Finish Off Your Weight-Loss Journey with Body Contouring

When you complete a weight loss journey, you do much to benefit your health, including reducing the risk of many diseases. However, losing a significant amount of weight may have left you with excess and sagging skin.

Your skin is the largest organ in your body, and consists of proteins called collagen and elastin. These provide your skin’s firmness, strength, elasticity, and tightness. When you gain weight, your skin stretches out, and those collagen and elastin fibers can become damaged, making it difficult for your skin to retract, especially as you lose weight. 

Not only can loose skin affect your self-confidence, but it can also lead to chafing, infections, and discomfort whenever you exercise or perform other physical activity. 

Because of this, our Ayewah Aesthetics team, led by Martha Ayewah, DO,in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, offers body contouring to help you achieve your ideal body shape after your weight loss journey.

In this blog, we explore our body contouring options and how they can help you achieve your goals.

How we can get rid of that excess skin

Body contouring — also known as body sculpting — is a way to eliminate excess fat, reshape areas of your body, and tighten up your skin. It’s important to remember that body contouring doesn’t help you lose weight but instead helps trim down any areas that haven’t budged during weight loss or have become loose after you’ve lost weight.

Two options we offer at Ayewah Aesthetics include skin removal and VASER® liposuction. Let’s take a closer look at these body contouring treatments.

Skin removal

This type of body contouring removes any excess skin and fat during a surgical procedure. The most common options for skin removal are lifts and tucks, such as tummy tucks (abdominoplasty), breast rejuvenation, arm lifts (brachioplasty), buttock lifts, and inner thigh lifts.

During these aesthetic procedures, Dr. Ayewah makes an incision in the area that’s being targeted and removes the excess skin and fat that’s inside. Then, the skin tightens when the surgical site gets stitched back up.

VASER liposuction

Liposuction is a surgical procedure that removes fat deposits from underneath your skin. During VASER liposuction, fat deposits are broken apart and loosened from the deep tissues of your skin, making it far more effective than traditional liposuction.

You can use this body contouring treatment when you’re within 15 pounds of your goal weight and target your arms, chest, chin, neck, back, waistline, hips, thighs, and buttocks. VASER liposuction is gentle and precise and won’t hurt any underlying healthy skin tissues.

Is body contouring right for you?

To determine if you’re a good candidate for body contouring or to narrow down which exact procedure gives you the results you’re looking for, you can meet with Dr. Ayewah and our team to discuss your goals and concerns. 

If you’re ready to get rid of that stubborn fat or excess skin, contact our team to set-up an appointment by giving us a call at 607-600-6506 or using our online scheduler today.