There’s bad news and good news about weight in Florida.
The bad news: according to the Florida Department of Health, 36% of Floridians are overweight, and another 28% are obese. In other words, almost 2/3’s of Florida’s population suffer from weight issues.
The good news: we can help. At Florida Lakes Spa, our medical weight loss treatment utilizing semaglutide in North Port, FL, improves results for clients who truly want to lose weight. Through weekly injections, this amazing medicine helps people lose, on average, almost 11% of their total body weight within 6 months.
Book a consultation to discuss your weight issues and health goals, and we’ll help you explore whether semaglutide can help you achieve better health. And read on to get a better understanding of what semaglutide can do for you.
Weight Loss With Semaglutide
If obesity rates continue, by 2030 only 30% of Florida adults and seniors will be living at a healthy weight. It’s time to invest in yourself, so you can live a healthier, more active, and more confident life.
What Semaglutide Does
When dosed and administered correctly, semaglutide in North Port works as an appetite suppressant. This helps Floridians lose weight by fighting common issues that impede weight loss.
Cravings
People with more frequent food cravings at the start of their weight loss journey tend to lose less weight. These cravings can be caused by nutrient deficiencies, such as:
- Low magnesium levels (causing chocolate cravings)
- Low iron or calcium levels (causing meat or cheese cravings)
Addressing the deficiencies requires proper diet choices. Semaglutide can help you resist poor food choices, working to reduce cravings in combination with improved, more healthy nutrient consumption.
However, cravings can also be a conditioning response. This means the craving may have developed from external or internal stimuli having been habitually paired with eating.
For example, when a person has a habit of eating while watching TV, then when they turn on the TV, they find themselves craving food even if they’re not hungry.
Another example is emotional eating. Some people have comforted their sadness/anger with food consumption, and the two become linked in habit. These cues to eating—watching TV, seeking emotional comfort, etc.—become food cues that can contribute to weight gain.
When we combine semaglutide with a more balanced diet, cravings become less frequent, less powerful, and easier to control.
Hunger
When a person is feeling particularly hungry, they often make unhealthy food decisions. Hunger can also leave people without the energy to exercise.
Ironically (and unfairly), when our clients don’t eat enough calories, that can contribute to weight loss issues because the body goes into “starvation mode.” The stomach produces ghrelin, which is often called the “hunger hormone.”
Ghrelin signals your brain for when it’s time to eat. A 2020 study found that increased ghrelin levels can lead to a continued sense of hunger even if nutrition needs are met. This makes it harder to lose weight.
Semaglutide injections help to minimize hunger, including reducing the effect of too much ghrelin.
Hedonic Eating
Many people consider eating a favorite pastime. In fact, up to 94% of Americans have called eating and/or snacking a “hobby.” People often eat because food tastes good or because they enjoy the pleasure of eating it, even when they aren’t necessarily hungry.
This is called hedonic eating, and it can contribute to unwanted weight gain. If eating is the go-to when you’re relaxing, socializing, or even just bored, it can make weight loss next to impossible.
To fight hedonic eating, you’ll need to understand what triggers the hunger. What makes you want to eat even when you’re not hungry? You’ll need to work on breaking this habit.
Because that’s easier said than done, you may want to make up tasty but less-fattening foods that help to sate that craving. Every time you make this choice, you’re re-training yourself and heading toward a better weight loss experience.
You can keep a mood and food log, writing down what you’re feeling when you crave food without being hungry. This makes you aware of triggers, and slows you down before you reach into the refrigerator or pantry.
When you combine these tactics with our treatments of semaglutide in North Port, FL, you can discover better personal control over hedonic eating.
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The Science of Semaglutide
Your semaglutide treatment contributes to your weight loss efforts by targeting your brain’s GLP-1 receptors.
GLP-1 hormones are naturally released in your body in response to food intake. These hormones help control:
- Insulin production
- Feelings of satiety
- Insulin sensitivity
Semaglutide mimics these GLP-1 hormones, binding with your GLP-1 receptors to lower cravings and hunger. The treatments also help you feel more full and sated so that you can better control urges to overeat.
Diabetes Help
Along with helping overweight and obese individuals lose weight, semaglutide can also reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Semaglutide therapy can help retrain your body to create and utilize insulin while decreasing glucagon secretion from your liver. Glucagon is a hormone that helps manage blood sugar levels. Too much glucagon, or hyperglucagonemia, can contribute to diabetes and cause other health issues.
Semaglutide in North Port also reduces inflammation issues and cholesterol levels, both of which increase risk for diabetes.
Support
Once per week you’ll come in to receive your semaglutide injection. As part of our 3 month weight loss program, our team will check your progress, ask how you’re feeling, and adjust the dose as necessary to make sure you’re getting the results you need.
