Weight management is a complex process influenced by various factors. The Renew Medical Weight Loss program offers a science-based approach to address the underlying causes of weight gain and obesity, moving beyond the outdated "calories in, calories out" concept. This article explores the program's components, benefits, and what to expect.
Understanding Medical Weight Loss
Medical weight loss is a science-based program designed to target the underlying causes of weight gain and obesity. It recognizes that stubborn weight loss is often associated with underlying medical conditions. By identifying and addressing these conditions, individuals can achieve their weight loss goals more effectively. Factors like genetics and hormone changes can be beyond our control, which means many diets and exercise programs may not be successful in losing weight.
How Aging Affects Weight Loss
As you age your metabolism and hormones change, as a result your body composition shifts, you lose muscle mass and put on fat. Weight loss and exercise become frustrating because no matter what you do you’re not achieving the results you desire. It’s easy to beat yourself up and hop from one fad diet to the next.
Renew Wellness Center's Medical Weight Loss Program
Renew Wellness Center offers a comprehensive medical weight loss program designed to help individuals achieve sustainable results. The program is customized to each person's unique needs and includes:
- Initial Lab Work
- Consultation With Our FNP
- Follow-Up Appointments With Our FNP
What to Expect During Appointments
At Renew Wellness Center you will work one-on-one with our Nurse Practitioner to identify the underlying medical conditions hindering your success and to create a customized program catered to your specific needs. A complete weight loss program includes nutritional management, exercise, and when appropriate, will incorporate bioidentical hormone replacement, vitamin supplementation, and prescription medications.
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Components of a Comprehensive Weight Loss Program
A comprehensive weight loss program at Renew Wellness Center typically includes:
- Nutritional Management: Personalized guidance on healthy eating habits and meal planning. The Clean Start diet plan includes several aspects that all work together to help you lose weight. These different aspects include tips, instructions, go-to’s, and a protocol to follow so that you can reach your goals as quickly as possible.
- The Program Guidebook: Clean Start includes a monitored weight loss program guidebook that gives you all the program details. This guidebook will also give you instructions on eating according to portion sizes and how the Glycemic index scale works. It will also help you learn how to read a nutritional info label. Additionally, it will provide tips on combatting emotional eating, destructive food habits, and curbing cravings.
- The Quick Tip Sheet: The Quick Tip Sheet will provide you with the most important tips to help you reach your goal weight and a complete shopping list with calorie counts to take the guesswork out of grocery shopping and meal planning.
- The Cookbook: The Cookbook has over 50 recipes designed for all three phases of the weight loss program so that you’ll never have to come up with meals on your own. These meals are all Clean Start approved and will help you learn how to cook healthy meals that nourish your body, taste good, and satisfy you.
- The Food Journal: Food journals are incredibly effective. There’s something about writing down the foods you eat on a daily basis that gives you some built-in accountability and also opens up your eyes as to what may be keeping you from reaching your goals.
- Exercise: A personalized workout plan to boost metabolism, build muscle, and improve overall health. Proper exercise is highly recommended during medical weight loss. Exercise helps boost metabolism, build muscle, and improve your overall health. Our trained staff in Sugar Land, TX, will work with you to create a personalized workout plan that fits your needs and goals. Exercise does not need to be excessively strenuous to be effective; even moderate activity can help.
- Bioidentical Hormone Replacement: Addresses hormonal imbalances that may be contributing to weight gain.
- Vitamin Supplementation: Corrects vitamin deficiencies to support overall health and well-being.
- Prescription Medications: When appropriate, medications may be prescribed to aid in weight loss.
- Semaglutide (the active ingredient Wegovy and Ozempic): (starts at $275/month) FDA-approved for weight loss and Type II DM, respectively. Semaglutide works by increasing feelings of fullness and reducing appetite. The injectable medication (Semaglutide or Tirzepatide) will be delivered to the patient’s home. These are once weekly injections. Supplemental weight loss medications may be used along with Semaglutide or Tirzepatide.
- Tirzepatide (the active substance in Mounjaro): (starts at $375/month) FDA-approved for Type II DM, Tirzepatide decreases glucose production in the liver and increases insulin sensitivity.
- Contrave (buproprion and LDN): Decreases appetite.
- Qysmia (low dose phentermine/topiramate): Decreases hunger and increases feelings of fullness (satiety).
- Phentermine: Decreases hunger, increases feelings of fullness (satiety), and boosts metabolism.
- Fat burner Vitamin Injections: Made up of multiple vitamins, including B12, Methionine, Inositol, and Choline, a fat burner vitamin injection is used once or twice a week to optimize fat cell burning and increase your overall energy. MIC injections are fat burner and vitamin injections that we administer here at our office to help enhance weight loss safely and naturally. These are especially helpful when you cut down your calories because not only do MIC injections help increase your metabolism, but they also increase your energy levels.
- NAD+: A therapy that improves the body's ability to burn fat by improving the function of mitochondria -- the cell's energy-producing organelles.
Please note that these medications are not suitable for everyone and will be prescribed based on individual needs and medical history.
Additional Tools
In addition to the core components, Renew Wellness Center may offer additional tools to tackle stubborn fat areas, such as lasers and mesotherapy.
Benefits of Medical Weight Loss
Medical weight loss offers numerous advantages over traditional weight loss methods:
- Improved Overall Health: Addressing underlying medical conditions can lead to better health outcomes.
