So before I discovered the world of fat logic and what it was, I was unconsciously mired deep into its folds.
I remember being an obese 19 year old. My mum found a “free trial” for a weight loss “clinic” that prides itself on being able to achieve weight loss for its clients without the need for diet and exercise.
I went for the one session and they preyed on my very real and very huge insecurities about my weight and my confidence and got me to throw down US$2,000 on a treatment package. (I got the money from an education fund my mum had painstakingly started for me. You can imagine how upset she was when she found out.)
Just for context, they had stuff like this plastered all over the walls.
They told me that it wasn’t possible to exercise myself thin and that all I had to do to complement the treatment was to stay away from oily foods. Seeing as how I did not really have that much “oily foods” (what, pizzas, ice cream, chocolate, burgers, and ramen aren’t oily, are they?) I figured that it would be a piece of cake for me.
I was desperate. I cried in the car when my mother asked me why I wasn’t strong enough to reject their sales pitch. I told her that I was tired of being fat.
I saw those posters every time I walked in. And it somehow just gave me hope that maybe there could be a miracle in this and my life would change.
Anyway, a few months later, I hardly lost any weight and I was due to fly to the UK where I would live for the next few years.
When I got back to my home country a few years after that, they called me up again and said that I hadn’t finished my treatment package.
This time, I had already learnt about how my body really processes food and burns fat and how losing weight was 80-90% diet and maybe some exercise. I had also lost a good amount of weight to reflect this knowledge.
I went anyway because I had already paid for it. But this time, coupled with my fresh knowledge on weight loss and fat logic, I viewed the treatment process with new eyes.
First, they gave me a cup of water to drink and then weighed me.
Next, they threw me in a really hot sauna for 15 mins. This, as all you brilliant people out there know, made me sweat all the water I was holding like a mofo.
Then, they rubbed me down with some “heat and fat burn” cream and wrapped me up tight with cling wrap (I’m not joking). They then put me inside what can be described as a heat-emitting burrito of a blanket for half an hour.
I wasn’t allowed to drink any water even though I felt absolutely dehydrated.
After everything, I was then asked to be weighed again. I think it is clear to everyone reading this that the 0.6kg (~1lb) that I lost was purely because they essentially wrung me out dry.
After I had officially finished my package, I laughingly told them that I wanted nothing further from their clinic. It was hilarious that I had essentially paid a few hundred dollars per session to have the living water sucked out of me only for me to just drink it all back anyway the moment i left the clinic. I mean, I laughed more at my sheer stupidity.
These clinics clearly prey on the vulnerable. And as far as I know, they are still going strong. It’s a chain business and they have at least 5-6 outlets in the city where women from all walks of life throw hard-earned money at them so they can squeeze all the water out of them.
Fat logic can really tear you down and make businesses like that flourish, especially with the rising levels of obesity everywhere in the world. I happened to be but one victim, but I guess I’m certainly glad I made it out of there before I got sucked even further with their deceit. I fear for the rest that continue to believe in their “effectiveness” though...
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