What If Youre Not Losing Weight After Several Weeks
The questionnaire is detailed enough to give providers the information they need for prescribing decisions, covering areas like cardiovascular health, thyroid function, diabetes status, and family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome, both of which are contraindications for GLP-1 medications
Patients gain a clear understanding of how injections fit into a comprehensive, medically supervised weight loss plan
One study found that even at 1 mg doses, postmenopausal women achieved weight and fat loss comparable to premenopausal women, despite having higher baseline weight and fat mass
Experts like Robert F
For a subset of plastic surgeons, the GLP-1/aesthetics crossover moment also included prescribing semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy) to select patients before body-contouring procedures, like tummy tucks, to help them reach a safe weight for surgery (higher BMIs are associated with a greater risk of complications) and to shrink the visceral fat in their abdomens, allowing for a more dramatic cinching of waistlines
