Weight loss advice is abundant—but often confusing.
You’re told to eat less and do more, which ultimately results in burnout rather than transformation.
At McGuiness Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, we offer personalized advice and expert guidance through our weight loss programs. When you trust our team, we can guarantee that there won’t be confusion or burnout, just lasting results.
Here’s what to expect from our weight loss clinic in Plano.
Identifying the Root Cause
There are many reasons why you haven’t found a successful weight loss plan. Most of the fad diets and exercise regimens aren’t tailored to you and what your body needs to succeed. In fact, 95% of diets fail. This isn’t because the individual lacks the willpower to commit to a calorie-restricting diet. It’s because they leave you feeling hungrier and deplete you of essential macronutrients and micronutrients that give you the energy to go about your daily routine.
To create a weight-loss plan, we must determine the specific factors affecting your weight loss.
Hormones
Hormones are chemical messengers in your bloodstream that regulate various bodily functions related to your weight. Including:
- Metabolism
- Body fat distribution
- Hunger
- Appetite
If you struggle with losing weight, your hormones may cause your body to store fat rather than burn it for energy.
If we determine that a hormonal imbalance is causing your weight gain, we may recommend starting bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) at our weight loss clinic in Plano. This treatment replenishes your levels of estrogen and testosterone back to a state of equilibrium, providing you with whole-body wellness that improves more than your weight; it can also improve sleep, cognitive function, and energy levels.
Genetics
Your genes influence everything from your appetite to your metabolism and even your body fat distribution. In fact, they play a role in how we cope with stress, which usually results in eating foods that are sugary and fatty.
If you have a family history of obesity, don’t lose hope. Our personalized solutions at our weight loss clinic in Plano are designed to address your unique genetic predispositions and help you reach your health goals.
Mental Health
Weight loss is just as much mental as it is physical. Unfortunately, the weight loss journey can take a toll on your mental health, especially when you dedicate so much time and effort to your health and don’t see results.
Stress, anxiety, depression, fear, and even boredom can make you reach for foods that offer no nutritional value but offer comfort in the moment. This is known as emotional eating, and it can impede your weight loss tactics and journey.
But the good news is that finding the right weight loss plan can ease the stress of weight loss. No more guessing, calorie counting, or worrying that your efforts won’t lead to a transformation.
Developing a Personalized Treatment Plan
Once we understand all of the external and internal factors that are contributing to your weight loss struggles, we start working on a personalized treatment plan.
Weight Loss Medications
We offer weight loss shots that work with your body’s biological processes to help you lose weight. Also known as GLP-1 medications, these medications mimic your body’s natural glucagon-like polypeptide-1 (GLP-1) hormone that’s responsible for regulating your appetite.
We offer tirzepatide at our weight loss clinic in Plano. Here’s how they help you lose weight.
Reduces Appetite
As you eat, your small intestine releases the GLP-1 hormone to signal to your brain that you’re full and should stop eating. Semaglutide and tirzepatide replicate this process, signaling appetite reduction faster and allowing you to feel fuller with less food. This helps you maintain a calorie deficit (burning more calories than you consume), which is essential for weight loss.
Controls Cravings
Not only does tirzepatide help you feel more satisfied with less food, but it also helps control your cravings. The GLP-1 hormone slows food movement through your stomach and small intestine. By mimicking this function, tirzepatide slows gastric emptying, helping you feel fuller longer.
This helps to silence food noise, or the constant and intrusive thoughts about food that make you feel hungry all the time. Feeling full for longer periods of time makes it so you’re not constantly tempted to eat, even if you can smell a fresh-baked good or see a bag of chips sitting right in front of you. Now, you have more control over your cravings.
Regulates Blood Sugar
Before GLP-1 medications were used as weight loss shots, they were effective for patients with type 2 diabetes, helping them manage their blood sugar. Tirzepatide triggers the release of insulin, which can lower the amount of sugar in your blood. With regulated blood sugar levels, your body uses the food you eat for energy, rather than storing it as fat.
Nutritional Guidance
What you eat matters, especially if you’re eating less than normal. While fad diets focus on restriction, we take a different approach and teach you about how to use food to optimize your health.
