Healthy Skin Topics and Articles » gastric bypass http://greatskinhealth.com From Cosmetic Surgery to Healthy Eating for Your Skin Mon, 23 May 2011 18:30:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 How to Deal With Excess Skin After Weight Loss Surgery http://greatskinhealth.com/how-to-deal-with-excess-skin-after-weight-loss-surgery.html http://greatskinhealth.com/how-to-deal-with-excess-skin-after-weight-loss-surgery.html#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:37:22 +0000 Guest Post http://greatskinhealth.com/?p=805 For some unfortunate people, they didn’t start off well in life with the genetic lottery. They inherited the fat gene and we all know that society doesn’t accept obese people readily. Of course, for other people, the shape of their bodies was of their own design with unhealthy eating habits. For whatever reason that people get obese sometimes the sheer magnitude of the weight they have to shed is too much for them to handle. For those people, they often turn to surgery like a gastric bypass to limit their food intake.

While the weight will indeed come off through the operation, one has to realize there will be excess skin after the patient shrinks in size. For some people, the skin will be loose but lay relatively flat. For others, it will be loose and drippy. Your skin type and its elasticity will depend on whether you have flat or droopy skin after the operation. While this might bother some people and lead to another body sculpting procedure to remove the excess skin, this would be considered a cosmetic procedure – whereas the gastric bypass can be argued as a surgery for health reasons. Due to this differentiation, a lot of people who have had a gastric bypass surgery elect not to have the skin reduction procedure.

So, if you have had a major weight loss operation without the body sculpting, how do you get rid of the excess skin without medical intervention? The answer can be as simple as body shaping underwear.

Women have been aware of shapewear underwear for centuries but the concept might be new to some men. Thankfully, there are manufacturers of male underwear that offer the same benefits of body shaping to men as well. Currently, there are slimming girdles for men that hide body rolls and such. With a tight fitting mens girdle undershirt, you can flatten the excess skin. A common occurrence when men get weight reduction surgery is that their man boobs will be deflated. The compression tshirt will help flatten the chest out so it won’t be detectable anymore.

If you got a weight reduction surgery for health purposes only, slimming underwear could be a good alternative to body sculpting cosmetic surgery.

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