Infomercial Insanity: Slim Away
Some fitness infomercial products at least have a shred of logic behind the claims that they make. But the subject of today’s post – Slim Away – is definitely pushing my Angry buttons!
Product Pitch
Here’s what the Slim Away website says – “Slim Away takes inches off your waist to make you look slim instantly! Slim Away provides great back support, and you can even use it while you exercise to shed water weight faster”
Wait, it gets better. The Slim Away is made with Evaposlim fabric that seals in body heat to help you shed that pesky water weight. The product video says, “diets stink and exercise takes all day”, so why bother? Just strap on the Slim Away and instantly look slimmer and trimmer. Plus it delivers amazing results – the video allows you to watch bare bellies go from fat to fit, all supposedly from wearing the adjustable wonder belt during exercise.
You get not 1, but 2 Slim Away’s for just 10 bucks! And no one will ever know you’re wearing one. It’s time to fit in those old jeans and skirts, and lose inches instantly! Hmm…
The Angry Trainer Says:
I think this may be the worst Infomerical product I’ve come across since we launched our Infomercial Insanity strand!
The Slim Away is absurd in every way. In my opinion you will not lose an inch, or hide an inch for that matter. And guess what else? EVERYONE will know you have it on!
It doesn’t even provide any back support, let alone contain a special fabric. What is Evaposlim fabric anyway? Truthfully right from the “diet’s stink and exercise takes all day” line I was fuming. What a lazy attitude! And that video is just plain misleading, making people believe wearing this oversized belt will help you burn fat around the belly area.
Truthfully, wearing any fabric or even a rubber suit won’t make you lose weight anywhere. I know the idea’s been glorified by boxers and wrestlers, but that’s because they’re looking to lose a lot of water weight to make a weigh in. Sure, wearing something on your skin may give the illusion of increased perspiration, but that’s because the sweat or water is unable to evaporate off your skin. And as far as I know there’s no correlation between skin temperature and fat burning. Otherwise you could just lay in the sun and get ripped! And even if the claim was true, and you did in fact manage to lose water weight. Don’t you think it’s going to come right back? Dehydrating yourself is not the way to a six-pack or a slim waistline.
Please, I beg you, don’t even remotely think of buying this product. And if you have already, don’t tell me! You can’t tell me that the low budget, cheesy commercial isn’t a dead giveaway that the only thing Slim Away will slim down is your wallet! Hey, 10 bucks is 2 chicken breasts! Or 5 pounds of Quinoa if you’re a vegetarian!
The Angry Trainer says: Freakin’ INSANE!
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about 1 year ago
There is a similar product called the belly bandit (http://bellybandit.com/store/p-53-kourtney-kardashian-limited-edition-belly-bandit.aspx) for after pregnancy. I had a c-section with my first and will have to have another one with my second child (I don’t have serious health issues just small pelvic bones). After the c-section my lower stomach sagged like pouch almost not just after having a baby fat because they cut threw the muscles. Do you think something like that product would work in that kind of situation ? I lost almost all the weight I gained during my first pregnancy but I was left with this lower sagging stomach. Thanks
about 7 months ago
Yes something like this does work for post partum!! Believe it, its soooo much better than just having the baby flab hang there after you give birth. This is very common in other countries, using these types of things to hold in the abdomen, while in the u.s. they use these items…. thats why you will see alot of women with deformed midsections instead of having a small waist line they have a box for a midsection