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Maintaining a healthy weight can prevent countless wellness problems, including heart disease and severe osteoarthritis. If you are obese or morbidly obese, shedding that excess weight can be challenging, but it is ultimately worth it. After losing that weight, you’ll have a lot of loose and sagging skin. This is natural after major weight loss, and the only way to remove this excess skin is plastic surgery.

Working with a Dallas-based board certified plastic surgeon can help you achieve a slimmer and trimmer frame after losing a lot of weight. Let’s take a moment to consider how cosmetic surgeons can help with these kinds of issues.

About Body Lifts After Major Weight Loss

A body lift surgery refers to a combination of body contouring and skin tightening procedures used to remove loose skin after massive weight loss. Surgeons are able to target and remove unwanted flaps of skin, giving patients a much slimmer and trimmer appearance in the process.

Body lifts are similar in some ways to mommy-plasty surgery (aka mommy makeovers), though the amount of skin removed is typically far more extensive in a total body lift.

Common Surgeries in a Total Body Lift

Some of the most common procedures performed in a total body lift include:

During the consultation process, we can determine which procedures would be most ideal for you and your needs. Whatever surgeries or combinations of surgeries are performed, the benefits below are all commonly experienced by patients.

A Body Lift Enhances Your Appearance

Thanks to body lift surgery, patients do not have to worry about excess skin around the abdominal area and extremities. This change in body contour really shows off your slimmer frame and improves your overall appearance.

A Body Lift Improves Your Self-Esteem After Weight Loss

Having a lot of loose skin can impact self-esteem. While you’re much healthier for losing all of that excess weight, you may feel self-conscious about the way you look. Undergoing a body lift can significantly enhance your self-esteem, allowing you to feel more comfortable in your own skin, so to speak.

A Body Lift Allows You to Expand Your Wardrobe

Many people with hanging skin after major weight loss wear loose clothing that covers up their bodies. This is to hide the loose skin around the torso, abdomen, and extremities after they’ve lost a significant amount of weight. After undergoing a body lift, patients can open up their wardrobe choices more, wearing short sleeves, shorts, and more form-fitting clothes.

A Body Lift Reduces Discomfort Associated with Excess Skin

While loose skin after weight loss is not a health issue per se, it can lead to a number of problems. Sweat and moisture around skin folds can lead to rashes and irritation. Some patients who’ve lost a significant amount of weight may have 10 or more pounds of excess skin around their abdomen and extremities, which can be cumbersome. Body lift surgery does away with these issues.

Learn More About Body Lifts After Massive Weight Loss

If you have lost a significant amount of weight and would like to learn about ways of reducing the amount of loose and sagging skin on your frame, be sure to contact a skilled cosmetic plastic surgeon. We are here to help.