent hair removal but permanent hair reduction.

As you saw in the earlier post the FDA only says that electrolysis is the only permanent hair removal process.

Now the longer answer:

Electrolysis works by inserting a thin needle down the hair follicle and using an electrical current to kill the hair follicle. So that follicle is then permanently disabled, but the one immediately next to it will still be growing hair.

Laser hair removal has the same effect on the hair follicles, but the treatment is only effective when the hair is in its growth mode.

So is laser hair removal permanent? For all intents and purposes, yes. But if there is a hair follicle which was always between growth stages at each treatment time, then it will still be growing.

electrolysis can take maybe 20-30 sessions to clear an area. Laser takes 5-7. but you may need touch ups periodically (once-twice a year) to catch the hairs which were missed during the initial treatments, but unless there are hormonal problems, 99.9% of the hair will be gone.