As we get closer to ringing in a new year, you might be starting to think about positive changes you can make in your life to optimize your health and happiness in 2025. If you have long struggled to lose weight through diet and exercise regimens, consider ringing in the new year by enrolling in our Semaglutide Medical Weight Loss program.

Health + Glow has been offering Semaglutide for weight loss to its Tampa-area patients before the peptide emerged as a blockbuster weight-loss drug in 2022. As Health + Glow lead physician Dr. Swapna M. Kallikadan noted, “We have had incredible success helping patients lose weight with our Semaglutide program. Our holistic approach to weight loss combines Semaglutide with a personalized diet and exercise plan, supported by ongoing support and other weight-loss services as needed.” Let’s take a closer look at how Semaglutide can help you overcome your weight loss struggle in the new year.

What is Semaglutide?

Semaglutide is a peptide that mimics a hormone our bodies use to regulate appetite and food intake. The peptide promotes a cellular-level response in the brain that slows digestion and curbs appetite by making a person feel full. Because they feel full, patients control food portions more efficiently, leading to reduced caloric intake and an increase in calorie-burning energy levels. Semaglutide also increases the body’s sensitivity insulin sensitivity, which makes it easier for patients to metabolize glucose.

In 2018, the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk secured FDA approval to use Semaglutide—with a brand name of “Ozempic”—for glycemic control in patients with Type 2 diabetes. Word got out that clinical trial patients had lost substantial weight during their treatment, and patients started using the drug off-label to stimulate weight loss. By 2021, the “skinny shot,” as popularized by celebrities, had become all the buzz in the weight loss field. The FDA subsequently approved a higher-dose Semaglutide formulation—“Wegovy”—to stimulate weight loss in those diagnosed as clinically obese or anyone overweight with an underlying weight-related medical condition like type 2 diabetes or high cholesterol.

Your Semaglutide Weight Loss Treatment in Tampa

Patients interested in Semaglutide medical weight loss in Tampa can consult with Health + Glow to determine whether their health profiles are conducive to the treatment based on a comprehensive medical examination. If approved for Semaglutide medical weight loss treatment, you will be provided with a prescription and instructions on how to self-administer the once-weekly injections. Our medical staff will also customize a diet and exercise program that aligns with your health profile and fitness level. This component of our program is essential because weight loss results are dramatically better in those who combine Semaglutide with diet and exercise. Indeed, the FDA’s approval of Semaglutide for weight loss is conditioned on its use with an exercise and diet program.

Your Semaglutide Results

If you begin Health + Glow’s Semaglutide Medical Weight Loss program in the new year, you might notice visible weight loss results by mid-February, and will definitely see noticeable results by March. If you stick with the program, you will probably have achieved your “new year, new you” goal. In clinical weight loss trials, patients on Semaglutide lost an average of 14.9% of their body weight within 68 weeks. Of the trial patients, 70% experienced a 10% reduction in body weight, while 32% lost at least 20%. On the other hand, clinical trial patients in the placebo group experienced a mean 2.4% reduction in body weight due to the diet and exercise component of the trial. As noted by clinical trial researchers, weekly Semaglutide treatment combined with diet and exercise results in “substantial, sustained, and clinically relevant” weight loss.

Other Benefits of Semaglutide Medical Weight Loss

Clinical trials also determined that Semaglutide health benefits go beyond just weight loss, as the peptide helped enhance the trial patients’ metabolic and cardiovascular health. In addition to lowering the risk of stroke, heart attack, and other diseases related to obesity and Type 2 diabetes, Semaglutide helps reduce:

• Blood pressure
• Cholesterol
• Glucose levels
• Triglycerides
• Inflammation

Few patients in the clinical trials experienced adverse effects. Side effects reported during the trials included nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and constipation, but patients characterized these effects as mild and temporary.

Consult with Health + Glow to Determine If Semaglutide is Right for You

To discover how our Semaglutide Medical Weight Loss program can help make a new slimmer you in the coming year, schedule an appointment with Tampa, Florida’s Health + Glow today. Our combination medical spa, primary care office, and IV therapy facility offer Tampa-area patients the full slate of health and beauty treatments, including preventative medicine, body contouring, revitalizing IV drips, and anti-aging therapies.