Many weight loss clinics can help you achieve your weight loss goals using a mixture of medications and wellness coaching, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you can avoid experiencing the common side effects that can come with those weight loss treatments.
At Medical Grade Aesthetics, we combine your weight loss injections with our aesthetic services to deliver a comprehensive and balanced weight loss programs in Beloit. This program not only helps prevent common side effects that occur with medical weight loss but also improves your whole-body transformation.
How Medical Weight Loss Works
With our weight loss program, we combine health coaching and weight loss injections to deliver effective and sustainable results. The weight loss injections mimic the effects of GLP-1 hormones in your body, which affects your appetite and cravings.
With weight loss injections mimicking your natural GLP-1 hormones, your appetite decreases, which makes it easier to reduce portion sizes at meals and refrain from unnecessary snacking. When you make healthy dietary choices and have lower food intake, you burn more calories than you consume and lose weight.
Then, with our wellness coaching, we collaborate to build healthy habits, create a balanced diet, and plan for regular exercise. You establish these habits while you lose weight with our weight loss injections. Once you reach your ideal weight, these new lifestyle choices help you maintain it.
More Than Weight Loss
You might think, “that sounds like a basic program I could find almost anywhere. What makes Medical Grade Aesthetics special?”
In our experience, we’ve seen a common thread of side effects and struggles patients face when they undergo our weight loss programs in Beloit. So, we’ve curated other aesthetic and wellness treatments to pair with your weight loss program to take preventative steps against these common issues.
Weight Loss Struggles
Here are the most common struggles and side effects we see patients experience during a weight loss program and how our paired services reduce or prevent these issues.
Loose Skin
After undergoing our weight loss programs in Beloit, many patients notice they have loose, sagging skin. This can create new aesthetic concerns, and if you wait too long to address it, noninvasive skin tightening treatments likely can’t resolve it completely.
During your weight loss program, we recommend simultaneously using our body sculpting and skin tightening treatments. As you gradually lose weight, they address sagging skin as it appears, tightening it before it becomes a serious concern.
Some patients also become disheartened when they see sagging skin after they hit their goal weight, because even more work stands between them and their ideal results. When you pair your weight loss and skin tightening treatments together, you can see a full-body transformation at the end of your weight loss journey.
After that, the only “work” you have to do after you achieve your results is continuing healthy habits to maintain that transformation.
The body contouring treatments we offer that can help with sagging skin include:
If needed, we can also pair these treatments together to address mild-to-moderate skin sagging during your weight loss treatments. And since they both also target areas of stubborn fat, we can use them to create more ideal contouring during and after your weight loss journey.
Slower Metabolism
Another issue patients face when they lose weight quickly is a change in their metabolism. Metabolism is the process in which your body converts food and drink into energy. Your basal metabolism rate, or the base rate at which you metabolize food, depends on your height and body composition, among other factors.
As you lose weight, your body slows down its metabolism to conserve energy, decreasing how many calories you burn at rest and during activity. Some patients do not expect this when they complete their weight loss journey, and it can make maintaining your ideal weight more difficult.
While your metabolism does largely depend on your height and body composition, other aspects of your health, like your hormones, have an impact too.
So before you begin one of our weight loss programs in Beloit, we suggest completing a full lab panel and hormone panel. That way, we understand the intricacies of your health and hormones. If needed, we can create a hormone therapy plan to complement your weight loss treatments by supporting your metabolism. That support can make it easier to maintain your long-term results.
Loss of Muscle Mass
When you lose weight, the body differentiates less between muscle and fat, and it often ends up metabolizing both to create enough energy to function. As a result, when a patient reaches the end of their weight loss program, they may have less muscle mass, and therefore less strength, than normal.
In some cases, it can become serious enough where they experience muscle wasting, where the muscle has deteriorated so much that patients cannot use the same physical force as before their weight loss treatment, making every day activities more difficult.
Not only does muscle waiting impact your day-to-day life, but it can impact your ability to maintain the physical exercise needed to keep up your weight loss results.
During our health coaching sessions, our team educates you on how to increase protein intake in your diet and establish muscle-building exercises. These will help you maintain more muscle mass as your body breaks down fat.
However, if you or your provider have bigger concerns about muscle wasting, even with regular exercises, we can also pair weight loss programs in Beloit with Emsculpt NEO.
Emsculpt NEO combines radiofrequency and HIFEM (high-intensity focused electromagnetic) energy to simultaneously reduce stubborn fat and improve muscle mass. The radiofrequency generates a gentle heat, which pushes into the subcutaneous layer of skin, where some stubborn fat lives. The heat breaks apart the fat cells without causing any damage to the surrounding skin or muscle.
At the same time, the HIFEM energy creates over 20,000 contractions within the targeted muscles, providing an intensive, muscle-building workout that you can’t replicate in any gym. This maintains and improves your muscle mass and overall strength during your weight loss program.
Facial Gauntness
When patients lose weight, they tend to lose weight in many places—including their face. While many think this would improve their looks, it can actually leave patients with sagging skin and overall facial gauntness that create a sickly or ill appearance.
We offer multiple options to maintain your facial volume, including filler, Sculptra, and Emface.
Filler, one of our most popular facial aesthetic treatments, is an injectable gel form of a natural substance called hyaluronic acid (HA).Filler provides immediate improvement to your facial features, adding volume to places where weight loss programs in Beloit caused you to lose facial fat.
HA increases production of structural proteins, like collagen and elastin, within your skin. Collagen and elastin work over time to tighten skin and improve the appearance of wrinkles or fine lines caused by excess laxity, or sagging skin.
Sculptra works similarly, except it uses Poly-L-Lactice acid to increase collagen and elastin production. This adds volume over time rather than immediately and lasts longer than with traditional fillers.
Our last option to treat facial gauntness is Emface. This noninvasive treatment uses the same science as Emsculpt NEO, but with lower-intensity radiofrequency and HIFES (high-intensity facial electric stimulation) energy to effectively and safely treat the more delicate skin and muscles within the face.
By using the heat from the radiofrequency energy, Emface increases collagen and elastin production within the skin to tighten loose skin, correct wrinkles, and smooth fine lines. Then, the HIFES energy creates thousands of precise contractions to increase muscle mass and enhance your natural facial volume.
This “lifts” your features to reduce the gaunt appearance you might have developed during our weight loss programs in Beloit.
Malnutrition / Nutritional Imbalance
One of the last issues patients face during weight loss treatments is malnutrition. The GLP-1 hormones that are mimicked in the weight loss injections cause decreased appetite, helping you limit your calorie intake. However, this can affect how many vitamins and vital nutrients they consume, so their vitamin levels can drop below the parameters that are considered healthy.
Thankfully, we schedule regular check-ins and when we take labs, we analyze your vitamin levels. If your provider notices you have deficiencies in certain necessary vitamins or minerals, they can offer you personalized supplements to take while you are learning to balance out your vitamin intake by improving your dining habits.
We Do More Than Weight Loss
At Medical Grade Aesthetics, we are more than a weight loss clinic—we are a team of experts here to deliver the whole-body transformation you’re trying to achieve. We are here for you throughout the journey and beyond. With our variety of treatments, we can help you achieve healthy, sustainable weight loss while preventing the common side effects that other weight loss clinics ignore.
To see if one of our weight loss programs in Beloit is right for you, you can either book an appointment with our team or use our complementary treatment planning tool to begin exploring your options.
