Christmas is coming but you don't want to be the one getting fat

With the party season fast approaching, you'll want to look your best and a trip to a spa could help kick start your new health and beauty regime.

Thermalia Travel (www.thermalia.co.uk) has a wide choice of spas offering a range of treatments to detoxify the body and even to help you lose weight. A particular favourite are thermal spas in Italy and Eastern Europe.

For weight loss, where better than the celebrity haunt Chiva Som in Thailand. Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones allegedly spent a month here to shed her baby weight. You can book packages through a number of UK tour operators, including Erna Low (www.bodyandsoulholidays.info).

Feeling stressed? To help you relax into the party season, consider an holistic holiday with in:spa (www.inspa-retreats.com). It offers all-inclusive health and fitness holidays which combine several disciplines including yoga and massage. You can choose from several locations in Europe.

Anti-ageing treatments are widely available at many holiday resorts and for those who want more lasting effects plastic surgery is also on the menu at Treatment Abroad (www.treatmentabroad.com).

A face lift costs about 80 per cent cheaper in Bulgaria than in the UK, for example, even when factoring in the cost of flights and accommodation.

Those who simply want a touch of pampering and a beauty session or two have oodles of spa resorts to choose from around the world, one of the latest of which is the Evason Hideaway and Six Senses Spa at Zighy Bay in Oman (www.sixsenses.com)

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