Showing posts with label Stomach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stomach. Show all posts

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Lose Belly Fat and Get a Flat Stomach With Laser Liposuction


All of us want to lose belly fat and have a flat stomach, but the amount of exercise and dieting required to have firm six pack abs is beyond what most of us can reasonably achieve. As we age, past 30, our body metabolism slows and it is much harder to lose belly fat. Those of us who have sedentary jobs which do not involve vigorous physical activity experience laxity of our abdominal muscles which normally hold our stomach contents tight to create a flat stomach. As we gain weight and our muscles get lax, we develop a protruding abdomen or pot belly.

Women who have had babies find it very difficult to lose belly fat and have a flat stomach. I have see hundreds of very fit, health conscious and physically active women in my office who have done everything right and just cannot lose belly fat caused by pregnancy. The tummy tuck or mini abdominoplsty has helped many people have a flat stomach, but many do not want surgery and the scars associated with surgery.

New laser liposuction technology enables me to offer patients who want to lose belly fat and have a flat stomach an effective, minimally invasive procedure which in many cases is as effective as a tummy tuck.

What Causes Belly Fat and Fat Stomach

There are several components that cause a fat stomach, pot belly, or loose tummy. Laser liposuction can remove belly fat from under the skin and achieve skin tightening of loose tummy skin. However laser liposuction cannot tighten your stomach muscles or abdominal muscles. To tighten the stomach muscles you will need to do stomach exercises or abdominal work outs.

Laser liposuction also cannot remove fat inside your abdomen-intra-abdominal fat, called mesenteric fat- which is wrapped around your intestine. If you are very overweight or obese, only significant dieting will help you lose belly fat that is inside your abdomen.

The several causes of belly fat or a fat tummy or pot belly are:

- Intra-abdominal Fat-Fat serves a very important survival function. Fat stores energy to provide nutrition during periods when we do not have adequate food intake. Thus fat is a survival mechanism during periods of starvation. Fat is stored inside the abdomen in a structure called the mesentery. The mesentery is wrapped around our intestines and supports the intestines. Huge amounts of fat can be present in the mesentery when we are overweight or obese. When there is excess intra-abdominal fat in the mesentery, the fat actually pushes out and stretches the muscles of our abdominal wall and creates a fat belly. Only dieting or caloric restriction can cause the intra-abdominal fat to be used for energy production and disappear.

- Abdominal Wall Laxity-The abdominal muscles (abdominal wall), called the abs, hold our intestines and abdominal contents in the abdomen. These muscles can become stretched and loose after extensive weight gain, pregnancy, and inactivity. When the abdominal muscles, or abdominal wall loses tone, becomes stretched or lax, the contents of the inside of the abdomen push the abdominal wall forward and create a fat tummy or pot belly. Tightening of the abdominal wall, that is restoring the tone of the abdominal or tummy muscles can only be achieved with ab exercises and conditioning of the tummy muscles or with abdominoplsty or tummy tuck surgery.

- Subcutaneous Fat beneath the Belly Skin- The fat directly beneath the skin on the belly also stores fat. This fat is called the subcutaneous (beneath the skin) fat and is normally about 1/2 inch thick in most people. When we gain weight and have excess fat, this subcutaneous fat layer becomes thicker, sometimes up to 4 or 5 inches thick. Laser liposuction is a very effective technique to remove subcutaneous fat. The heat from the laser melts the fat into a thin liquid which is easily removed by suction through very small tubes called cannulas.

- Loose Belly Skin-Multiple pregnancies and repeated weight gain stretch the abdominal skin and create loose belly or tummy skin. The major breakthrough in laser liposuction is the ability of the laser to tighten stomach skin. Previous liposuction techniques removed fat but left loose belly or tummy skin after fat removal. With laser liposuction, the heat from the laser tightens the skin during the laser fat dissolving process.

Laser Liposuction to Lose Belly Fat and Flatten the Stomach

Because the laser liposuction fiber dissolves fat into a thin liquid, removal of fat is much easier. This allows the surgeon to use very tiny tubes or cannulas to suction the fat out of the tummy skin. As a result very tiny holes, usually placed inside the belly button, are all that is required. This means very tiny, almost invisible scars. In addition, in my experience, following laser liposuction the skin is left smooth without the lumps, bumps and contour deformities often seen with traditional liposuction.

