If there is something we understand at Dynamic Health & Wellness, it’s that weight loss is not an easy feat.
Especially when you live near The Villages and have an abundance of bars and restaurants within reach to satisfy your cravings.
But beyond cravings, much of our social life revolves around food and beverages. From holiday parties to birthdays to just wanting to reunite with your friends and family, it can feel difficult—if not impossible—to follow a calorie deficit and lose weight while maintaining a fulfilling personal life.
When you join our weight loss programs in Leesburg, we teach you how to enjoy all that life in The Villages has to offer without sacrificing your health goals. It’s all about movement, preparation, and customization.
Keep reading to learn more about our weight loss clinic and how we are here to help you navigate the celebrations and the everyday, ensuring you feel confident and energized every step of the way.
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- Consultation: Medical History and Lifestyle
- Nutritional Guidance
- Exercise Recommendations
- Medications: semaglutide, tirzepatide, and retatrutide
It All Starts With a Conversation
The reason you’re struggling to lose weight is unique to you. So, for that reason, we get to know you before determining the best treatments for your needs. After all, the best weight loss programs in Leesburg are ones that work for you, not against you.
We take a comprehensive approach, learning first about you—your lifestyle, diet, and previous attempts at weight loss. This gives us an idea of how to tailor your treatment to your daily routine.
From there, we create a personalized plan, incorporating lifestyle guidance with evidence-based strategies and ongoing support to ensure lasting results.
Lifestyle Guidance
Losing weight requires a healthy diet, but that method can get confusing and often discouraging. Calorie counting, meal prepping, and dieting are usually easier said than done—especially when you’re invited to holiday parties or other social events. When you’re not able to feel included in the festivities, the weight loss journey can feel incredibly lonely.
With that in mind, we provide lifestyle guidance that helps you incorporate fun and festivities with health and wellness.
Meal Planning: High Protein
Sustainable weight loss programs in Leesburg will focus on education and thoughtful portioning of all foods, but we want to take a moment to emphasize proteins. Not only does this macronutrient aid in the growth and repair of cells, muscles, and bones, it also regulates hunger hormones like leptin and ghrelin to help you feel fuller longer.
But let’s get one thing straight: You still need a healthy helping of carbs and fats in your diet. When you go out to celebrate holiday festivities or enjoy a meal with friends, make sure to start the meal with a protein and non-starchy vegetable. This helps control blood sugar and increase your satiety.
Save Room for Dessert
We all enjoy a slice of cake for birthdays, gingerbread cookies during the holidays, or a sweet treat just because we want one. Eating dessert is not going to reverse your weight loss efforts—not if you prepare for it.
When you start with protein and eat smaller meal portions, you can save some calories for the dessert of your choosing. Of course, size and amount matter. During your consultation and monthly visits, we will teach you how to enjoy a healthy meal and reward yourself with a sweet after.
Incorporate Movement: Burn Calories and Build Muscle
One thing we teach you in our weight loss program in Leesburg is that to slim down, you’ve got to get up. Fortunately, The Villages offers us beautiful year-round weather that’s perfect for walking, cycling, and running outdoors.
Your exercises don’t have to be exhaustive, not always. Instead, you can incorporate movement into your social life. Ask friends and family to go for a walk with you after meals, to see Christmas lights, watch the sunset, or enjoy the vitamin D the sun offers (while wearing sunscreen, of course).
Make Moving Fun!
If you don’t like walking, why not try dancing? A fun way to burn off your calories is turning on your favorite song and moving to the music. This is fun for the whole family and helps you create lasting memories while boosting your health without feeling like an obligation.
Build Muscle
Let’s not forget the importance of building muscle! A side effect of weight loss is the reduction of muscle mass. Why? When you eat less food, your muscles subsequently receive a reduced supply of essential nutrients.
While eating enough protein helps, we also emphasize the importance of strength training exercises when you join our weight loss program in Leesburg. You can do some of these exercises in your own home, including:
- Pushups to build upper body strength
- Squats to build lower body strength
- Up/down burpees for a full-body exercise
- Planks or situps to strengthen your core
These are low-impact exercises that can be done with high repetitions to drive success and muscle retention.
It’s important to use proper form when performing these exercises. Our dedicated firefighter, paramedic, and co-owner of Dynamic Health & Wellness, Dalton Zink, will guide you through these exercises to teach you how to perform these safely for the most effective results.
