there is actually a gyroscopic thingy my physio has me use occasionally, but it isnt for spot weight reduction, it is for working specific sets of muscles that are otherwise a pain to work on.
At home, I kill time while ice mining in EVE [or whatever thing i am doing with a fair amount of wait time] I putz around with 5 pound had weights, and 2 pound hand weights doing various muscle groups. Or I use my squeezy ball.
I think Cook’s Illustrated did a review of mandolines a while back. If you want, I could leaf through my back issues and see if I could find which they recommended.
ETA: Google tells me it was from May of 2008. Let me know if you want me to dig it up when I get home.
Personally, I’ve always been partial to this. (Hopefully the right link–can’t be sure from work.)
I thought the point wasn’t reducing the fat on your arms but getting toned muscles to [del]give better handjobs[/del] look good in sleeveless tops.
I was having a particularly non-butch moment one day at Walgreens and decided to buy one of those Pedi-Egg things. Supposedly, you were supposed to use it to remove dead, flaky skin. Maybe I wasn’t doing it right, I rubbed my heels with it, but it didn’t remove that much dead skin. And to make matters worse, the dead skin remnants reminded me of something you’d sprinkle on top of spaghetti. I ended up throwing it away.
They actually work really well, but 1) you have to have DRY skin; don’t use it anytime after a shower. And two, you have to really work at it; 5 minutes every day for a week to see a difference. The Parmesan type stuff was your dead, calloused skin coming off! You can get the same results at a good pedicure, but who has the money/time for those regularly.
My mom has one and raves about it. Could be a case of your M Ving.
See, I like to use it just out of the shower or, even better, after my feet have been slathered in lotion and saran wrap and then a thin pair of cotton socks over night. But I have insanely thick callouses that make the pedicure lady (back when I was seeing her every two weeks) cluck and scold me. Seriously, Ped-Lady, I don’t grow them on purpose!
But the warm water or lotion overnight softens things up enough that the PedEgg just shaves the thick skin off like a nice cheddar on a microplane. Sorry, gross image, but that’s exactly what it’s like.
I heart my PedEgg. My PedLady probably hates it, because I haven’t seen her in a year. Cluck, cluck.
OMG, your successfully use it on softened/lotioned feet!? I used it once on wet feet (with what I thought to be pretty bad callouses) and it was not a pleasant surprise.
But yes, it’s exactly like a microplane. But for your feet!
Like I said, REALLY thick callouses, especially on my heels. I seriously wonder if it’s some sort of psoriasis or something - the top layers of epidermis just don’t seem to leave on their own. My unegged feet are like hooves. I’ve actually caused visible scratches on my SO’s legs in bed just from my feet. :smack:
If you have normal feet, using it wet might be ouchy, if you only have a small layer of dead skin cells to remove.
This thread has taken a turn for the gross yet awesome.
Are you kidding? We haven’t even mentioned DivaCups yet (though that might be better off in the other thread…). There are enough DivaCup threads for every other female doper at this point 
Oh, Divacups definitely belong in the other thread! But for this thread, and to up the gross quotient, I’ll submit Instead, the disposable menstrual cup. As a long time Keeper (another brand of cup like the Divacup) user, I thought I’d love Instead for camping - no need to rinse out the cup like the Keeper, just use for a day and toss. Turns out it fits NOTHING like the Keeper - it’s more like a soft diaphragm, and I just couldn’t get it in the right spot up close to the cervix. Leaked like a motherfucking sieve and was really unpleasant to remove.
I’ll second that. DivaCup=awesome. Instead=Teh Suck
I don’t want to make this (add to?) a recurring hijack, but I just came across an article this morning at FastCompany.com that might be of interest: Ten Mac Apps That Make Windows Users Drool. I have no idea whether the referenced applications are worthwhile, either in general or to you specifically, but it made me think of this thread.
I’ll note that I use neither Mac nor Windows by choice, so I’ve got little interest in any for/against position for either.
Of those apps, I would only use one or two. I’d use the library organizer and MAYBE the music organizer. It looks like the music organizer is useless without iTunes, though. The other apps are for things that I am just not interested in doing. I’m sure that they’re very useful to some people. I’m not one of those people. The library app DOES make me drool, but I’m not going to buy a whole new computer just for my library.
Ultrasonic pest control devices. “They no work.”
WhyNot, I was just mentioning DivaCups for the ick factor ;).
Yeah, I know. Same for me upping the ante to the Instead cup…just…going with the flow.
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Too much fluoride might leave extra-white spots. Or he might have gotten exposed to tetracycline as a child or in utero (we think that’s why my teeth are hideous).
Ped Egg? It’s just a cutesy substitute for ordinary sandpaper. That’s what I use, and my podiatrist, an MD, approves.
Monster Cables are merely big wire, with a clear plastic shell to make the wire look even bigger. The wire on most lamps is 18 ga. zip cord. Go to any hardware store or Lowes, and you can find the same thing in 14 ga. That will handle anything your sound system can honk out. You don’t need fancy gold-plated ends, either. Strip and twist the ends, and “tin” them, that is, give them a simple coat of solder to keep them from fraying and corroding. That’s as “monster” as you’ll ever need for your speakers. Besides, the insulation on one side has ridges, so you’ll know which side goes to which terminal.
They also sell 8 ga. wire, if you just want to impress your friends, and that’s bigger than Monsters.
AskNott, it’s not sandpaper. It’s not a grit at all. It is literally a microplane for your feet. When used properly, the inside part “catches” the shavings, rather than having them fly everywhere as if you used a real microplane. Shaving != sanding.
Secondly, a podiatrist is a DPM - doctor of podiatric medicine - not an MD. If yours is an MD, then he’s a DPM/MD.
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