The Ice Sculpture Diet: The Complete Guide to Freeze Fat & Find a New You

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CIFA works for one simple reason: fat cells freeze at a higher temperature than surrounding skin and other tissue. If you can create an environment where fat cells freeze without affecting the skin, muscle, or other cells near the fat, you can target the fat closest to the skin for an overall reduction in fat. It’s important to know that there are two types of fat in the body. There’s visceral fat, which is the fat stored deeper in your body, surrounding your organs. Then, there’s subcutaneous fat, or the fat that is closest to the surface of your skin. If you follow the steps outlined in The Foundation, you will be reducing both visceral and subcutaneous fat. In The Freeze, we’re looking to specifically reduce subcutaneous fat using fat freezing methods. Fat freezing is the icing on the cake for this plan; it allows us to get leaner even when the scale isn’t moving.

Miles Rote: Hey everyone, my name is Miles Rote and I’m excited to be here today with Anthony Gallo, author of The Ice Sculpture Diet: The Complete Guide to Freeze Fat and Find a New You. Anthony, I’m excited you’re here, welcome to The Author Hour Podcast.

Many people haven’t heard about fat freezing as a method for targeting and reducing fat. Others have heard about it but didn’t know it was possible to do easily at home. The first reaction I get when I explain this technique from The Ice Sculpture Diet is usually doubt. You can freeze fat and make it disappear? You might be thinking this too. I had started a diet in January. I had started controlling my weight a little bit more, I had learned a lot while studying for the personal trainer exam, and I had kind of stumbled upon this at-home fat freezing stuff that, at first, I thought was just not possible. I thought, “I would have heard about this if you could do it at home, definitely not going to work”.

Miles Rote: See, I’m really excited to talk about this. Coming from that perspective, because you’re coming from an analytical perspective, you were coming from a skeptical perspective, and you’re coming from a personal trainer perspective. The only upside, says Zied, is that adding a liter of ice to your diet might help you consume more water than you normally do, which may prevent overeating since many people confuse hunger for thirst. Still, you're much better off trying to lose weight by replacing less-nutritious eats with more produce, protein, and other healthy foods, says Zied. This method won't just help you lose weight and keep it off—it will also improve your overall health (not to mention save you a trip to the dentist). Oren and Epstein coined the term but didn’t do much else with their discovery. Years passed before other researchers began wondering if the method could be used for more targeted fat loss. Today, we know of several methods for freezing fat off the body.

In 1970, two doctors, Dr. Mark Oren and Dr. Ervin Epstein, discovered and coined the term “popsicle panniculitis.”