For many people all over the world, GLP1 injections have allowed them to experience weight loss results they never thought possible. These weekly injections give patients like you the tools they need to cut out chatter in their brains and stick to their health goals.
But patients often don’t want to—or need to—stay on these injections forever. After they’ve reached their ideal weight, they want to enjoy their dream body without worrying about a weekly injection.
Unfortunately, if you don’t take the proper steps after your injection care plan ends, you may return to old habits and regain the weight. If you want to learn how to manage weight loss after GLP1s, come to Polaris Vein & Aesthetics and talk to our experts, or read on for the information you need.
Understanding the GLP1 Weight Loss Process
Anyone who’s ever tried to lose weight understands how loud the mind can be. If you’re at a party with a full buffet table, the idea of ignoring the food can feel physically impossible. Even as you try to distance yourself from the refreshments, something inside is demanding you grab a plate.
At Polaris Vein & Aesthetics, we understand how the mind can make it even more difficult to lose weight. But GLP1s can help.
When you receive a GLP1 injection, it mimics the response your body naturally produces after eating a meal. This allows you to feel fuller, so you won’t be tempted to fill up your plate.
Cold Turkey
If GLP1s have helped you meet your long-term weight goals, and you’re ready to stop making injections, you may need some help from our team. This is not to say that quitting GLP1s is life-threatening or dangerous, but going “cold turkey” on your weight loss injections can result in unwanted weight gain.
As you receive GLP1 injections, you become accustomed to the medication’s positive effects. So if you suddenly stop taking GLP1s, you may notice the return of “food noise” in the brain, making it harder to resist temptation. For many patients, this causes them to regain much (if not all) of the weight they worked so hard to lose.
Slowly Saying Goodbye
If you’re interested in learning how to manage weight loss after GLP1s, talk to our team about tapering off the injections. Once you have achieved your goal weight, our experts talk with you about your options.
Some people continue to receive their weight loss injections indefinitely, and that’s fine—we want you to feel comfortable and healthy throughout your daily life. But if you’re interested in tapering off your GLP1s, we can help with that, too.
Traditionally, we recommend administering progressively smaller doses over the course of 3 months, so your stomach can “reset.” This process retrains your gut, so you don’t overeat in the aftermath of your GLP1 treatment.
Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching
If you’ve lost weight with GLP1s, you already know that there’s more to the process than simply receiving an injection. While GLP1s can quiet overeager food thoughts, it still takes a lot of self-control and discipline to lose weight.
Some patients even gain weight on GLP1s, because they mistake the injections for a pass to eat whatever they want. Losing weight, even on GLP1s, requires the ability to build healthy habits. And this becomes even more important after you’ve stopped taking your injections.
So, for patients wondering how to manage weight loss after GLP1s, talk to our experts about nutritional and lifestyle coaching. We can give you the advice and the resources you need to maintain your health.
Custom Plans
Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. Some people are naturally athletic, others are born with two left feet. Some people have a particular need for a sweet treat after dinner, and some love nothing more than a salty snack in the afternoons.
Because everyone is so different, it only makes sense that our nutritional and lifestyle plans are different, too. We want you to see noticeable results, and the best way to make this happen is by building custom plans for every patient.
When you come in for an in-person consultation, we go over your habits, medical history, and personal goals. That way, we can determine the best strategies for your needs.
Better Eating Habits
If you want to know the best method for how to manage weight loss after GLP1s, the answer lies in your diet.
While burning calories through exercise is a good idea, you can’t outrun a bad diet. But when you take GLP1s, they curb the temptation to overeat, meaning that you can reach your goal weight without learning much about healthy habits. This can make it much more difficult to maintain a healthy weight following the end of your treatment. Our team members work to understand what keeps you from sticking to your dietary goals, and then we can make targeted recommendations based on your needs.
We can help you find healthy substitutes and train you on how to moderate your eating habits for the best results.
The Mood Factor
When our experts teach you how to manage weight loss after GLP1s, we want you to understand the link between mood and food. In our culture, many of us view food as something more than fuel. We see our meals as a tool to enhance our emotions.
Everyone has picked up some fast food on the way home after a bad day. But food isn’t just a consolation when we’re feeling bad, either. We also use food to celebrate after things go well. If you’ve ever gone out to eat after a promotion, you can relate.
This isn’t to say we should avoid food when we’re happy or sad, but it is important to acknowledge how using food as an emotional pick-me-up can change how we think about it. Nutritional and lifestyle coaching with our team helps you recognize that food is just food.
The Magic of Moderation
When some people decide to start monitoring their eating habits, their minds go to all the special events in their future.
The idea of not having a drink at a wedding or a slice of cake at a birthday party can be depressing. But you don’t have to cut out everything fun just to see weight loss results. The key to understanding how to manage weight loss after GLP1s is moderation.
A person can absolutely have a drink or a slice of cake and still lose weight—the key is not having three slices or six beers. GLP1s help patients who struggle with self-moderation, but those same patients may still struggle after their care plan ends. We can help you moderate, so you can still enjoy your life while you work to change your life.
Our Weight Management Resources
As we’ve addressed, you can eat pretty much anything while maintaining your weight, as long as you do it in moderation. But what about in your day-to-day life?
What should you eat to keep your post-GLP1 figure? The answer looks different for everyone, but here are a couple of resources to prevent yourself from snacking throughout the day.
GlycemaCORE
The first weight management resource we offer, GlycemaCORE, allows you to prioritize your health while still enjoying a delicious beverage. GlycemaCORE is a weight loss powder that has a number of benefits, like improved blood sugar and enhanced metabolism. These effects limit your cravings, so you don’t feel tempted to snack throughout the day.
GlycemaCORE comes in flavors like chocolate and vanilla, and when you mix these with water, you have a delicious drink that can help you maintain your ideal weight.
HiPhenolic
HiPhenolic is another option we offer for patients interested in learning how to manage weight loss after GLP1s. This is a highly concentrated supplement that contains a combination of ingredients to help maintain healthy blood pressure and boost metabolism.
Take these supplements before a meal or throughout the day, and they can prevent cravings from wrecking your nutritional plan.
Water
We also recommend drinking lots of water for any patient wondering how to manage weight loss after GLP1s. It might seem redundant to tell you to drink water—after all, everyone needs water to live!
But water is also an excellent option for anyone interested in addressing an overactive appetite. If you ever feel like you’re hungry when you shouldn’t be, you might just be thirsty. Drink lots of water throughout your day, and you can feel fuller for longer!
Keep the Weight Off
At Polaris Vein & Aesthetics, we don’t just help you lose weight; we can give you personalized advice to keep it off. But those aren’t the only services we offer.
We can also treat vascular conditions with treatments like vein ablation, and if you’re looking for an aesthetic treatment like Botox, we have the resources you need.
Not sure which of our many services is the right choice for your aesthetic and wellness goals? Meet with our team for a consultation to go over your options. You can also try our treatment planning tool to receive a free online treatment recommendation.
Our experts can get you the results you need and teach you how to keep them.
