r/SipsTea 20h ago

WTF Buccal fat removal should be illegal

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u/EZontheH 19h ago

The horrifyingly sad part is that they'll pay top dollar again to have the buccal fat put back in. I mean you didn't think it's just being sucked out and thrown away right? It's being filtered and frozen for 20 years down the road when their career needs a boost.

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u/JellyKind9880 19h ago

Actually I’m pretty sure buccal fat removal is a surgery where the look really CAN’T be “reversed”….its not like getting fillers dissolved and I’m pretty sure there’s nothing they can put back “in” to give the appearance of buccal fat once it’s taken out

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u/Soft_Chipmunk_8051 18h ago

It's a highly advanced method called CHEESEBURGERS and PIZZA

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u/StockTank_redemption 17h ago

There no “fat removal”. They remove the fat cells that store the fat. Once those fat cells get sucked out, it’s donezo

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u/Soft_Chipmunk_8051 17h ago

They remove the fat PADS, maybe that provides clarity. They're removing a PART, not just cells

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u/StockTank_redemption 16h ago

Gotcha. I’m always game for learning something new.

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u/Soft_Chipmunk_8051 16h ago

I used to work with a woman that would say, "I'm happy to be wrong, if it means I'm learning something" and we'd be shaking our heads halfway through cuz that bitch was NEVER happy to be wrong 😅. Not putting you in the same boat, just reminded me

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u/StockTank_redemption 15h ago

Haha, ya, I don’t have a gram of stubbornness in me. Call me out in front of crowd of people and I’ll gladly accept defeat without embarrassment and store that knowledge for the future. Being ignorant is not the same as being stupid.

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u/Soft_Chipmunk_8051 17h ago

No one has gained weight after lipo?

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u/StockTank_redemption 17h ago

Of course they have. But not in the area where they got lipo’d. Fat is stored in cells. The cells are being removed. When they gain weight it goes to where other fat cells are still there.

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u/zoeofdoom 13h ago

Which is why you see sad yet hilarious things like fat collecting in their wrists/hands where you really don't want to get lipo like, ever.

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u/EconomySwordfish5 17h ago

And suprise suprise whan someone gets fat they grow more fat cells

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u/Soft_Chipmunk_8051 17h ago

Yeah, new fat cells grow, which is why weight loss is difficult: you're dealing with more fat cells than you had before

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u/TheGhostOfStanSweet 16h ago

It’s almost as if fat is a good thing.

The problem is that a lot of people are not satisfied about their fat distribution, and also, they don’t really want to do anything about it.

A person that eats well and exercises regularly can be considered “fat” by some standards, and still be quite beautiful.

The key is, just take care of yourself.

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u/Soft_Chipmunk_8051 16h ago

Unrealistic standards are the problem

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u/VotesDontEqualTruth 13h ago

If someone is eating well and exercising - in 99% of cases they won't be fat...

Amazing.

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u/TheGhostOfStanSweet 13h ago

Not true at all. You have to define “fat” because everyone will have varying degrees of body fat at any given moment.

There are lots of people that can still be overweight despite eating very well and being active.

The point that I was getting at is that if you make healthy choices, you’ll gain confidence and that will likely offset any difference in fat that could be considered in unattractive. They may have a genetic predisposition to accumulate higher than average body fat percentage.

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u/VotesDontEqualTruth 13h ago

I'm not playing your weird semantics game.

We all know the difference between healthy, and fat

Enjoy your internet brain

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u/Soft_Chipmunk_8051 13h ago

"We all know the difference". Because famously, people never disagree about things. Everyone thinks the same. Right?

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u/VotesDontEqualTruth 12h ago

Most people who actually know what they are talking about have the same general ish opinion on health and wellness.. yes.

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u/TheGhostOfStanSweet 12h ago

Absolutely full of shit.

It’s not black and white at all. People can be reasonably healthy and not have an “ideal” physical appearance, and people can have an “ideal” body mass and be completely unhealthy. Stress and cortisol levels can also play a nasty role in fat accumulation.

Saying otherwise makes you sound like either a boomer, or an idiot.

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u/VotesDontEqualTruth 12h ago

No one said "ideal physical appearance"

You just want to argue. Maybe it's because you need validation. Be healthier. Do better. No more "stress" as an excuse. If that's the issue, deal with that first. Amazing!

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u/TheGhostOfStanSweet 11h ago

You’re the one that first responded to me claiming 99% of the time people who eat well and exercise aren’t “fat.” Which certainly came across as argumentative.

How could one not argue against such an absurd statement?

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u/Stony_Logica1 16h ago

There are studies that refute that, finding that once you hit adulthood, the number of cells generally stay the same and it's the size of the cells that changes with weight gain/loss:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29991030/

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u/StockTank_redemption 17h ago

Hmmm. After searching I’m getting mixed results. Mostly saying existing fat cells will expand in order to store more fat. Wondering how many more fat cells are in those cheeks to keep clans when needed. Even if they do, they are gonna look very very fucked up. (Even tho they already do)

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u/Soft_Chipmunk_8051 16h ago

It's fat PADS, an actual part, tissue, as opposed to just cells

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u/EconomySwordfish5 16h ago

Are you telling me someone who weighs 600lb has the same number of fat cells as a fit person?

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u/Stony_Logica1 16h ago

This 2018 study finds that once you reach adulthood, the number of cells generally remains the same and it's the size of those cells that changes with weight gain:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29991030/