Lightness in the body, a beautiful reflection in the mirror, a great mood - this is how we want to see ourselves after losing weight. But sometimes you have to face unforeseen difficulties: saggy, loose skin, stretch marks, prolapse of internal organs. This, in turn, leads to disruption of the gastrointestinal tract. Often such imperfections occur after too rapid weight loss, when the skin simply does not have time to react to the changes.
Causes of loose skin:
- sudden weight loss;
- pregnancy;
- unhealthy lifestyle: insufficient physical activity and unbalanced diet;
- aging: loss of skin tone in people over 45 years of age.
A cosmetologist knows how to tighten the skin after losing weight and restore lightness and attractiveness to the body.
Why does sagging skin appear in the abdomen?
A defect can occur for various reasons. If we talk about the most common ones, they are as follows:
- childbirth, pregnancy. When a woman is pregnant, the uterus puts a lot of pressure on the skin and abdominal muscles. Moreover, during pregnancy it becomes larger and larger. Because of this, the muscles and skin are greatly stretched and become less elastic. The situation worsens after a caesarean section is performed;
- intensive weight loss. If you have lost weight dramatically, there is no time for your skin to adapt and return to its normal state. That is why it becomes sagging and wrinkled;
- lack of physical activity. If a woman does not play sports, the muscles may atrophy, metabolic processes will slow down, and the condition of the skin will deteriorate;
- poor nutrition. Convenience foods, fast food, chips, soda have a very bad effect on the skin and figure in general;
- stressful situations. Usually, if a woman is stressed, she tries to eat it. And this is where the skin suffers;
- age-related changes. With age, the skin loses its elasticity and firmness.
Preparation and aftercare
How to get rid of a flabby belly? To achieve the expected result, you need to follow certain rules. Before a course of treatment, you should definitely consult with your doctor about possible contraindications. 2-3 days before the procedure, you need to exclude spicy, fried and smoked foods from your diet, give up alcohol, and reduce the amount of coffee and cigarettes.
During the treatment process and after its completion, it is recommended to adhere to a balanced diet, try to move more, and, if possible, go in for sports: swimming, fitness, running.
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Cosmetological measures
The sagging skin of the abdomen after losing weight can be removed a little at home using some procedures. They will help make the frame made of collagen fibers denser and improve the internal structure of the skin. If you want to ensure the strength of the fibers, then you need to provide regular and proper care. You can do massages, wraps and peelings at home.
With the help of massage you can improve the tone of the skin, and it is important to use special oil. If we talk about the simplest option, then the massage is performed with your hands. Vacuum massage also has an excellent effect on the skin. Flabbiness is also removed with the help of hydromassage, where the water temperature constantly changes.
Wraps are a good way to help speed up metabolic processes, fat burning processes, tighten the skin, and saturate it with nutrients. Here a certain mixture is applied to the skin (the most popular are honey-mustard, cocoa, honey-oil) and wrapped with film. This allows you to insulate the problem area of the skin and improve it.
Peels help tighten the abdominal skin and remove sagging abdominal skin after childbirth. Thanks to the activation of regeneration, the dead layer of the skin is exfoliated. Here you need to use a special scrub, which can be purchased or prepared independently.
Facial plastic surgery after weight loss
Despite all your efforts to lose excess weight, has the law of gravity still won? There is no need to be upset and gain back the kilograms lost with great difficulty. If after losing weight, sagging skin is observed only on the face, you can consider yourself lucky. Plastic surgery, be it eyelid surgery or lifting, gives an excellent and long-lasting effect - for 10 years or more. In addition, the sutures after operations are located in inconspicuous places in the scalp, so that after 7-10 days they will not be noticeable to strangers.
Practice shows that upper or lower blepharoplasty is needed in almost 100% of cases when the patient has lost over 10 kg. The main thing is to perform the operation in a clinic, where the operation is performed with displacement of the superficial muscular aponeurotic system - SMAS. In this case, not only the skin, but also its “frame” is tightened. Only such a deep correction will provide a noticeable and long-term effect.
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There are also options for segmental facelifts, when you need to remove sagging skin only in the lower, middle or upper lobe of the face. Endoscopic lifting, as world practice shows, does not have any particular advantages over conventional methods
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Weight loss and mammoplasty (reduction, tightening or augmentation)
If, as a result of losing excess weight, your breasts sag or remain too large, you may be eligible for breast reduction surgery, which also includes a breast lift.
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It is also possible to perform only a bust lift. If your breasts have lost their shape and are larger than C size, do not do a lift without simultaneous reduction, as they will begin to sag again after 6-8 months. And the remaining excess volume can cause back pain and chronic fatigue. If a small bust has lost volume and shape, augmentation surgery with a simultaneous lift can help.
