weight loss

Sweat Out Holiday Indulgences in the SlimDome

Filed under: Spas

Chances are, you've spend the past few weeks - and Thanksgiving weekend in particular - overindulging on your favorite foods. Prep for the next round of holiday festivities with a trip to your local SlimDome, an infrared sauna that promises up to a five percent reduction in body weight in just one 45-minute session.

We recently have become devoted to this treatment, which burns 400 to 600 calories per session and is safe enough to use daily. The process is easy - one simply lays inside the dome, a rather coffin-like device that slides up almost to the user's neck. A super-absorbent towel is placed on top of the dome's spongy padding ... because we guarantee you'll sweat ... profusely.

Unlike a regular sauna, the Dome only reaches temperatures of 110 - 140 degrees Farenheit, but it uses infrared technology to penetrate 1.5 to two inches beneath the skin's surface, generating a subcutaneous sweat that doesn't dehydrate but purges toxins from the body at a significantly higher rate than a regular sauna session.

And, because your head and face is outside the Dome, you won't feel nearly as hot.

The sauna may also have health benefits - D.C. area spa owner Amy Boyce of PureSkin (the only D.C. area spa to carry the Dome) says that her mother used the Dome daily after being diagnosed with unhealthy levels of mercury in her system. After a month of regular treatments, she was completely healed.

So here's to being both healthy - and happy with your weight - this holiday season.

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Spiritually Surrender to Weight Loss at The Lodge at Woodloch

by Alison Wellner (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Spas

If the summer has left your jeans a little snug, The Lodge at Woodloch, a destination spa in Hawley, Pennsylvania that's popular with health seekers on the New Yorker to Philadelphia corridor, may have a solution. Spiritual guru Marianne Williamson will be putting in an appearance in early November, to mark the publication of her new book, A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever. Four of Williamson's nine books have become New York Times bestsellers, and while I've not cracked its cover, it doesn't take a marketing genius to realize that the title contains words likely to make it very popular indeed.

The weekend package runs November 5th-6th, 2010, and includes Williamson's lecture, a signed copy of her book, and a weekend of activities at the resort. All details here.

Tags: pennsylvania, spa, spirituality, weight loss