If you have fat deposits in your flanks and diet and exercise don’t seem to help or if you simply want to fit into your old jeans again, Imagen can help.
Body Contouring With Lipo 360 MAX
Liposuction of your love handles is included with Lipo 360 MAX at Imagen. This is our most popular body contouring procedure and includes liposuction of the upper and lower abdomen — including your love handles — with skin-tightening using Renuvion.
Effective Fat Removal With SmartLipo Triplex
SmartLipo Triplex is the most advanced liposuction technology available and it’s only available in Omaha through Imagen. This state-of-the-art system allows for fat effective fat removal with smooth results and tighter skin. For love handles, this procedure takes as little as an hour.
Reshape Your Silhouette: Lipo & BBL
Many patients are looking to reshape more than one area of their bodies. One of the most popular procedures is the Brazilian Butt Lift, which uses fat transfer to take fat cells harvested from your love handles to shape and add volume to your buttocks.
Why Love Handles Resist Diet and Exercise
Genetics decide where your body stores fat, which is why two people who eat and train the same way can carry it in completely different places. A sedentary routine and a high intake of sugary food and drink push more of it toward the waist and hips. Hormones matter too: stress-driven cortisol encourages storage around the abdomen, and shifting hormone levels through menopause change where women hold fat.
That combination is why flank fat can stay put even when weight comes off everywhere else. We go deeper into the causes in this guide to love handles and the midsection, and if you would rather attack it without surgery first, our diet and training guide for men covers that ground in detail.
What Love Handle Liposuction Actually Does
Through a few small incisions near the flank, a thin cannula loosens and draws out the fat sitting above the muscle. At Imagen this is done under local anesthesia, so you stay awake and go home the same day. Because the fat removed sits on top of the muscle, definition that was already underneath becomes visible.
It is worth being clear about what this is: a contouring procedure, not a weight-loss one. It reshapes the waistline by removing deposits that resist diet and exercise rather than moving the number on the scale. You can read more about how liposuction works at Imagen and what SmartLipo recovery and results look like. Individual results vary.
Recovery After Love Handle Liposuction
Compression does most of the work early on. A garment or abdominal binder worn as directed helps control swelling and supports the tissue while it settles — our guide to choosing and wearing a faja explains what to expect from it. Walking is encouraged straight away to keep circulation moving.
Most people are back to desk work within about a week. Strenuous exercise and heavy lifting wait several weeks longer, and your care team will give you timing based on your own recovery rather than a fixed calendar.
Keeping Your Result
The shape holds as long as your weight stays stable. Fat that was removed from the flanks is gone, but remaining fat cells elsewhere can still enlarge if weight climbs, so balanced nutrition and consistent training are what protect the contour long term. Individual results vary.
If you are weighing this up, our pricing page explains what a procedure at Imagen includes, or you can book a consultation and get a plan built around your anatomy.
