I've really been hitting my diet and exercise HARD since quarantine got over! I'm 12 pounds down and about 5 ish pounds away from my goal weight. (Haven't got on a scale in a while!) The problem is that no matter how much I lift, run or starve I still have bat wings under my arms and my lower abdomen is never fully flat. I watched Lipo videos on you tube and about 5 minutes in decided that wasn't for me. It just looked so brutal!! A gf recommended cool sculpting at Solara and totally raved about her results! They were having a 40% off corona virus special so I went ahead and bought three passes on four areas for $5400. They also have a one year no interest pay period for Care Credit so I just went ahead and charged it. Will post before pics later! Updated on 25 Sep 2020: These are my before pictures! Unless I’m ridiculously skinny I always have this poochy thing on my lower abdomen, and I don’t know if I’ve always had fatty triceps on my arms or if I just now noticed (???) but these two areas really bother me and I’m ready for them to be gone. Just to recap... I bought three passes on four areas while on sale at Solara for $5400. (40% off, I think.) I watched some lipo videos and decided that was NOT for me, so I’m excited to noninvasivly get rid of these areas forever. Updated on 26 Sep 2020: I thought the “cooling part” would be more painful than this! It actually doesn’t really hurt at all. At first it was crampy and uncomfortable, but after about 5 minutes I couldn’t feel anything besides the suction and my hand being kinda tingly from the awkward position my arm is in. First the medical esthetician (I assume she is, maybe she’s a nurse?) wiped the areas down with what looked like a baby wipe, then she took a plastic oval and a permanent marker and traced an outline of it on my skin. My arms needed the “petite” size, my abdomin used the normal size. Then she took what looked like a jelly sheet mask and put it over the oval she traced on my arm then attached this vacuum hose thing to it. Then the propped me up with like 80 pillow and gave me a blanket and a call button. Now here I am... blogging about it!! I’m so hung over right now, but the staff is very sweet and don’t seem to mind the smell of last night’s booze coming off me. You can only get one area done at a time and it takes 35 minutes each time, so both arms and both sides of my abdomen will take about 2.5 hours with all the switching over. Update: hand is numb Updated on 4 Feb 2022: So far I’ve done my lower abs three times, my flanks twice, the tops of my love handles once, and my triceps once. I’m literally sitting here doing my third round of lower abs as I type this out! My lower abs, flanks, and love handles look amazing. I paid $5400 for the original 12 cycles, and another $1500 for an additional 4 cycles. I think this last round of lower abs will really smooth out my tummy’s profile. I have one more cycle that I think I will use on my upper abs just to get rid of the little bit of fat there. I only did one round on my triceps because my trainer told me that I just needed to tone up the muscles and then they wouldn’t look like that anymore. I only did the tops of my love handles once because it was the only time I felt nauseous after a cycle, and my cool sculpting tech told me that she didn’t think I would need a second round because there actually wasn’t much fat there. I thought it was crazy that I got nauseous because that was literally the only time that I haven’t shown up hung over for a session. Maybe bc there wasn’t anything to freeze away? It was mild and passed quickly and could have been totally unrelated. I’m really happy with my results and glad I chose this over lipo. Regard of how much weight I lose or gain I know I won’t get lipo lumps I’ll post after pics soon Updated on 7 Feb 2022: This is the first time I’ve noticed swelling from cool sculpting and I’m excited because I think that means the fat cells have really taken a hit from this round! Updated on 20 Mar 2022: After three rounds on my lower abdomen I’m finally done ! I have two cycles left in my package which I think I will use on my upper abdomen but I am incredibly happy with all of my results.