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Alice Hart-Davis gives us her verdict on some last-minute ways to lose those extra few pounds for summer here
All this week on LK, we'll be showing you the best ways to try and lose those extra pounds without resorting to a last-minute starvation diet.
Beauty expert Alice Hart-Davis is on hand to show us the how to look great on the beach the easier way! So if you're desperate try these :
Body wraps
The Frigi Thalgo wrap
Body wrap treatments are great for a quick figure fix. They should shrink you by a small but significant amount – just enough, say, for a tight dress to feel loose on you.
They won't magically make you lose weight, more is the pity, but finding that you have shrunk as if by magic can be a great incentive to eat better and take more exercise, to continue the good work.
The Frigi Thalgo treatment uses the latest high-tech slimming potions, which are soaked into large bandages that are then wrapped around the legs and torso, and which then get colder and colder.
This restricts the circulation, so when the bandages come off, the blood flows back vigorously, taking with it plenty of toxins that you're better off without.
Other salon treatment:
The Universal Contour Wrap is the inch loss treatment that claims you'll lose at least 6 inches in just 2 hours, making it the perfect solution when you have to look your best for that special occasion.
The unique clay formula and special wrapping techniques the therapists use, also tighten and tone your body while exfoliating and cleansing the skin so you will not only look great, you'll feel fabulous too, after just one treatment.
Do it at home kits:
1) SPA Body Wrap: Personal SPA Body Wrap - Home Treatment Kit for Women & Men, available from MYBEAUTYSECRETS.CO.UK
2 Body Boutique Inch Loss Home Body Wrap - £27 from ASOS.COM
3) LA Looks Body Wrap for women and men, costs £19 and is available from BUYCOSMETICS.COM
All the wraps exfoliate and cleanse your skin, detoxify your body, tightens loose tissue and guarantees you exceptional and lasting inch loss. They are designed to treat local areas of your body such as the tummy, hips, thighs, buttocks or upper arms.
Tone and shape
Ioniothermie
Sometimes, the old things are the best. This particular treatment has been going strong for nearly 30 years and is still hugely popular- simply because it works.
The peculiar combination of smearing the body's trouble-spots with a special mixture of clay and seaweed, then sending an electrical current into the muscles to put them through the equivalent of a tough workout- apparently having the same effect on her muscles as doing 600 sit-ups!
I still don't really understand just how it works, but our tester lost six inches in an hour, so I want to give this one a try myself!
Other salon treatment:
CACI- "Quantum"
Caci have produced exclusive body treatments, which can help to tone, contour and shape a variety of areas on the body. A course of treatments is highly recommended. This unique treatment guarantees centimetre loss even after the first 20-minute session. So now you can tighten up your face and tummy all at once for a newly-sculpted and detoxified body.
Do it at home kits:
You can buy equipment called Slendertone Flex Abs (£69.99) which is clinically proven to give you flatter abdominal muscles. The easy to use toning technology is a convenient alternative to sit ups.
Or, if you have £6,900 knocking about there is a machine called the "Trandy". TRANDY utilizes a vibrating resistance machine combined with specific toning currents which helps to produce results quickly. It's available as a salon (£20 per session) treatment but you can also buy it for home.
Infrared spa
Physiotherm infrared therapy
If you fancy working up a REALLY good sweat, try an infrared sauna. Rather than using hot coals to heat the air in the sauna cabin, special infra-red panels heat the body directly.
It sounds a bit scary but no, you don't end up microwaved, but because the heat penetrated a good centimetre into the body, you do sweat up to four times as much as you would in a normal sauna.
This deep-heat treatment is great for relieving aches and pains and because it takes a lot of energy to produce that much sweat, the makers of the Physiotherm claim that one half-hour session will burn up to 600 calories (that's as much as an hour of tough aerobic exercise).
So although this might not get you bikini-ready within a week, it will certainly have plenty of medically proven, beneficial effects on your body! And because of all that sweating, your skin will look gorgeous and glowing afterwards, too.
Find out more about this treatment by clicking here
