Ultrashape is the leading method of non-invasive fat removal in Europe, but little known here in the UK. Much publicity has been devoted to Smart lipo but this remains an invasive technique. Ultrashape is truly non-invasive and free of pain.

Ultrashape is a treatment that selectively destroys fat cells with ultrasound waves. Ultrasound waves have been used for over twenty years to treat kidney stones; a different wavelength is employed to selectively destroy fatty tissue.

The treatment is relaxing and certainly pain free but takes time as the co-ordinates of the area to be treated need to be fed into the computer. Once this is done the treatment moves swiftly on, the therapist passing the transducer head over the area and making the shot when the display dictates. This allows for a smooth result with no gaps.

Three treatments are recommended preferably three weeks apart. Best results are achieved when a fat-free diet is followed for the day preceding the treatment and for four days after. Whilst the Ultrashape is liberating the fat from the resistant fat stores, you need to burn the fat as energy. Think of it like a camel living off its fat. Exercise, too, helps.

Ultrashape have developed a newer, more powerful transducer head and since this we can say that the improvement figures are far better than their original: treatment 1 20%, treatment 2 50% and treatment 3 80%.

Smaller areas of fatty tissue can be treated with the homeopathic medicine, Metabolites. This is an injection technique whereby the medicine is placed into the area of fat. The treated area may swell a bit but quickly subsides. Over the next 28 days, the body is able to draw upon these fatty stores and reduce the volume. This means, of course, that a sensible eating and exercise plan needs to be followed.