To answer your question properly requires a 45 minute in person consultation at minimum. Generally speaking, you should never have a fat removed from your buttocks. There are a few good treatments for flabby thighs. You’re a good candidate to have a tummy tuck in a breast lift with implants, if desired. I suggest scheduling multiple in person, consultations with local board-certified plastic surgeons in your community. If you’re interested, offer assessment and learning about various procedures, and what each procedure I can and cannot accomplish. There is significant variation in skillet experience a lot of plastic surgeons. Being bored, certified in plastic surgery with years of experience, and having a solid reputation does not necessarily mean somebody has mastered anyone in particular procedure. For that reason I recommend patients have multiple consultations to help find the best provider and get the most accurate understanding of the role of the candidacy procedures possible. Bring pictures of your body, preferably in a printed format to use as a reference during each consultation. During each visit, ask providers to open up their portfolio and show you their entire collection of before, and after pictures of previous patient who had similar body characteristics to Llorona. This is why bringing pictures of your auto body is useful during consultations. There’s no point in seeing outcomes of patients who are perfect candidate. It is also likewise not helpful to see preselected images, representing the very best results for providers career. The goal is to find out what the average results look like especially on patients who have your candidacy for the procedure of choice. For reference an experienced surgeon that should have no difficulty showing you at least 50 sets of before and after pictures of commonly performed procedures and cosmetic surgery. Highly experienced charges should have hundreds or possibly thousands of before and after pictures of the most common procedures. Before committing to having surgery, make sure you’ve had enough consultations to be able to clearly differentiate who is the best provider in your community for whatever procedure you’re interested in. This means first and foremost understanding your own candidacy for the procedure as well as having a clear understanding of what a quality results look like. Providers are going to prefer to stick to showing you their best results. One, but it may be nice to look at. It is critical that patients get enough exposure to before, and after pictures to get a clear understanding of what the typical results look like, especially based on your own candidacy. There is no correct number of consultations required to find the best surgeon. The more consultations you have the more likely you are to find the ideal provider. I do not recommend patients and rely on virtual consultations if possible, and I definitely recommend against traveling long distances for elective surgical procedures, unless absolutely necessary. Certain conditions like flabby, thighs and cellulite, are inherently limited to what can be achieved. Sometimes it’s better to except your body the way it is then undergoing surgery that costs thousands of dollars with the risk of having things turn out worse. When in doubt slow down and schedule for a consultation. Be especially selective for liposuction and fat transfer procedures. These operations have the greatest variation in outcomes based on provider selection than other plastic surgery procedures. Best, Mats Hagstrom, MD