Boost Your Weight Loss Journey: How Semaglutide Can Help

If you’ve struggled to reach or maintain a healthy weight, semaglutide may be your best bet. Here’s a look at how this weight loss medication works.

Losing weight and keeping the pounds off isn’t usually easy. That’s a significant reason why 74% of Americans are overweight or obese.

If you would like to up your odds of weight loss success, you may want to consider semaglutide. Also known by the brand names Rybelsus, Ozempic, and Wegovy, this prescription medication eases the process of weight control, making way for stronger overall health.

The BP Royal Medspa team in Henderson, Nevada, led by board-certified registered nurse Barbara (Barbie) Rodriguez, often recommends semaglutide as part of our guided weight loss plans.

Challenges behind lasting weight loss

If you’ve struggled to lose excess weight and keep it off, there’s no need to be ashamed. A range of factors make healthy weight control challenging for most people, such as:

Chronic pain
Emotional eating
Genetic factors
Hormonal changes
Lack of access to healthy food, support, or accurate weight loss information
Long-held, difficult-to-change habits
Slowed metabolism from yo-yo or restrictive dieting

These factors make it unsurprising that 80-85% of people who lose quite a bit of weight regain it at some point.

How semaglutide works

Semaglutide is a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, a medication that mimics a hormone involved with blood sugar control. Once injected or taken in pill form, semaglutide stimulates insulin release and slows down digestion.

Semaglutide was created to treat type 2 diabetes by supporting blood sugar control. It’s also used to lower the risk of life threatening conditions, such as heart attack, stroke, and kidney failure, in people with diabetes.

As a weekly injection or daily tablet, semaglutide can enhance weight loss by decreasing your appetite, which allows you to consume fewer calories than you burn each day. If you eat 500 fewer calories than you usually do per day, you could lose about one pound per week, the recommended amount for safely slimming down.

Putting it all together for weight loss

Semaglutide isn’t a quick or magical fix for weight control woes. Instead, when paired with healthy lifestyle changes, it makes weight control more feasible. It might also help you shed excess pounds more efficiently.

A study showed that people who had a medical provider’s support in their weight loss journey lost twice as much weight as those who didn’t. That’s where the team at BP Royal Medspa comes in.

In addition to any approved weight loss medication, our programs include:

Behavioral therapy
Dietary supplements
Exercise guidance
Meal planning
Nutrition counseling

We’d love to help you reap the many benefits of healthy weight loss, from better self confidence and energy levels to a reduced risk for heart disease, arthritis, and certain cancers.

To learn more or find out if semaglutide is right for you, call BP Royal Medspa or request an appointment through our website today.