Thunder thighs begone!
July 31, 2011 11:43 AM   Subscribe

I'm thinking about liposuction on my inner thighs and possibly knees and outer thighs as well. Any experiences?

I weigh about 130 pounds and I'm 5'3. I'm 32. I'm very fit (I do weight -training and high-intensity workouts three times a week) and I eat about 1200-1400 calories a day. All my life I have had heavy legs (even when I was a professional dancer). Nothing I do seems to get rid of the fat around my knee and in my inner thighs. My outer thighs are okay -- I have a slight saddlebag that actually doe go away if I work even harder.

What are your experiences with this type of lipo? Does it work? I have a very small upper body (I look unbalanced) -- will I gain weight in my stomach and arms if I get lipo? What if I get pregnant? Will the pregnancy weight settle elsewhere?

I don't really need "love your body" posts. I like my body just fine except for this one spot. I work out and enjoy it. I honestly feel that my happiness level would be higher if I could get rid of this area.

Anonymous because I have a fairly public profile and I don't want/need the judgment.
posted by anonymous to Health & Fitness (6 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
I had liposuction on the thighs, butt, and knees several years ago. Since I was hardly overweight at the time (5ft 1in tall and weighed 110 pounds), I preferred to categorize the saddlebags et al. as "design flaws" rather than "fat", but whatever. This was 10+ years ago.

The procedure itself was painless - I had general anesthesia, IIRC - but the bruising afterwards was really bad and very uncomfortable. And then, of course, there was the knee-length "girdle" I had to wear for several weeks. It came off only for bathing. I would be lying if I said the recovery was a cinch.

But, I still feel the results were worth it. The saddlebags are gone, gone, gone. (And they haven't come back.) I feel and look so much better in my clothes and no longer feel so self-conscious. I can't comment about pregnancy, but I didn't notice me putting on weight (or inches) anywhere else to compensate.

Feel free to memail me if you have other questions.
posted by DrGail at 12:07 PM on July 31, 2011


Yes, Whole Health Source presents study findings to ^that effect.
posted by Kandarp Von Bontee at 1:25 PM on July 31, 2011


You may have more luck hiring a personal trainer to target specifically that area.

There isn't such a thing as targeting an area for weight loss. Liposuction is the only way to achieve spot reduction. That isn't to say the OP should get liposuction; I don't know enough to answer the question about gaining fat back. But you can't "target an area" for losing fat, only for gaining muscle. Which could be counterproductive.
posted by Justinian at 3:21 PM on July 31, 2011 [2 favorites]


The fat-in-odd-places is only an issue if you actually gain fat. It may never become an issue for some people.
posted by 200burritos at 6:37 PM on July 31, 2011




There's also Zerona and Cool Sculpting to consider.
posted by Addlepated at 4:52 PM on August 1, 2011


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