Remember those wrestlers in high school lumbering  through the halls wrapped in plastic bags and hooded sweats worn Rocky Balboa style?

Who could forget the spitting in cups to shed those last quarter ounces of weight.  I certainly won't, nor the day star wrestler John Stimple passed out in French class from dehydration (and probably self-induced starvation).

Well, your favorite spa can replicate this experience for $150 says reporter Stephanie Allmon (pictured here) in The Rap on Body Wraps.  Day spas offer body wraps designed to melt away fat, inches at a time, by encasing your body in gauze, plastic, and other suffocating materials.

OK, so you know my feelings about body wraps.  One RealSelf reader concurs, calling her body wrap  review: "Didn't do a thing for me"

She explains her body wrap experience:

When I was measured just after, I has lost basically 1/4 inch in my thighs and 1/4 inch in my waist. Since they take about 15-20 measurements, the technician proudly announced that I'd lost 8 inches overall. I followed the after care instructions and measured myself ove rthe course of the next few days only to find that my measurements went back to exactly what they were before the wrap.

So at best you should expect temporary weight loss. As the reporter states: beware of claims that sound fraudulent — namely, that results will be permanent.