Queen Bea Shrinks her Royal Arse

Well, I'm gonna do it. I'm taking the plunge. I'm going to sprinkle my chubby cankles away!

For reals, chickadees! Queen Bea will soon be dusting all her food with Sensa weight loss sprinkles. In case you didn't already know, I talk all about them coming to QVC in a few months here. But if you ust can't wait that long, you can order them directly from Sensa.

I'll be putting something on the blog to keep you updated on my progress ... I just have to figure out how to do it first. I'm sure there's some kind of progress bar widget (for the technically impaired) that I can find somewhere.

Anyway, here is a really interesting Dateline clip about the sprinkles while they were still in the research phase. Dr.Hirsch explains all the smell science behind it. Did you know that the smell of strawberries will help you workout better? Who knew!

I just loooooooove Dr. Hirsch and hope he'll be making an appearance on the Q.

Just a Sprinkle a Day, Makes the Fat Go Away!

All you have to do is shake some Sensa sprinkles on your food and you will lose weight!

That’s the claim anyway.

Although I personally find this a little hard to believe, QVC is betting on it working (or at least selling!).

According to the Sensa website, when they tested the product on 1,436 people, they lost an average of 30.5 pounds in 6 months without changing their diet or exercise plan. Now as impressive as that sounds, they could have stacked the deck by using more men (who lose weight faster) and using chubbier people (who have more to lose). I don’t know. Seems too good to be true.

The sprinkles, developed by Dr. Alan Hirsch of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, are supposed to work by intensifying the smell and taste of food, which helps suppress hunger and tricks the brain into feeling full. So, ultimately, even though you can eat whatever you want, you end up eating less of it.

The long term effects haven’t been studied yet. And anyone who’s been on the weight-loss roller coaster knows that it’s harder to maintain the weight loss than lose weight. What happens when you stop sprinkling? Do you become a sprinkle addict???

So what’s in these magic sprinkles anyway? They certainly aren’t going to give that information away since they are sitting on a goldmine, but they do say that they are made out of artificial and natural ingredients approved for use in food by the FDA.

There are two types of the non-caloric sprinkles: the salty ones for savory foods and the sweet ones for the sweet stuff. And although flavors like cheddar cheese, mocha, horseradish, strawberry are in the mix, you aren’t supposed to taste the sprinkles once they are on your food.

I must admit that even though this looks highly suspect, I’m intrigued and tempted to try it. If you’re interested, you can go ahead an order it here or wait until it’s on the Q in a few months.

Is this a Shake-n-Fake or the real deal? Should I give them a try???

ETA: Queen Bea is taking the sprinkle plunge ... read about it here.