Advice needed! Lipodissolve? Tummy Tuck??

[Hello Kittee 0]

Hi everyone, I hope this encourage everyone and give people that extra push to make their goals. I've lost about 85 pounds since Sept. 2007, 7 months! I started at 269 and am down to 184!!! Almost into a size 12!! I feel great and just went back to work about 7 weeks ago to help keep me active and moving to lose a bit more weight. I know I will need a Tummy Tuck, 5 kids and few c-sections plus the weight have taken a toll, ya know.

But now my dilema: how far from my goal weight should I begin looking into a tummy tuck AND what should my goal weight be?? I'm 5 feet 5 inches tall...at my thinnest size 6 or 7 I weighed 135....but I don't know if the old body will ever be that thin again... :sad_smile: I'm about 50 yrs old but people think and insist I don't look a day over 33!! All that fat kept me young under it, huh? hehehe

So should I go for hitting 135 or just be happy at 160???? I've been tanning myself too and it has helped firm up my skin and give me a beautiful tanned glow I've never ever had. Any advice is very much appreciated here....

has anyone tried lipodissolve on tummy fat???? or arm fat????

[slimmy120 2]

I hope you get your questions answered as they are what i am also wanting to know. I am in my early 40's starting weight was 204lb on 18sep2007 day lapband got place, now at 142lb.:sad_smile:

[slimmy120 2]

Forgot to say i am 5 ft 4

[wombat712 2]

Hello Kitty!! I hope you get your answer as well!! I've been researching alternative procedures to a tummytuck - which is out of reach for me right now.

I'm considering Thermage to tighten skin, but I also saw that the Lipodissolve is Lipo combined with the collagen treatment so that the skin tightens as well over the next couple of months.

Anyone out there had Lipodissolve?

Gen(wombat)

[juliegeraci 7]

Hello Kittee, it sounds like you are ready for a PS consult. My goal is 185 and I weight in about 218 right now. So that puts me about 38 lbs from goal. My surgeon said I could easily lose the rest of my weight and it will not have any impact on the TT. Let me know what is happening.

[drfallek 0]

Lipodissolve is an unproven technique and if it has any effect it would be for a small amount of fat. Stick with the proven techniques such as a tummytuck and other skin removing surgery. Thermage is again good for small skin tightening only. As for when to see a plastic surgery either when you have plateaued with your weight loss or are near a reasonable goal. Good luck

Steve Fallek, MD

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon

[Skinny_Jill 36]

Be careful with lipodissolve. See attached artice.

ABC News: A Shot to Melt Fat? Doctors Concerned

[luluc 6]

A good friend of mine went to FIG (Southlake,TX) they were a LipoDissolve partner that now has filed for bankruptcy. This was described to her as a solution for those who needed to "tone up" not so much take off inches & she was a good candidate....Very much in shape, but had a loose tummy after 4 kids.

She put a deposit down of $5,000 & had 4 treatments (8 more remained). She has hardened lumps under her skin where she had these injections. Her loose skin, now looks like she has rocks under poking thru. She is mortified & has signed onto a class action law suit.

Who knows where this will go , whether she will recoup any losses or get the lumps fixed by another Dr.....

I WAS considering this & would encourage those who are to look into this further...The above article is quite interesting.

[liz_hager 0]

About a week or two ago, 20/20 did a undercover story on lipodisolve...needless to say, alot of people have done it without good results and some people have even been disfigured because of it.

I would google 20/20 and check it out.

[Jachut 487]

Personally I would wait until lipodissolve has been proven before I let them inject me. Its so tempting, lose the fat without surgery, but I've heard so many warnings about it. Sigh.

And sad to say, if you want your skin to maintain the most elasticity it can, you need to stay out of the tanning booth. It will not help, it ages your skin faster than almost anything. Everyone gets so sick of hearing the warnings, and I've ventured in too for special occasions, but you can sort of justify tannign short term, or just to get a start on a tan pre summer etc (even though its horrendously dangerous) but long term tanning will accelerate your sagging skin.