Medical weight loss here means a prescribing clinician, a medication and follow-up. The medications work on appetite and gastric emptying, and they require dose escalation, monitoring and a plan for what happens when you stop.
Two things are worth separating. First, this is not the same as the fat reduction devices many of the same clinics sell, which contour a specific area on someone near their usual weight. Second, compounded versions of these drugs are not the same as the FDA-approved branded products, and it is reasonable to ask directly which you would be getting and where it is compounded.
Because muscle loss alongside fat loss is a known concern with this class of medication, how a clinic handles protein intake and resistance training is a fair question about the quality of the program rather than a side issue.
How it gets treated
These are the approaches used locally. A provider may offer one of them or several, which is why the same name appears under more than one heading on this site.
- GLP-1 receptor agonist medication, prescribed and monitored
- Nutrition and behavioral support alongside the prescription
- Lab work before and during treatment
What to ask a provider
- Am I getting the FDA-approved product or a compounded version?
- What labs and follow-up are included, and who prescribes?
- What is the plan for maintaining muscle, and for what happens when I stop?
Who offers this near Boulder
119 of the providers in our directory treat this, detected from their own published service pages. Scores are our 0 to 100 rating of the business, not of this treatment specifically, and they are never for sale. How we score.
Related: Non-Surgical Fat ReductionHormone Therapy and TRTMuscle Toning (Emsculpt and similar)
This page is information, not medical advice. Annette Thompson is a medical technologist writing from public data and firsthand visits, not your clinician. Decisions about any of this belong in a conversation with a qualified clinician who knows your history.