Pants loose but no weight loss
Dessi Bell, a 28-year-old investment banker told ABC News she invented the tights, called Zaggora HotPants, to drop a few pounds for her wedding. A surgeon will only remove extra skin if you keep the weight off for 6 months. According to Cypess, science has shown for decades that turning down the thermostat—not up—is the better way to burn extra calories. Companies claim those surgeries are for cosmetic reasons and not reconstructive. The elasticity of your skin depends on how long you were obese. As proof, she cited a study performed by the Chelsea School at Brighton University in England, but the study has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, the company says. Studies have shown that if you cool a room down to the mid-sixties and lounge around all day in a tee-shirt and shorts, you can burn an impressive 100-300 extra calories per day. It can cause rashes, infections, and back pain. Saggy skin can not only be an embarrassment, it can lead to rashes and yeast infections in the folds.
As Cypess explains it, cool temperatures seems to spur the calorie-burning capability of muscle tissue, and of a special, metabolically active type of body tissue known as brown fat. When you work to lose a bunch of weight, you dream of a tighter, toned body. Video: Cancer Takes a Toll on a Small Town. Adults have small amounts of brown fat, mainly concentrated in the abdomen and neck. Colon Cancer on the Rise Among Young Adults. The longer it was stretched out, the less likely it is to bounce back. Asprin: The Wonder Drug in Your Medicine Cabinet. But only 20% of weight loss surgery patients get body contouring, says John Morton, MD, president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Sleep Loss Tied to Changes in Gut Bacteria. That cuts down on the risk of complications, says Claude-Jean Langevin, MD, DMD, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at the Cedars-Sinai Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Center in Los Angeles. Plus it can stop you from being as active as you want.
