I attend a lot of Health Fairs and vendor events for my job and I've noticed a lot of booths offering body wraps as a 'get fit quick' option. I want to pull the women aside and tell them "You know that isn't going to last long right? You aren't actually getting fit." But since I am in a professional environment with my company logo embroidered on my shirt I hold off. But I really feel like I need to inform women on these so-called 'weight loss and detox' options these companies offer. What is a body wrap? If you are unsure of what I'm even talking about here's the breakdown according to dictionary.com is "A type of beauty treatment involving the application of skin-cleansing ingredients to the body, which is then wrapped in hot towels."
The way this thing works is that there is creams and or oils rubbed on your body then wrapped with plastic wrap before hot towels/a heating blanket is wrapped around you to cause you to 'detox and lose weight'. The only thing that gets detoxed is your skin, in order for an organ detox you would have to ingest a liquid detox or supplement pills. There has been no scientific evidence to prove that wrapping your body (outside) has been able to remove any toxins from your body (inside). The way your skin is detoxed is by you sweating from the plastic wrap and heating. It's as if you were to sit in a sauna or exercise, when you do this your body will release skin toxins through sweat.
Even though many people have and can lose inches from wrapping and sweating it is usually just water weight. Having high amounts of salt in your diet causes your body to retain water and when doing so it seems as if you have more fat weight when in fact it is just water. Yesterday I met a man at my gym who has high blood pressure and his body holds on to any fluids he ingests. Since his body retains so much water he loses 'weight' rapidly while working out he said "I can lose anywhere from 4-lbs of water in one workout, like 1 spin class and 4 lbs of water is gone." So if you are someone with similar situation doing cardio and more vigorous exercises can help you lose your water weight.
The appearance of weight loss may only last you a few days, doing body wraps is not comparable to proper eating and exercise. If you really need to lose weight in your mid-section is to change how you eat, when gaining weight the first place that usually gets bigger is your stomach. By simply changing how you and and drink you can dramatically change how your body looks and feels, do cardio and weight resistance training and you'll start to see lasting results. If you are just trying to slim down a little to fit into a dress for an event then it will work for that, if you are trying to get lasting results to look and feel better with and about yourself then this isn't the way to go.
So as you've probably figured I think this is a fail, it's just an expensive way to get you to sweat and get moisturized. My suggestion; get a gym membership, a personal trainer/fitness consultant, get on a workout plan and really lose the weight. If you have any questions about wraps, workout or healthy eating tips feel free to ask, I talk about this stuff all day.
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