The Company Team's January Challenge: Wow Fat Zap

The Company Team\'s January Challenge: Wow Fat Zap

I am very a much, \"I\'ll do it tomorrow\" kind of person when it comes to going to the gym or eating healthily. I am sure that you all know the scenario (at least I am sincerely hoping that I am not the only one): you catch up with friends, go to the pub, then maybe get the munchies and go on for dinner. Before you know it, not only have you eaten a burger and chips and close to a bottle of wine (or, oops, maybe even 2!), but you have also spent a small fortune. Again. Yes, this isn\'t once a month, it isn\'t even once a week, it is every other night for me. What is worse, when I am not catching up with friends or seeing my boyfriend, I am at a work event where the booze flows freely and the canapés are each as delicious as the last. Disaster. I am my own worst enemy even when, by something short of a miracle, I manage to wangle a night in alone with nobody to have to schmooze or catch up with, I feel I need to treat myself with something yummy from Waitrose and maybe, just maybe, a lovely glass of red wine to relax and enjoy my ‘Me time\'.

You can see my problem here. There is the eating and the drinking and, well, the eating - too much of a good thing is certainly hanging around my middle and on my thighs at the moment. But where, where am I supposed to fit in time to go to the gym? Before work? Hell no! A stampede of wild horses would be too scared to come between and my much needed beauty sleep. On the rare night that I have ‘me time\'? Er, think again. So, I like to think that my 20 minute walk to work every day (donned with my particularly attractive MBT\'s) counts as exercise.

So, we can all see that I am lazy. I need an easy-non-time-consuming solution to my gluttony and slothfulness. In comes Harley Fit with Wow Fat Zap. Yes, the name sounds comical and yet scary, however, it is an innovative fat-busting treatment that should shift pounds in a breeze without any pain. I like these people already - who said ‘no pain no gain\'? Need more convincing? It only takes 20 minutes and you can loose up to 7 inches in this time. Er, is this for real? Well, stay with me through January as I will be doing a weekly blog about how I get on zapping my fat away.

For more information, log on to wowfatzap.com

Wow Fat Zap: Week 1

After being shown into a room that looks strangely like a Dr\'s office, I am even more enticed by the science behind this program. After answering/ lying about my fitness and health regime I get told I should only have a glass of wine twice a week - you what? A fairly unrealistic living approach me thinks, still, I nod and smile in a feigned agreement. No pizza as it\'s full of fat - not exactly rocket science. What they do tell me, something I want to take with me for the future: as soon as you wake up, before even leaving bed, have a glass of water as that starts your body working and puts the coals into the digestive system so to speak. Then, wait 30 mins, eat some papaya as it is a very good natural aid for digestion. Wait 30 mins then breakfast. Will be getting up at 6am at this rate, but still, it all seems easy enough.

Onto zapping my fat. When asked what area I would most like to target I shout stomach barely before she has even finished! So, onto the bed I pop, I take my top off and the laser pads are attached. 2 large pads are placed onto my middle and 2 little pads are attached to my lymph nodes either under my armpit, on my groin or behind my knee. The on button is pressed on the machine that all these pads are attached to and I feel... Nothing. Totally pain free. What is happening is that the lasers in the pads penetrate 10mm deep and break down any fat cells that come in their way. Amazing. The fat is then released into the body and the pads on my lymph nodes are pulling them like a magnet so they can be released into my lymphatic system and taken out of body. The pads are put onto 2 different areas on my stomach - the abdominal and the obliques. That\'s the gut and love handles to you and I. Once 10 minutes on each section is done it is time to sweat it out. Literally, sweat the fat out. But not once they compare my before and after measurements. A cumulative reading across 3 parts of my stomach shows I\'ve lost 3.5 inches. I was impressed they were less though they say you can loose up to 9 inches in one session. Oh well, 9 more sessions to go. Will be a slim jim in no time.

Anyway, onto a vibrating plate, bit like a power plate, but smaller (ended up buying one from cultbeauty.com totally recommend it for an easy, cheap at home way to tone up.) A set of jump ups, squats and other torturous sweat inducing exercises (but, burning 5x more calories than normal), then onto the vibrating bed. Literally amazing. Apparently even if you just lie there for 10-20 minutes every other day or so, it clears your skin and you loose weight. Talk about the cheats method! But, I\'m not just lying there. I\'m doing sit ups, the cycle, side sit ups, the plank all in order tone my problem area.

After 20 mins of, let\'s face it, not the worst exercise in the world it\'s all over. Or so I thought... As signing up to this as I \'have no time\' to exercise I have been told that I have to go for a 30-40 minute run within the next 24 hours or my fat will be reabsorbed into my body. Gross. So, off I go home and change into my running gear (yes, I have running gear. I am occasionally plagued by the odd good intention!!) And a run round regents park is my mission. Well, mission kind of succeeded. I did run for 40 minutes, but only because I took the wrong turning and had to stop every so often to stretch out. Very important that!

Regardless of only loosing 3.5 inches I feel rather virtuous of my first run in, er over a year! This could be a very good thing for me, if for no other reason than running due to the thought of my fat being reabsorbed into my body. Eurgh.