Gina Fraundorfer from Indigo Wellness, situated at 95 Main Road, Farrarmere Benoni, is passionate about helping people feel better about themselves and offers an array of services. With Women’s Day in August, she is focussing on body sculpting. This is especially to help women get their summer bodies back or just to feel more comfortable in their own skin.
What is Body Sculpting or “Fat Freeze”?
It is a safer alternative to liposuction. It is an FDA approved procedure which involves cooling fat in pockets to remove resistant fat from the body by natural methods. It remodels the shape of the body and improves bulges of resistant fat. This procedure freezes fat cells into crystals. These destroyed fat cells are then slowly metabolised by natural pathways of the body over a period of four to sixteen weeks.
What to expect from a session
Typically, a session will include two suction and cooling heads on the desired area. The Cryolipo cooling heads generate a vacuum that temporarily decreases blood flow to the treated area, immobilising the fat tissue and isolating the treated area from the surrounding tissue. The area is then cooled in a controlled process, “freezing” the localised area for a controlled period of time. Once the cooling procedure is completed, the fat cells are leveraged into the lymphatic system and gradually eliminated by the body’s natural metabolic process. Skin is not damaged, but subcutaneous fat, which is more sensitive to targeted cold, begins a two-month destruction after exposure to fat freezing. After the treatment is completed patients may immediately return to their normal activities including work and exercise. After going through the controlled freezing process the client will have a Far Infrared Sauna Blanket session. During this session the client can burn up to 600 calories while lying comfortably for 45 minutes. This process stimulates the lymphatic flow as well as gets the body’s circulation going and therefore will assist in removing the destroyed fat cells from the body. An added bonus is that after an infra sauna bed session the metabolism is switched on for up to 48 hours.
Who will benefit?
Any person who battles to shake the extra kilos they carry or has an area they are unhappy about. Several days after the procedure, the targeted fat cells begin to shrink. These damaged fat cells are slowly metabolised over several months by our bodies and removed through the liver. You should start seeing results after the first treatment. Common results prove that you can lose from 5cm to 10cm per area. One to three treatments are needed per area depending on the thickness of the resistant fat. Treatments can be repeated at 30-day intervals.