→ Read Dalton’s blog about how to dine out and still lose weight!
Medications for Weight Loss
While lifestyle guidance is important, sometimes it’s not enough. That’s when we incorporate medications like semaglutide and tirzepatide into weight loss programs in Leesburg.
These injectables are becoming increasingly popular as effective tools to help you lose weight. But let’s not forget that they are simply that: tools. They are not replacements for diet and exercise or other traditional methods of weight loss.
Instead, they help us target the underlying causes of your struggles with weight, like genetic predispositions or hormones. Here’s how they function and how they can help you during the holiday seasons and beyond with maintaining a healthy diet and improving your overall health.
Semaglutide
Semaglutide is often called a “miracle drug,” a “game changer,” or a “quick fix.” However, our team refers to it as an effective, science-backed treatment that complements our weight loss program in Leesburg.
Semaglutide mimics the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) hormone to help:
- Reduce your appetite to maintain a calorie deficit
- Regulate blood sugar to help manage insulin and blood glucose levels
- Slow your digestion to keep you fuller for longer so you’re less compelled to snack.
→ Explore the benefits, drawbacks, and eligibility criteria for semaglutide in this blog.
Semaglutide is a weekly injection that we teach you to administer yourself. Your journey begins with a lower “starter dose” that allows your body to adjust to the medication. As your progress continues, we can customize your treatment and increase your medication dosage until your body begins to respond positively.
Tirzepatide
Tirzepatide is similar to semaglutide; however, this injectable medication takes it one step further and mimics the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) hormone along with the GLP-1 hormone. GIP also plays a role in controlling blood sugar and regulating appetite, making tirzepatide more powerful for many patients seeking to lose weight.
→ Learn about the benefits, side effects, and candidacy for tirzepatide in this article.
However, just because it’s more powerful doesn’t mean it’s better for you. During your consultation, we will determine the most effective medication for you based on your lab results and medical history.
If we determine that tirzepatide is the best option to help you achieve your goals during our weight loss program in Leesburg, we will follow the same approach as semaglutide: starting you on a low dose and working our way up.
Our Promise to You
We are always looking for better ways to assist our clients involved in our weight loss programs in Leesburg. This means doing our homework and staying educated on new and promising services and medications to help patients lose weight.
One medication that we are keeping our eyes on is retatrutide, a “triple G” medication that activates 3 hormone receptors in your body:
- GLP-1
- GIP
- Glucagon
This powerful medication could potentially help patients who have not seen results from semaglutide or tirzepatide. Because it also activates the glucagon hormone, it shows potential to increase calorie burning through energy expenditure.
This medication is still in trials and is not yet available to patients. But that doesn’t mean we can’t find an effective treatment plan for you! We don’t rely solely on weight loss medications to help you lose weight. In addition to semaglutide and tirzepatide, we have numerous treatment options that can aid you on your weight loss journey.
Ongoing Support
We ask that you visit us monthly so we can track your progress, adjust your nutritional plans, and increase the intensity of your workouts. If you’re receiving weight loss injectables, we also use this time to adjust your dosage and monitor side effects so you don’t have anything holding you back on your journey.
Meet a Provider Who Cares: Wendy Clow
Our advanced nurse practitioner, Wendy Clow, has over 30 years of experience in healthcare. Not only does she bring expertise and extensive knowledge to your weight loss program, but she also brings compassion and empathy. She understands that losing weight is tough, and often isolating, which is why she wants to help.
With her tailored approach, you will learn that this journey doesn’t always have to be a struggle; you can enjoy the foods you eat and the activities you engage in while optimizing your health.
Wendy will guide you through this journey and do her best to improve all aspects of your health. Beyond weight loss, she’s also able to perform the following services:
These services can aid in your weight loss efforts, helping us learn how to further optimize your health and tailor your treatment to your specific, unique needs.
Start Your Journey to a Healthier You
Our weight loss program in Leesburg doesn’t require you to restrict yourself from all the fun and entertainment that The Villages has to offer. It teaches you how to enjoy yourself while also considering your health. To learn more, request a consultation where you’ll meet with Wendy to discuss your options for weight loss.
Alternatively, you can try our treatment planner tool, which allows you to streamline this process and pinpoint specific health concerns. Once we receive your submission, a member of our team will reach out with available appointment times.
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