After reading Self beauty editor Elaine O'Farley's description of her experience in the Slim Dome (oh, I SO want this device to be called the Slim-O-Matic 5000 or something like that), which is basically a weird super sauna that claims to purify and detox your body through heat or maybe microwaves. Check it:

The door shut, and I was faced with my fate. I got naked and climbed in. Normally I tend to be cold so I was looking forward to some warmth. I was surprised because at first I wasn't warm at all, and then slowly, like a roast in an oven, I started to heat up. I was grateful that the top part of the dome wasn't touching my increasingly greasy body, and I realized I should have emptied my bladder before beginning this 40-minute marathon.

Elaine reports that she received the much desired "You're so skinny" compliment and had a sense of awesomeness from this device. I can't help but be skeptical. While I'm all about the virtues of things like Bikram yoga or steam rooms, I would think you can't really expect any long-term change in body weight from what must simply be a lot of water loss. This reminds me of one of those commercials for treatments for body wraps that swear you'll lose a measurable 4-7 inches on your thighs in just half an hour: it's all coming back as soon as you take your first sip of water, right?

What about you? Would you try the Super Slimatron thingy? What is the craziest non-diet, non-exercise thing you've done to lose inches?