June 30, 2025 • 36 mins
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Tired of weight loss approaches that promise quick fixes but deliver short-lived results? In this candid conversation, our providers dive deep into what really works for sustainable weight management and body transformation.
Weight loss injections like semaglutide and tirzepatide have revolutionized how we approach weight loss, but they're just one piece of a much larger puzzle. As Lindsay shares her remarkable journey of losing 102 pounds, she reveals something surprising – it wasn't just the physical changes that mattered, but how these medications helped quiet the constant "food noise" in her mind. "It felt like what my body was missing," she explains, highlighting how GLP-1 medications can help reset unhealthy relationships with food.
The conversation goes beyond just medications to explore why accountability makes all the difference in weight loss success. Through our specialized memberships, clients receive regular check-ins, body composition analysis, and personalized guidance that turns what could be a temporary fix into a sustainable lifestyle transformation. We don't just monitor weight – we track muscle mass, hydration levels, and overall body changes to ensure healthy, balanced progress.
What happens after you reach your goal weight? Our providers explain the critical importance of proper medication tapering and how our integrated approach seamlessly transitions clients to maintaining their results through body contouring treatments like EmSculpt and Vanquish. These targeted therapies address those stubborn areas that diet and exercise alone can't fix, completing the transformation journey.
Ready to transform your relationship with your body? Schedule a consultation at Couture Med Spa and discover how our comprehensive approach to weight management can help you achieve not just weight loss, but true body confidence that lasts.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome back to episode three of Couture
Conversations, a couture medschool podcast for beauty,
confidence and self-care cometogether.
Today we're going to be talkingabout one of the biggest trends
I don't even know if I wouldsay in the med spa industry.
It is, but kind of everywhereright now.
(00:35):
We're going to be talking aboutweight loss and weight loss
injections and everything thatcomes with weight loss.
It's, it's huge right now and I,I think that it's, you know,
something that a lot of peopledo talk about, but a lot of
people also don't talk about,which is is fair.
(00:56):
Um, but yeah, we, um it issomething that we do offer now
at Performance Spa.
Um, we've been offering it fora while now.
So I have Nikki joining ustoday and her and I are going to
be kind of talking about, youknow, what we offer at Couture
Med Spa in regards to weightloss and just not just weight
(01:17):
loss on its own, but kind of ourclients whole journey together
when it comes to weight loss.
So not focusing on just theweight, but kind of overall
health, everything together.
You know, yeah, Lifestyle,everything that goes with that.
So, um, let's jump right intoit One of my favorite things
that we offer, and go into thatlater, I'm sure a great journey,
(01:39):
lindsay, thank you.
Um, so yeah, I would say first,let's just start off right into
it.
What does Couture Medspa offerin terms of weight loss?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So we have a couple of things.
We've had our body contouringfor years now.
So we offer, you know, ourmachines, our Vanquish that
helps like kind of melt the fatwe have our Emsculpt kind of
tones, the muscles.
We do offer semaglutide andtrisepatide are two injections.
There are glp-1s that help, youknow, lose weight, kind of
(02:13):
obvious, like obviously a wholelifestyle changes and stuff we
spoke about.
So yeah, it all works together.
We offer also b12s.
We do and not that we're likeregistered dietitians or
anything, but we do consults,like full consults of what like
you come in, you give me yourgoals and what do we have here
and how can we help you reachyour goals.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Perfect.
So kind of give us a little bitas far as what GLP-1s are.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, so they're kind of everywhere.
I mean you've heard there'sdifferent kinds Tuikeri,
semiclutide and Serizepatide.
So what they do basically isthey kind of slow like your
gastric emptying.
We know that.
What they also do, like theyhelp with like diabetes
management, you know glucosestuff, but like most drugs on
the market, there's things thatthey do off-label right.
(03:05):
So these um help slow thegastric emptying, which kind of
helps you feel full, like fuller, longer.
Um kind of suppresses yourappetite, kind of cravings,
hunger signs, um, it's notsupposed to turn them off.
I think that's one of themisconceptions, so we can go
into that later.
But yeah, so it just kind ofgives you like a little
motivation.
(03:25):
It kind of helps your physicalbody Cause physical weight loss
and mental weight loss.
You know they go hand in hand,but it's hard.
You know, like when you'reprogrammed as a child and I
think, like most of us were likefinish your plate before you
get up, like eat all your food,and our portions are quite large
.
