Medical Weight Loss

If you have tried to lose weight on your own through diets, systems, and popular programs, it's time you get serious. Extra weight affects your appearance and self-esteem, as well as your health. You do not have to live with too many pounds! At Solaris Med Spa, through a combined therapy of regulated calorie intake, exercise, lifestyle changes, vitamins, hormonal balance, medication and most importantly, commitment, you can drop your extra weight and enjoy a thinner, healthier, energized you!

Purpose

While Lipo-Dissolve (Meso-Lipo therapy) is good for spot fat reduction once you approximate your target weight, physician-supervised medical weight loss can help you really lose those extra pounds. At Solaris Med Spa, we have NOT designed a program that encourages eating pre-packaged meals that may or may not be healthy choices and can be unrealistic in your everyday life. Instead, our program will teach you to make wise choices, so eventually you can continue on a path of wellness, free from our program or any other. We aim to improve your diet, exercise, and lifestyle, while reducing health morbidities, such as dyslipidemia (high cholesterol), obesity, metabolic syndrome (pre-diabetes), and diabetes. Teamwork between the patient and doctor is vital.

Non-Surgical Therapy

In addition to medications, weekly B-12 shots will restore your energy. Indirect calorimetry every three months will identify your personal caloric need, so you’ll know how much you need to eat and/or exercise to lose weight. We will coach you in regards to diet and exercise, and you'll have to stay motivated and on task to yield optimal results - so come committed.

Comprehensive lab work (blood work) will be analyzed to reveal physiologic barriers to natural weight loss. The labs help identify whether a hormone imbalance such as thyroid, insulin, testosterone, growth hormone, and/or cortisol contributes to your weight gain. Often, a sluggish thyroid, insulin resistance, and/or andropause can facilitate fat deposition. Metabolic testing through indirect calorimetry will tell us how many calories you need to sustain bodily activities. This figure will be compared with your total caloric intake from your diet diary and your energy expenditure from your exercise. Weight gain and weight loss is ultimately an imbalance of caloric intake and caloric expenditure.

To help you get control, we may prescribe a medication to suppress appetite and increase metabolism. The plan includes a weekly B-12 shot, a weekly weigh-in, medication, EKG, diet diary, metabolic testing, and accountability. Accountability is strongly encouraged. You are expected to put forth effort to change your lifestyle and health through better eating and exercise.

Results

The client should NOT expect to lose weight by simply taking a pill and/or eating a pre-packaged meal plan. The core of the Solaris Med Spa program corrects physiologic deficiencies through hormones, medications, and nutriceuticals, and it promotes lifestyle changes through better eating habits and exercise.