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Body Sculpting? Cool!



Okay, so this isn't me.
It's Leeann Lacroix, Ottawa style maven, who has spent the last few weeks getting a little help from science to reduce what she called the marshmallow in her midriff. I'd heard about CoolSculpting, a process that basically freezes and flushes fat cells from a person's tummy, arms, and other areas where the little bastards squat for years and years and years.
Leeann was getting a more targeted treatment called Emsculpt, which is for the hard bodied crowd that has been hit horribly by the closing of gyms during this wretched pandemic. She got four treatments over two weeks on her midriff area which, ladies and gents, let's face it, is pretty hard to lose as the years go by.  
"When I was in my twenties and thirties I could regain muscle tone with regular, moderate workouts," she wrote. "Now, since you start to lose muscle mass after forty it is really hard to achieve muscle tone, at least it is for me. I don't think l have the energy and time to spend hours everyday in a health club working out." 
Wow, I thought. I want to see this for myself. So I took a little ride down the road to Orleans and met the fabulous owner Julie Ladouceur D'Amato, who gave me a tour of the place and a fabulous mask!
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not, nor have I ever been Leeann Lacroix whom I met years back at the Rideau Tennis Club. Unlike me, Leeann hasn't let herself go. She's still beautiful and toned while I am a little rough around the edges.
I didn't expect that Julie would have anything in her toolbox for me. From what I've read, most of the sculpting procedures are for people with just a little flab here and there. People like me who are cruelly called morbidly obese by the judgy medical docs are usually sent off for liposuction and other horrible procedures. 
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I could be a candidate for CoolSculpting which is far less scary than lipo because it's not invasive. The cells are frozen through your skin instead of having a Botoxed doc hoover them through a hole in your gut.
Anybody with saddlebags and muffin tops can benefit from the treatment which reduces these stubborn areas by inches. As Julie says, "if you can pinch it, we can treat it."
Cool. It's a bit pricey for me, living large as I am on the CERB, about $4,000. So I'll leave the Cool Sculpt for when my ship comes in. But I was pleased to see that SKINS offers many services and treatments that are in my income bracket. For example, they can take off those horrible skin tags I have from wearing industrial sized bras for the last twenty years for under $100. 
They even have a treatment for spider veins, as well as offering my beloved Botox and fillers. And the cosmetic and medical grade skin cream aisle is a little old lady's dream. 
If you'd like to check out SKINS, virtually, here is the link. If you want to have a look at Leeann's experience, you can visit her on Facebook. 

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