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    Yekhefah
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    Default Stupid question about lipo.

    I need liposculpture done on my upper arms, and one fine day I will be able to afford it. In my darker moments I've been tempted to just finance it but I don't need more debt. My upper arms have always been a problem though, even when I was skinny, and I want them lipo'ed.

    My question is, what makes the skin tighten up? Seems to me that if you just go in and suck out fat, you'll still have all that loose skin hanging there. The procedure I'm looking at, liposculpture, is less invasive than liposuction and they don't even put you to sleep or cut you open. They put the tool in through a very tiny hole that heals up in a day or two. So they don't have any opportunity to remove skin, and that leads me to wonder what tightens the skin up around the smaller area?

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    Well shit, the whole point is to have nice toned sexy arms so I can actually wear a tank top without looking like a bat. Why would anyone get lipo at all if they're gonna be just as jiggly and flabby afterward?

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    I see... I don't have THAT much, I just have bat wings that make me look fatter than I actually am if I don't wear long sleeves. I just wonder what makes the skin tighten up around the muscle once the fat is gone. They said there's swelling for a few days after the procedure, so maybe the swelling makes it stretch and tighten back?

    I gotta save up my $3500 and get this done before we leave the Capital of Cosmetic Surgery. 28 years is too long to live with bat wings. I'm fed up, by G-d.

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    I've heard that burn clinics are happy to remove excess skin following gastric bypass surgery, when people lose a ton of weight really quickly and have a lot of skin to remove... burn clinics really need the skin for grafts, so they'll do the surgery for you if you donate the skin. Or so I hear. I just can't imagine getting simple, no-cutting procedure like liposculpture if you still have to go have major surgery later.

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    Some skin will tighten up, but they can tuck the skin that doesnt. Kind of like doing a BA with a lift.

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    I find that swimming is really great for toning arms, if you are into working out at all. I prefer it to weight lifting because it is more slimming.
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    Smartlipo sucks fat and tightens skin.

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    Thing is, Andygirl, I've got muscle tone. When I pinch away the bat wings, the rest of my arms look pretty good. And when I was a teenager I was a tight, toned size four with rib bones that stuck out and I STILL had big flabby bat wings. It's just a genetic thing and my body won't burn that fat no matter what, and building the muscle just makes my arms look even bigger. I don't think anything will fix it except lipo.

    I can't afford lipo right now anyway, I was just curious. And I really would like to get it done one day, as soon as I can afford it. I've hated my arms ever since I was twelve and my mom ridiculed my "big white ham hocks." It's the ONLY part of my body I'm not at peace with, so what the hey, that's what cosmetic surgery is for, right?

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    There is a new laser that tightens skin as well as removes fat, Em mentioned it a couple posts above. One SWer had it on her tummy after a baby and posted her amazing results. I forget what her name was though...

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    Skin is pretty flexible, and can adjust a little so that after lipo, you don't have flaps of skin.

    The above cases mentioned, where people have lost a lot of weight and had loose skin, were extremely obese, losing tons of weight. As in the case of gastric bypass, it's such a drastic loss, there's no way for the skin to compensate.

    If you were to get lipo, it isn't like you would be getting 20 lbs of arm fat out. It would most likely be only a few ounces. So once the swelling, went down, the skin would be tighter to accomodate the smaller size

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    Cool. Smartlipo, huh? I'll have to look into that. Now that I've found a job I hope I start making decent money because I'd really like to have that done while we're still in L.A. Cosmetic surgery is the one thing that seems to be much cheaper in L.A. than in other places. I should save money for the move instead but dammit, I've wanted slim sexy toned arms my whole life and with G-d as my witness, I shall have them one day! *shakes fist*


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    Default Re: Stupid question about lipo.

    i was gonna say, i thought they could fix the skin along with the lipo. but i also thought that in cases like the biggest loser, the reason they have skin like that is from being SO big and losing weight so fast. i know that wouldnt be the same when it comes to lipo, but thats just always what i thought.

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    I have those kind of arms too Yek. I've just accepted that they'll never be like Linda Hamilton arms unless I put in 3 hours a day working out and was extremely disciplined about every single thing I ate. Even then....I hate the way they look in photos especially...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    When I pinch away the bat wings
    bat wings..lol!! This cracked me up! My friend calls it bye-bye flab. As in when you wave goodbye it flaps around!

    I do a million tricep excersizes and cant manage to get my arms to look all slim and toned and feminine. I still have bye-bye flab.....sucks!

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    Default Re: Stupid question about lipo.

    Lipo doesn't usually create loose skin. When you're getting lipo, you're not removing a lot of tissue.....so skin's elastic enough to bounce back from it. Think about it this way....nobody would get lipo on their tummies or inner/outer thighs if it would leave them with a bunch of flappity skin. It takes dramatic and fast loss of volume (from already stretched-out skin, think pregnancy, it can stretch the skin to a point that it becomes very fragile)to leave skin loose.....a lil' lipo of the upper arms shouldn't leave you with loose skin. Especially at your age. Once people get older, skin loses elasticity, and it can be a real problem. But a young lady losing a few ounces of volume won't cause anything like that.

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    Default Re: Stupid question about lipo.

    Well, I don't have that problem with my arms but I have it with my thighs. Part of the reason I haven't lipoed them yet is because I'm worried that they'll just look worse. Smartlipo I am curious about but it's so new I want to wait a while and see.

    Have you ever tried building up the muscles in your arm? I've kind of got chicken arms but now that I look at them they do sort of have skin that just hangs there. Just not enough to bother me I guess. When I make a muscle it tightens though.

    You can get loose skin surgically removed but you'll have a huge scar.

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    I've got some pretty nice muscle tone, but when I try to build more muscle there, my arms just get bigger. My body just will not burn that off. I've never looked cute in tank tops and I feel so horribly self-conscious if I ever try to wear anything sleeveless; my arms make me look so much fatter than I actually am. I think this is the kind of situation that lipo was made for.

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