SO FAR SO GOOD!!! I Am a Believer. There is a Trick Though for Results!!! - Saint Paul, MN

I'm a man now into his early 40's. I have a sit down job in front of a computer. I do make sure I get a two mile power walk in though during the work day and am active in the evenings. My diet is in check without eating any fast food and I absolutely do not drink any soda or high sugar drinks, ever. With that being said, I can't but help notice that I have been putting on fat in the dreaded 'man zones' that men my age start to develop. It's been over a month now since my procedure and I am thrilled with the results. Let's backup a bit. About five or so years ago my sister walked up to me one day while visiting family and grabbed my chest that was becoming, as we call them... MOOBIES ( man boobies ) while saying out loud, in front of the family " WOW Bro, your boobs are bigger than mine!" You can imagine how horrified and embarrassed I was at the time, even though I just laughed it off. Well, as the years went on, she didn't let up and would make the same 'grab-with-comment'. Ugh! Then started my research into different options to lessen the fatty area of my growing MOOBIES. Even after I starved myself and dropped 15 pounds, looked model thin and was the weight of my 20's... the fatty tissue just wouldn't go away on my chest. Then after reading about CoolSculpting and finding a local place to perform the procedure, I made an appointment to have them reduced. I didn't expect them to be zero fat and perfect like they were in my 20's and early 30's I just wanted them to look body proportionate. Well............. I'm very happy with the results thus far!!! I decided to just go for it and get my chest done, my stomach and sides (flanks?) after being told over and over it's PERMANENT (because I kept asking "this is permanent, right? right? right?) with no cutting or blood and very little downtime (I was at work the next day). Well, what I didn't realize was the absolute horrible pain. Some areas were less painful than others but when my lower stomach was 'massaged' after an hour of the suction... I almost passed out from the pain and thought I might vomit as well. You really have to psych yourself out to endure this procedure. Here is the trick though... you simply MUST have a hardcore massage after the treatment on the area because that is what will BREAK/BURST THE FAT CELLS. So the harder the massage, the more fat cells burst and die off. Now, it does take time for your body to clear out the dead tissue. Two weeks went by and I started to notice a slight difference but was so nervous my time, money and pain were all for not. It took about three weeks for me to have the feeling in the areas to come back and not look bruised and trust me ITCHY ITCHY ITCHY. It's one of the strangest feelings as your body tries to adjust and heel and get rid of the tissue. The largest difference came just a week ago (over a month after the procedure) and my clothes are far more 'roomy' now. Especially my tighter button down shirts aren't super tight in the chest anymore. The love handles have really gone down and I don't have as much of a 'gut' anymore that I really noticed when sitting at the computer all day. My body looks and feels like I did in my mid 30's again!!! I didn't change my diet much (organic foods with a lot of veges and nothing processed) and still have the same active life... nothing extra, so now I know for sure it works and I'm seeing a difference. Best part is, I'm not even through a full two months and they say it takes a full six months. The people performing the procedure were great and made EVERY effort to make sure I knew what to expect and what not to expect along with making me as comfortable as possible while those suction cup things were on my body. Just remember... the HARDER THE MASSAGE THE BETTER THE RESULTS and you just have to keep thinking that and let them really push and rub HARD for that two minutes. Now, just keep in mind though that this is NOT FOR EVERYONE and you have to have a certain amount of fat to be sucked up into the suction cups to have this be really effective. Too little of fat and it's just a waste of money and too much fat and, well, you really should think of having invasive 'real' lipo to really get the job done. It takes a certain kind of body fat and person for this to be truly effective. The people at the clinic explained this to me and after we went over my 'trouble areas' we both knew I was very ideal for this procedure on the areas I wanted done. Also, don't think this is going to mean you can go back to a poor diet and do lots of cheating with no active lifestyle and eating like a pig. Trust me, stay away from the SUGARS and CARBS!!!