Most of us were like finishyour plate before you get up,
like eat all your food, um, andour portions are quite large
(03:46):
most of the time.
Um, so I think it just helps.
Um, it's not an end-all, be-allthing, but it it does.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's like a kick start to you know losing weight
and I think that what she wasjust saying was perfect.
It's a kick start to losingweight.
It's, it definitely is used asan aid, yes, in weight loss.
Yes, you know, I think a lot ofpeople go into it thinking that
they can just take theseinjections and do nothing else
right changing your lifestylehabits, and like, oh, they're
(04:13):
magically going to lose weight.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's, it's a tool, it's something else in their
toolbox that can help them.
I mean, yeah, it's likeanything.
You go to the gym once a month.
What do you what?
What do you expect?
You know, like you eat onesalad a month.
You know like it's, it's, it'severything, and I think a lot of
it is accountability.
You know, like there's only somuch medicines and going to the
gym will, you know, do like diet?
(04:35):
I mean, as we all know, there'sa huge, huge, huge part in
weight loss and there's alsostuff like genetics, like
there's going to's gonna it'sgonna be harder for some people
to lose.
But that is why, like we domemberships where and you know
we can speak on that where youhave accountability for a
(04:56):
certain amount of months, like,I think, with people like when
you pay for something you'relike, except really the gym,
actually you pay for the gym andyou never go, um, oh, I can
just sit there, um, but you knowyou're paying for these shots.
You're gonna come in, you'regonna get weighed in, you're
gonna go be doing your bankwishes and numbscopes, um.
So I think that's important toofor accountability of going in
and getting it done.
(05:16):
You know, not just sitting onthe couch.
You know like you're like, oh,I got my injection today I can
eat a little bad stuff, and I'mnot saying not indulge, because
I'm an indulger.
If I want chocolate, I'm havingchocolate and I'm not just
going to have a bite, no, I'mhaving the piece.
You know, I'm going to enjoy,I'm going to enjoy, like we have
one life.
Come on, um.
So, and I think too, weight'snot everything, you know.
(05:38):
I think that I mean that stigmaof women should be, you know,
like I don't believe in all that.
I believe you can be whateversize you are.
You want to be and be happy andas long as you're happy,
literally like who cares whatyou look like, you know, and of
course you want to look yourbest and feel your best.
But so I was so excited when,you know, we added this on, and
(06:00):
I mean for me personally, I hada baby 17, 17 months ago and I
could not for the life of me getthat weight off, like I was 30
pounds heavier than I want it tobe, um, and it was like really
hard.
So I, you know, started on theweight loss and it gave me that
kickstart and I have startedfinally looking into two piece
(06:23):
bikinisinis again summer.
I'm like she can go intotwo-piece again, you know, and
um, I think for me it's aboutgetting my confidence back and I
think that's more importantthan my size, than my weight.
Like, I don't even go on thescale, I go by how I'm feeling,
so I'm not a big.
Yes, people want to see thosenumbers go down, but it's also,
(06:48):
you know, like when you come in,you're getting weighed in,
you're checking your, yourmuscle mass, your hydration,
your, your BMI, you know which.
I can all that.
So I think it's important tonot also hyper focus on numbers.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
No, I think that's great and I think you touched a
little bit on the membershipthat we do have, that we offer,
and I think one of the biggestthings that and we'll get into
the membership here in a littlebit but I think one of the
biggest things that, like yousaid, people are, they're paying
for this, it's something thatthey're spending money on, and I
(07:22):
think a lot of people reallyexpect to see results very
quickly and honestly when itcomes to weight loss.
Even if you're not paying forit, you want to see those
results really quickly.
You want to use that.
I mean, why bad diets have beenaround for as long as they have
and there's always a new one?
Because people want a quick fixand they want something, um, to
(07:45):
lose weight very quickly.
But, um and obviously you canspeak on this just as a nurse
more than I can a little bit butlosing weight slower is going
to be a little bit healthier andable to maintain it and keep it
off.
Um, you know for, for the longterm, yeah, not have that
rebound yeah, yeah and not havethat come right back.
So I think that you know,accator, having you know the
(08:08):
membership that we have reallykind of allows people to kind of
stay on it for that that longrun, yeah, and not, you know,
look for that drastic weightloss.
But I would say kind of goinginto with the weight loss
membership, like how would yousay that helps our clients
achieve those health goals thatthey're looking for, whether
(08:29):
it's the weight loss membership,the body contouring membership
that we have, um what's?
