Obesity and Weight Loss
PCOS Treatment For PCOS Women By PCOS Women
How It Works
About Obesity and Weight Loss
Weight fluctuations are a natural part of life, and there are certain periods and events that can cause extra weight to pile on. There are also medical conditions that can cause women to put on extra weight for seemingly no reason, one of these being PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome).
At PCOS Sisters Telehealth Clinic & Wellness Center your medical weight loss journey will start with an evaluation and blood work to determine the root cause of your weight gain. We will determine if polycystic ovarian syndrome is the cause, and if not, we can still help you lose weight! The foundation of the PCOS Sisters Weight Loss Program is a personalized diet and exercise plan combined with medication to balance your hormones. Dr. Lynsey Johnson, DNP, FNP-C encourages patients to weigh themselves without clothes or shoes prior to their visit to get an accurate-as-possible read of their weight.
What We Do
Treatments for Weight Loss
When you start to gain weight without any changes being made to your diet or daily routine, it can cause a lot of grief and uncertainty. But rest assured that you have options to help you return to a weight you feel comfortable with. Managing the cause of your PCOS can help regulate your weight, but we also offer treatments to address weight gain individually. Semaglutide is just one medication offered to treat PCOS and obesity.
How It Works
Personalized PCOS Exercise and Diet Plan
PCOS Sisters Telehealth Clinic & Wellness Center provides primary healthcare and treatment for women with polycystic ovarian syndrome. One component of the program is metabolic optimization achieved through a personalized PCOS exercise and diet plan. Our PCOS Specialized Nurse Practitioner and Health Coach will customize your unique workouts, which you can access online or through your smartphone.
What platforms do you use for the fitness and diet plan?
We have developed our own PCOS Sisters personal trainer App on the Trainerize exercise and nutrition platform with custom exercise videos, fitness targets, body stats, tracking, rewards, PCOS support community, as well as daily personalized meal plans designed for PCOS women.
- Trainerize Features & Benefits
- Loyalty Rewards for working out
- exercise videos
- fitness targets
- body stats
- tracking
- PCOS Support Community where you chat with other PCOS Sister patients
- Daily personalized meal plan recipes with cooking videos.
- All designed for PCOS women
FAQ
Obesity And Weight Loss FAQ
Most weight loss occurs in the first 3 – 6 months of starting weight loss program. Even after you have reached a weight you feel comfortable and confident with, it will be important to stay on top of your nutrition and diet plan. If using Semaglutide weekly injections, you can expect to lose around 10 lbs per month. It is not safe to go beyond this rate of weight loss.
Tirzepatide is a dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and a Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist. In other words, Tirzepatide targets 2 receptors whereas semaglutide targets one receptor (GLP-1). What does this mean clinically? Studies show that at max dosage patient using Tirzepatide saw 17.8% weight loss while patients using semaglutide saw a 12.4% weight loss. This is a 5.4% increase in effectiveness, which statistically speaking isn’t a lot. It’s impossible to predict the genetic variation in receptors a patient may have. Some patients do better on semaglutide and others on Tirzepatide. If the results are not what you are expecting on one medication, it might be worth switching from Semaglutide to Tirzepatide or vice versa to see if it produces a better effect. Tirzepatide generally costs a bit more, so that is also a factor to consider.
Semaglutide is a GLP-1 agonist that targets receptors in the stomach to slow emptying making you feel full longer, stimulates the pancreas to release more insulin helping you process carbs, and reduces sugar production in the liver. All of these effects help to lower your cholesterol, prevent fatty liver, as well as reduce risk for diabetes and stroke. Semaglutide research is ongoing to determine it's potential use as a neuroprotective agent to prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Given it is used to increase insulin sensitivity, semaglutide is an ideal medication to treat not only obesity in PCOS patients, but it also treats the root cause of PCOS....Testosterone. By decreasing insulin resistance, testosterone levels are balanced.
Semaglutide is now included as a recommended treatment in the 2023 PCOS Management Guidelines.
You inject once a week for 2-4 weeks. Your dosage will be adjusted every 4 weeks at telehealth visit to reach your goal of 10 lbs per month weight loss.
We have developed our own PCOS Sisters personal trainer App on the Trainerize exercise and nutrition platform with custom exercise videos, fitness targets, body stats, tracking, rewards, PCOS support community, as well as daily personalized meal plans designed for PCOS women.
We are unable to tell if insurance will cover your semaglutide until it is sent to the pharmacy. We have discounts available for patients who qualify.
PCOS Sisters Telehealth Clinic & Wellness Center
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New Mexico
Now serving all of New Mexico. Including cities of Albuquerque, Farmington, Sante Fe, Roswell, and more.
Arizona
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