No one wants to gain those unwanted pounds, especially after liposuction says a Las Vegas liposuction surgeon. However, unless detailed dieting is followed after the procedure, this is a real possibility according to this article:

Indulging in holiday sweets or forgoing your daily walk may sabotage long-term liposuction results.

A new study shows people who have liposuction (search) are three times more likely to gain weight if they don’t follow a healthy diet and four times more likely to pile on the pounds without regular exercise. But those who follow a healthy diet are twice as likely to lose weight after liposuction.

Researchers say the results confirm what many plastic surgeons have been telling their patients for years: Liposuction should not be used as a quick fix for weight loss. It should be used only in conjunction with exercise and a healthy diet to encourage long-term weight loss success.

“Liposuction has always been for contouring, not for weight loss,” says researcher Rob Rohrich, MD, professor and chairman of the department of plastic surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. “Sometimes people get that confused.”

Rohrich says liposuction is intended to reshape and recontour the body in the areas that diet and exercise often can’t help, such as the hips and thighs in women and the belly in men.

He says this is one of the first studies to look at the long-term results of liposuction and shows that people are much more likely to be happy with their results if they make other healthy lifestyle changes.

“I always tell my patients that I’m doing the easy part for them,” Rohrich tells WebMD. “But it’s only one part, and the rest is diet and exercise.”