Remember we’re doing a diet a week? It’s our new series for Short Attention Span Dieters – 52 Mondays. Our first diet started last week and we were trying sweaty shorts to see if our workouts were sweatier – thereby burning more calories. Here are my thoughts on the Neoprene Shorts by Valeo – provided to us by America’s Nutrition.

I chose to use the shorts during my  Jillian Michaels “The Shred” workout. I am towards the end of ten days on level one.  My initial impression is that they’re like working out in scuba gear. This is not a bad thing. I’ve come to realize that if a workout is easy it isn’t a workout. SO with that philosophy in place I was able to accept the fact that I’d be uncomfortable. But honestly I wasn’t.

The shorts are comfortable to workout in but don’t look good in them – at all. SO if your point for working out is to wear cute clothes at the gym and attract admirers I’d recommend something else. If your point is to sweat off that extra pat of butter  then you’ll be okay.

In terms of sweat volume – or is it mass – I would say I sweat more when I’m about to fly or last Friday night in the basement of the local bar for a high school reunion mixer. (I sweat like it was my job for that social event. Really nice.) The shorts are comfortable. There’s no chaffing and honestly I’ve experienced way more pain while wearing a pair of Spanx or “shapewear.”  Am I the only one whose “shapewear” hits at about spleen level? I’ve literally removed “shapewear” in the bathroom between the salad and the main course of a dinner party  and shoved it in my evening bag because I thought my internal organs were being compromised.

ANYWAY – my point is the shorts are perfectly comfortable, not very attractive, but do cause some extra sweating. I recommend them as a way to squeeze a little more work out of your workout.

Metrics: Weight loss after 4 sweaty shorts workouts – uh -none. I stayed the same. BUT I did eat three Klondike Bars this week. SO maybe I did actually lose but negated it by the Klondiking.

Lifestyle or Lump It:Lifestyle, I think I’m going to wear them again this week as I get to level 2 of The Shred. Yep I liked the shorts enough to keep at it.  I recommend the shorts to anyone who’d like to do more sweating,  I can’t say they were successful with only a week’s worth of use to help me lose weight, but I can say that  if your being hit on at the gym rock the sweaty shorts and that’ll stop.