- Reduced Risk of Disease: Weight loss can lower the risk of developing chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
- More Energy and Vitality: Losing weight can increase energy levels and improve overall vitality.
- Improved Self-Confidence and Body Image: Achieving weight loss goals can boost self-esteem and body image.
- It Promotes Sexual Wellness: Reaching a healthy weight with a monitored weight loss program helps balance hormone levels and helps improve sexual wellness. Living at an unhealthy weight affects you mentally, emotionally, physically, and sexually. Still, when you reach a healthy weight and nourish your body, you’ll experience benefits in every area of your life.
- It’s Safe: When you begin a program to help you reach your goal weight guided by medical professionals, you can rest assured that everything prescribed, injected, and recommended is completely safe. Our medical professionals will consult with you before designing your weight loss program to ensure that they choose the right diet, exercise routine, and MIC injections that are safe and effective. You will see results, and you won’t have to worry about achieving those results in an unsafe manner.
- It’s Effective: If you’ve tried to lose weight on your own and have been unsuccessful, you are probably well aware of how ineffective some diets are. If they aren’t designed with your needs in mind, and you’re not exactly sure how to lose weight effectively and safely, achieving results will be difficult, to say the least. However, you can expect results when you undergo a medically monitored weight loss program. This program is designed with your starting weight and goal weight in mind.
- It Keeps You Accountable: To lose weight, you need some form of accountability. Disciplined people often have greater success losing weight because they already have a natural drive, commitment, and dedication. However, even the most disciplined people need accountability because, without it, they won’t achieve their goals as quickly as they could otherwise. Our programs offer built-in accountability. Knowing that someone else is monitoring your goals may be exactly what you need to finally succeed and reach your target weight.
- You Can Trust the Process: Another one of the benefits of medical weight loss is that there is a formula, a process, and it works. All you have to do is commit to the process and trust the formula, and you will see results. A medical weight loss program is different than simply deciding you’re going to follow the next fad diet. When you come to our office and meet with our experts, we’ll tailor a plan that’s right for you, and as long as you follow that plan, you’ll succeed.
Managing Hunger During the Program
It's normal to feel a little hungry during any weight loss program, but you should never feel so hungry that you can't focus on your goals. If you are feeling excessively hungry, speak with our team members at Renew Wellness Center to make sure your diet is well-balanced and appropriate for your needs. In most cases, making small adjustments can help ease hunger pains.
Exercise Recommendations
Proper exercise is highly recommended during medical weight loss. Exercise helps boost metabolism, build muscle, and improve your overall health. Our trained staff in Sugar Land, TX, will work with you to create a personalized workout plan that fits your needs and goals. Exercise does not need to be excessively strenuous to be effective; even moderate activity can help.
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Expected Weight Loss
How much weight will I lose? This varies from person to person and depends on many factors, including your starting weight and current body composition. However, our program is designed to help you lose a consistent amount of weight each month. Our team will closely monitor your progress to ensure you are losing weight safely and effectively. Faster weight loss is possible, but it is not recommended as it can be unhealthy.
Ideal Candidates for Medical Weight Loss
The best candidates for medical weight loss have failed at traditional weight loss methods and are willing to follow the advice of a professional to achieve their goals.
Ideal candidates for medical weight loss at Renew Wellness Center:
- Are overweight or obese and are struggling to lose weight
- Have been diagnosed with medical conditions due to weight gain
- Are willing to make lifestyle changes with the help of a specialist
- Have realistic expectations for their weight loss goals
Renew Aesthetics Tailormade Custom Programs
TAILORMADE, CUSTOM PROGRAMS DESIGNED FOR SAFE, RAPID WEIGHT LOSS. Our team of Weight Loss Specialists can cater to your needs and customize individual programs to suite your activities, body type, your weight loss goals and your budget. We will follow with you towards your weight loss goals. This program creates customized plans, with treatment geared towards your needs and targeting your triggers. We don’t just assign you a workout and a diet; we work with you to build a weight loss strategy that meets your exact support needs. Renew Aesthetics can prescribe medication, use comprehensive body analysis, and lab work to identify chemical and biological causes of weight gain to reinforce your lifestyle changes & behavioral adjustments. Your support is our priority; our care will always focus on what works for you across your weight loss journey. Because we believe the weight loss strategy that works best is the one that’s best for you.
Renew IV Hydration & Wellness
At Renew, we offer more than wellness-we provide a highly personalized experience grounded in medical expertise, discretion, and a deep commitment to your long-term health. Our approach to weight management is rooted in individualized care. Each plan is thoughtfully designed by our provider team, incorporating comprehensive assessments, advanced treatment options, and ongoing clinical oversight. At Renew IV Hydration & Wellness, you are cared for by a provider team that prioritizes quality, discretion, and long-term results.
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Clean Start: More Than Just Weight Loss
The Clean Start program provides men and women with a way to achieve more than just their weight loss goals. It also helps them burn stubborn fat. After beginning this program, you can expect to notice significantly reduced fat volume in some specific areas of the body that tend to hold onto stubborn fat, including the buttocks, upper thighs, neck, abdomen, and face.
Scheduling and Initial Consultation
At Renew Wellness and Aesthetics, we understand the importance of convenience and affordability with regards to healthcare.
- Scheduling: Virtual or in-person consultation.
- Initial consultation: Our provider will review your medical and surgical history, labs or other pertinent diagnostic tests, provide treatment plan recommendations, and answer all questions you have. The provider may order lab work, which you can complete at the nearest lab location (lab cost billed to your insurance).