I eat a fairly balanced diet and exercise 4-6 days/week which likely won't change as this is my lifestyle so my weight has been fairly constant (+/- win/smr, respectively) throughout my adult life. If I'm consuming the same amount of calories that maintains the pre-lipo weight, wouldn't I eventually regain that energy somewhere in the body? So for lipo to be permanent, one would need to consume less calories equal to the amount of energy store lost via lipo?
July 19, 2017
Answer: Body proportion after liposuction Great question. Think of your body having a blueprint plan of where to distribute calories into your fat stores. Also, consider that when you gain weight the existing number of fat cells become larger in size, i.e. the number of fat cells stays constant - conversely, when you lose weight the existing number of fat cells become smaller in size. Liposuction removes a certain number of fat cells in a certain area, leaving fewer fat cells in a particular location that can either increase or decrease in size with caloric changes. This means that if you take in the same amount of calories, they are more evenly distributed into your remaining fat cell stores. Consequently, although those calories "go other places", the net result is that you have less fat cell enlargement in the places you don't want them and you look more proportional.
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July 19, 2017
Answer: Body proportion after liposuction Great question. Think of your body having a blueprint plan of where to distribute calories into your fat stores. Also, consider that when you gain weight the existing number of fat cells become larger in size, i.e. the number of fat cells stays constant - conversely, when you lose weight the existing number of fat cells become smaller in size. Liposuction removes a certain number of fat cells in a certain area, leaving fewer fat cells in a particular location that can either increase or decrease in size with caloric changes. This means that if you take in the same amount of calories, they are more evenly distributed into your remaining fat cell stores. Consequently, although those calories "go other places", the net result is that you have less fat cell enlargement in the places you don't want them and you look more proportional.
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July 18, 2017
Answer: Great question Liposuction is a contouring operation, so if excess fatty tissue is removed from an area, the area permanently has less storage cells to hold fat (the number of fat cells is constant from a very young age, they just expand in size). Once those fat cells are removed, they are gone. Fat cells store excess calories, they don't change your metabolic rate, so if you need 2000 cal/day and you continue to get 2000 cal/day after liposuction, then there are no excess calories to store. If you ended up taking in more than 2000 calories, then your body would store the excess calories as fat, however it would distribute the calories among your remaining fat cells throughout your body - when it is spread out, it is not as noticeable. Liposuction isn't a weight loss operation and in general, most patients won't lose more than a few pounds at most from the operation.
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July 18, 2017
Answer: Great question Liposuction is a contouring operation, so if excess fatty tissue is removed from an area, the area permanently has less storage cells to hold fat (the number of fat cells is constant from a very young age, they just expand in size). Once those fat cells are removed, they are gone. Fat cells store excess calories, they don't change your metabolic rate, so if you need 2000 cal/day and you continue to get 2000 cal/day after liposuction, then there are no excess calories to store. If you ended up taking in more than 2000 calories, then your body would store the excess calories as fat, however it would distribute the calories among your remaining fat cells throughout your body - when it is spread out, it is not as noticeable. Liposuction isn't a weight loss operation and in general, most patients won't lose more than a few pounds at most from the operation.
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