Anyone out there tried waist training by wearing a corset? I have a non-sleeved friend who is using one and has had great results. Just wondering if the loose skin issue is too much of a complication to do any good.

Thanks in advance!

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I would also like to hear some input on this.

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My doctor said he didn't recommend it because you can potentially harm the organs in that region

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You should use search we had a long thread on this not too long ago. It keeps coming up. I will give you my opinion.

Waist training isn't new. It used to just be the norm. My grandmother wore a bone girdle her entire life once she hit puberty. She told me to always wear on and I wish I had because I would have never been as fat I was. The biggest thing a girdle does for you, and I am talking about a real girdle with steel non flexible boning, is it prevents you from overeating. You can't over eat with a real girdle on, it is right you have no room. It is basically like a lapband or a sleeve.

So that is one of the reasons that people who are really waist training at least 8 hours a day lose weight. They can't over eat, or probably even eat to capacity. If they are even just seasoning with their corset, and only wear it a couple hours building up to more time. You can't and won't want to eat with it on. You do good to even breath. they also actually change your shape and move your organs if you use a tight steel one over a long period, and that is not a good thing, but do your own reas

So if you have actually medically had your stomach made smaller, you don't need a waist trainer. You already have limited capacity and wearing a waist trainer is going to limit it more and make you more prone to GERD.

Now if you want to wear neoprene while you work out, that is cool, you can get some superficial or limited time skin improvement with wearing neprene and using a cellulite skin cream of your choice. If you have ever work spanx etc all day when you take them off (at least for me) you are still tucked in some for a little while. If only lasts a couple hours but if you are self conscious about being naked for sex, it can be a nice trick.

I still wouldn't suggest neoprene until you can drink a lot of fluids quickly, because you are going to sweat a lot. For larger people or those of us with loose skin. Suits like the ones from Kutting Weight are better than a lot of just waist trainer type things because you can easily cover larger areas.

My doctor said he didn't recommend it because you can potentially harm the organs in that region

This is the same thing that Dr. Oz said the other day.

I have loose skin- I don't believe that waist training would have changed that. I wore Spanx a lot the first year or two and still have loose skin.