What is body contouring and how is it different from weight loss?
Body contouring reshapes a specific area — reducing a localised fat deposit, smoothing cellulite or tightening lax skin — without changing overall body weight. Weight loss reduces fat everywhere, but you do not get to choose where from. Most people who want one actually need both.
Different problems
Weight loss is an energy-balance question answered by nutrition, training and sometimes medication. It reduces fat across the body in a distribution determined largely by your genetics, not your preferences.
Contouring addresses what remains in one place after that: the deposit that does not shift, the dimpling that has nothing to do with body fat percentage, the skin that did not retract after a large loss. No contouring treatment is a substitute for the first conversation.
What falls under the heading
Fat reduction, which reduces the volume of a deposit — cryolipolysis, and the Cryo T-Shock in our case. Cellulite and skin treatments, which address the texture and firmness of the skin rather than the fat beneath it, such as T-Shape 2.
Surgical options sit in the same category and do considerably more, with the recovery and risk that implies.
Sequencing
Get close to your target weight first, then contour what is left. Contouring before significant weight loss wastes sessions, because the area will change anyway.
The exception is loose skin after a large loss, where the weight work is already done and skin is the remaining issue. Our Marina del Rey practice offers T-Shape 2 for cellulite and skin tightening and the Cryo T-Shock for fat reduction; a consultation establishes which one your situation calls for.
General information, not medical advice, and not a substitute for seeing a clinician who can assess you. Cryohealthcare Marina del Rey is a wellness practice; our treatments are not medical treatments and do not treat medical disease. We do not sell peptides or prescription medication from this website.
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