Poll: Would You Consider Cosmetic Surgery?
By: Tanya Jolliffe,
DailySpark Blogger
4/26/2013 12:00 PM
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A couple weeks back I saw a commercial from a local cosmetic surgery company that caught my attention and surprisingly I am still thinking about it. It was not a new company being advertised but the commercial content was new information and the approach must have contained the right sixty seconds of information.
After hearing the advertisement for a non-surgical procedure that could help me "lose weight from those problem areas for good," I went to check out the company website to learn more.
I have never given serious thought to cosmetic surgery. For people that have lost a great deal of weight leaving excess skin, it makes sense. Since I do not fit into that category, I have never really given it much thought and certainly not as a weight loss method. I have my problem areas like most people. At my thinnest and most fit as a college volleyball player, I had a small lower abdominal "pooch." After having children, it remains my biggest problem area. Additionally, I have a body type where I gain weight first in the mid-section and lose it last from that region. I have really been working on my core this year and have lost a few inches, which is rewarding. However, my six-pack remains hidden in a soft-sided cooler and probably always will.
As a dietitian and an athlete, I have always believed that a healthy diet balanced with an active lifestyle is the best way to manage my weight (although I did battle with disordered eating during my college years). As I have shared before, developing thyroid disease brought the reality to my life that sometimes you can't control your weight using those methods the way you want to. I will also honestly admit that over the years I have thought that liposuction would probably be the only way I would ever see changes in my problem areas. Since that would require surgery with general anesthesia, it isn't something I would most likely ever do. After learning about a new FDA approved anesthesia free, non-invasive procedure called laserlipolysis that is "especially useful for treating areas with localized fat deposits by reducing fat cells" for only a few thousand dollars, I cannot get the question out of my mind. Would I ever consider this type of cosmetic surgery? I am not sure what the answer is for me yet but I would love to hear how many of you feel on the subject.
POLL: Would you ever consider cosmetic surgery? Why or why not?
After hearing the advertisement for a non-surgical procedure that could help me "lose weight from those problem areas for good," I went to check out the company website to learn more.
I have never given serious thought to cosmetic surgery. For people that have lost a great deal of weight leaving excess skin, it makes sense. Since I do not fit into that category, I have never really given it much thought and certainly not as a weight loss method. I have my problem areas like most people. At my thinnest and most fit as a college volleyball player, I had a small lower abdominal "pooch." After having children, it remains my biggest problem area. Additionally, I have a body type where I gain weight first in the mid-section and lose it last from that region. I have really been working on my core this year and have lost a few inches, which is rewarding. However, my six-pack remains hidden in a soft-sided cooler and probably always will.
As a dietitian and an athlete, I have always believed that a healthy diet balanced with an active lifestyle is the best way to manage my weight (although I did battle with disordered eating during my college years). As I have shared before, developing thyroid disease brought the reality to my life that sometimes you can't control your weight using those methods the way you want to. I will also honestly admit that over the years I have thought that liposuction would probably be the only way I would ever see changes in my problem areas. Since that would require surgery with general anesthesia, it isn't something I would most likely ever do. After learning about a new FDA approved anesthesia free, non-invasive procedure called laserlipolysis that is "especially useful for treating areas with localized fat deposits by reducing fat cells" for only a few thousand dollars, I cannot get the question out of my mind. Would I ever consider this type of cosmetic surgery? I am not sure what the answer is for me yet but I would love to hear how many of you feel on the subject.
POLL: Would you ever consider cosmetic surgery? Why or why not?
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Comments
1) If you do lose the weight naturally by diet and exercise, will the deflated fat cells sit dormant waiting to balloon back to life when the opportunity arises?
2) If you have the procedure performed and it removes/destroys those cells, will they be naturally replaced by your body in that area if you do start to gain again?
3) Since you say that your pouch has been there since college, will your belly truly go flat if the procedure were to be performed?
With these questions, you try to get to the real issue that you want to know! Will it work? How long will it produce results? Will you be setting yourself up to be disappointed and devastated at having spent the money and only being slapped with an unforeseen result!
If you have the money and you can attain real, long term results and if you believe that if you don't have it done, you will never be able to happy with yourself as you are, just knowing that you are entertaining the thought says that you should pursue what helps you find the peace you are searching for!
You are the only one that can live in your skin! To spin a phrase! - 5/16/2013 7:55:04 AM
Also, after nursing a child and losing weight, I would possibly consider a breast lift. Really would depend what I think about it later. - 5/14/2013 11:11:48 AM
Just to be clear, it's not as if I am disfiguringly ugly (so I hope). I've battled body image issues for years, and have found peace with my "imperfections". In fact, I now see my body as a book, chronicling all the choices I have made in life. As long as my body is healthy and functioning, I will not let a scalpel anywhere near me, so help me God. - 5/1/2013 12:33:17 PM
- 5/1/2013 12:22:15 AM
- 4/27/2013 7:48:40 PM
Because of this, I am definitely considering some sort of procedure to deal with the extra skin. - 4/27/2013 9:27:06 AM
I'm not there yet but I'm seriously thinking about it. - 4/27/2013 6:36:28 AM
meeting you. - 4/26/2013 10:58:20 PM
I don't remember my original comment, however, after losing 150 lbs and keeping it off for more than 3 years I decided to get rid of some of my excess skin with a circumferential abdominoplasty and an inner thigh lift. I had it done March 18 2013 and am very pleased with the results. Thank goodness my mother left me some money back in 2001 because my insurance sure wasn't going to pick up the tab. It was worth every cent! - 4/26/2013 6:56:51 PM
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