Skin tightening following this new technique has been truly remarkable in my experience. In patients who are fit and not overweight, I have been able to do laser body sculpting to actually reveal the outline of the abdominal muscles after healing. In the words of one of my patients "I got my six pack back."

My patients seem to recover more quickly after this new procedure. Many say they fell fine the day after the procedure. However, I ask my patients not to return to vigorous or strenuous activity or work outs for at least two weeks.

If you are not obese or very over weight and want to improve the contour of your abdomen, then these new techniques may be what you are looking for.




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Monday, July 18, 2011

5 Reasons Why Your Stomach Is Not Flat Yet

This is a guest post by Jonathan Dunsky of World Of Diets


If you want to get flat abs anytime soon you don’t just need to get some things right, you also need to avoid getting some things wrong.


In this post I will talk about some of the common reasons why you don’t have flat abs today. Knowing what may be keeping you from having the flat stomach you want will allow you to eliminate these “bad things” and change your body for the better.


1. Too Much Stress


While we all know, on a theoretical level, that stress is bad for you and may pose health risks, most people are not aware that too much stress can actually make it harder for you to get flat abs.


The reason why stress spells trouble is that when you experience stress your body releases high doses of Cortisol, which is also known as the stress hormone. When high levels of Cortisol are present, your body naturally stores more fat in your abdomen. As we live in a time in which stress is very common, it is not surprising that many people find it hard to get rid of their excess belly fat.


2. Drinking Your Calories


When it comes to calories it often seems that people are simply unaware of what they drink. They consider their solid food as their source of calories, not knowing that what they drink can add hundreds of calories to their waistline and may be what pushes them into a calorie surplus which leads to weight gain.


Two of the main culprits are cocktails and fancy coffees. Some of these drinks are loaded in calories and sugar and can make any workout you do practically pointless. You will simply need to train much harder to burn all these extra calories.


3. Bad eating habits


Note that I’m not talking about the food itself but your general habits. Some of them can make it more difficult for you to get a flat stomach. Among the worst habits I can list:


Skipping meals – Because this tends to make you hungrier when you do eat so you may end up consuming too many calories overall.


Not watching your portion size – Eating good food is important but how much you eat of it also is. Over the past few decades the average size of plates has grown and with it the size of our portion has increased as well. People tend to fill up their plates and eat everything that’s on them. If you want to get lean, you have to watch your portion sizes.


Not eating breakfast – I recommend eating a good sized breakfast with a portion of protein as it serves as the starting point of your day. I find that on days in which I eat a good breakfast I’m more energetic and less hungry.


4. Fat Vs. Calories


For years millions of people have been educated to be attracted to low-fat foods. It’s as if fat is the main problem which causes you to gain weight. It’s not. Calories are the issue.


Whether you gain weight or lose it is determined by one thing only: your calorie balance. If you consume more than you burn you will gain weight, if it’s the other way around you will lose it. Don’t be misled by low-fat or low-sugar foods. They can still be rich in calories and various unhealthy ingredients. Remember, calories are what you need to watch out for the most.


5. Ineffective Workouts


In order to have flat abs you have to do intense workouts. Many people seem to go through the motions when they workout. They don’t really put their heart into it. If you want to see results you will need to put in a lot of work.


One of the big mistakes that I see people make is that they spend too much time doing cardio and too little on doing strength training exercises. This is a mistake. While cardio can be an effective way to burn fat, strength training must be a part of your routine.


Strength training helps to build muscle, boost your metabolism, and increase fat burning.


In Conclusion


Take the 5 reasons I’ve outlined above and make sure that they’re not a part of your life. If you take action to avoid these mistakes and correct your habits, you will find it much easier to have flat abs.


Jonathan Dunsky lost over 30 pounds in his early twenties and has kept them off into his thirties. He now writes about exercise, health, and weight loss at http://www.WorldofDiets.com, a site dedicated to healthy weight loss and nutrition.

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