I would say kind of even justlike your advice to um clients
as far as you know why we dohave a membership and what those
membership benefits are to them.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, so I mean nothing is going to be a quick
fix, right, I mean surgery.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But even then, who wants to go through all that?
Even then there's downtime.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
That is true, yeah, but yeah.
So I think that, like youmentioned, you want to go slow,
I think, just for health,obviously.
Obviously it's better that wayanyway.
But the memberships are.
We do memberships because it'snot just you're going to get one
(09:16):
, two, three injections andyou're going to start losing all
this weight.
It's a kickstart to okay, I'mgoing to start eating healthier,
I'm turning off those foodcravings.
I don't get all those sweetcravings like I used to anymore
and, hey, like I lived throughit, you know like I can have a
cookie instead of six and stillfeel that.
You know, um, I think for metoo, like it just being on them.
(09:38):
They made me like more thirsty,which is pretty cool Cause I
was not getting enough water andI I mean hydration plays a huge
role in anything, you know,whether you're on weight loss
injections or not, butespecially when you're on weight
loss and especially if you'relike doing, say, the vanquish or
the m scope machines that wehave, um.
So, yeah, I think it's perfectthe way we like the setup of a
(09:59):
membership and also that we'reholding you accountable to
coming in, to getting weighed,and even clients who prefer to
do their injections at home oncertain days or whatever,
because usually it's, you know,once a week.
Um, they want to come in andget weighed in on our scale
because it's just that, likethat motivation that we are
(10:19):
weighing them in and you havethat accountability and you, I
don't know, you want, like yourother people, to like see, like
you know they're cheering you on, they're seeing the numbers too
.
You know it's not just you,it's like that's a whole team.
Um, I mean, a lot of us are areon them and there's absolutely
no shame in that and you knowour stories are posted and stuff
.
Um, but like for me, uh, I losta lot of baby weight and back to
(10:44):
before I had kids, and it'sjust like I find myself making
better decisions.
I mean, I probably don't workout as much as I should.
You know, like, yeah, I couldbe on the little walking machine
while I'm watching TV orsomething, and sometimes I'm
like, nope, I'm just gonna siton the couch, had the greatest
cake last night.
Nope, I was going to sit on thecouch, had the greatest cake
(11:06):
last night and then had an extrahalf a piece and did not feel
guilty.
So I think it's just helped melike feel better and make better
decisions.
You know, because I know that Ican't have extra stuff and eat
extra stuff.
And, you know, have likerelaxing days because I have
like the support behind me.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You know, yeah, and I think that goes into too,
talking about the support thatcomes behind it with having that
membership that we do offer.
There is that, yes, you knowyou said coming in getting
weighed.
You have that support of youknow, your providers, all the
girls that work at the spas, butalso kind of holding the
accountability as well when youhave, I would say kind of on
(11:43):
both ends.
If you have someone who is nothaving as much success or maybe
they're not, you know, losing,they've had stalls for a couple
weeks and they just don't knowwhat to do, you have that
support to where you're comingin, you're talking with your
provider.
You guys can go over differentthings, yeah, different options.
Do you maybe need to go up indose?
Do you maybe need to be addingmore protein to your diet?
(12:06):
You have again going back tothat support that's behind there
and again on the other side ofit too, if someone is having,
you know, side effects, some ofthese medications for some
people not everyone, but do comewith side effects and you know
we don't want to just, you know,prescribe you a medication and
you know see in three months andnot see you.
Yeah, um, you know if you'regetting some nausea or if you're
(12:27):
having, you know, any sort ofunwanted side effects that you
don't know what to do with.
Again, you're coming in.
You have that membership withus.
You can speak with the providerand you guys can troubleshoot
any of those issues.
Um, I think makes a makes a hugedeal with that.
Um, with the membership as well, there isn't a commitment to it
.
Yes, it is paid monthly, butthere's not a commitment because
(12:48):
not everyone's weight loss andhealth journey is the same.
At least with our weight lossmembership, not everyone's
journey is the same.
Some people might be on thisfor years, some people and know,
and you know it's it's, it'snot locking you into a certain
amount of time that you have tobe on this membership Again,
coming with that support fromour providers.
(13:10):
That you know, when, say,someone hits their their goal
weight, they've got their goalweight, they've got where they
want to do and they come in andthey're like, okay, I'm done,
I've, I've hit my goal weight.
