Are Surgical Procedures Like Ab Etching and Liposuction the Key to Washboard Abs, or Just the Key to Emptying Your Wallet? The progression of plastic surgery has given many people strapped more for time than money the dream of getting a perfectly sculpted set of abs...
without doing the exercise and dieting! As the advisability of 'cheating' Mother Nature in this fashion will vary depending on many complex factors, you'll want to know what the consequences of this quick and dirty path are before giving it a try.
To begin with, you should understand that liposuction won't give you washboard abs.
Nor will ab etching remove significant amounts of fat from your torso! More than two centimeters or so of extra fat over your abs will make an ab etching non-feasible.
Either lipo the weight off, or sweat it off the hard way first.
The two operations simply have different purposes, and most people who want better abs need both of them fulfilled.
Getting the two at once is, incidentally, a not very practical or wise idea.
Cost is probably what most concerns those interested in these procedures.
Ab sculpting will cost several thousand dollars at the minimum, and can easily get up to nine or ten thousand.
Lipo prices vary based on the body part being treated.
The torso is one of the more expensive, and can be anywhere from three to eight thousand dollars.
So as you can see, the cost of this all adds up! Even if you just choose the ab sculpting and lose the fat naturally, it's still a significant and temporary investment.
Afterward, you still need the right lifestyle to maintain the look once you have it.
Taking a contrasting look at the 'hard' way to great abs, it's obvious that exercise is essentially free.
And a low-fat diet isn't necessarily more expensive than a high-fat one.
Since you need to get on that kind of lifestyle anyway AFTER liposuction or ab sculpting, you might as well just get on it to start with! The ultimate conclusion is the obvious one: Mother Nature's way is still the best, unless you have far more disposable income than disposable time.
The non-financial concerns are significantly less serious.
If you choose a reputable doctor for your surgeries, then the chances of excessive scarring or other amateurish botches are extremely minimal.
However, the sheer cost involved, coupled with the ultimate unavoidable necessity of a healthy lifestyle at the end of things regardless, will still drive most people out of the doctor's office and towards the gym.
And that's probably as it should be.