The unfortunate, ugly truth is that there are areas of the body that are just not amenable to diet, exercise, and spot reducing no matter how much you pay that trainer of yours. Genetics wins on this one.

The flip side of this, your secret weapon is LIPOSUCTION and BODY CONTOURING to specifically attack those stubborn areas like your saddle bags, back fat, muffin top/love handles, and bat wings.

• Saddle Bags: this area is the most amenable to liposuction and is probably the only thing that will address those arm rests of yours. These are genetic and even very slim women will have these. Ultrasonic liposuction is the most effective method for shrinking the skin and removing the fat, making the thighs in proportion with the remainder of the body. The good news is that this can be done as an outpatient with a quick return to an office type of job after 4-7 days and to a physical job after 7-10 days. (more…)

The FDA has finally issue a warning and information about the ineffectiveness of “LIPODISSOLVE” which the American Society of Plastic Surgeons has cautioned about ever since its inception.

What makes you think that injecting a significant amount of toxins in your body to kill the fat cells would not hurt or effect you the rest of you? Furthermore, if you kill the cells and don’t remove them, why would you think that there wouldn’t be major irregularities and a minimal change in contour?

Many people suffered fairly profound discomfort and pain after the injections and complained of being even bigger than before the injections due to the swelling and inflammation that resulted from the toxin injections. Lipodissolve was not cheap and could cost upwards of $5000 by the end of the required sequence of injections. Most patients believed since it wasn’t “surgery,” lipodissolve was safer and could be done without down time. The part that they didn’t understand was that the results were also not as advertised!

Liposuction often does require anesthesia but it also completely removes the fat cells that create the contour deformity that may be causing the lumps and bumps of your body, i.e., saddle bags, the pooch of the tummy, and the round pear hips. It can’t remove every last bit of fat since your body needs some subcutaneous fat for your skin to appear smooth, but liposuction can significantly change the shape of your body whether it is in men in the love handle areas, or women for the stubborn outer thigh saddle bag area.

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