My Daughter Has Always Been Chubby? Liposuction an Option?

Lipopsuction is not a weight loss surgery.  Instead, it is meant to contour adult patients who are within just a few pounds of their ideal body weight.  You haven't mentioned your daughter's age, but if she is a teenager then she is still growing and her body will continue to change.  She also has to achieve the appropriate level of maturity to have realistic expectations of the surgery.  Assuming that she is otherwise healthy, my suggestion would be to take her for a consultation with a registered dietician rather than a surgeon at this point.

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Your daughter appears to be fairly young, so she can still make changes to achieve the size she wants. I suggest you have your family physician examine her to make sure she has no medical reason, like a low thyroid level, for the excess weight. Then, I would suggest taking her to someone who will evaluate her eating habits, and exercise routine, and design a program that will work for her. Liposuction will not make her thin, nor keep her thin. Liposuction is for localized areas of fat. Eating mainly fruits, vegetables, and protein, and daily exercise, especially a weight training program, will help give her the results she wants. You will need to help encourage her, and help her stay with her program. Remove sugar from her diet. She will not loose weight by eating pizza and drinking cokes.