While eating a healthy, balanced diet and getting regular exercise is vital for our well being, when it comes to shedding pounds are we doing everything we can to reach our goal weight? Lots of spas claim that certain treatments, or procedures can help speed up weight loss but do they actually work? Check out the futuristic sounding treatments that even have science on their side!
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Cool Sculpting
Imagine lying there while a beauty technician tells you that by freezing fat you can lose weight. You’d think she was having you on right? Actually no. Studies show that by applying the cooling treatment, it’s specialized so don’t go climbing in the freezer, to problem areas such as pudgy arms, flabby bellies or chunky thighs when it freezes fat cells they start to die. When these fat cells die off you could see a 20 percent reduction in your weight, although this doesn’t tend to happen until a couple of months have passed. Interested? You might want to save up first as this bespoke CoolSculpting treatment isn’t cheap, you’re looking at around $1,800 per session but, unlike other faddy treatments, it does work.
Seaweed Body Wrap
Out of all the treatments we’re talking about the seaweed, or cloth body wrap will seem the most relaxing. First, you’re bound up like an ancient Egyptian mummy while the mineral soaked cloth soaks through to your skin. Then you simply lie there under a warm, or heated blanket as he cloth draws out water weight from your body. The treatment itself works you’ll end up losing between six to 20 inches in your first treatment alone but is it safe? We’re not totally sure because it leaves you feeling severely dehydrated, which isn’t good for anyone and as soon as you have a drink or two all the water floods back into your system.
Laser Therapy
We know that it sounds more than a little ominous putting yourself in front of a high-intensity infrared beam. But if you’re serious about losing weight quickly, you may be pleased to know that a single session could help you slim down. So how does it work? The Vela Shape 11 is a deep tissue massage treatment combined with a infrared light that aims to ‘shrink’ yes shrink fat from the areas you’re struggling with. Each session lasts around 20 to 40 minutes and participants have successfully lost inches from their thighs, stomachs and arms as well as feeling slimmer overall. It’s fairly budget friendly too with each session costing between $300, and $600 and is performed all over the country.
Steam Sauna
Unless you’ve been living under the rock the chances are you’ve been in a sauna or two before. Saunas work by ridding your body of any impurities, they are drawn out through the skin while you sweat buckets in a heated, room or wood lodge. While the theory of a sauna doesn’t sound too pleasant in reality they leave you feeling recharged, refreshed and quite relaxed. Some spas also like to add aromatherapy oils such as lavender, rosemary and orange zest to the stream to create a sweet-smelling atmosphere.
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