Medical Weight Loss

What is medical weight loss?

Medical weight loss helps you reach and maintain the ideal weight for your body. Some people are underweight and need advice on healthy ways to increase their weight. But for most people, the challenge is losing excess weight.

If you have weight problems, Michelle’s weight management expertise provides a long-term support system with information, advice, health monitoring, and treatment that helps you reach your target weight and stay there.

Why is weight loss important?

Excess body weight is a leading cause or contributing factor for many serious health problems, including:

• Type 2 diabetes
• Kidney disease
• Osteoarthritis
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Peripheral artery disease (PAD)
• Coronary artery disease (CAD)
• Carotid artery disease
• Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
• Strokes
• Heart attacks
• Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
• Sexual dysfunction
• Some forms of cancer

Everyday life is much more challenging when you carry excess weight. You’re likely to get short of breath, find it hard to exercise, develop skin problems and infections, and be unable to participate in activities you enjoy. Many people with weight issues also suffer from mental health problems like depression and anxiety.

Committing to a medical weight loss program with Luxx Aesthetics & Wellness Medicine can prevent and control these problems and often reverse them.

What does medical weight loss involve?

Michelle designs each patient’s weight loss program to suit their unique needs. She starts with a physical exam, medical history review, and lifestyle evaluation. She also runs tests to determine if any underlying health issues are affecting your ability to lose weight.

Some people have hormone imbalances that make it hard to lose weight and encourage weight gain, like hypothyroidism and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Lab analysis identifies imbalances, which are treatable with hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

Michelle provides dietary and exercise advice and behavioral therapy to enable you to lose weight sustainably. This helps you embrace healthier eating and a more active lifestyle and learn to change bad habits like late-night snacking and poor portion control.

Do I need medications to lose weight?

You might benefit from weight loss drugs if you have difficulty shedding the pounds despite following a personalized weight loss program.

Michelle prescribes semaglutide (Ozempic®) or tirzepatide medication that boosts your ability to lose weight by suppressing your appetite. You attend monthly check-ins to ensure you’re well and achieving the desired results.

To learn more about benefiting from expert medical weight loss, call Luxx Aesthetics & Wellness Medicine or book an appointment with Michelle online today.