Introducing: Beauty Foods

As every Pink Patch girl knows, achieving your goal weight means limiting the foods that cause weight gain. However, dieting affects every part of your body. Glowing skin and shining, silky hair are the results of good facewashes, moisturizers, shampoos and conditioners - but most importantly, of benefit-rich vitamins and minerals. Bottom line: the most vital and complete beauty treatment you need is the essential nutrition found in fats and carbs.

If you're a Feminazi Fat Fighter (FFF), devoted to eliminating every single form of fat from your life (eggs will give you thunder-thighs, skim milk isn't fat-free enough, that sort of thing), you might think that this means you can be either skinny and pimple-addled; or fat with flawless skin. This is absolutely not the case. The hardest part of maintaining or losing weight is finding the middle ground, which is why it's important to have a good understanding of what "healthy food" actually means. For girls on a diet, this can get a little muddled.

In "Beauty Foods", the Pink Patch Blog will discuss what's important to eat, how to incorporate specific fats and carbs into your diet safely, and why these fats and carbs are worth far more than the money you spend on exfoliation treatments and ionized skin creme. Depriving yourself of essential nutrition wreaks havoc on your appearance; think "Whole Body, Whole Beauty". Eating a fat or a carb won't make you a Brontosaurus.

If you're worried that delving into carbs and fats - even the healthy ones - will shatter all the willpower you're working toward (or trying to keep); the Pink Patch can help safely and effectively keep your diet on track. But it comes down how serious you are about achieving and maintaining the Whole New You. No magic wands here, Cinderella: it's time to be your own fairy godmother. Let's woman-up and become the best of what we want, and what we are.