HOW TO LOSE A MUFFIN TOP WITH COOLSCULPTING

How to Lose a Muffin Top with CoolSculpting

Muffin tops, also known as flanks, side fat, or love handles, significantly affect your physique. This type of fat is notoriously resistant to traditional weight loss methods like exercise and diet. So how can we get rid of side fat when stubborn bulges refuse to budge? Continue reading to discover what works and what doesn’t when trying to lose love handles.

The Anatomy of Side Fat

Knowing the physiology of side fat is extremely helpful when finding the best way to get rid of love handles. With flank fat, it’s not all about your lifestyle choices. A high calorie diet, lack of exercise or poor stress management can contribute to developing a muffin top. However, biology plays a big part, too. Genetics, aging, and hormonal changes all influence where and how much fat is stored in the body.

How Genetics Influence a Muffin Top

Genetics play a role in your body type, including how much body fat you have and where it is stored. The regulation of energy balance, food intake and fat storage are all influenced by your genes and directly impact your ability to lose or gain weight. Surprisingly, the heritability of obesity is estimated at 40% to 70%.1

How Age Contributes to Flank Fat

Aging impacts fat storage by causing your metabolism to slow down. This impacts fat distribution by making it more difficult for your body to burn calories. As a result, a sluggish metabolism causes your body to store these calories and can contribute to an increase in belly fat and side fat.

Hormonal changes are another common culprit for stubborn side fat. For example, hormones direct the body to store fat in certain areas. For women, estrogen directs fat downwards towards the hips, buttock, and thighs, especially during pregnancy and menopause. Testosterone, on the other hand, directs fat towards the midsection, making belly fat and love handles common fat deposits on men.

With so many odds up against you, it can be close to impossible to spot treat your side flanks with exercise and a strict diet. Non-surgical treatments like CoolSculpting can be a great option to support your weight loss goals by directly targeting these stubborn side flanks without surgery or recovery time.

WHAT DOESN’T WORK

There are a lot of claims on the internet that promise to get rid of your love handles. Many of these claims are false.

Belly Muffin Top Exercises

Love handle exercises don’t work. Professional trainers agree – spot reduction – or losing fat in the area you train- is a myth. Furthermore, since the obliques are small muscles, strength training that area of the body won’t necessarily “tone” away the fat either.

LOVE HANDLE DIETS

Like exercise, there are no specific diets that target specific areas of fat. While diet and exercise can help you reduce fat overall, you can do nothing to make your body shed weight in a specific area first.

What Does Work: How to Lose Flank Fat Fast

When diet and exercise fail to get rid of stubborn bulges, professional fat reduction treatments can help. Fat reduction treatments, like Liposuction or CoolSculpting, do not shrink fat cells; they are not weight loss treatments. Instead, they spot reduce fat, completely removing fat cells from the body. Because the body does not replace eliminated fat cells, fat reduction treatments provide long-term results.

Liposuction vs CoolSculpting for Muffin Tops

Liposuction is the most effective way to eliminate flank fat and is ideal for patients with more extensive fat deposits. However, liposuction is expensive, not to mention invasive. The treatment requires general anesthesia, stitches, scars, and lengthy recovery times. Liposuction also carries greater risk and room for serious complications such as infection, bleeding, and nerve damage. This type of surgery can also create uneven contours, rippling and changes in the skin.

CoolSculpting is a non-invasive alternative to liposuction. It is ideal for men and women with isolated bulges of fat that want to reduce stomach and/or side fat without surgery. CoolSculpting utilizes the science of cryolipolysis to eliminate fat cells via precisely controlled cooling. Because there is no stitching or scarring, many consider this type of fat reduction to be the best way to get rid of love handles discreetly. That’s why, at Always Beautiful, we don’t offer lipo, choosing to provide our patients with top-tier treatments that aren’t surgical. Individuals seeking a quick way to reduce stubborn belly muffin top fat opt for CoolSculpting so they can get back to their lifestyle with ease. There is no need to take time off work or miss out on special events.

COOLSCULPTING TO GET RID OF LOVE HANDLES

When CoolSculpting love handles, your technician secures a small applicator to your flank. The applicator isolates the bulge and exposes it to controlled cooling. The temperature freezes underlying fat cells. This causes the cells to crystallize and rupture. The destroyed fat cells are then processed out of the body in the form of waste.

CoolSculpting can treat nearly any bulge on the body, but it is especially effective on isolated bulges of pinchable fat, like love handles. This is why the flanks continue to be one of the most popular treatment areas of the fat freezing procedure. Better yet, the advanced CoolSculpting Elite machine treats two areas at once, so you can lose flank fat fast!

COOLSCULPTING RESULTS

The side flanks are one of the most requested areas for CoolSculpting among both men and women. Extensive clinical studies and peer-reviewed journals support its ability to reduce stubborn fat safely and effectively in the side flank and love handle area.

Based on clinical studies, 86% of patients experience “visible reductions” in fat from their flanks, back, and abdomen after CoolSculpting.2 Furthermore, patient satisfaction rate is high thanks to Coolsculpting’s ability to reduce fat at the treatment site by up to 25% after one session.3

COOLSCULPTING BELLY MUFFIN TOP COST

The cost to banish your flank fat and transform your muffin top body will depend on numerous factors. The size of your side fat as well as the number of treatment sessions you will need to achieve your desired results will all impact the price of CoolSculpting. On average, cryolipolysis costs can range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. The long-lasting results and improvement in your love handles make this procedure a worthwhile choice for long term fat reduction.

FLANK FAT COOLSCULPTING IN AURORA

Love handles can be tough to get rid of on your own. If you are looking to lose your flank fat fast, CoolSculpting can help. Take the first step towards a more sculpted, slimmer physique and learn more about the revolutionary fat-freezing treatment by contacting Always Beautiful Medical Aesthetics and Cosmetics.

During a free consultation, we will listen to your goals, assess your candidacy, and determine if fat freezing is right for you. Schedule today by filling out the online form or calling (720) 280-7016. We can’t wait to support your body transformation and boost your confidence with this incredible fat freezing treatment.

SOURCES:

1. Genetic contributors to obesity. Can J Cardiol. 2007.
2. Significant improvement in body contour with multiple cycles of CoolSculpting: Results of a prospective study. Dermatol Ther. 2021.