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You Can’t Hide From Fat

Liposuction fan, we've got some bad news.

If you suck fat out of your thighs and bottom it will return in your abdomen. If you suck the fat out of your abdomen it will show up on your chest and arms. Bottom line? After liposuction—the fat always comes back—just somewhere else.

Body fat is a simple situation of storage. When you eat more calories than you can burn in a day, the leftovers get turned into fat and sent off to storage sites in your belly, hips and thighs.

Liposuction is an expensive surgical procedure that literally sucks the fat out of areas on your body. It can leave you looking trimmer and smoother and pounds lighter.

If you don't eat less to correspond with your new smaller lighter size, the fat will simply come back again. But it won’t come back to the same places because those fat cells were destroyed when they got sucked out of your body.

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Fat Returns Following Liposuction--to Different Places

Liposuction reduces fat in one place, but it returns someplace else.

In a randomized trial of liposuction vs. no liposuction in non-obese patients, researchers have found that after one year the percentage of body fat did not differ between groups. It fact, the fat appeared to reaccumlate in different places. Liposuctioned thighs remained reduced, but the regained fat went to the upper abdomen.

PositiveTip: Reduce your weight and reshape your body safely by eating less and exercising more.