Do you need to lose weight for plastic surgery? Pt 1

Do you need to lose weight for plastic surgery? Pt 1

This is a question I have received many times. You hear people say that you have to lose weight to have surgery. And, of course, in many cases, if a person is significantly overweight, operating at that weight will bring more surgical risks, risks regarding anesthesia. Besides the aesthetic result, in many surgeries, it is not ideal if you are operating while overweight.

Now, in most cases, the person will undergo liposuction with abdominoplasty. Of course, the result of a liposuction tends to be better if the person is at a normal weight. But you don’t have to lose weight specifically for the surgeries. You have to think that you need to lose weight independently of the surgery. You need to lose weight in a healthy way that you can maintain in the long term without supernatural effort, and that everything is in order with your exams, with your endocrine functions, in short. Be in good shape with yourself, if you are not at any moment, neither with ups and downs regarding weight or regarding health issues. Something more that you can maintain, we continue in part 2.

Video transcript

Do you need to lose weight for plastic surgery? This is a question I have received many times. You hear, people say there, you have to lose weight to have surgery. And, of course, there are many cases where the person is very overweight, that operating at that weight will bring more surgical risks, risks regarding anesthesia. Besides the aesthetic result, in many surgeries it is not ideal if you are operating while overweight. Now, in most cases, the person will undergo a liposuction with abdominoplasty. Of course, the result of a liposuction if the person is at normal weight, tends to be better. But you don’t have to lose weight for the surgeries. You have to think that you have to lose weight independently of the surgery. You have to lose weight in a healthy way that you can maintain in the long term without supernatural effort and that everything is in order with your exams, with your endocrine functions, in short. Be in order with yourself, if you are not at any moment, neither with ups and downs regarding weight or regarding health issues. Something more that you can maintain, we continue in part 2.

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Originally published on Instagram on 01/11/2022: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckb0ec0LgJn/