We place a big emphasis on getting adequate amounts of each macronutrient throughout your day, including:
- Proteins – The “building blocks” that repair your muscles and bones and give you energy throughout the day. You can get proteins from animal sources like chicken, eggs, and dairy. But if you’re a vegan or vegetarian, we may suggest legumes (beans), seeds, tofu, and nuts.
- Carbohydrates – Most weight loss programs tell you to cut this food source out. We tell you to choose your carbs wisely. When you choose unprocessed carbs like whole grains, you are nourishing your body with vitamins, minerals, and fiber that support your overall health.
- Fats – Don’t let the name scare you. There is a reason we encourage you to eat fats at our weight loss clinic in Plano, like avocado and olive oil, which helps your body absorb certain vitamins and even help regulate your blood sugar and cholesterol.
Our team can give you more tailored nutritional advice during your consultation.
Exercise Recommendations
Exercise is important for weight loss, not just because it helps you slim down, but it also builds muscle, giving you a toned appearance. Patients who lose weight often notice a decrease in muscle mass along with body fat. That’s because when you’re eating less, your bones and muscles aren’t receiving their usual nutritional intake, which causes them to shrink.
But fortunately, it’s easy to combat muscle loss on your weight loss journey. Even simple aerobic exercises like walking, swimming, biking, and jogging can improve muscle strength and endurance while also assisting in weight loss.
Eventually, we will have you incorporate strength training exercises to help reduce body fat while developing lean muscles. You don’t need to hit the gym to do this (though we recommend it) because some exercises, like pushups, pullups, planks, and squats use your own body weight to help you build muscle.
Post Weight-Loss Support
Once you’ve reached your goals, the focus will shift from losing weight to maintaining the results. For some patients, we may put you on a lower dose of semaglutide or tirzepatide to help you sustain your results.
If you wish to discontinue the use of GLP-1 medications, we teach you how to support your results by leaning on lifestyle choices like diet and exercise.
We also offer the following treatments at our weight loss clinic in Plano to support your results.
Body Contouring
Even with diet and exercise, stubborn areas of fat may still remain on parts of your body, like your arms, abdomen, or thighs. We have a range of body contouring (also known as body sculpting) devices and treatments to help you refine your shape and achieve a toned appearance.
- Emsculpt NEO – This treatment builds muscle while simultaneously burning fat by combining radiofrequency energy with high-intensity focused electromagnetic (HIFEM) energy.
- CoolSculpting – Using the process of cryolipolysis (also known as fat freezing), we reduce the number of fat cells in the treatment area and permanently destroy them for a slimmer physique.
- CoolTone – Builds muscle through magnetic pulses in your abdomen, glutes, and thighs.
These noninvasive treatments require a series of sessions to see results, as the results build on one another.
Skin Tightening Treatments
Weight loss can result in increased skin laxity. This is because your skin and tissue expand to accommodate weight gain, losing elasticity in the process. After weight loss, your skin can’t conform back to its original shape, so it hangs loosely on your body.
We offer minimally invasive and noninvasive treatments that boost collagen and elastin production for healthier, tighter skin. These 2 proteins give your skin flexibility, elasticity, structure, and support. When you’re injured, your body boosts the production of collagen and elastin to aid in the wound healing process. Our skin-tightening treatments stimulate these proteins by kickstarting your body’s natural healing abilities. These include microneedling and laser skin treatments.
Microneedling involves using a handheld device equipped with ultra-fine needles to create micro-injuries on the top layer of your skin. Your body responds to these injuries by generating new, healthy skin cells to replace the damaged ones (a process known as cellular turnover).
Laser skin resurfacing harnesses the power of light to create microscopic injuries in your skin and stimulate collagen and elastin production to improve skin firmness.
These treatments help with mild-to-moderate skin laxity. If you have severe laxity, we may recommend the following surgical procedures:
Simplify Your Weight Loss Journey
Weight loss doesn’t have to feel impossible. When you partner with our team at our weight loss clinic in Plano, we offer simple, science-backed solutions to help you reach your goals. To learn more, schedule a consultation or try our treatment planning tool.
