Where Will I Most Likely Gain Weight After a BBL?

Question

4wks post op after bbl. My entire body looks amazingly different. I had fat taken from my back, hips, and sides. Before my precedure, when ever id gain weight id gain only in those ares. Now that those areas have been lipoed, if I were to gain weight will I gain in those same areas as I did before? My waist has never been this tiny and ive never been so well proportioned. I just love it! Ive noticed that my eating habits has changed. I fear that I will gain the weight back in those areas.

Armando Soto, MD, FACS · Answer

Hi there-

	Wherever they are living, fat cells get larger when you gain weight, and smaller when you lose it...

	So after the operation, you will have more fat cells in your bottom and fewer cells in the areas suctioned, but all will enlarge with weight gain.

Jaime S. Schwartz, MD, FACS · Answer

About 60% of fat from the transfer is retained and the results are permanent. The size will change with your weight just as the rest of your body does. In other words, the fat acts like it was naturally there. You can get a good idea of the final result after 6 months.

Christopher T. Chia, MD · Answer

Your question encapsulates a few important concepts regarding body contouring. First, the fat removed from the areas will never come back because we do not gain fat cells in number (to any significant degree) after puberty is completed. That means the fat cells removed are gone forever from that area but the remaining fat cells can still expand with weight gain but the area overall will gain at a less rapid pace than other areas of the body that haven't been liposuctioned. Second, the fat that is injected and has stayed after a long period of time will behave as fay would anywhere else and is subject to your eating habits as well. I'm glad you had a good outcome and thanks for the question

Tania Medina de Garcia, MD · Answer

Hello dear!!
Thanks for the question and provided information as well.
After liposuction, the areas treated are not likely to regain fatty fullness, as many fat cells have been removed. These areas have reduced fat storage capacity.
However, if weight gain occurs, the fat will be stored in areas that have not been liposuctioned. This is why you should try to eat healthy and exercise on a regular basis, so you can maintain the results long term.
Hope this helps. Good luck :)

John Sampson, MD (license obligations) · Answer

You will gain weight in the area where fat were grafted. In the case of the BBL the recipient area is the buttocks. If you eat healthy and control the calories intake you shouldn’t  gain much wight. In case you do it, should be very little in your abdomen area and back. But just remember that fat doesn’t accumulate in a particular part of the body, but in a particular type of cell.

Where Will I Most Likely Gain Weight After a BBL?

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