Liposuction

The Amount Of Fat That You Would Like To Have Removed

It Can Be Hard to Predict How Much Fat Will Be Removed.
To ensure that your liposuction is a same-day procedure, the doctor will need to ensure that only five liters of fat or less is removed. This comes out to be about ten pounds of fat.

However, the exact amount of fat your surgeon removes depends on a variety of factors, like how much fat you have in the area, the look you want to achieve, and whether or not the area starts to bleed while the doctor is treating it.

The procedure isn’t as simple as just sticking a vacuum under your skin and sucking out the fat until the machine turns off. It’s a complicated process that your surgeon won’t be able to predict perfectly.

Whether You Want Skin And Tissue Tightening

Even though getting rid of excess fat sounds ideal, there are still some things you should consider when it comes to your post-procedure body. The main thing people don’t expect is the possibility of loose skin.

Over time as we age and as excess fat causes our skin to stretch, our skin loses its elasticity. That means that if you get liposuction in an area with a lot of stretch marks or a place with thin skin, you’ll probably wind up with some sagging skin.

Over time, some of this skin may snap back into place. But the reality is that without a lift, it won’t go entirely back to normal.

Different types of lipo offer some skin tightening but if there is a large amount of excess skin it may need to be surgically removed.

How Much Time You Can Feasibly Accommodate?

This can take anywhere from 5 to 7 days before you can return to work and 4 to 6 weeks before you can get back to physical activities, such as exercise. A long-term recovery typically lasts 3 months to allow swelling to drain through your lymphatic system. Sessions with a lymphatic drainage massage therapist can assist in speeding up the process to reduce swelling, bruising, and hematomas.  

The Fat Won’t Grow Back…

Once your liposuction procedure is over, there won’t be any fat cells in that area anymore. As long as you stay close to the same weight all around, there’s little chance of your weight coming back in that area.

…But Weight Gain Can Happen

However, liposuction doesn’t mean that you won’t ever gain weight again. While you have less fat cells in that area, those cells can still get bigger with weight gain.

What’s worse, because those fat cells won’t ever come back, if you gain a lot of weight after liposuction, other areas of your body will appear to get disproportionately larger.

That shouldn’t deter you from sculpting your body, however. All it takes is a healthy diet and exercise to keep your weight under control.