We will do just about anything to try to lose weight from living off of cabbage soup to wearing plastic suits while we exercise. But what about the anti cellulite lotion, can this help you lose weight too?

The truth is, not really. Rubbing a lotion onto your body is not going to help you lose weight, but it can hep you lose inches by repositioning fat deposits on your thighs, buttocks, and legs causing your jeans to feel a little looser and your skin to appear smoother.

Cellulite, that ugly bumpy, orange-peel looking stuff on most women's backside is nothing more than fat trapped between connective tissue. Unlike men, women have a very dense, honeycomb connective tissue structure that causes fat cells to bulge and pucker beneath the skin and gives women the dreaded cottage cheese thighs. But the newer anti cellulite lotion made with Aminophylline is showing some promising results for many women and men who have tried them out.

Aminophyllne is an ingredient that is commonly found in asthma medication but when used topically it can help decrease the appearance of cellulite and reduce inches off of the thighs. This is some welcomed news to most of us, as the only other alternative to diminishing cellulite is to undergo surgery or expensive treatments at a doctor's office, which may provide about the same results as the creams but with a much larger price tag.

Of course, some will say that cellulite is just fat and if you lose weight you will lose the cellulite too. However, even slender people can be plagued with cellulite and they too have seen favorable results with the anti cellulite lotion.