Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

35lb Weight Loss & Fat Transfer SUCCESS: My Astonishing Results! #shorts

1 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this short conversational clip, a patient (Speaker A) recounts her experience after losing 35 pounds and undergoing a fat‑transfer procedure. She reports that the transferred fat volume remained stable, with breast size unchanged at three months post‑op, and she was surprisingly mobile immediately after surgery despite some swelling‑related discomfort. Speaker B counters common fear‑mongering around fat transfers, noting that typical graft retention rates are around 80‑85 % and that some online sources claim much lower retention (30 %). The patient emphasizes that her results contradict those lower‑retention claims, highlighting a successful outcome both in weight loss maintenance and graft durability.

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I will say that I've lost the 35 pounds and what stuck in my fat transfer has stuck. And I also want to say I feel like I, when I woke up from surgery I thought I was going to be like not mobile for weeks and I was like fine. Like I, of course I was in discomfort but I think the most discomfort was from the fat transfer part which was like the swelling of things. But like I was really impressed with how mobile I was right after my surgery. But
it's not a, there's a lot of fear mongering about fat transfers which he'll say hit, you know, why does he say he could get it to work and nobody else can get it to work and there's all this that goes on and on and on about it.
Well, I mean I've will say that I've lost the 35 pounds and what stuck in my fat transfer has stuck. Like I was a little bit worried of losing weight that maybe would like, I don't know, go away but that has not been the case for me. I am what I was. I mean after surgery there was some swelling but I would say about at the three month mark post op I'm still the same size as I was then for my breasts which is amazing,
you know, muscle mass or body fat. Then your fat transfer result is lessened 2 then you retain close to 80, 85% of the result which is more of what you're describing. I've
seen some people online say you only hold on to 30% and that's not the case for me at all.