All In A Days Work

Although there is no substitute for regular exercise, adequate amounts of rest and a healthy diet, taking these steps doesn’t always produce the slimming figure that some women and men desire. In fact, there are people who do numerous sit ups, walk for miles and keep their weight down but who have been unable to flatten their stomach. For these people, a tummy tuck may offer a solution.

Reasons why people struggle to get a flat stomach include consuming too much salt and consuming too many calories, especially right before working out. By consuming too many calories before a workout, adults force themselves to have to expend lots of energy to burn off the calories they recently consumed, rather than to start to work away at fat that they’ve been carrying for weeks or months.

A tummy tuck might be a person’s last option to flatten and smooth their abdomen area, especially if the person eats a lot of salt, making it hard for them to lose water weight. After all, retaining water can make a person appear to be heavier and thicker than she actually is.

Gas, constipation and food allergies can also cause a person’s stomach to swell. However, most of all, the problem may be due to simply carrying too much fat. If strenuous exercise doesn’t correct the problem, a tummy tuck may offer the support a person needs. Results from a tummy tuck could also encourage a person to continue to take steps to eat healthier, exercise regularly and live an improved lifestyle.

Although people can lose several inches after undergoing a tummy tuck, the average amount of weight clients lose after getting a tummy tuck is five pounds. Yet, they may appear as if they lost 15 pounds in their abdomen area. Furthermore, it generally takes two to five hours to perform a tummy tuck. The specific amount of time the procedure takes depends on the client and how much fat the surgeon has to remove.

On the other hand, it can take less than two hours to perform a mini-tummy tuck. During the surgical procedure, a plastic surgeon will make small incisions in or around the abdomen area. Traditionally, an incision is made near the hipbone or above the pelvic area. Another small incision is made near the naval cavity.

After excess fat is removed from the body, a plastic surgeon will stitch the incisions closed and apply sterile medical gauze dressings over the area. Drains may also be placed near areas where incisions were made to drain excess blood and liquids from the body.

Clients who undergo a tummy tuck can expect the recovery process to take several days, perhaps a week or longer. During this time, they may experience soreness. If they experience intense pain or other unexpected discomforts, they are encouraged to contact their plastic surgeon. However, it’s always good policy for clients to keep in touch with their surgeon until they have fully recovered.

In addition to losing up to five pounds, adults who get a tummy tuck will also lose several inches. It’s not uncommon for clients to drop an entire dress size following the surgery.

This was written by Lily Weaver. Lily had a successful tummy tuck at New Look New Life in Brooklyn, New York. However, she had a friend that did not have a great tummy tuck success story from her plastic surgeon in NYC. Lily advises that you always do your research, read plastic surgeon reviews, and make sure that a tummy tuck procedure will work with your body type.

Trying to find out weight-loss stats on the internet is like running through a bazaar shouting ‘Scam me!’ They can’t all be genuine, but can we find out any truth from all this weight-loss-blog flab.
I’m always suspicious when reading weight-loss blogs on the internet, usually because they claim that an unreasonably small amount of exercise, sometimes none at all, can result in your losing weight, gaining mass and fitness.
Breaking the speed myths
Let’s start by pumping out some of the lies with a bit of truth and some logical thinking. All forms of exercise, and attempts to change ourselves physically are attempts to improve our health, unless we’re extremely self-destructive that is.
Being healthy involves a whole host of things in your life, such as:
Balanced diet
Keeping things like alcohol & cigarettes out or monitored
Exercise (who’d have thought)
Happiness
Sleep
Hydration
The list goes on and isn’t that important for the point we’re making, but you get the picture.
Most of those are to be expected of anyone wishing to maintain their current life and health, but the big on in the middle, exercise, is the important one when it comes to changing your physical state.
Going nowhere without it
You & I are probably aware of this already, but it can’t be made clear enough that nothing will happen without some level of exercise. The idea of this is to find out how much exercise is needed to lose weight, and how long that amount takes to start doing something, but there has to be something.
That means all the blogs claiming you can increase your fitness without moving are, surprise surprise, liars.
Ask how reliable the people giving the information is
We don’t want to tempt a libel case by giving examples, but if your fitness advice is coming from a shoddy site that looks like it hasn’t changed since Victorian times then you’d be hard pushed to glean anything useful from it.
There are still useful sites out there though, the NHS being a pretty flippin’ reliable one, so have a look at that for advice. It also questions weight-loss methods that can happen too fast and cause problems with health.
How quickly can it be done healthy then?
While small benefits such as happiness and alertness may be obvious quickly, you should expect real results to start showing from four to six weeks into a new routine of exercise and healthy living.
If you wanted to lose weight with fat loss supplements the results will obviously show further towards the start of that scale, which is a great thing if you’re worried that a lack of immediate results could hinder your confidence in what you’re doing.
That’s how simple it is, really. Obviously there are some elements of a healthy routine that are impossible or too difficult to achieve for some, but doing as many as possible will certainly give you the best chance to see results within a few weeks.

About the author:

Laura is a 21 year old graduate living in Liverpool