Both Women and Men suffer from tummy bulge at some point in their lives. It is not only unattractive, but it can have a negative impact on your health as well. Men tend to store their fat in their mid-section and are prone to that kind of fat while women tend to store it in the hips and thigh area. However, as women age and especially after childbirth or menopause or both, the tummy area can become troublesome.
There are options that can help you lose tummy fat, but keep in mind that spot reducing is very hard to accomplish. The first thing to remember is that muscle burns fat, even at rest. So the areas where you have the most muscle should be the most lean. An exercise program that involves situps and crunches in beneficial in building a solid muscle base in your abdomen area. But exercise alone and building muscle will not always burn the fat. A cardio routine such as running, biking or even walking for at least thirty minutes per day with an elevated heart rate, is essential at least three times per week. Diet also plays a big part in reducing tummy fat. A low fat, low carbohydrate diet works well to reduce fat in the entire body, including the tummy.
Other options include fat burners that can speed the fat burning process along as well as antioxidants which cleanse the system and allow fat to move through the body and out of the body more efficiently. But for some the fat still lingers in the mid section and surgery enters the picture.
There are a few different surgeries available to rid the abdomen of tummy fat, depending on how much you have to lose. Liposuction and laser liposuction are options for losing small amounts of fat, typically 10 to 20 pounds per area. A tummy tuck is a more drastic option, but that can produce good results. With liposuction, including the laser version, excess skin may be a problem after the fat is removed, requiring additional surgery to remove the excess skin. A tummy tuck removes both the fat and skin at the same time.
Abdominoplasty takes roughly two to five hours, depending on the amount of fat and skin being removed. An incision is made in the abdomen from hip bone to hip bone below the belly button and above the pubic bone. A second incision is made around the belly button. The skin and fat is then lifted in one piece to reveal the underlying muscle. The surgeon will pull the muscle closer together and stitch them, to provide a firm abdominal wall and subsequently a thinner waistline. The raised skin is pulled down tight over the muscle back down the public bone incision and the excess skin with fat is cut off. Then the skin flap is stitched back to the original incision at the pubic bone. A new belly button is formed by creating a hole where the underlying belly button is and pulling it through.
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