Will Fat Come Back After Smart Lipo?

Yes, if you throw in the towel, giving up on eating fewer calories and not exercising daily then the fat cells left behind after lipo, can increase in size. When these residual fat cells get larger they do so in an uneven fashion, causing a lumpy bumpy surface. Please remain faithful to your diet and exercise routine, then you will be able to  maintain your new contours.

Thank you for your question.  Liposuction, smart or not, is a permanent removal of the fat cells in the areas treated.  Those fat cells that are removed will never 'grow' back, but it is important that patients realize that it is impossible to remove every single fat cell in the areas treated and that doing so, or being too aggressive with liposuction, can cause contour irregularities and dimpling of the skin.  It is also important that patients who elect to have liposuction think of it as an investment and continue to invest in their new body contours and proportions with daily exercise and good eating habits.  If patients do not think of it in this way, and instead put on a significant amount of weight, it is possible that the fat cells that were not removed at the time of your surgery will continue to grow.  I hope you find this helpful and I wish you the best.

While it is widely believed (and
even doctors incorrectly advise patients of this) that we have a fixed number
of fat cells, and weight gain or loss merely changes the size of fat cells, the
truth is that we do have the ability to grow new fat cells (hyperplasia). We
also have the ability to increase the size of cells with weight gain
(hypertrophy) and shrink the size of cells with weight loss (atrophy or
hypotrophy). Morbidly obese people have
tens to hundreds of millions more fat cells than individuals of normal weight,
and their fat cells are larger. So, when we remove fat cells with liposuction,
we do reduce the number of fat cells. If our weight remains the same, we
maintain our sculpted results. Minor fluctuations in weight don’t change the
results much. But, if we gain a significant amount of weight, we gain it
everywhere, including the area where liposuction was performed, not by just
increasing the cell size, but by stem cells located in the fat that are
triggered to produce brand new cells. The best plan after liposuction is to
maintain a stable weight, or mild weight loss to preserve your excellent
results.