Lose an inch in one spa treatment?? Yeah, right!

 

Lose an inch in one spa treatment?? Yeah, right, I thought. We offer a cellulite treatment with the Synergie System and you don’t see results till at least 4 treatments. The dynamic voice on the telephone assured me that she had developed a new technology in Body Contouring that gives visible results in the very first treatment. “This I’ve got to see” I thought. “OK, I’m interested, tell me more, I said to Betty Harris from The Spa Group in Nashville, TN. In a 20 minute conversation, she had me convinced that she could come to Louisville and sell enough Cellusleek treatments to pay for the machine, and our clients would be so happy, we wouldn’t even have to advertise- the clients would do it for us!

I checked out her website and she really knew her stuff. I agreed to have her come to Louisville for a weekend and offer complimentary treatments to our customers, while she trained us to use the new machine. Being the skeptical person I am, though, I needed more proof. No way would I promote something to my clients that I had not tried. So last weekend, I drove to Nashville to try the Cellusleek treatment for myself. Here’s my experience:

After the 3 hour drive to Nashville, I was stiff and a little sore when I slowly climbed out of the car to meet my new best friend, Betty Harris. For some reason, whenever I go on a road trip, I feel a need to drink copious amounts of coffee and diet coke and eat things that aren’t very good for me. That could be why losing weight has always been difficult for me. I can eat clean for weeks at a time, exercise and try doing all the right things, only to gain back the few pounds I lose in one night of drinking wine, or a weekend of traveling and eating junk food.

If you’ve been a client of ours for a while, you probably know how much I have struggled with weight loss. So the promise that  I can lose an inch in one Cellusleek  treatment  is just the kind of thing I like to jump in to head first. You would not believe how much money and time I have spent on weight loss. Yet here I am in my size 18, meeting an incredibly slim and beautiful woman with yet another promise for being thin.

If I had a dollar for every time someone said “You have such a pretty face” (with the implied “If you would only lose some weight”), I would be a lot richer. It has always amazed me that someone would actually say that to me. As if the fact that I was blessed with a nice face should automatically give me  the need to be thin. Years ago, I decided that no matter what size I was, I had no reason to feel bad about myself. I’m smart, kind, good at business, a great Mom and I dress well. Kind of sexy, even. I exercise and am pretty healthy, so I promised  I would never starve myself again, just to fit in to a certain size or to please other people. Yet I still seek the magic bullet. My friend and spinning instructor Caroline Scott (who looks remarkably like Betty Harris, weird!) has a blog titled “The Magic Pill”.  She says “Actually there is no “magic pill” when it comes to weight loss. The best and most simple way to lose weight is to combine the right nutrition with regular exercise. Try it! It will change your life!”  Yet like me, many women who exercise and eat healthy food still have Cellulite and/or struggle with their size.

Betty took me in to her lovely spa and we went right to work. She told me to take off my clothes and wearing just a thong and a small towel over the breasts, began my first treatment. She explained some of the physiology of cellulite while putting oil on the front of my thigh, then using a small handpiece with suction and vibration, began a series ogf movements over the front, inner and outer thigh. I’m kind of a wimp, plus I have some “congestion” under the skin that made the treatment a bit painful at first. She adjusted it to my comfort level and aggressively began working on my cellulite. After about 10 minutes, she said ok, look. I sat up and looked down at my legs and believe it or not, there was a visible difference in the size of my thigh, especially around the knee. The skin had a healthy glow to it, too.

After each body part, she showed me the difference and I was pretty much sold. At age 49, I have gotten an extra spare tire around my middle. Even though I’ve never been thin, I always had a small waist (big butt, but a small waist!). So this muffin top pisses me off more than any other body part. When I got home from Nashville, I was testing my family members to see if they could tell a difference like I could. I showed my daughter the little chubby underarm fat right by my bra strap. Betty was training a technician, so she did my right side and Brittany did my left. Betty was more aggressive on this part than Brittany and Shanna could see a definite size difference from  left and right. When I lifted my shirt to show her my abdomen, she said “God, Mom! That’s a huge difference! I can’t believe one treatment did that! Can we go to Nashville next weekend so I can get it done  too????

I have to say, I am really excited about Betty coming to Louisville and can’t wait for my next treatment! My clothes feel a bit looser, and when I got on the scale this morning, I had even dropped like 4 pounds! There must be something to this “waste stored in the tissues” thing she told me about. I have been going to the bathroom like crazy the last 3 days, and you know what, I feel ……better. I’ll keep you posted on my progress and if you want to give this treatment a try, give me a call at 502-245-6484.

See you soon!

Denise