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3/21/09 Weight Loss 'Tools'

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Our great-grandmothers, grandmothers, and mothers were on to something...they were using 'tools' for weight loss long before the era of 10,000 diets became popular. Too bad their 'tools' weren't as successful as the LB!

 

GOT CANKLES?

Newspaper clipping from 1924. I'll bet these were comfortable, and gee 'there's nothing to rub in or massage'. I wonder if blue feet were popular then?

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A DAY AT THE SPA SOUND GOOD?

This photo from the 1960s shows French women sitting in "slim-down coveralls" while being served low-calorie meals.

 

The attached text reads: "10 May 1961, Paris, France --- Weighting Game. Paris: Shedding pounds while getting new hairdos, Parisian girls relax in slim-down coveralls underneath the hair driers at a local beauty parlor. In addition to the coveralls, customers get low-calorie meals to help with their slenderizing. Idea was originated by Parisian hairdressers Roger Pasquier".

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NEED TO GET RID OF FAT AND CELLULITE?

This just looks painful! The device was made by Battle Creek Equipment in Michigan, US. You sit front, back or side and the rollers 'break down' fat.

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LIKE YOUR MARTINI SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED?

Now THIS looks like a fun 'banding' experience! I hope my support group meetings are this fun!

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WANT A 15" WAIST?

Frankly Rhett, I don't give a d#*n! ...Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) being laced into her corset by her Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) in Gone with the Wind, 1939.

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Our great-grandmothers, grandmothers, and mothers were on to something...they were using 'tools' for weight loss long before the era of 10,000 diets became popular. Too bad their 'tools' weren't as successful as the LB!

GOT CANKLES?

Newspaper clipping from 1924. I'll bet these were comfortable, and gee 'there's nothing to rub in or massage'. I wonder if blue feet were popular then?

fat-ankles.gif

A DAY AT THE SPA SOUND GOOD?

This photo from the 1960s shows French women sitting in "slim-down coveralls" while being served low-calorie meals.

The attached text reads: "10 May 1961, Paris, France --- Weighting Game. Paris: Shedding pounds while getting new hairdos, Parisian girls relax in slim-down coveralls underneath the hair driers at a local beauty parlor. In addition to the coveralls, customers get low-calorie meals to help with their slenderizing. Idea was originated by Parisian hairdressers Roger Pasquier".

vintagefrench.jpg

NEED TO GET RID OF FAT AND CELLULITE?

This just looks painful! The device was made by Battle Creek Equipment in Michigan, US. You sit front, back or side and the rollers 'break down' fat.

jiggle1.jpg

LIKE YOUR MARTINI SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED?

Now THIS looks like a fun 'banding' experience! I hope my support group meetings are this fun!

women+on+ex+machine.jpg

WANT A 15" WAIST?

Frankly Rhett, I don't give a d#*n! ...Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) being laced into her corset by her Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) in Gone with the Wind, 1939.

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LOL OMG...so I used to live in an apartment building that had a really really outdated workout room. It had two of the above items. The roller thing and the belt "Shaken" thing. Too hilarious. The roller thing was weird...it basically massaged your butt and it totally looked like a huge safety hazard. The band thing was just weird...it just jiggled your fat...nothing in the world can make you feel fatter than having every ounce of your fat jiggled lol

Thanks for the laugh!

~A

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Hey there, BG,been reading some of your writings and you are HILLARIOUS, I'll bet you are so fun to be around!!!! I love all the extra things you add. Hey I even saved your " I peed my pants ", I'll probaly need that later when I need a pick me up moment! Keep on doing what you are doing, cause you are the best!! Oh by the way, my bday is April 24,and like you,I hope to be sipping on chicken broth( I think I will freeze and put a candle in it so I can blow it out!! Oh wait, I can't do that cause all the candles would just thaw it out!! ) lol Anyway I LOVE what you are doing.

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Thanks A & DB! I can't believe you actually got to use these A! Too funny! I wonder what you'd sound like talking on those jiggler machines...h-h-h-h-a-a-a..h-h-h-a-a-a!

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