Often, people who want to lose weight consider liposuction to be their magic wand. However, this procedure is not actually performed for this reason. It is a body contour procedure that takes fat from areas of the body that do not respond to dieting or exercise and makes those areas look more in line with the rest of the body.

For instance, if you’ve tried dieting and exercise but have found stubborn areas of fat still cause your thighs to look large in relation to the rest of your shape, liposuction may be the ideal way to solve the problem.  But if you haven’t dieted or exercised and want to lose fat from all over your body, or if you have lots of loose and flabby skin folds you want to get rid of, liposuction is not the right treatment and you’ll find your surgeon will not do it for those reasons.

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