Should I Wait Until I Lose the Excess Pounds to Do Cool Sculpting?

When the fat accumulations do not respond to exercise and diet, then liposuction or Zeltiq's CoolSculpting are appropriate. If you're truly muscular providing much of the 139 pounds at 5'6" then CoolSculpting can help love handles or the abdomen.  If I determine in consultation by examination that the prominence of the abdomen, however, is a distended muscle wall that needs a tummy tuck, I tell my patients that Zeltiq would not be beneficial unless there also is a local depot of excess fat under the skin and above the muscle wall ( fat around the intestines causing a "beer belly" is not amenable to reduction with CoolSculpting.

Dear Sally,

 

Ideally, it is recommended that a patient looses and burns as much fat as possible following a religious exercise schedule and a healthy diet to reach a plateau where the "stubborn" fat pads remain. At that point, the cool sculpting will provide the patient with the optimal results.

 

That said, it does not mean that every patient will have to follow the ideal route since every body is different and most of the time patients achieve acceptable weight and fat loss enabling them to fall within the optimal operating range of the device used in cool sculpting hence achieving optimal results.

I hope this helps.

Best of luck to you.

Dr. Sajjadian

Thank you for your question.

Coolsculpting works best on patients who are at their target weight (or within 5-10 pounds) - which it sounds like you are - so you do not need to wait to proceed with the Coolsculpting treatment on the areas that are diet and exercise resistant.

Our patients are loving this treatment.

Best Wishes.