Sweat bands and waist trainers?

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  • gamesandgains
    gamesandgains Posts: 640 Member
    I didn't read any replies, all I want to say is they're all scams. Save your money.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    ManiacalLaugh wrote: »
    antennachick wrote: »
    Waist trainers/girdles can benefit women after childbirth fyi...helps shrink everything. Doctors even recommend them. However they are unhealthy if they are too tight...some people need them for back support or other problems as well so dont judge if you dont know.

    For the first six weeks, for those who have had an exceptionally difficult labor. "Exceptionally" - as in not the norm.

    And I really, REALLY don't think this applies to someone posting on a weight loss forum.

    Regardless, if they aren't "too tight," they aren't "waist trainers", they're just corsets.

    There's so much wrong in this and your previous post.

    A corset in its purest historically accurate form is steel boned and incredibly restrictive, used for reducing the waist 4-6 inches plus. It is not a dangerous garment when worn for short periods, even if worn every day, as long as you aren't using it for extreme waist training in its purest definition. Waist training which actually refers to corseting in aforementioned steel boned corsets to an ever decreasing size can indeed be dangerous but for the many women I know who corset regularly, myself included, we don't do it to a level that's rearranging ribs and organs or atrophying muscles, that practice died out with the Victorians except for some of the hardcore.

    A waist trainer as is known in modern vernacular a la Kardhashians is hocum gullible women fall for.

    A waist cincher is either very strong elastic (powermesh) and/or boning, generally plastic to be more comfortable. This is shapewear used generally to reduce the waist only by an inch or so, similar to what Spanx do and improve the silhouette in clothing.

    As for any of the above helping post pregnancy, I don't buy that either, the body recovers how it recovers, no amount of strong elastic is going to help that unless it's purely for back support but that's not exclusively a pregnancy issue.

    There are a lot of myths surrounding all of the above, most of it absolute nonsense as demonstrated in this thread.

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