Weight Gain and Loss After a Tummy Tuck

Most people who are inquiring about a tummy tuck procedure are anxious to get rid of loose skin around the belly. When you gain and lose weight, the skin is stretched out, and depending on elasticity, it may not return to its prior condition. This sagging, empty skin is what creates the desire for the cosmetic procedure.

Before you make the decision to move forward with the operation, consider most plastic surgeons advice concerning weight gain or loss after such a procedure has been performed. A lot of perspective patients have recently lost weight and are concerned about the effects of weight loss and weight gain afterward.

Most doctor will suggest that you not only lose the weight that you want to lose before you consider going under the knife, but that you maintain that weight for several months. Even those who are successful in major weight loss, fluctuate a little once most of the weight is off in the body’s effort to find a natural maintenance point, and though gaining five or even fifteen pounds after a tummy tuck will not reverse the effects, the best results will be gained from those who do not re-enter into the cycle of gain and loss. So if you can contain your anticipation, wait until you are at a happy weight that you can easily maintain.

If you are dieting with the goal of tummy tuck at diet’s end, lose the weight at a healthy pace and with a healthy diet and exercise plan. Crash diets or extreme quick-loss dieters almost always rebound. Finding and keeping a healthy weight is about finding a lifestyle that is conducive to maintenance.

A lot of women want a tummy tuck to address the empty skin left behind after pregnancy and childbirth, and it is a good procedure to consider if this is your goal; however, there is a little controversy as to whether you should wait until you are finished having children before you go under the knife. While pregnancy is safe both for the parent and the child, the results of the surgery are at risk, though some doctors say that if you attain a healthy weight gain during pregnancy, the small amount of weight gain, usually about thirty pounds for a single birth, will not be totally detrimental to the prior cosmetic surgery. The best advice is to know, or at least think, that you are done having children before going for an abdominoplasty. If you do end up carrying another child, you are likely to need revisional surgery to touch up the original work.

Ultimately, there are not any serious health risks to gaining or losing weight after a tummy tuck, the risks are to the results of the procedure itself.