How Can You Avoid Weight Loss After Liposuction?

Everyone knows that liposuctions are a great way to drop the pounds, but the weight loss after liposuction can be more difficult than losing weight before liposuction. Although it's been years since we last tried this procedure, some things have changed in the surgical world. For example, the equipment used during surgery has improved. Other things like anesthetic, the surgeon, the medications being used have all changed as well.

One of the keys to successful weight loss after liposuction is healthy living. The old belief was that you needed to have a low-calorie, high-fat diet to loose weight. This simply isn't true. In fact, the opposite is true. You need to maintain a healthy lifestyle if you want the results from your liposuction procedure to last.

Did you know that there are different types of liposuction? For starters, Intramuscular Fat Transfer is performed on patients with a very large amount of subcutaneous and intramuscular fat to lose. Another type is Smartlipo where a laser is used to melt the fat away from the body. A laser-assisted lipolysis is another option where a solution containing a type of lease is injected under the skin. The liquefied fat is then removed by a process called intramuscular infusion.

The reason you need to have a healthy lifestyle is simple. When the fat cells are removed, they leave behind residue in the form of broken down fat, referred to as intramuscular fat. Normally, the body uses this excess fat to make energy. However, when the body cannot use this fat, it turns to stored energy, referred to as glycogen. Glycogen is actually useless foodstuff; therefore, any weight loss after this procedure will be temporary.

With that said, it is still important for patients to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This will ensure that the body can return to normal function after the cosmetic procedure. A good diet and exercise program will also go a long way towards helping patients lose unwanted weight. This is one of the reasons why many doctors recommend patients maintain a healthy diet and exercise routine after undergoing the procedure.

It is also important to remember that even if the surgery is done to remove several stubborn pounds, some people experience a significant amount of weight loss after the surgery. Liposuction may be perfect for eliminating stubborn fatty deposits, but some patients still end up losing more than the expected amount of weight after the surgery. This is usually because the body had a hard time absorbing the fat deposits removed from the body. Therefore, some patients end up with an excess of water and other fluids after the procedure.

There are two common types of cosmetic procedure treatments in which patients may end up having to deal with water retention. One of these is called tumescent liposculpture and the other is known as post-operative edema. In the former procedure, patients are exposed to excessive amounts of water after the cosmetic procedure is performed. The result is that the patient ends up gaining back the volume of water he or she had initially lost. This type of weight loss after the procedure is most common in cases where the patient has chosen to get rid of a large amount of weight quickly.

Post-surgical edema is much more serious and is caused by the swelling of the surgical site. Most patients end up in the hospital with the swollen legs. This can lead to the patients not being able to walk straight after the procedure. Therefore, it is highly important for patients to follow their pre-operative and post-operative dietary recommendations carefully if they want to avoid this complication of weight loss after cosmetic surgery.