Do you consider liposuction cheating?

I read about the beautiful Christie Brinkley (52 yrs old!) being really strict about food. Eats frozen grapes for snacks, drinks vanilla soy. She must be miserable. I can’t imagine such a radical change in my diet to get my stomach flattened. I do watch I eat and exercise 4 days a week. I feel like liposuction is cheating, but it would be nice to throw away my control top underwear and not feel like I constantly have to suck-in my stomach. Am I crazy to think of lipo as cheating?

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threezn7s
47 posts
1 Aug 2009

I had terrible complications from Smartlipo. Some ares of the skin heated up too much and contracted to far so that, when healing, scar tissue formed and the skin adhered to the muscle beneath leaving a huge obvious & ugly dent in my stomach. I had another SmartLipo treatment to try to fix the problem which ultimately made it worse. Then I tried a fat transfer to fill in the dent once it was lifted off the muscle but the fat encapsulated so yesterday I had to go get mesotherapy to dissovle the transplanted encapsulated fat. . . what is going to happen next is that I will have to have the entire area about 1 in wide and 3 inches long, excised . . . leaving an ugly scar across the abdomen. Snart Lipo is not good for relatively thin people with localized areas to treat . . . next I am going to try Vaser Liposelection and see if that does a better job.

sschuster
178 posts
24 Aug 2009

Don't consider it cheating and don't think that weight loss and exercise can take care of everything. These are considered diet resistant areas. They respond beautifully to liposuction. Liposuction is NOT a technique of weight loss but of body contouring. Steven Schuster MD FACS

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