<p>I turn 50 this year and my belly pooch is really starting to get to me. I’m fairly slender, but any weight I ever gain goes there. If you have the fat sucked out of your abdomen, do you tend to gain your weight somewhere else after that?</p>
<p>Better to spend the money on a good nutritionist, a personal trainer, gym membership, diet food and talk therapy if you need that to stay on course. Liposuction is a very dangerous operation–the risk of death and serious complications is very high!</p>
<p>My belly, too. It’s a post-menopausal thing! :eek: But I’m not considering any plastic surgery… I guess I should just eat less! (ya…like that’s really going to happen!) ;)</p>
<p>I’m 5’6", 127 lbs, play tennis 3 times a week and am very active. I also eat fairly healthy. I just have a gut. 4 c-sections and menopause.</p>
<p>Core-strengthening exercises took care of my belly pooch after weight loss. I highly recommend planks, pushups and weights. If this does not work, Spanx is a great alternative to surgery. If all you have to hide is some belly imperfections, Spanx will make all of it invisible. It’s not like we have to wear bikini at our age :)</p>
<p>A local woman recently died after undergoing laser assisted liposuction (advertised as a minimally invasive procedure) at Sono Bello - she wanted to look better in her wedding pictures. She collapsed in her hotel room after leaving the clinic, and was found dead a day or two later. It turned out that she was administered too much anesthesia.
[Woman</a> dies following liposuction in Bellevue](<a href=“http://www.king5.com/home/Woman-dies-following-liposuction-in-bellevue-70210047.html]Woman”>http://www.king5.com/home/Woman-dies-following-liposuction-in-bellevue-70210047.html)</p>
<p>Reports like these make me think twice about any elective surgery: [Office</a> surgery incidents: what seven years of Flor… [Dermatol Surg. 2008] - PubMed result](<a href=“http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18177404]Office”>Office surgery incidents: what seven years of Florida data show us - PubMed)</p>
<p>PS - I’m about the same height and weight, but when I weighed about 25 lb more, I have been using strategically placed spandex with a lot of success :)</p>
<p>It was my hospital nurse friend who warned me about the dangers of liposuction. She said that of all the operations out there, elective or otherwise, her experience was that there were more life-threatening complications with lipo than any other surgery done. I was shocked. Then I started my diet!</p>
<p>There is a difference between a tummy tuck and liposuction. If it’s mostly loose skin, then maybe it’s a tummy tuck that you’d want.</p>