Fat freezing

sjgold123 · July 2016

There is a correct terminology but i can't speak it ha!
So the process where you have a machine with suction cups that freezes your fat which apparently then unfreezes coming out of your body as water in your pee/sweat over a 3 month period. Anyone got opinions/reviewscar on this?

MissusMoon · July 2016

Are you referring to "cool sculpting"?

sjgold123 · July 2016

Possibly lol...

WBB55 · July 2016

Holy moly. I can't even imagine how this might effect someone with Raynaud's. But... then again... botox is essentially paralyzing yourself. So I guess this makes sense, too.

quiksylver296 · July 2016

It's about as effective as these were...

VeryKatie · July 2016

I'd just go outside in the winter and hope for the same results..

stealthq · July 2016

According to the results from the clinical trial, there were results but they were minor. I wouldn't waste my time or money.

Treece68 · July 2016

Is this a thing people do?

sjgold123 · July 2016

Well I saw it on fbk and just never heard of it. It's available in America and just come to the uk. It's meant to be a process where by fat is frozen then melts leaving your body naturally. Easy right lol!? It's meant to be a 3 month process as in by the end of the 3months your results are measurable but can be noticed as soon as 10 days in.
Sounds simple...too good to be true....but pretty neat if it works. It's non invasive.

WBB55 · July 2016

sjgold123 wrote: »

Well I saw it on fbk and just never heard of it. It's available in America and just come to the uk. It's meant to be a process where by fat is frozen then melts leaving your body naturally. Easy right lol!? It's meant to be a 3 month process as in by the end of the 3months your results are measurable but can be noticed as soon as 10 days in.
Sounds simple...too good to be true....but pretty neat if it works. It's non invasive.

Radiation is non invasive, too.

Pipsg1rl · July 2016

A friend of a friend had it done here in the US. I was curious b/c they are pushing ads all over the place for it. It freezes the cells, killing them off. It looks like there are targeted areas of your body you can have it done. (Flank, inner and outer thighs, and chin). The fat flushes out over a period of a few months.
If you gain fat again, it will disperse in other areas and not the areas you had "cool sculpted" away.
The website said some people sleep through the procedure and you can return to work after.

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spookyface · July 2016

I read Mama June from Honey BOO Boo show had it done.

WBB55 · July 2016

There's that funny phenomenon of when you have certain fat taken from your body, then you get fat, except you don't get fat in that one area, but you're fat all around it.

Camish911 · July 2016

spookyface wrote: »

I read Mama June from Honey BOO Boo show had it done.

That's a sterling review right there! Sign me up!

sjgold123 · July 2016

Look I'm not niave but at the same time intrigued. I have never done any fad/trend dieting but saw this and wondered if anyone had any experiencesuggestions. Seems like a way to make a quick buck and I'm sure if it was that simple then ithe would be widely available under prescription but still looking for thoughts.

BarbieAS · July 2016

I have an acquaintance who had it done. She was pleased with the results as compared to her expectations. My understanding is that it's not meant for someone who wants to see a drastic change, it's more meant for someone who just wants to shave an inch or so off a specific area of the body. I have terrible saddlebags (excess fat on my hips/outer thighs), and I will always have them due to where I carry my weight, and this is a procedure I'd definitely consider once I'm done losing weight - knowing it wouldn't be a significant change, but maybe just enough of a difference to make my clothes lay a little better, stuff like that.

evilokc · July 2016

I know a girl who did her jawline to get rid of a small double chin. It worked well. She has a strong jaw now and it looks natural..

rankinsect · July 2016

It's not going to cause any net fat loss, it is fat redistribution. Essentially, it kills some fat cells in a targeted area, which means as your body needs to store fat, it stores it elsewhere, in living fat cells. You don't excrete out unburned fat or anything, these dying fat cells still release their fat into your blood where it's either metabolized or stored somewhere else.

So for overall fat loss - no, it won't help, you still have to follow CICO to gain or lose total fat. But if you dislike how you always gain fat first in your abdomen, or you want a leaner chin, it can work just fine. It won't change how much fat you have, it will change where that fat is located on your body.

st476 · July 2016

If it takes a few months for it to show wouldn't it be better to just eat less and exercise for those months and save yourself tons of money? Either way it does sound cool

RDHJane · July 2016

I had it done. It doesn't actually work! What happens is you have a cloth put over the bit you want freezing ( I had my stomach done - twice ) The technician puts the vacuum cup thingie on the cloth and then it sucks up all your fat into the cup. It then heats it and then cools it to freezing. Then you sweat out or wee out the broken down fat cells. So it can work except but due to legality and insurance reasons (if you have it done in a UK salon) they are unable to take it down to the 'freeziness' it needs to actually kill the cells. I had this conversation with the salon owner when I said the first time didn't show any results at all.

tiptoethruthetulips · July 2016

Sounds like the only thing cool sculpting is good at is thinning out the wallet or purse.

suzyjane1972 · July 2016

tiptoethruthetulips wrote: »

Sounds like the only thing cool sculpting is good at is thinning out the wallet or purse.

Chingchingchingching ......we have our winner......

Alluminati · July 2016

Awesome! Maybe we can save our fats in a jar and sell them on eBay as the new "SuperFood". Big Coconut Oil will be jelos.

guinevere96 · July 2016

WBB55 wrote: »

Holy moly. I can't even imagine how this might effect someone with Raynaud's. quote]

This is the first thing I thought of!

enterdanger · July 2016

Now I'm not a science person, but I recall reading that most fat that gets burned doesn't get expelled from the body as waste..... Which sounds like what this is claiming. Seems unlikely that you can freeze your fat and pee or sweat it out.

daniellek30 · July 2016

Ultrasound Cativation is a much better way to go, but frankly it's too complicated for me to explain this early in the morning. I have a friend that does it, and the results are really good. My husband had it done, for free, so that we could test it and I could definitely tell a difference.

Don't expect though that you can then go eat whatever you want, and the fat won't come back, because it will.

robininfl · July 2016

OK so this IS spot reduction? Because that sounds awesome. The only problem I can see with it (thinking of my own body) is that liposuction results on lean people looking to trim up problem spots are usually awful looking, sort of lumpy. It works better on people with more fat, the fat hides the work somehow.

I would love to have fewer fat cells in my abdomen and inner upper thighs if that could be done affordably and smoothly. If they "redistributed" to the other places I store fat? That would be like photoshopping!

The part I don't understand is how can they freeze fat without damaging skin? Doesn't skin get killed if you take it down so cold that you damage fat cells? Frostburn?

amyk0202 · July 2016

I haven't had it done, but there are a bunch of reviews on Realself if you are interested: https://www.realself.com/coolsculpting-by-zeltiq

Carlos_421 · July 2016

That's not exactly how it's supposed to work and not really how it's intended to be used either.

It's supposed to freeze/kill the actual fat cells on a small area so that you're no longer able to store fat in that spot, much like a mini lipo.
From what I gather, it's not intended as a weight loss technique or for large fat deposits but rather for things like double chins on people who are relatively lean (some people, like myself, can carry fat under the chin even when at a healthy weight) or other unfortunate fat deposits that persist after reaching goal weight.

I can see where there would be a great deal of failure or even disaster if someone attempted to use this as an actual weight loss technique.

EastSideJohnny · July 2016

I have flabby skin around my gut from where I lost a bunch of weight. My primary care doctor recommended this as opposed to a tummy tuck because of cost, effectiveness and most importantly--safety. Still undecided but interested.

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