Right, you know, I'm going tocancel what.
What's some advice that youwould give to someone who they
(13:31):
have reached their goal and wantto?
You know, come off of thesemedications.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
As far as from a medical standpoint kind of
what's that guidance with that?
Yeah, so when, when you wouldcome in, you would do a full
consult, right, we'll get yourgoals, we'll get all your
measurements.
You know, we'll haveconversations kind of where you
want to be.
Have conversations kind ofwhere you want to be, um, and I
always, um, I always want tohave a conversation of it's a
drug, right, it's a, it's a,it's medicine that is going into
your body, um, and it's notsomething that you want to just
(13:56):
stop cold Turkey, um, becauseyou can have that rebound, you
can get side effects, you know.
So, with that, it's justknowing that once you hit your
goal, like it doesn't stop, youknow you still have to continue
lifestyle, you can go on into amaintenance, but it's you have.
You want to wean down slowly.
So, knowing that, okay, we'regetting closer to your goal.
(14:18):
And that's why we, we havethese conversations too.
When you come in, you know like,hey, how are you feeling?
What are the side effects?
How close are we?
You know where are we at inthis journey, because it's not
one that you want to just belike okay, I'm done, cancel my
membership, see you later.
You know you want to go slowlyand safe.
Safe.
(14:39):
So we go down, you know, everycouple of weeks and your doses
and stuff.
That's a conversation with yourprovider.
But just know that it's notlike you're taking this, you get
your goal and, boom, it's goingto stay off forever and you
have to do work because I thinkyou know you fall off the train
a little bit and you're gonna.
You probably have some rebound,weight gain and stuff, which is
fine, but you want to do itsafely and smartly so that all
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that work and money and timethat you spent getting to your
goal is not wasted, right?
So yeah, with the side effectsyou said we have, you know we
have some scripts for likeanti-emetics or anti-nausea.
Constipation is a big one, somaking sure you're staying
hydrated, I mean that just goesalong really with weight loss in
general.
You know there's a lot of things, a lot of it's homework, you
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know, to get to your goals and,yeah, we get you there and keep,
try to keep you there, you know.
And then we have other thingsas far as toning, like the em,
sculpt, sculpt and some likecryo.
So things that we offer to thatalso help because, yes, the
weight's gone, but did you losemuscle, like, how's the skin
(15:47):
looking?
Well, you know it's, it's, it'sall encompassing, right?
So something we always talkabout, too, is making sure
you're getting enough protein,because if you're not getting
the protein, you're breakingdown your your muscles too.
That's why we're always, atevery appointment you come to
weigh in, we're checking yourmuscle mass, you know, to see
where you're at.
If you're just losing, losing,losing muscle, like, that's not
what we want, you know.
So you know, some weighttraining, adding additional
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protein, getting some proteinbars, protein shakes, whatever
it is.
Um, I think, a lot of timesclients just want, and and
people you know, you just want.
You're like oh well, I still,I'm still hungry.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, you should be, You're a human you're supposed
to eat.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
You know like we don't want to just turn that off
.
So, misconceptions, you knowlike, oh, I'm going to.
You know I started last week onon this and I haven't lost
weight.
Well, nope, it's not even likebuilt up in your system.
It takes weeks, you know.
Just like any other drug, anyother blood pressure medication,
um, you know, any medication,it takes a while to build up in
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your system.
Um, so that's education too.
You know I'm I'm a big educator.
I always go back to that, um,but it's, it's knowing, right,
so you can have more realisticgoals and expectations.
Um, you know, getting aninjection, or even one day at
the gym, or one MScope orvanquish, it's not an end, all
be all.
You know like, lifestyle changeis huge and I think we kind of.
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You know, you, you focus on the, on the getting the drug, and
then you're like, oh cool, Ilost weight, you know, easier
than I did before.
And then when I get off, it'sgonna be so easy to keep it off.
It's not because I think backto the program, I think we're
just programmed to like portionsin America are crazy anyway,
right, um, but eat till you'refull, not until your plate's
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finished and I think that's hugeum and don't.
I don't believe in deprivingyourself.
I don't believe in like oh, Ican't have anything, I can't
have sugars, I can't have sweets, I can't like yeah, absolutely.
You can't.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You just make better choices, you know, like yeah, I
mean, that was the biggest thingthat I would say.
I learned, you know, with beingon the injections I did.
