Cutting the Fat

Factual Questions
1

I’ve been talking to a friend of mine lately about losing weight. My friend is frustrated and has occasionally made the comment, in jest of course, that he wished he could just take sissors and cut off his stomach fat.

Let me emphasize he’s only kidding and he would never do that. That being said, it got me curious: What would happen if someone did that? I’m guessing they would die from shock/trauma.

2

Doing that literally wouldn’t be a good thing! But that’s more or less what liposuction is, isn’t it?

3

Massive wound, bleeding and loss of fluids, scarring, severe pain, shock, infection…

4

It’s a common fantasy, if that makes you feel any better about your friend’s state of mind.