Lady Lumps

........as the Sunday Times called it, or cellulite as more commonly known to you and me.

I was reading the article by Lois Rogers yesterday and was horrified:) and relieved to find out that the dreaded orange-peel effect of pitted fat affects 8 out of 10 women (it hardly affects men by the way). Horrified that it affects so many but relieved I'm not the only one, there's strength in numbers, right? So I've admitted I've got some.

Anyway I'll get to my point. There's help at hand apparently and it has FDA approval, thanks to some new laser techniques and a study by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, on a group of women average aged 47, showed that just one treatment could remove and prevent the return of cellulite for at least a year and some had remained cellulite free for three years. The treatment only takes between one and two hours and a local anaesthetic is sufficient. I won't go into the technical details which involve insertion of laser rods, lumpy fat and dermal tissue and made me feel squeamish.

Now the cost, a very reasonable 'upwards of' £2500. Cough splutter. So I put it to my husband, first asking him if he'd noticed any cellulite on me and second asking if he thought I should do something about it. P is very practical about things, especially money and after asking me how he would recognise cellulite if there was any (I found out later he was joking) he said he'd take a look at the article. He did and advised me that 'upwards of' was open ended, a bit like stores offering sales with 'up to' 75% off, weasel words he called it. Then he added that for a permanent solution it might (only might) stack up but at an annual cost, it just meant keeping some overpaid plastic surgeon in luxury. He also noted that right at the end of the article, an 'honest' plastic surgeon, Fazel Fateh, former President of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, said "It is difficult to recommend any treatment with confidence that people will get a good result". So well done Fazel, even though you're doing yourself out of business.......perhaps that's why you're no longer President, too much honesty for your colleagues to vote for.

So the "bottom" line was my husband said he had noticed a bit of cellulite on my bum and the tops of my thighs. Not much at all, he said, and he found it quite attractive. Vulnerable, he said. God knows what he meant by that but because he said nice things I stopped worrying about it immediately. He said he'd take a closer look at it later, just in case he'd missed something. That could only mean one thing:)

Have a good week.

Ronnie
xx