What's the Difference Between Losing Weight Through Diet and Execrises and Losing It Through Liposuction?

Fat is distributed throughout your body by fixed distribution ratio determined by age, genetics and sex.  When you do liposuction, you change the distribution ratio by reducing the amount within the areas liposucted.  When you lose weight spontaneously from dietary techniques and exercise, weight is lost in different areas throughout your body based on how the cells are programmed.  The pattern of weight loss after diet changes is different then a change in distribution ratio.



Best Wishes,

 

Gary Horndeski, M.D.

Liposuction is not an alternative to diet and exercise, but it can remove stubborn pockets of fat that have not responded to a healthy lifestyle.

Liposuction is a procedure for reducing fullness due to fat in specific areas of the body. It removes the fat cells from areas which do not get better with weight loss or exercise.  It is excellent for patients who are at or near their ideal body weight. Liposuction is a sculpting tool if you will, and not a form of weight loss. Be sure to seek out a board certified surgeon who has expertise in this area and ask to see before and after pictures.

The best way to lose weight is always diet and exercise. This is vastly superior in regards to your health and metabolism. That being said, natural weight loss will reduce fat in the areas of your body that are genetically programmed to lose fat first (for instance some women lose it in their breasts before their hips-though they wish it were the other way around). Liposuction provides targeted weight loss/fat reduction in the areas that are most out of proportion with the rest of the body. Liposuction provides no metabolic benefit to an overweight person (it is as if the fat were never there in the first place). The best candidate for liposuction is a patient with a normal body weight who has localized areas of excess adiposity (such as lateral thigh saddle bags). I hops this helps

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Daniel Medalie, MD

        As a bodybuilder and a plastic surgeon, I will have a unique perspective on this.  If you are in good shape and you can never get to that next level, I can take your physique to that next level with liposuction.  Sometimes, individuals will have problem areas that are relatively exercise resistant.  Liposuction results are highly surgeon dependent.  Find a plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of liposuction procedures each year.  Then look at the plastic surgeon's website before and after photo galleries to get a sense of who can deliver the results.

Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA

Different people lose and gain weight from different parts of their body disproportionately.    It would be difficult to predict what specific areas of your body would become the thinnest after losing 10 pounds.  The benefit of weight loss on your stomach, however, would be that you would likely loose fat from the subcutaneous area and also from the intra-abdominal area, or the area around your intestines.  This is different from liposuction, of course, which leads to controlled fat removal from a specific area.  Best of luck.

Diet and exercise eliminates fat all over while liposuction does spot fat reduction. Diet and exercise creates real and significant weight loss. Liposuction is not a weight loss method  and the amount of measurable drop in weight is much more minimal even though body contours may look a lot better.

Liposuction is a shape changing procedure, not a weight loss procedure.  No matter what your weight, liposuction can help with problem areas especially after pregnancy.  Beauty begins with a healthy life style, and plastic surgery can help with shape issues that you may have despite normal weight.