Most of you have probably heard about the treatment Lipodissolve, a treatment that involves shots of chemicals to rupture fat cells in certain areas of the body, such as the stomach or arms. It seems like I’m constantly hearing about some celebrity or other who got Lipodissolve and got rid of her cellulite.

The November issue of Allure has a great article about some of the things that can go wrong during these treatments, which cost thousands of dollars and are not technically FDA approved:

“Several doctors and patients contacted by Allure reported complications, calls to 911, hospital admissions and surgeries as a result of Lipodissolve treatments.”

These range from feeling numbess in the chest to extreme pain, bloating and tingling in the injection site, to having to have skin grafts.

Typically, you have to go several times to see a loss of an inch or two in the area you have injected, over a period of six months or so.

Hopefully, this article will be enough to convince women (and men!) to lose fat the only healthy, proven effective way – diet and exercise.

Claire

(Image from Zipmed.net)

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Lipodissolve Disasters

As you can see, they’ve taken away her stomach fat and shrunk her arms and legs considerably. She did have a flat stomach after her second pregnancy due to a tummy tuck, but you can see the difference here:
(Photo from The Skinny Website)

I think the Photoshopping trend is getting out of hand and is promoting an unrealistic image. I worry about young girls reading Allure, seeing Britney and thinking she really looks like that and they should look like that too.

I respect Allure for not making her look super-thin, but it’s like they’re implying something’s wrong with you if you’re not a size 2.

What do you think? Does this look like the real Britney, or is it a long ways off?

Claire

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Britney Photoshopped For Allure