I was on semaglutide for nine,nine or ten months and then I
switched over to chrysopatide,um, when I was kind of getting
closer to my my first goal andthe weight started slowing down
(18:04):
a little bit.
But, um, I've tried everythingout there when it comes to
losing weight.
I've taken other medications,I've tried every bad diet you
can do and they may have workedfor a little bit right, um, but
this time, with the help of allmy providers at couture, um has
been insanely supportive ofadding so much more than just
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taking the the shots.
You know, um, yeah, I count mycalories almost every single day
.
Um, you know, going to the gym,working out, making that
lifestyle change became so muchmore possible, um, with these
medications, and for the firsttime in my life, it finally felt
like something was like.
It felt like it was like whatmy body was missing, almost,
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which sounds crazy to say, um,but I don't constantly obsess
about food.
I think that's a lot of thingsthat people get with it too.
It's just like the help with thefood noise, and it sounds crazy
to say that to someone who hasnever struggled with food noise
Like, oh yeah, like I thinkabout food too, like when I get
hungry and I'm like, no, I couldeat an entire plate of food and
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dessert and then like, see acake walk by and be like I want
that too, like my body.
Just I was constantly thinkingabout what I was gonna eat next.
So, right, not only focusing onthe physical side of what these
medications do, but the mentalside as well.
Um, I love that, and you know,after I, I finally hit my, my
first goal weight, um, which wasit was 100 pounds, which seemed
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absolutely not even possible.
Right when you say my brain,when I was like um, but you know
, going on to the other servicesthat are offered at Couture as
well, I just recently startedadding um, you know, m-sculpt,
um and all of our bodycontouring into it as well.
Because, just like you said,yes, you can lose weight and you
can get that fat off, butlosing a hundred pounds and I
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still have more to go.
I have loose skin now and, yes,do I work out at the gym?
I do.
Am I building my muscle as muchas I would probably like, or
should kind of focus a littlebit more on cardio?
But you should work on yourmuscles.
Um, and sculpt has been amazingfor that Um, helping to kind of
like tighten my abdomen muscles, getting that core back.
Um we also offer.
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We also offer cryotherapy andwe're going to be offering red
light therapy as well.
All of these together are goingto help the full body
transformation, because it isn't, like you said, just about the
numbers on the scale.
It is, yes, the number, youknow you're losing weight, but
are we maintaining that musclemass?
(20:36):
Are we doing the most that wecan for the overall health of
our body, right?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
um and feeling good while doing it.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, exactly proud of yourself, and you know yeah
empowering you for that too yeah, and so, oh, I also get the.
I get a b12 injection once aweek as well.
Yes, um, so there's differentlike add-ons that you can
include um in our in our weightloss memberships as well, which
is really nice to be able tocustomize what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Everybody's a little different.
Everybody's body is a littledifferent.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Exactly, yeah.
So for me I felt like I waskind of I wouldn't say I had a
side effect of it making metired, but I will say that I did
it Okay.
Yeah, I got extra tired and Iwas like oh, I think I like to
just tell myself that it wasn'tthe shots and that I was just
like tired from work or whateverit might've been from that, but
so doing a weekly B12, rightKind of boosted that metabolism.
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gave me a little bit more ofthat energy to then make me want
to go to the gym a little bitmore, or give me that as well.
So there's so many differentthings that, yes, we we offer
weight loss and we offer weightloss.
We have our weight lossinjections, but really focusing
on the full health in general.
You know, working on thatmetabolism, on that energy,
doing your vanquish to help, youknow, even when we're losing
weight.
So I can attest to that, losing100 pounds, I'd be fine if I
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didn't lose any more in my armsor somewhere my like abdomen
area there's still so much thereand will not go away.
That's where, like vanquish andend, sculpt and your cryotherapy
and your red light can come into help that as well.
Because, yeah, you may be atyour target goal weight per se
or even if it's going back tonot focusing on the scale, even
if it's not a weight that you'regoing, you're loving how your
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body looks, how you feel,everything's feeling great.
But you have that stubbornlittle area that just won't go
away Right.
Yep, yeah, so you know, addingour body contouring into it as
well.
You have these other tools thatcan help you.
I can go to the gym and I cando my cardio and I can do
crunches all day long, but thislittle stubborn area doesn't
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want to go away Doing theEmskull, doing the Vanquish
again.
All of our body contouring thatwe offer is going to help kind
of push that over the edge aswell.
So, yeah, there's a fullencompassing of that, of how it
all really blends together.
