If the patient gains a small amount of weight after the procedure, say 5 pounds, fat cells throughout the body will grow slightly. While this slight weight gain may decrease results, the overall body shape improvement provided by a liposuction procedure will still be visible, as treated body areas have fewer fat cells (and therefore experience a lower enlargement rate) compared to surrounding areas. When you undergo liposuction, the surgical procedure involves physically removing fat from your body, so you'll actually lose weight with the surgery. Let's say you lose 5 pounds. The good news is that if you only gain about 5 pounds after liposuction, you won't see a drastic change in the treatment area.
Therefore, if you underwent liposuction on your abdomen, the procedure will permanently remove the fat cells that are there and, even with a small increase in weight, you will not get new fat cells. The remaining fat cells may grow slightly. Even so, all the fat cells in the entire body will grow slightly. It will be evenly distributed throughout the body.
As a result, it won't be that the extra 5 pounds of fat go directly to the abdomen. In fact, with a moderate weight gain of 5 pounds, you probably won't notice any changes in the treatment area. Gaining more than about 5 pounds after liposuction could result in some more significant changes in the way fat is distributed in the body. Let's say the weight you want to maintain after liposuction is 130 pounds. If you increase 10% of your body weight, that would be the equivalent of 13 pounds.
Liposuction patients usually experience rapid and significant weight gain after the procedure, as the body seeks to recover fat and redistribute remaining fat cells. The affected areas are filled with fluid that the body uses to heal, which will cause weight gain in some areas of the body and may make you feel like the procedure has failed. Liposuction is the removal of fat cells from areas of the body that don't respond to weight loss caused by diet and exercise. However, it's still possible to gain weight after liposuction because fat is deposited in fat cells that weren't treated with liposuction. Fat can also be viscerally deposited around organs in the abdomen.
One thing that is quite common immediately after liposuction is for patients to increase five or even 10 pounds. This can happen right away and can last for several weeks or months. If you're considering liposuction but are concerned about weight gain after liposuction, it's best to lose as much of the excess weight as possible with a proper diet and exercise regimen before undergoing the procedure. Therefore, many liposuction patients who gain considerably in weight after the procedure tend to look better than if they had not undergone liposuction.
While an ounce of prevention is truly worth more than a pound of cure, there are numerous ways to experience weight gain after liposuction. So, if a patient underwent liposuction on their lower abdomen and gained, say, 25 to 30 pounds, they would see a significant increase in size in that same area. Not only did that group regain fat in the four months after surgery, but they also gained deeper visceral fat, which is not removed through liposuction and is linked to health problems, such as heart disease. Liposuction is one of the most popular cosmetic surgical procedures, and most people who have had liposuction say they would do it again. For example, if a patient weighed 130 pounds before liposuction and a total of 6 pounds were removed during the procedure, the fat will stay away if the patient keeps their weight at or below 124 pounds.
On the other hand, looking at patients who in the past gained a more significant amount of weight after liposuction, it's obvious that fat can return to the treatment area over time. While it's not always possible to prevent weight gain after liposuction, in many cases it's avoidable. On the other hand, if you end up gaining a significant amount of weight after liposuction, you may notice weight gain in the areas where you underwent the procedure. Fat cells that remain in or near the originally treated areas will swell with weight gain, and new fat cells may be generated.
The good news is that if you only gain a few pounds (for example, 5 to 10 pounds), you probably won't see the weight gain showing up too much in the areas where you had liposuction. Exercise throughout the week (after you've fully healed and gotten the surgeon's approval, of course) has also been shown to help people avoid weight gain after liposuction. In the case of women, one of the main causes of weight gain after liposuction is pregnancy, so it is strongly recommended that women ensure that they have stopped having children before undergoing the procedure. For this reason, it is essential that patients avoid significant weight fluctuations after a liposuction procedure by maintaining a healthy diet and regular exercise routine.
It's not harder or easier to lose weight after liposuction because it's not a weight-loss procedure.
