Dr. Robert Whitfield explains that transferred fat starts as liquid, so some fluid drains during the procedure. About 60-80% of the graft survives if you keep your diet, activity level, and weight stable. Major weight loss or calorie deficits cause the grafted fat to be resorbed.
Jess asked does fat transfer stick or does it get resorbed in the body? So when you transfer the fat graft it's in a liquid form so there's going to be absorption of some of the fluid. A bunch of the fluid is drained off but you can't get all of it and then everything has to heal. So it's more of I try to explain it this way. If we have better balance, if we keep our diet, our activity or hormones, if we're in better balance our guts are doing a better job like all of those things allow the healing process to be its best and all things being equal, if you can keep your BMI and those other parameters balanced out you'll maintain in my opinion somewhere between probably 60 and 80% of the fats. But if you drop your BMI, if you lose balance in your calories or training that that balance, if you say created a big calorie deficit, you're going to lose fat.