And again going back to howjust the membership aspect of
that does work because it holdsyou accountable.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
And I think that's the biggest thing work because
it holds you accountable yeah, Ithink that's the biggest thing
um I've always struggled with itwas consistency, and so, yeah,
I mean most people right, yeah,but again, like I said, the gym
I sometimes would, you know,just let that on auto pay and go
.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
But if I'm paying for something, I'm gonna go in and
use it, right.
And if I'm paying for theseservices, um, and I'm seeing the
difference that they're making,and I'm seeing the difference
that they're making and I'mseeing those results, it's going
to want me to keep coming back.
Yeah, doing more, um, but yeah,I think there's.
There's so much more that goesinto these weight loss
medications than you know.
(23:30):
Honestly, if half the peopleout there are saying that they
do use them, half the people outthere are saying that they do
use them, half the people outthere are saying you know, not
saying it.
And I think that is everyone'sown journey.
If you are open to talkingabout it, that's great.
If you want to keep itcompletely to yourself, that's
completely fine too.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
It's nobody else's business, yep.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's nobody else's business what you're doing, but
I'm a huge advocate for them.
I, you know I have nothing butamazing things to say.
I've been lucky and had zeroside effects from them.
But going back to you know,talking about having that
consultation with the providercoming in holding you
accountable, is because I triedvery hard to meet my water
(24:16):
intake every day, to get myelectrolytes in every day to
stay, you know lower fat foodsand do my part, but yes, I still
indulge.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I still let myself have this cake when I want it.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Or, you know, I would find other alternatives to.
I'm still really craving, youknow, some type of dessert, but
let me try and make a healthierversion of it when that's not
kind of been fun for me to like.
Getting creative and findingdifferent ways to make this a
long term journey, but havingCouture there to help me stay on
(24:48):
that long term journey, I think, is really important to I.
Have so many clients that samething.
We, you know, talk during ourfacials.
You know cause?
they'll ask me how my journey isgoing, and they've just started
it, but they've seen yourjourney you know, and they, you
know they haven't, they've seenit and but they've just started
it and you know they'll be like,oh well, what can I do for this
?
Or how you know, this is whatI've been struggling with, so,
(25:10):
having that support all aroundyou know, at the fall, like you
said, a large majority of ushave been using these
medications as well that theyjust, you know, we're able to
have that discussion with themand be able to kind of give our
different feedback on thingsthat have worked for us or might
work for them or differentthings.
(25:30):
So you know there's all kinds offun stuff when it comes to that
Again, having that.
You know it's not a a form youfill out online and some doctor
prescribes it to you and theyship it to your house and you're
on your own and yeah you don'tknow what to do, right um, you
know, pull it up, exactly yeahso you know you can come in and
have all of these conversationswith your provider and the girls
(25:52):
at the spa to be able to makethat custom journey for
themselves I I think too withaccountability.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
like even when I'm working with you, I'm like, hey,
you want to order lunch, andyou're like, no, I brought my
lunch, and I'm like okay, yeah,I'll do that next week.
I'm like.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I'm gonna get pizza today.
It does help when you havepeople around it and that's why
for me, like I, am so open aboutmy journey, because I know
other people struggle and I knowother people aren't as open
about it, and it is fine, but I,the more that I can help
someone else who's strugglingwith the same things that I've
struggled with, I think isreally important.
(26:31):
So, if I can use my I won't sayplatform because, cause that's
not what it is, but my- just youknow my yeah my story and my
interactions with all of ourclients that come in out of the
spa.
If I can give them just a littlebit of hope that they can have
you know right a change in theirlife as well, I would love.
(26:53):
You know I will share my storyany day, but I it's.
Wait.
So how much have you lost?
In total, 102.
102 pounds.
So my my starting weight was271.
My goal is I don't know why Ipicked such a large goal to
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start off with, but my goal wasto lose 100 pounds to get me to
170.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
And go back.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, why not?
Honestly, I picked 170 becausethat's kind of where I was, I
would say a little bit post-highschool like my early 20s.
Yeah, that's where I was for awhile.
Yeah, and yes, at that time Iknew I still was like overweight
and I would have loved to loseweight at that time.
But I stayed at that weight fora really long time and I told
myself if I could at least getback to that then I could kind
(27:40):
of go from there.
So I hit.
I was like 169.2 this morningor something like that so right
around 102 pounds.
I'm going to keep doing them,I'm going to try and get to.
