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If you want to look wonderful in your new corset, then how about prepping your waist in advance with a faja?

No idea what a faja is? Then prepare to be enlightened! Faja is actually Spanish for ‘wrap’ and in the past, it is a garment that has been used by cosmetic surgery patients to reduce swelling after surgery and to ensure a nice neat waist. However, you don’t need to go down the surgical re-construction route as faja’s are now used by women worldwide to help them obtain a wonderfully curvy body with a clinched waist.

Wear your faja

So how does the modern day miss use a faja? The great news is that they are now produced under the guise of a ‘waist trainer’ or a gym/sports oriented waist clincher. Made famous by many celebrities, they can help reduce your weight and re-train your waist to look good. Remember the old fashioned corsets that your mums and grandmothers wore? Well they knew a thing or too as wearing this type of garment day after day really does change your shape.

You can wear your waist trainer anywhere; choosing to show it off or cover it up. The more active you are whilst wearing it, the more of a difference it will make.

So how does it work?

Like an old-fashioned binder, once it is fitted around your waist, an immediate compressed effect is felt. You may feel hot and sticky for a while until you get used to it, but just remind yourself that it is working on your fat cells and coaxing toxins and impurities to sweat it out as you perspire.

To give maximum impact, most waist trainers are made from natural latex rubber overlaid with cotton to give a nice look. There is also cotton lining which helps keep you comfy as it prevents the latex sticking to your skin. Fully boned and flexible, you fasten it with hooks and an eye, gradually moving inwards to the smaller size as your waist begins to take shape.

Flaunt your faja!

Waist trainers come in all shapes and sizes and you can choose from something very plain to wear at the gym or something with a more detailed design if you want to flaunt your faja.

As always, use your waist trainer carefully and sensibly. It may feel uncomfortable to begin, but don’t rush the process. Get used to the feel of it before you start the tightening process. Slow is good. You may even find that because your tummy area is restricted, you cut down on how much you eat. The other thing about wearing a faja is that you will immediately feel and look very feminine and sexy. Obtaining a great shaped waist has never looked so good or been so much fun!

Whether you are looking to purchase a corset to help you with your weight loss, or if you are looking to purchase it as a treat for yourself to celebrate having reached your weight loss goal, the one important rule of thumb is to always buy a corset to suit your current size.

Let me give you an example for each of the above situations:

1. Purchasing a corset to help you reach your weight loss goal

When we set a weight loss goal in mind, we can't help but envision what we're going to look like once our goal is reached. And sometimes, we begin to shop a little prematurely for things that perhaps don't yet fit. Even more so, we may be tempted to go down a few sizes with our corsets because we hope that this will help us shed weight all the quicker.

This is not the case! You need to consider a few things here: first, a corset is sized to not only fit one's waist but also one's hips and rib cage in proportion to one's waist. Therefore, if the corset is too snug around your waist, it will also be too snug around your hips and ribs or chest and this will undoubtedly not be comfortable for you.

Secondly, a corset cannot provide a greater waist reduction than it promises. Therefore a steel boned corset cannot bear more tension than the 4" to 5" it promises, nor can a waist trainer go beyond the 6" to 7" it promises to nip from your waist. So let's say your waist measures 30" and you decide to purchase a size 22" corset: hoping to have the corset reduce your waist by 8" will cause stress and even damage to the corset and its boning and in the worst case scenario, injury to the wearer from a bent, warped or broken bone.

2. Purchasing a corset based on the size you hope to be in the near future

I honestly do understand and appreciate the psychology behind purchasing something that will fit you at the end of a diet or exercise regimen or once your goal is reached. Some people find hanging up a smaller sized pair of jeans or a swimsuit in plain sight can be very motivational to stay on course, and I get it.

The only problem I have with this is there is no guarantee how you will lose the weight (because not all of us are lucky enough to shed it from our waist), you don't yet know how toned/muscular your midsection will be once you've met your goal, or if you are even able meet your original goal (sometimes we can set our sights a little too high).

All of these factors will influence whether or not the corset you purchased months ago in anticipation of reaching your goal, will fit you properly.

This is why, at the end of the day we cannot stress enough the importance of purchasing a corset that either fits you at this moment, or holding off on your purchase until you've reached your weight loss/fitness goals.

For any additional questions about corsets and weight loss, please email me at sabrina@truecorset.com

Happy lacing!