Lunchtime Lipo. I’ve heard of it before, and I found it to be a fascinating idea. Dissolving fat and losing inches in a few minutes and without the long recovery times. You probably won’t save any money, but the recovery time alone would allow you to work and try to recover the money you spent. According to practitioners and experts, you are injected with a liquid that supposedly dissolves fat, causing you to basically defecate it from the body. There are body wraps at many spas and salons that supposedly melt fat and allow you to excrete it. It’s no exact science, but some people say it works. So why wouldn’t this work as well?
According to some not so happy and not so perfectly skinny consumers, it is very different from what advertisements would portray. One patient reported a knot the size of a tennis ball sticking out of her stomach. But when she went back to the clinic, a nurse reacted in a way I wouldn’t have predicted. Instead of apologizing, she said, “oh my goodness that is so wonderful. All your fat cells have all congregated in one area. If all our patients were like this, we’d be out of business because you know that fat’s just going. You’re the perfect person for this.” Days later, that same mass became the size of a grapefruit, and a life threatening staph infection developed requiring emergency surgery to remove the dead tissue.
First, the fact that the nurse reacted quite like that would scare me. After all, what kind of qualified nurse would actually think that a lump in the stomach is a good thing? And second, the fact that it turned out to be dead tissue that could have killed her is terrifying to say the least. Hence, it would not surprise some to know that this lunchtime lipo injection has not actually been proven to dissolve or target fat at all. Moreover, some plastic surgeons warn profusely against the use of this injection, explaining that there is no standardized formula and it is not approved by the FDA. The potential side effects speak for themselves. And now we see why I prefer less invasive alternatives such as diet pills.
http://www.livelywomen.com/2008/04/14/lunchtime-lipo-investigated-by-2020/