My next goal will be like 20more pounds to get to 150.
And then see how I feel fromthere.
And going back to what you weresaying was like not really
paying attention to the scale.
I do pay attention to the scale, more so for myself to hold
(28:03):
myself accountable.
Yeah, to know that I'm on thatsame page, right, but honestly,
even at 150, I'm five two, so Itechnically am still overweight,
might even be in the obesecategory when it comes to
medical standards, right, um,but if I feel comfortable at
that weight, um, and that'swhere I'm going to try and stay,
so it's really kind of anevolving journey.
(28:26):
Yeah, more of a feeling, um, butI, you know, I, I, I lost my
train of thought.
But, yeah, these medicationshave been life-changing for me
and I do think that the stridesthat I made this time around on
my lifestyle changes because,just like you said in the
(28:48):
beginning, I was very muchaccustomed to.
My dad used to always joke andsay that my eyes were bigger
than my stomach.
If you give me a full dinnerside plate, I'm filling it up.
I want everything and I'm goingto finish it, and not in a bad
way.
But my parents used to alwaysbe like well, you took it,
you're going to finish what's onyour plate.
Like you know not in a thinkingof a long-term effects of that,
(29:11):
but in my head I always waslike well, it's on my plate.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
If I'm gonna eat them , I can throw it away.
Right, you're not gonna list it.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah, you know gotta save the leftovers, but that's
not the point um so it wassomething that was just always
ingrained in me of I have theselarge portions and I am.
I'm a foodie, I love to eat, Ilove to try different food, I
love to cook, I love to bake,like oh yes yeah, so I know
Nikki can get on her baking tooum, so I love to bake, I love to
do all these things.
Of course, I don't want to eatit, I'm just going to try it.
(29:39):
So, going back to notrestricting, I've allowed myself
to still have these pieces ofmy little cookie brownies that I
make or what I want.
But it really has been a fulllifestyle change and I honestly
don't think I could have everdone it without these
(30:00):
medications.
I think I I mean, I could giveyou the list of things that I've
taken and then I've tried tolose weight and it maybe did
work for a little bit right, um,and then maybe work for some
people.
Yeah, yeah, you know everyone'sdifferent, but for me, I
honestly think it was more ofthe mental aspect, for sure that
it on, which is crazy to say,and I feel like people who
(30:23):
haven't tried them or haven'thad those issues are like that
doesn't make sense, like theydon't understand, but it does.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
No, I think mental is so much, even more important
than physical, and there's somuch a whole other tangent but
so much about the brain that wedon't know.
And there's so much, whole,nother tangent, but so much
about the brain that we don'tknow.
It's like you know, likethere's so much you know.
But one I think you, it's timefor you to make me those caramel
cookie bars.
I can do that, it's been a longtime.
But two, I think that there'smisconception about like, oh, if
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you're starting smaller, youdon't really need to lose that
weight or you don't really cause.
Like I was never big, but I didhave that baby weight, you know.
And like I'm not even five foot, um, so like, for me, I'm like,
no, five, 10 extra pounds ishuge and I didn't even realize
that I never I.
So when I went into it, Ididn't have like a goal weight.
(31:13):
I just wanted to fit, honestly,in my pre-pregnancy jeans and
then I did that and I was like,wow, like I feel better.
And then I got to the goal of,well, I'm going to wear a
two-piece and I'm going to getcomfortable in myself post baby
and, like you said, thatstubborn, you know belly like
that's still there.
Um and yeah, so I MScopes on myglutes because, um, that is
(31:36):
yeah.
I was like I feel like I'mlosing weight, but I'm you know
you're losing your butt and I'mlike, no, don't want to lose
that.
So, um, I'm back on my, myMScopes every week.
Um, and I'm so excited to Itake my before and afters, you
know, just for myself y'all.
(31:57):
I take my before and afters, youknow, just for myself, y'all,
but for myself that I felt like,okay, I'm feeling good weight
wise and it's not like I need tobe smaller.
I want to be smaller, I justwant to like tone up now.
So that's where my M-Sculpt arecoming in and I'm still on, you
know, the maintenance of mydose, but adding the M-Sculpt.
(32:22):
I don't do B12s because for meI don't feel like they do much,
but for a lot of our clientsthey're like no, they give me
that extra.
I feel like, you know, being amom to young kids, I'm just
tired anyway.
