Whenever there is a surplus of calories in our body, it is stored as fat. There are many causes of excess fat e.g. Inherited tendency, and Hormonal imbalance, etc. but the most common is imbalance between calorie intake and calorie consumption.

Even if you eat 100 calorie’s in excess of what you spend, these 100 calorie’s are stored as fat. The cumulative effect of these excess results in overweight or obese status. Many feel that they hardly eat anything and yet they put on weight. This is because what they eat is so rich in calorie value that it easily crosses the expenditure requirements. Often the metabolic rate (calorie expenditure) is so slow that their daily calorie requirements are very low. Here at Aesthetics Medispa, we analyse the problem and give guidance to achieving a calorie neutral state. This is possible in our Weight management program.

Excess fat is recognised when the skin fold thickness in a particular area is more than the average for that area, considering the average for the site and height of the person. Based on this, excess fat can be generalised in to either overall general obesity or localised one. The generally obese have fat distribution in every part of the body – face, neck, shoulders, trunk and limbs. The localised excess fat is usually distributed in specific areas such as tummy, flanks, lower back, hips, thighs, chest and sometimes arms. Women tend to have localised excess fat on their abdomen, flanks, lower back, hips, buttocks and sometimes arms. Men tend to have excess fat on their chest, abdomen, flanks and lower back.

One popular myth that disillusions people is that if you want to remove excess fat from a particular area, you have to work or exercise that area. That is not true. Exercise will reduce fat from everywhere uniformly, if you have reached a calorie negative state (A state where more calories are being burnt than added). Hence, the excess in these areas still persists these areas of excess fat is reduced only after essential areas of fat such as cheeks etc is removed. As this is not advisable, it is recommended that the excess fat areas are treated with liposuction or similar fat removal techniques to make the fat deposits more even. Once this has been achieved, then weight management program will help to get you in to a better shape. Please read the links for further information.