Combined with a calorie-deficit diet plan and an appropriate exercise regimen, you can start to see results in as little as a few weeks after beginning treatment.
Common Weight Loss Issues That Semaglutide Treats
Many of our clients experience similar issues while trying to lose weight. Semaglutide can help get them over these hurdles and back to achieving their goals.
Weight Loss Stalled
Even successful weight loss programs with proper diet and exercise can “plateau.” When this happens, the body has reached a certain weight level and locks itself into the new “norm,” so every metabolic effort focuses on hanging onto calories rather than shedding them.
To break this plateau, your Florida Lakes Spa provider may increase your semaglutide dosage to further reduce appetite and slow digestion.
Hormonal Shifts
Hormonal changes caused by medication, illness, aging, and/or menopause can reduce a person’s ability to maintain a healthier weight.
Hormone imbalance may interrupt weight loss efforts and cause weight gain by affecting how your body signals hunger and uses energy. For example, some hormonal imbalances can cause your body to store fat instead of using energy efficiently.
Skin Health Degradation
Excess weight can damage collagen and elastin fibers, preventing your skin from recovering after weight loss. Weight gain can also cause stretch marks when it persists over prolonged periods.
Our semaglutide therapy can help you preemptively lose extra weight before damage to your skin takes full effect. Plus, we have other skin treatments and therapies to address weight-related skin issues after you’ve lost the weight.
Our Process
For semaglutide in North Port, the Florida Lakes Spa process ensures you’re the right candidate, and you get optimal results.
Step 1: Consultation
Book a consultation with the caring and compassionate team at Florida Lakes Spa. During this one-on-one conversation, we’ll discuss your goals and your concerns, and we’ll go over your health history and current health conditions. This is an open, non-judgmental conversation. There’s no shame here, only help and hope for a healthier future.
Step 2: Treatment
If you’re a good candidate for semaglutide treatment, we’ll prescribe a specific semaglutide dosage. Your injections will be done in-office each week, in one of 3 rotating locations: the thigh, stomach, or upper arm.
The injection should occur on the same day of the week, at roughly the same time of day. That way, your body quickly incorporates the semaglutide into your system, and semaglutide levels don’t fluctuate widely between injections.
Step 3: Monitoring
Your Florida Lakes Spa provider will keep tabs on your progress and health each week during your visit to our spa. We’ll discuss how you feel, your progress, and make adjustments as needed to keep you moving forward toward your goals.
More Choices to Help You Succeed
As you incorporate semaglutide with your healthy dietary and exercise weight loss plans, we offer other treatments and therapies that can complement your efforts.
Emsculpt NEO
Though not a weight loss treatment, Emsculpt NEO helps clients literally melt fat while they build muscle.
As this advanced technology delivers both electromagnetic (HIFEM) and radiofrequency (RF) energies into the treatment area, it can help:
- Reduce fatty deposits
- Build metabolism-enhancing muscles
- Tighten skin
- Promote collagen production
Lymphatic Massage
An underperforming lymphatic system can cause the body to retain excess fluids and fats that normally would be naturally flushed away. Lymphatic massage can help the lymph system move those excess materials, removing their weight from the body.
Therapeutic Massage
A massage can also reduce stress and/or cortisol levels. Cortisol (the stress hormone) can stimulate appetite, especially for high-calorie, emotional, and palate pleasing foods.
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Get Ready for Success!
To prepare for semaglutide in North Port, FL, you should:
- Set realistic goals. Semaglutide typically results in 1 to 2 pounds per week in fat loss when used on its own.
- To increase weight loss, semaglutide alone won’t be enough. Achieving a healthy weight also requires a healthy diet with restricted calories and cardio exercise. A person can’t take semaglutide and continue eating an unhealthy diet while sitting on the couch if they truly want to lose weight and keep it off.
- Have a plan in place on how you’ll reach your goal. Don’t make it too aggressive, as that can lead to disappointment. Instead, make sure it’s a plan that you can work over the long-term.
- Understand that weight loss, including the use of semaglutide in North Port, isn’t a quick fix for a wedding or event. Weight loss will most likely be a lifelong commitment—but one that allows for a happier and healthier life.
Schedule Your Consultation
Book a consultation, and let’s discuss your weight loss journey and goals. We also offer an online treatment planning tool so you can explore—anytime, anywhere—qualified suggestions for losing weight and feeling better inside and out.
About Florida Lakes Spa
Florida Lakes Spa is proud to serve the North Port and Wellen Park communities with the best in advanced wellness and aesthetic treatments and therapies.
From the moment you walk through our doors, our team welcomes you with a smile and sincere appreciation. We’ll provide you with any information you may need, so that together, we can create a treatment plan that helps you feel better, look better, and live better.