Mineral Body Wrap Help Take Inches Off Your Body

Mineral Body Wrap Help Take Inches Off Your Body
Bandages Form Extreme Thermal Blanket, Causing Excessive Perspiration And Massive Water Loss
Warning: Solution Is Only Temporary & Not For Everyone
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Lose weight immediately without diet or exercise. If that sounds impossible CBS station WCBS-TV in New York City has the skinny on a new way to drop inches in an hour.

How do they do it? Celebrities seem to just whittle away overnight and fit into those beautiful, designer awards show gowns. Is it genetics? Surgery? Are they working out around the clock or do the stars have another slenderizing secret?

"It's literally going to take you down to that slimming size," said Krista DeLuca of the Cornelia Spa Resort in Manhattan.

It's called a body wrap and while it's been a staple spa treatment to help moisturize and soften skin, it's now being touted as a sort of shrink wrap too.

"I'm looking to lose some inches and tighten up a bit," Cleola Williams said.

Imagine dropping two dress sizes in less time than it takes to eat lunch. Williams says she did just that at "Let's Get Slender" in Bergenfield, N.J.

When asked how many inches she lost the last time, Williams said, "About 10."

Ten inches, without diet or exercise, in one hour.

"I've got a hot date coming up," Sasha Ramnarace said at Cornelia, where she is hoping for similar results. "I'm not one that usually goes for quick fixes, but I've heard other clients say really good things."

The secret is out about body wraps. While they vary depending on the spa, the treatment involves being wrapped snuggly in mineral soaked bandages to create a thermal blanket. The goal? To get you to sweat and shed fluid found in the small spaces of your body tissue. At Cornelia, technicians apply a mixture of algae and heat.

"What the algae does is it sets in her skin and it literally takes out the extra water weight," explained DeLuca.

"When you create a condition where you perspire a lot, you will lose weight," said Carla Wolper of the Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's Hospital.

But this quick fix, she says, is not the best way to go about dropping a couple of dress sizes because you're not actually losing fat. She also warns of a possible side effect like dehydration.

"It will return immediately because the body regulates water balance very carefully," said Wolper.

Back at the spa, Williams is getting her third body wrap and is hoping for the same results.

"I promised myself after this I will be exercising to keep it off," said Williams.

Meanwhile, Ramnarace lost a total of three inches after her treatment.

"Now I can put on my little black dress and feel even more confident," she said.

Now the results don't last forever. Your best-case scenario is about a week and the cost of this quick fix, depending on the spa, can start at about $125.

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