Maintaining Your Plastic Surgery Results | Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery, Inc.

January 24th, 2017 | Posted in: Plastic Surgery | Tags: exercise habits, plastic surgery results

How to Maintain Your Plastic Surgery Results

Plastic surgery is an investment. Literally speaking, you are investing money into your appearance and accruing confidence as your results take shape. But plastic surgery is also an investment of time and energy, and you want to make sure your efforts pay off.
Here are some easy tips on how you can successfully maintain your plastic surgery results.

Helpful Tips to Follow

1. Protect your skin from sun damage—Always wear sunscreen and try to avoid prolonged sun exposure. This is especially important as your scars heal, but always a good rule ofthumb. Sun exposure increases the signs of aging on your skin. Always wear sunglasses when you’re outside to protect your eyes and the delicate skin around your eyes from the harmful effects of the sun. This area can be sensitive following eyelid surgery.
2. Take care of your skin—Use high quality cleansing and moisturizing products to keep your skin looking young and healthy. Don’t resume makeup use for a few days after your plastic surgery to ensure your wounds have healed, and be sure to always wash your makeup off at night.
3. Quit smoking—Your doctor will advise you to stop smoking before your plastic surgery procedure as a safety precaution because smoking impedes your blood flow and slows your healing time. Additionally, if you’re a smoker, you’re aging your face more quickly than your non-smoking peers. To keep your youthful appearance, put out the cigarettes for good.
4. Avoid excess alcohol—In some cases alcohol is acceptable and even beneficial to your body, like a glass of red wine a day. But excessive amounts will dehydrate you and contribute to early signs of aging.
5. Drink water—Water is an essential component of our bodies and important to drink after your plastic surgery. Keeping yourself well-hydrated will keep more elasticity in your skin and give you a more youthful glow.
6. Maintain a healthy diet—A healthy diet is critical to staying fit after procedures such as liposuction. It is now well known that weight loss or maintenance of a normal body weight is 80 percent from diet and 20 percent from exercise. For long term health, you need to look at more than just the calories. You want a balanced diet that is low in processed foods. A healthy diet includes a large portion of fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables every day (four to five servings each) along with whole grains and fiber (six to eight servings). You also want to stick to lean meats and chicken, and eat dairy products in moderation. You should use oils, butter, and salt sparingly. Over the long term, you should generally avoid diets that recommend that you eat large quantities of a particular food or completely cut one out. The reasoning behind this is that this decreases the balance in your diet, making it harder to stick with it and turn your diet into a lifestyle.
7. Regular exercise—You should also form regular exercise habits. Find an activity that you enjoy and exercise regularly. A minimum of 30 to 60 minutes of exercise daily is recommenced with the occasional day off to rest your body. Exercise habits can include activities such as a morning walk, golf, tennis, or other sports. While exercising regularly is far more important than the kind of exercise you do, results are best maintained with regular cardio and weight training to maintain muscle tone. Good examples include running, cycling, swimming, and hiking as well as planks and other core-toning exercise habits.
8. Find an accountability partner—Having someone hold you accountable for your actions goes a long way in helping you do what is right. Find a friend, family member, co-worker, or acquaintance that is also invested in their health, and hold yourselves accountable to each other. Support and encouragement will help you both to be motivated to keep with your goals.

Exercise Habits

Exercise is one of the key roles in maintaining plastic surgery results from procedures such as liposuction or a tummy tuck. Once six weeks have passed, most patients feel comfortable enough to endure strenuous exercises. To keep fat off the abdominals you will need to consistently follow a routine of cardio and abdominal exercises.
The best forms of cardio exercises are running, cycling, swimming, and aerobics, but the following are the four simple abdominal exercises everyone should include in their workout routine:
• Stability ball crunch—The stability ball crunch is a variation of the traditional crunch, which utilizes the cushioning of the stability ball. Lie with your back on the ball and bend the knees at a 90-degree angle. With your feet apart and planted, lift your body up until your back is off the ball. Slowly lower yourself down and repeat for 10 repetitions.
• Front plank—The plank has a number of variations that target different areas of the abdominals. To target the front abs, you balance yourself on your forearms in a push-up position. You then hold your body on your forearms and toes, while squeezing the core. Hold the position for 20 seconds, increasing the time as strength progresses.
• Russian twist—The Russian twist is an exercise that targets your front abdominals and obliques in one routine. Sit straight up your feet flat on the floor, holding a medicine ball straight out in front of you. While fully extended, squeeze your abs and slowly twist from left to right. Repeat this for 10 repetitions on each side. Increase the weight of the medicine ball as you wish.
• Bicycle crunch—The bicycle crunch is the most effective abdominal exercise for an individual’s core. To execute the exercise, you lie flat on the floor with your lower back pressed to the ground. Gently lift your head with your hands to your knees while moving your legs in a bicycle pedaling motion. As you lift your head, your right elbow should attempt to touch the opposite knee as you lift it towards your chest. Alternately touch your elbows to the opposite knees as your body twists back and forth.

Consult with the Best Plastic Surgeon in Beverly Hills

If you are looking for the best plastic surgeon to perform your plastic surgery procedure, then you should book an appointment with Dr. Chiu of Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery, Inc. With years of experience in his field, Dr. Chiu can help you make the right choice when it comes to choosing the right procedure for you.