Burning fat using "cool" technology?

drewlfitness
drewlfitness Posts: 114 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Has anyone actually tried this? There are things online and "doctors" coming out with services where they using cooling technology to basically melt fat off.

Just curious if anyone has actually tried this.
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  • NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner
    NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner Posts: 1,018 Member
    No.
    Just no.

    Calorie deficit. Eat less than you burn. Save your money and don't buy into the money making schemes.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    Sounds like some "doctors" found a way to separate gullible people from their money.
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  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Well, shivering does burn calories, but I hate to be cold.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited May 2015
    I go into a walk in freeze after I workout and read magazines and check emails... Has not worked yet..

    But I am steadfast in my feat..

  • LolBroScience
    LolBroScience Posts: 4,537 Member
    I'm pretty cool and I burn fat
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    SMH. People will try anything other than actually eating right and exercising.
  • Dave55412
    Dave55412 Posts: 88 Member
    The only melting they do is melting money from your bank account.
  • drewlfitness
    drewlfitness Posts: 114 Member
    Ha, yeah, I know. I just wanted to see if anyone has actually done it. It's amusing at least.

    I might try in 5 years if it's still around. If it's a joke, it will probably be gone by then...

    http://www.coolsculpting.com/

    Enjoy if you haven't already.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    LolBroScience wrote: »
    I'm pretty cool and I burn fat

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  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    drewlamonte wrote: »
    Ha, yeah, I know. I just wanted to see if anyone has actually done it. It's amusing at least.

    I might try in 5 years if it's still around. If it's a joke, it will probably be gone by then...

    http://www.coolsculpting.com/

    Enjoy if you haven't already.

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  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    drewlamonte wrote: »
    Ha, yeah, I know. I just wanted to see if anyone has actually done it. It's amusing at least.

    I might try in 5 years if it's still around. If it's a joke, it will probably be gone by then...

    http://www.coolsculpting.com/

    Enjoy if you haven't already.

    That is actually pretty interesting. Sounds like a non-surgical alternative to liposuction.
  • drewlfitness
    drewlfitness Posts: 114 Member
    If it works...so give it a go and let us know?

    I might hang out in the whole foods beer room 30 minutes a day in the mean time.
  • _incogNEATo_
    _incogNEATo_ Posts: 4,537 Member
    I'm going to go home and stick a popsicle in my belly button.
  • NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner
    NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner Posts: 1,018 Member
    There is a weird doctor near my town that does this. I'd rather pull out my own finger nails than let him near me lol
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    drewlamonte wrote: »
    If it works...so give it a go and let us know?

    I might hang out in the whole foods beer room 30 minutes a day in the mean time.

    I doubt that would do the same thing, but let us know how that works out for you.

    I couldn't find anything that said how they freeze the fat cells enough to kill them without also freezing the skin. I wonder how that works.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    I swallowed a mini fan once while it was still on..i actually gained weight...
  • angelexperiment
    angelexperiment Posts: 1,917 Member
    _incogNEATo_ wrote: »
    I'm going to go home and stick a popsicle in my belly button.
    Lmao! Let us know how that works for ya!

  • pollypocket1021
    pollypocket1021 Posts: 533 Member
    drewlamonte wrote: »
    If it works...so give it a go and let us know?

    I might hang out in the whole foods beer room 30 minutes a day in the mean time.

    It works, but it can cause permanent nerve damage. You can only reduce a spot about the size of a stick of butter. So if it is effective, it can leave you with divots and ridges.

    There are only three technologies I know of that work and cool sculpting is one of them. But I wouldn't have it done, even if it was given to me for free.
  • aggie2145
    aggie2145 Posts: 18 Member
    I use cryotherapy to aid in recovery after long runs and to manage swelling and inflammation. In the past few weeks, I have noticed that the waiting room is FILLED with women using the therapy sessions to lose weight. There must have been an article or television show that hyped weight loss because my center does not advertise any weight loss effect.
    However, I have noticed some incidental weight loss. I can easily add an extra run the day after my cryo session -a run I would have been incapable of completing otherwise. But that still requires eating right and exercising...and cryotherapy is a very expensive way to lose an extra pound a month.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    so if I stick my head in the freezer for an hour a day, how much weight will I lose?
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    edited May 2015
    Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
    drewlamonte wrote: »
    Ha, yeah, I know. I just wanted to see if anyone has actually done it. It's amusing at least.

    I might try in 5 years if it's still around. If it's a joke, it will probably be gone by then...

    http://www.coolsculpting.com/

    Enjoy if you haven't already.

    That is actually pretty interesting. Sounds like a non-surgical alternative to liposuction.

    Yep.

    In this case, if it isn't a complete load of you-know-what, one actually can spot reduce. I looked it up a while ago and the clinical tests showed slight but statistically significant localized decreases in fat deposits. Not enough for me to spend money giving it a try, but enough that I don't dismiss it as being utter quackery. At least, not until there's a follow-up study that fails to reproduce the initial results.
  • NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner
    NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner Posts: 1,018 Member
    edited May 2015
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    so if I stick my head in the freezer for an hour a day, how much weight will I lose?

    That would ruin your pretty face. Stop it!
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    aggie2145 wrote: »
    I use cryotherapy to aid in recovery after long runs and to manage swelling and inflammation. In the past few weeks, I have noticed that the waiting room is FILLED with women using the therapy sessions to lose weight. There must have been an article or television show that hyped weight loss because my center does not advertise any weight loss effect.
    However, I have noticed some incidental weight loss. I can easily add an extra run the day after my cryo session -a run I would have been incapable of completing otherwise. But that still requires eating right and exercising...and cryotherapy is a very expensive way to lose an extra pound a month.

    isn't cryotherapy when they freeze dead people to revive them at a later date? I am thinking Sylvestor Stalone in demolition man...LOL
  • _incogNEATo_
    _incogNEATo_ Posts: 4,537 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    so if I stick my head in the freezer for an hour a day, how much weight will I lose?

    Brain freeze?
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    aimeerace wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    so if I stick my head in the freezer for an hour a day, how much weight will I lose?

    That would ruin your pretty face. Stop it!

    ok, what if I freezer burn my stomach? Will that get rid of stomach fat..?
  • NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner
    NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner Posts: 1,018 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    aimeerace wrote: »
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    so if I stick my head in the freezer for an hour a day, how much weight will I lose?

    That would ruin your pretty face. Stop it!

    ok, what if I freezer burn my stomach? Will that get rid of stomach fat..?

    I get this feeling that you don't even have stomach fat. But if you wanna get shirtless... I'll hold it for you! Pahahahahahaha
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    pollypocket1021 wrote: »
    drewlamonte wrote: »
    If it works...so give it a go and let us know?

    I might hang out in the whole foods beer room 30 minutes a day in the mean time.

    It works, but it can cause permanent nerve damage. You can only reduce a spot about the size of a stick of butter. So if it is effective, it can leave you with divots and ridges.

    You can only freeze a spot the size of a stick of butter? You mean ever, or only something that size per session, or what?
  • FitForL1fe
    FitForL1fe Posts: 1,872 Member
    LolBroScience wrote: »
    I'm pretty cool and I burn fat

    +1
  • nsimon24
    nsimon24 Posts: 115 Member
    There is actually some science behind it, but they have a way to go before applying it for weight loss strategies. Berkeley has done a study on it in mice - http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/01/08/energy-burning-brown-fat-protein/ and several other studies have confirmed its potential. I suspect that there is just enough behind it to allow the snake-oil salesmen to profit, but right now it is still in research stages. Diet and exercise are still the best!

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