Medical Weight Loss Program
What is Semaglutide?
What are the benefits of Semaglutide?
- Significant Weight Reduction: Semaglutide can help you lose a substantial amount of weight, often up to 15% of your body weight, which can lead to improved overall health.
- Appetite Control: It reduces hunger and helps you feel full longer, making it easier to stick to a healthy diet and avoid overeating.
- Improved Overall Health: Weight loss with semaglutide can lower the risk of obesity-related conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension.
- Improved Reproductive Health: Weight loss can enhance fertility by regulating menstrual cycles, improving ovulation, and balancing hormones, which is particularly beneficial for individuals with conditions like polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
- Reduced Risk of Pregnancy Complications: Achieving a healthy weight before conception can lower the risk of complications during pregnancy, such as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia.
- Better IVF Outcomes: For those undergoing fertility treatments like in vitro fertilization (IVF), weight loss can improve the chances of success by optimizing the body's response to fertility medications.
- Sustainable Results: By supporting long-term weight loss, semaglutide helps you maintain your progress, reducing the likelihood of regaining the weight.
Who is the Ideal Candidate for Semaglutide?
Semaglutide injections for weight loss are appropriate for adults who are overweight or obese and have tried to lose weight through diet and exercise but have not achieved or maintained sufficient weight loss. Individuals must not have any contraindications such as a history of certain types of thyroid cancer, a history of pancreatitis, or other medical conditions that would make semaglutide inappropriate. Prior to starting treatment, a thorough medical examination and review of laboratory values will be completed on each patient. To participate in treatment, patients must be willing to engage in long-term lifestyle changes, including healthy eating and regular physical activity, to support and maintain their weight loss. If you are interested in treatment, but don’t know if medical weight loss is right for you, we would be happy to set you up with a complimentary consultation with Dr. Richter to discuss it further.
What is the length of treatment?
Each patient will start on a 3 month course of weekly in-office injections with our physician. During these weekly appointments, your progress and goals will be discussed. Each patient has a different response to the medication and your dose will be adjusted as needed. During your weekly meeting, there will be time to discuss add on body sculpting and cosmetic treatments to maximize your results and remediate any physical changes, such as hollowness of the face and loss of curves, that come with the rapid weight loss.
