A big problem no one talks about with weight loss involves what happens to the body afterward. While one is gaining weight, the skin and body continue to maintain shape, just getting bigger and expanding. However, when the weight is lost, especially a considerable amount, the skin and tissue don’t automatically snap back. While some of the fat and tissue will get burned off a reabsorbed due to expertise and metabolism, a good amount just remains, which produces sagging skin around the underarms, waist, belly, and the back of the legs. In some cases, it just doesn’t go away, and then a person feels self-defeated not achieving a better-looking body after all the work of dieting and exercising.
Plastic Surgery Solutions
Aside from waiting for the body to do something with its lack of elasticity, which can be years forward, a patient could instead look to surgical procedures for solutions. Body contouring has been available as a solution for years, providing significant improvement for appearance that otherwise might remain damages for previous years of excess weight. Improvements can easily include removing sagging skin around the arms and legs, breast lifts, facial lifts, abdominal reshaping, thigh lifts and a lot more.
Additionally, not every cosmetic procedure needs to be a full-blown surgery with extensive hospitalization. Multiple plastic surgery treatments can be handled as outpatient visits, clinical treatments, or short-stay surgical events. These smaller procedures can also provide powerful changes and improvements in appearance quickly, especially for those who aren’t interested in a big commitment but do want to see modest improvements to their appearance.
Getting Started With Matching the Body to the Weight Loss
The first big step for any cosmetic procedure change involves evaluating current personal health. If, for example, a patient is already under some kind of pharmaceutical care, it may preclude being able to engage medically, at least until the pharmaceutical is no longer taken. Doing otherwise could produce complications, infections, or reactions to already-existing treatments. Additionally, those with existing chronic conditions like high blood pressure, any condition that triggers easy bleeding, heart disease, mental health concerns, or diabetes can also create exceptions to treatment. Chronic smokers or the excessively obese can also be a high risk as well.
For patients who are approved for body contouring, some may be allowed based on contingencies. For example, it’s common for a doctor to require a plastic surgery patient to avoid smoking or drinking alcohol for weeks prior to the procedure or to make changes to their pharmaceutical prescriptions and intake. The best way to cover all of these possibilities and delays that may come up is to go over one’s health and current status well before a procedure is applied.
It never hurts as well to be working on improving one’s health and lifestyle in general with a better diet, exercise, and reducing problem behavior that harms the body over time.
Plastic surgery also involves changes to the external part of the body made up of the skin assembly, both the outer layer and subdermal layers. As mentioned earlier, some treatments can be addressed easily with short visits, like skin resurfacing. Renuvion skin tightening has been a regular option for patients looking to tighten up without a full facelift approach. Other treatments are more extensive, such as a lip augmentation or a Raleigh liposuction surgery. Remember, no treatment can cause the biological clock to go backward in time, but body contouring can do a lot for improving current appearance and removing sagging.
Don’t Give Up
After losing significant weight, sagging skin can feel like someone stole the trophy at the end of the race. Don’t give up. Patients who have achieved big weight loss have already done the hard work. With help from a plastic surgeon, that final part of the race can be won, once and for all. Take a look and ask for a consultation. You may be surprised at what’s possible.
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