Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Saran Wrap Wrap...

It was a dark and stormy night... 

I find myself on the toilet, stuck in a cocoon of plastic wrap, trying desperately to remove it from my body before Dexter comes in and makes me pay for my sins. The feeling of suffocation is terrifying, I just can't get it off fast enough. I should turn the light on, but I know that it will just blind me for life, and I have so much more life to live.. I claw at the plastic, trying not to mess up the polish I had done the evening before, you just never know if it's totally set, a week could go by and I will still question it.  Finally the plastic wrap starts to give and I frantically pull it off, a few tiny pieces at a time. I can breathe again, the pressure on my bladder dissipates with each tear of plastic, when the last piece is removed I sigh with relief and stumble back to bed but sleep doesn't come. So like any self respecting, sleep deprived woman, I jump on the iPhone and enter the world of Pinterest, giddy with excitement at the prospect of new and delightful DIYs just waiting to be found. All the while thinking, I'm not wrapping myself in Saran wrap again, heck, it probably didn't even do what it was supposed to.. 

Ok, so it wasn't stormy, but it was dark, and yes, I wrapped myself in plastic wrap..
According to this PIN, which takes you to this website,  Body Wrap at Home, wrapping yourself in plastic wrap will help remove inches from whatever part of your body you wrap. I happen to have the worst trouble spot ever, so I measured first and then wrapped myself around the middle. Let me tell you this first: THIS WAS THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE NIGHT OF MY LIFE... Although, I did sleep, it woke me up at 5am which is when I found myself in a Dexter nightmare. It felt like I was being cut at the top and bottom edges of the plastic, not comfortable, I still had angry red lines on my skin 2 hours later.

After the nightmare was over I had no doubt that this was a pin that was just plain silly, probably didn't work, and I would never do it again. I wasn't even going to measure myself but decided I might as well since that was the whole point.. Well, just hold on a second while I eat my hat..... I lost 1.5 inches, overnight, by wrapping myself in plastic.. BUT.. Me being the skeptic that I am, tonight before bed, I'm going to measure myself, and in the morning I'll measure again to see if this is just a normal overnight occurrence.
*UPDATE*
So the next evening I measured again and was still down 3/4 of an inch, the following morning I was the same as the day after the wrap.. So, what I take from that is (and I'm no scientist or doctor) our bodies fluctuate at least 1/2 inch between morning and night. My weight does the same thing most nights. It's possible that doing this regularly would help, but the question is, is it worth it? I'm still not sure about that...

2 comments:

  1. So much fun reading!!
    What did the next day measures tell you?

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    1. I updated the post to show what I found.. Thanks for reading May.. :-)

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