If anyone knows me, they know that I am a home shopping junkie. I rarely shop in retail stores and the mailman and UPS dudes know me by name and even wave to me if they see me outside their tours of duty. So a few weeks ago, as I was watching HSN, they had their TSV (Today's Special Value for those novices) of this new spectacular-amazing weight loss product called SENSA.
First let's get to what SENSA is. Sensa is a weight loss system that comes in a container not unlike that of dental floss, only larger. It has 2 compartments, a "salty" compartment and a "sweet" compartment. These compartments are filled with what they call "taste testant" which by the way, if you read the container, the "testants" are still patent-pending. The testants are supposed to send messages to your brain to release the hormone to tell your body that you are full and it is time to stop eating. You are supposed to sprinkle these on EVERYTHING that you eat that is either solid or semi-solid (sorry, can't add them to your frothy mug of beer) but you can sprinkle them on your gummy bears, your pork rinds, your sticks of butter, your candybars, your tub of butter drenched popcorn when you go to the movies, whatever you eat that is again "solid or semi-solid." This means that you have to carry SENSA with you wherever you go. For this reason they send you 2 containers per month, one to keep at home and one to carry around with you, just in case you have to nibble while running errands at the post office or grocery store (yes, when sampling the grapes to see if they are just right at the supermarket, pull out that SENSA and sprinkle baby)
The claim was that you can continue to eat your favorite foods, all you had to do was sprinkle SENSA on your foods to "safely and effectively curb your appetite and lose weight without feeling deprived."
Well, after hearing the presentation on HSN and re-watching it throughout the day, I knew I had to have this product. If all I had to do was "sprinkle" my hips, belly and butt away, man I was hooked. My fingers quickly dialed up HSN, (now you know I have their number on speed dial in all my phones) I placed my order and even signed up for automatic shipment which meant I would be getting SENSA shipped to me without fail every 2 months, (now why would I want to be without this miracle diet if it was the answer to all my prayers?)
I could not wait to get home every day hoping that the mailman or UPS had made my delivery. Anyhow.... I get the "miracle sprinkles" and by this time, I have done additional research on the product while I am waiting for it to arrive. Turns out this product is questionable. The claims that Dr. Alan Hirsch, the creator of the Sensa Weight-Loss System, have not been verified. Here are 2 links to reputable sources that provided information on the product; 20/20 Sensa expose video and another to an ABC News article also about Sensa.
I think I will be packing this baby up and shipping it back pronto, and please do not ask me what I paid for the miracle sprinkles, I am now embarrassed to even say it, but YES! I WAS HOOD WINKED. Nothing gets the fat off your bum like good old fashioned hard work, now I have to turn off HSN, QVC and all the other shopping channels that have attributed to the butt spread from the hours of sitting and viewing the presentations and truly work out, there is no miracle in healthy weight loss.
TTFN (ta ta for now)
Diet Diva 4 Life
