If you are overweight and have tried everything on the market to lose weight, you may want to consider liposuction. This procedure removes the extra fat that has been deposited between the muscles and the skin for years. The procedure involves the insertion of a steel cannula into a small incision and the fat is sucked out, resulting in an improved look of the body over the next few weeks.It is hard not to have expectations, but it is important that you keep them real. This results of the procedure will be permanent, so if you do gain a little weight, it will just be a larger version of the original results. The cells that produce the fat do not come back, so you will have the new body for life. However, you don't necessarily lose weight, just the fat, leaving you with a more shapely body.Even though the now removed fat cells never return, if you do gain weight, the present cells get bigger, leaving you with a slightly larger shapely you. However, if you gain a sizable amount of weight, new fat cells can develop in other places on the body. You should lose a little weight after the procedure and if you do not gain weight, your fat will not come back in the treated areas, even through the natural process of aging. Even if you get pregnant after your procedure, your body will return to its treated look after the birth and the baby weight is lost. More people are satisfied with the results of the liposuction to the abdominal area after pregnancy than those of a tummy tuck.On a single procedure it is not safe to take out more than eight pounds of fat, which equals roughly a gallon. If you need more than that removed, it is recommended that you have more than one procedure done in the process of about a month to avoid the complications that can happen with the surgery.Results will not be seen immediately, but should take roughly three months. You will have swelling for the first few weeks, but it will go away. How fast depends on how the procedure was performed and how you take care of yourself after surgery. If your surgeon uses the ultrasonic method and the holes are left open, the swelling goes down faster than if the holes are stitched closed.If you are careful to follow your surgeon's instructions after surgery, you should have good results. Because your fat will not return, if you take care of yourself properly, you should enjoy a lifetime of results.
