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Summer is almost here! If you have been lying on the couch snacking, it is time to get moving. Sitting for long periods and staying inactive make it easy for fat to build up, creating the stubborn flab people dislike most, including belly fat, upper-arm flab, and saddlebags. What women worry about most is usually fat stored on the thighs and sagging buttocks, and many are also bothered by so-called “false wide hips.” But are these problems really something you are born with? If you want to welcome summer feeling good and confidently wear a bikini at the beach, read on. This article summarizes how to get rid of saddlebags and also explains the causes of false wide hips and how to deal with them. If this is a concern for you, take a look.
What Are Saddlebags, and Where Are They?
Simply put, saddlebags form because of excess body fat, along with lifestyle habits such as: prolonged sitting, poor posture, overeating, and a love of sweets or iced drinks. All of these impair blood circulation in the lower body, and if you also do not exercise, saddlebags will show up. You have probably heard of “false wide hips.” Many women assume it is a congenital flaw that leaves them with short legs and big hips, but in fact “false wide hips” are exactly what is called “saddlebags,” and they can be improved through everyday habits or related treatments!
False wide hips are a pear-shaped body type and are more common in women. After pregnancy in particular, fat tends to collect on the outer thighs and around the buttocks, which creates saddlebags.
How to Tell Whether You Have Saddlebags
First, it helps to know that the normal hip position is at the highest point on either side of the pelvis. So if your self-measured widest point is at the top of the thighs, you have a false wide hips (saddlebags) problem!
If you also have the following habits, saddlebags may well be the cause! For example: prolonged sitting, walking with the toes turned inward, sitting cross-legged, crossing your legs, posterior pelvic tilt, lying down right after eating, and not liking to exercise.
Getting rid of saddlebags is neither quick nor easy. Besides staying active and improving your diet, you also need to train the thighs and buttocks specifically. Because not everyone has the time or energy for that, we recommend combining other treatments to support and speed up improvement, so you can reach the best results in a short time.
Saddlebag Removal Method 1: Liposuction
Liposuction is a major surgery that requires general anesthesia, and there are many kinds of it. For an operation of this scale, we recommend choosing a more advanced and safer method, such as VASER liposuction, which uses a titanium probe, the metal most compatible with the human body. As a result, the fat it removes is finer in quality, and fat from deeper layers can be reached as well.
VASER liposuction does not cause tearing injury and does not damage the surrounding blood vessels, nerves, or connective tissue, so it can reduce bleeding and pain, the treated area does not end up loose and sagging afterward, and recovery takes only one month! So if you want to address the saddlebag area with liposuction, we highly recommend VASER liposuction. Book a consultation now.
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Saddlebag Removal Method 2: Lipolysis Injections
If you do not want surgery, there are still other ways to improve the area. As mentioned above, saddlebags form because of excess body fat, and the saddlebag area contains no muscle, only fat, so we can use “lipolysis injections” to break down the fat and improve the saddlebags.
Gandejian lipolysis injections, also known as subcutaneous fat-burning injections, are suited to stubborn body fat and loose, flabby areas, and work by emulsifying fat cells so they are metabolized and cleared from the body. Recovery after body lipolysis injections is basically the same as for facial lipolysis injections: redness, swelling, bruising, and lumps appear within a day after the procedure. Massage after the procedure is recommended, and these effects usually resolve on their own in about one to two weeks.
Subcutaneous fat-burning injections are designed specifically for subcutaneous fat. Subcutaneous fat can be identified simply by how it looks: any fat you can feel and gently pinch into rolls with your fingers is subcutaneous fat. Subcutaneous fat builds up mostly in women. To protect organs such as the uterus and ovaries during pregnancy, the female body stores fat mainly below the waist, especially on the buttocks and thighs, which become thicker as a result and create a pear-shaped figure.
Saddlebag Removal Method 3: Cryolipolysis
Last is the treatment that people who prefer low effort love most: cryolipolysis, where you can slim down just by lying there, with no surgery required. The treatment works by taking advantage of fat cells' sensitivity to cold, keeping the treated area at 7-15°C for 45-60 minutes, which causes the fat cells to die and be metabolized out of the body, reducing fat. Results can appear in as little as 3-4 weeks and peak about three months after the treatment.
Many people ask how cryolipolysis differs from CMSlim. Both let you slim down while lying down, so why is cryolipolysis especially recommended for saddlebags?
The reason: CMSlim works by using magnetic energy to put the muscles into exercise mode, mainly strengthening muscle training and quickly shaping muscle definition. It must reach a certain intensity before it burns fat, whereas cryolipolysis was developed specifically for “fat elimination,” so in this respect cryolipolysis has a slight edge.
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This article is for general information only. Results vary from person to person; please consult a doctor in person before deciding on any treatment.
