Good morning! Allow me to introduce myself. I am a 19 year old girl from Berkshire, I work full time for a massive company providing business and managed services. I have a boyfriend who I adore and a very dysfunctional family.
I, unfortunately am prone to stress and some extent of anxiety. I have over come this a great deal in recent months due to my confidence being built through the work place and the never ending support from my boyfriend. However along the way I have lost control of my weight.
I have never been obese, never been someone you would look at and think "she's big" but I have never been fully comfortable with my weight. Sadly throughout my whole life I had thought I was fat, only sharing this thought with very few. I look back at pictures of myself during my teenage years and I'm envious. I looked great, my eyebrows and hair could have done with a bit of work but I was not on the slightest overweight. I know myself and I know that despite what I can see now, at the time I felt disgusting.
I had lost my baby fat and slimmed down by about 14-16 and sadly that was when my body was at its best! An abusive relationship and a destructive amount of stress kept the weight off for a year or so more but as soon as I reached the beginnings of adulthood I was lost. I had developed bad habits like smacking freely, smoking, drinking. But my issue was I didn't know when to stop. I had never been so hungry in all my life, the smoking opened up a new hunger that no food could fill. At ridiculous times of the night I would find myself consuming more than I'd had for my dinner. And eventually all the calories got the better of my stomach and my thighs.
One day I was looking on Groupon and in amongst the tempting
deals I saw one for a considerable percentage off iLipo, laser lipolysis
treatment. I had never heard of this and clicking on the tempting looking image
of a slim girl’s stomach I was anticipating money off liposuction surgery.
However the more I read the more this treatment appealed to me. There was not a
great deal of detail so I immediately began researching. It was non evasive,
available locally and best of all it seemed to have real legitimate results.
The iLipo claimed to lose inches off your chosen problem area in just 8
treatments. Using a cold laser the problem fat cells are stimulated and
released into the blood stream for you to work out. Exercise is still required
but you can target a specific area in which you want the weight to be lost
from. After each treatment you would be required to work out to burn off the
released fat but many website talked about an alternative to cardio. The Power
Plate.
The Power Plate machine claimed to achieve the equivalent of
an hours work out in just 15 minutes! Surely these methods are too good to be
true? I am usually quite paranoid and cynical and tend to trip advise
everything and wade through a mountain on reviews before committing. However, I
found no bad reviews?! Only before and after pictures and positive feedback.
I continued to look and decided that the iLipo was out of my
price range. The cheapest I could find (excluding the Groupon deal) was £100 a
session for a course of 8 and £800 was looking unlikely. Despite this I still
thought I would love to try this Power Plate machine, if I could illuminate the
torturous reality of going to the gym I might still be able to lose some weight
before September!
I researched some more and came across a beauty salon in my
town offering iLipo and also accommodating a new Power Plate studio, charging
£1 a minute. Fairly expensive if you think about it but none the less I though
why not? I was down to my last resorts now! I emailed the salon and arranged a
Power Plate induction for after work but that induction turned into me signing
up for Laser Lipolosis!
The woman at the salon was lovely, she was informative but
it was not like a sales pitch. What swayed it for me was the fact that the
course was half price, meaning rather than the jaw dropping £800 it was a more
friendly sounding £400. I needed to do all 8 courses in quick succession for
optimum results and this meant forking out the full amount in one go. I am
still not sure how this will work out due to my boyfriend being momentarily out
of work and having a holiday to pay off but it’s the things you don’t do you
regret, right?
So I booked myself in! I left feeling positive and excited
about weight loss for the first time in my life. I didn’t know if I was being
crazy, I was sure if I told certain people there reactions would be “How
much?!” or “Just go to the gym!” but I felt as if this would be right for me.
I called my boyfriend when I returned home, he knew I was
going to the Power Plate induction but I had not yet even mentioned the iLipo
to him. After a brief explanation I half expected him to ask what’s the point
in it or question the cost but I should have known how supportive he would be.
He told me to do it if I wanted and not worry about the money. It’s important
throughout life to have positivity surrounding you, especially when you are on
a quest to find the best version of yourself. I am lucky enough to have
everything I could possibly need in my boyfriend and as a side note, everyone
deserves the same.
To be honest I'm really excited about staring my laser lipo journey. I've only told my boyfriend about it, no one else. This is because I am not after anyone's opinion on this. I have made up my mind.
To me the money doesn't really matter, it's about the way I feel about myself. If you do not feel good about yourself you can never reach your full potential as a person. I want to look in the mirror and be happy with what I am seeing. I want to show my boyfriend my true self and I want to by all the clothes I like!
I begin my journey on the 1st July and I will continue to write as I go through this treatment. Maybe someone out there will enjoy what I'm saying and want to begin their own alternative weight loss experience too.
Goodbye for now!