If you are worried about whether silicone is safe, then it is worth saying that there are no safer materials for breast enlargement than silicone. Silicone implants make it possible to tighten the breasts with a minimum number of incisions, which means that there will be a minimum of scars after surgery.
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Abdominoplasty
After getting rid of excess fat, a sagging belly becomes another problem, especially when the anterior abdominal wall is stretched. In this case, the solution is abdominoplasty, which makes it possible to reduce the volume of the abdomen by suturing the muscle wall, as well as eliminating the so-called “apron”. After such an operation, a horizontal scar remains, which professionals usually hide behind the bikini line.
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Skin folds after weight loss
One of the complications after getting rid of excess fat in people with a certain body type can be considered the formation of skin and fat folds on the inner thighs, back, and forearms. In such situations, it is worth carefully weighing all possible methods of eliminating these problems, since not all of them are effective, and some may even worsen the situation. For example, liposuction is not always able to solve this issue, including ultrasound. Instead of excess volume, a wrinkled area of skin or deeper folds may form over the difficult area, which subsequently cannot be removed by anything.
One must be very careful about the idea of excision of skin and fat folds, especially in the area of the inner thighs and shoulders. After excision of the skin, a scar remains in the treatment area, and no one will guarantee its quality.
Thus, you need to start losing weight only after weighing all the pros and cons.
Professional cosmetology
It is not always possible to correct loose abdominal skin at home. And here professional cosmetology will help. Of course, you need to pay more for it, but after such procedures you get a lasting, quick result. How to deal with sagging abdominal skin? Specialists in salons can perform the following procedures:
- leather reinforcement. This happens slowly and hyaluronic acid gels are used here, which dissolve. The cosmetologist injects the drug under the skin using injections. In this way, a framework is formed that nourishes and supports the skin;
- bioreinforcement with mesothreads. During this procedure, special threads are already used that can support the skin and fix it in the desired position. As a result, it will not sag;
- LPG massage. Thanks to it, elastin fibers become denser. For this procedure, a special device is used that kneads the skin with roller massage elements;
- cryotherapy. Low temperatures are used here to tighten the skin;
- mesotherapy. The specialist injects formulations containing active ingredients under the skin.
Ultrasonic Cavitation
The essence of this method is to influence fatty tissue using ultrasound. During cavitation, bubbles appear in the liquid contained in fat cells, which increase in size, burst and destroy the fat cell, displacing its remains into the intercellular space. 90% of these residues are removed by the lymphatic system, and 10% enter the blood and are converted into glucose. Ultrasonic cavitation is an absolutely safe procedure that allows you to make your waist 5 centimeters thinner and your stomach long-awaited flat in just a few sessions.
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How to remove sagging abdominal skin?
If the case is very advanced, then aesthetic surgery can be used. But there are contraindications and there is a period of rehabilitation. Therefore, you initially need to undergo an examination, consult a specialist, and only after that decide on surgery.
After this, there are usually no serious consequences or scars, but this is only if the surgery is performed by a qualified professional.
When is it better to refuse procedures?
When figuring out how to remove a loose belly, do not forget that most cosmetic procedures have contraindications. This also applies to sculptural modeling of the figure.
Contraindications to hardware correction, massage and wraps are:
- any diseases that are in the acute stage;
- open skin lesions;
- high blood pressure;
- chronic pathologies of the circulatory system;
- oncology at any stage;
- acute heart failure.
Individual intolerance to the products used for massage and wraps is possible.
4.Treatment
Of course, therapeutic measures for skin correction and regeneration are prescribed exclusively on an individual basis and are determined by diagnostic results. In some cases, eliminating the pathology that causes skin laxity (and it can be asymptomatic or latent, hidden) naturally restores the desired characteristics. In other situations, physiotherapy, water-thermal procedures, normalization of sleep patterns, exercise, nutrition, and daily fluid intake are effective. Sometimes the only truly effective treatment is plastic surgery.
In cosmetology, many methods of instrumental correction have been developed, incl. various peelings, ultrasound and microcurrent stimulating techniques, ozone and mesotherapy, laser biorevitalization, hyaluronic acid therapy and many others.
An even larger number of “true”, “tested over thousands of years”, “secret” and other methods can be found on the Internet and commercial advertising. However, if possible, you should maintain common sense and caution: this kind of remedy, even if it really helped your friends, in a specific individual case may be categorically contraindicated and, when used, cause serious damage, and not only to the skin.
Therefore, the smartest step is to consult your doctor first.
