It’s never easy to lose fat, particularly when you have a major event coming up soon and you want to look your best. Achieving your ideal contours requires a lot of time, discipline, and luck because you can’t spot-reduce fat through diet and exercise. At ReviveMD Center in Glen Allen, VA, we offer CoolSculpting Richmond VA to help our clients get the dream body they deserve. Today, we’re answering some of the most frequently asked questions about this treatment.
CoolSculpting, also known as cryolipolysis, is a tailored fat removal solution. Each person who seeks this body sculpting solution shares the common goal of eliminating stubborn fat, but treatment plans are unique. Some clients require just one treatment session to get their perfect body. Others need two to six sessions to feel satisfied with their appearance.
We’ll assess your body fat distribution and aesthetic goals during your initial evaluation to determine how many sessions you need to achieve the ideal version of yourself.
Cryolipolysis is one of the first FDA-approved body sculpting methods. It is an effective, pain-free, non-invasive way to eliminate stubborn subcutaneous fat that doesn’t respond to diet and exercise. It was invented by Harvard researchers who discovered that fat cells freeze at a much higher temperature than skin and muscle tissues. Once fat cells freeze, they go through apoptosis.
This treatment cools the adipose tissue in the treatment area to 41 degrees. Since skin and muscle tissues are water-based, they will not be damaged in any way. There isn’t a risk of skin or muscle tissue damage until these tissues cool to 32 degrees. Once the fat cells die, your lymphatic system identifies them as unnecessary waste and flushes them out of your body.
There are two critical steps in the cryolipolysis process. The first step is attending an initial evaluation. At this time, we will assess your regions of concern and talk about the goals you are trying to achieve. Once we confirm this treatment is right for you, we will tailor a treatment plan to your unique needs. There are several applicators that can be used during your treatment, so any number of regions can be targeted.
For instance, there are applicators for large areas and small areas. We can also use two applicators at once, symmetrically removing fat from your chest, buttocks, thighs, arms, hips, or flanks. We will also advise you on how to see the fastest possible results.
It is important to wear comfortable clothes when you come in for your session. We do not recommend wearing tight clothing. Once you enter the comfortable treatment room, you’ll partially recline, and we will apply the gel pad and applicator to the area targeted for treatment. The applicator will cool the treatment area until your fat cells reach 41 degrees. All you need to do is relax.
There’s no need for anesthesia because of how gradually the applicator cools the area. You will remain completely comfortable until the treatment area is numbed from the cold. Most people read, play a mobile game, work remotely, or nap during their painless treatment session. Once it’s over, you may resume your usual routine.
Once your treatment is complete, your body jumps into action. As soon as your fat cells are dead, your lymphatic system notices categorizes them as waste, sweeps them up, and flushes them out. All told, this process takes around one to three months. However, just like burning fat through diet and exercise, you may start to see your results in just a few weeks.
The efficiency of your lymphatic system will affect how quickly your final results will become apparent. After one to three months, you will notice your treated areas are definitely tighter, more sculpted, and holding onto the much less fat volume.
To reiterate, this treatment can be used to eliminate stubborn fat from small and large areas of the body. It is FDA-approved to remove fat that won’t respond to diet and exercise, but we need to determine how much excess subcutaneous fat you have in a troubled region to determine whether this treatment will be a good fit for you. Specifically, this treatment can be used to treat the:
You can safely and effectively treat several areas of concern in one session. Once we have a thorough understanding of your current aesthetic and goals, we can advise you on how long it should take to treat each area. After that, we will work with you to schedule one or two appointments to treat all of your areas of concern conveniently.
Typically, treatment sessions take 30 to 60 minutes to complete. However, your sessions may take closer to 90 minutes depending on how much excess fat is in your targeted areas, the size of the targeted areas, and the number of targeted areas.
Generally, it is reasonable to expect to lose 20 to 25% of the total fat in the treatment area. More importantly, however, your clothes will feel more comfortable, you’ll feel more confident in your clothes, and you will lose inches from your treatment areas. You may even find you go down a clothing size.
The scale isn’t a good gauge of the success of your treatment due to how significantly water weight can fluctuate. We recommend gauging your progress with a soft measuring tape and before-and-after photos.
On paper, the results of this treatment are permanent. Adults can’t grow new fat cells, so the fat cells that are frozen to death will never be replaced. Nevertheless, it is up to you to maintain your desired contours. If you only seek one treatment, approximately 75 to 80% of the fat cells in the treatment area will remain.
These remaining fat cells can still expand to store more energy. To maintain your desired contours, it is advisable to eat well most of the time and get in at least 2.5 hours of moderate exercise weekly.
Typically, you will be considered a good candidate for CoolSculpting Richmond VA if you are struggling to burn stubborn fat through diet and exercise, but you just can’t seem to lose inches where you want to. It is impossible to spot-reduce fat because where you store fat is up to your genetics. People often lose fat in the reverse order they gained it.
Therefore, if you put fat on your thighs first when you gain weight, you may need to lose fat from every other area you stored it in before you start to slim down your thighs. If you are committed to maintaining a relatively stable weight after your treatment, you will probably be considered a good candidate for this treatment.
You must have realistic expectations regarding the results you can realistically expect to be considered a good candidate for this treatment. For instance, you must understand this is a fat loss treatment rather than a weight loss treatment. The scope of this treatment is to sculpt your desired contours by eliminating small pockets of stubborn fat; it was not designed to eliminate large pockets of stubborn fat or visceral fat.
We can give you a better idea of the results you can realistically expect when you come in for your initial evaluation.
While the FDA has approved this treatment for most healthy adults, it’s not right for everyone. For instance, even if you’re perfectly healthy, you should not seek this treatment if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or trying to become pregnant. Also, you should not be at, or within 30 pounds of, your ideal weight.
If you’ve found that you can’t sculpt your ideal body through diet and exercise alone, CoolSculpting Richmond VA may be the perfect treatment for you. Get in touch with us today at ReviveMD Center in Glen Allen, VA to book an appointment and find out if this treatment is right for you.
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