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How to Improve the Results After Surgery

When you are thinking about having some kind of esthetic surgery that will help you improve the contour of your body, diminish those spots in which there is too much fat, give back the shape of those other spots where the flaccidity of the skin has been lost, grooves, or scars, you generally go to a plastic surgeon with all of your expectative put into this person so that the hands of this expert can leave you with a perfect body and with possibilities to participate in a beauty contest. But what happens when you release the hand of that person? You go back to your routine life with the high risk of losing what you have gotten two or three months before. This often happens when you don?t know how to handle postoperatory period and its continuation. Why? The answer is simple: because we usually don?t have the proper advisory to learn to modify our eating habits, to gain something from all of what we do as a daily routine, to find in physical exercise a friend that will help us to lose weight, improve our fatigue, boredom, and even depression.

For all this, you must know that only 60 % of a spectacular surgical result is in the hands of a specialist surgeon, the other 40 % is in the hands of a better specialist: yourself. The plastic surgeon that specializes in overweight surgery or body contour must be up-to-date, not only in the best surgical techniques, but also at the vanguard of nutritional, metabolic, and fitness concepts. A plastic surgeon can explain to you what the better surgical option is for you, depending on each particular case; let you know what the main body changes are after a surgery, and what the best way to counter them is. In the postoperatory period of a procedure (liposuction or abdominoplasty), the body must overcome a very important trauma to which it has been submitted, because of this, nutrition is a key element in the first 15 postoperatory days, and must be based on the significant intake of carbohydrates (energy producing substances) and proteins (repairing substances), with the purpose of avoiding complications and having an excellent cicatrisation. Other factors such as physical activity also affect the way your body will recover. Nutrition must change gradually and in response to the recovery of your body, thus, it is important for you to not lay all your expectative on the surgeon, but also find appropriate help so you can change your way of life and not resort to the scalpel every 6 months.


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