Must You Eat Less After Lipo, Regardless of Healthy Diet Before Lipo, Because of Having Less Fat Cells?

The best thing you can do is eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly, and count calories.  I do not care what anyone says, if you don't put excessive food in your mouth you cannot gain weight (transient water weight and medical conditions/problems aside).  Liposuction will tend to change the distribution of where the fat goes, so if you do not want to discover the next greatest place your body feels like depositing fat, do the above. 

Hello Lidia,

Absolutely not, you do not have to eat less.  The media has presented a single paper that showed patients gaining intra-abdominal fat (around the organs) in people who had liposuction.  More recent papers refute this, and state that a moderate diet and exercise program allowed liposuction patients to maintain their new fat distribution. 

Unfortunately, after having liposuction surgery, many people maintain a calorie positive diet that they had prior to liposuction, and this is what is most problematic.  Your body does not fight to gain fat back.  From what we know about the physiology of fat, the opposite is true.  The more fat we have the more our bodies want to preserve and even gain fat.  The less fat we have, the less our bodies want to preserve it.  This is probably some vestigial (old) biologic function that is no longer useful in modern man.

If you are considering liposuction surgery, you should meet with qualified surgeons that can guide you with nutrition and exercise as well.  It all goes hand in hand.

Best of luck!

The liposuction procedure will permanently remove fat cells from the areas treated. The long term effects of the surgery do not alter your metabolism so adhering to a well balanced diet with proper exercise will allow you to maintain the results you achieve.

I hope this was helpful. Good luck