So, yeah, coffee all day, butfor me the M sculpt is like my
like I go in every week and I goin early and I just sit there
and I just get my my bootysculpted.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
So that's squats and without squatting.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Get my 20,000 squats without nobody knowing.
Yeah, um, so that's, that's a.
That's one of my favorite partsis that we offer so much that
you know, I'm not so worriedabout getting my abs back.
I'm like I'm not.
You know, I want.
I want a good butt and I'm at myweight goal.
That's what I want, that's whatI'm happy with, you know.
So, um, I think that's.
(33:03):
It's just so nice to haveeverything in like one-stop shop
, you know.
And then I mean, like you said,the red light, like I'm so
excited that we're literallyadding that what?
Two days, three days yeah.
Right.
So it's like we're everevolving, we're ever changing,
we're ever trying to add morestuff that makes sense for us
and to add on, you know, tothese memberships and stuff
(33:25):
which is just so exciting, likeI just feel like we're always
going to try, like I mean,medicine's always evolving and
you know, we're always learningand there's always so many new
things in the aesthetics world.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I think that's one thing that I would say I feel
like Couture is really good atis staying on top of it.
Staying on top of it but alsonot just like jumping on every
trend that's out there too, wedo take our time to research
these devices.
That we bring in try them out,make sure that they fit into
what we really want to offer forour clients and maybe we've
(33:57):
been looking into red light fora while, um, but really being
able to find one that um fitsinto what we're doing, um, I
think, yeah, being able to haveall these different, just like
you said, these differentmodalities that, yeah, we can
focus on weight and you know thethe physical aspect of it, but
then, yeah, transferring it overto our body contouring
(34:19):
membership, where we're toningthose muscles, we're targeting
those little stubborn areas thatwe can't really get rid of on
our own, to be able to make it afull, yeah, one-stop shop where
you can come in and haveeverything together.
You have the same provider andthe same team following you
through that journey, so you'renot going somewhere else and
they don't know what you'redoing at another.
Right, Everything's here whatyou're doing at home
(34:40):
everything's together ExactlyEveryone knows what's going on.
Treatments are spaced apart howthey're supposed to.
It's very easy to to encompasseverything all into one.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So I think that's really beneficial for our
clients.
Yeah, and then, like you know,obviously the GLP-1s are like a
little more weight loss, butalso we have our body contouring
, which is the Vanquish and theEmsculpt, and the Red Light and
the Cryo, which will be, I'msure, another episode, but you
don't have to be on GOP1s to dothose.
We have a couple of clients whoare in the competition, like
the bodybuilding and stuff, whocome and get Emsculpt because it
(35:13):
just helps them do that andthey're not looking to weight
loss, they're looking to musclegain and to tone gain.
So, like you said, it'scompletely customizable.
We have so many options.
You just come in for a consultand kind of see what we have for
you and see if it fits, youknow.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I think that's great advice yeah, there's so many
things that's offered there andto help everyone, like you said,
on different parts of theirjourney.
Like you said, on differentparts of their journey.
So, yep, well, I think that's.
I think we covered a lot of iton.
I know, love me some, love mylove, my glp ones, love my body
now body back, that's all right,all right.
(35:49):
Well, that is a wrap on today'sepisode.
Um, so I hope you're feelinginspired, empowered and ready to
embrace your own unique beautyinside and out.
Um, feel free to again schedulea consultation with us.
Um, you can go to our website,that is wwwtourmedspacom.
(36:09):
Um, there should be some linksin our bio as well.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
So, reach out to us before and afters on there as
well.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I think there's even some client testimonials.
I think my testimonial is onthere.
So, um, you know just anythingyou need.
Reach out again, come get aconsultation with one of our
amazing providers.
Um, so, until next time, umkeep embracing your confidence
and always remember that realbeauty starts from within.
Welcome back to episode three of Couture
Conversations, a couture medschool podcast for beauty,
confidence and self-care cometogether.
Today we're going to be talkingabout one of the biggest trends
I don't even know if I wouldsay in the med spa industry.
It is, but kind of everywhereright now.
(00:35):
We're going to be talking aboutweight loss and weight loss
injections and everything thatcomes with weight loss.
It's, it's huge right now and I,I think that it's, you know,
something that a lot of peopledo talk about, but a lot of
people also don't talk about,which is is fair.
(00:56):
Um, but yeah, we, um it issomething that we do offer now
at Performance Spa.
Um, we've been offering it fora while now.
So I have Nikki joining ustoday and her and I are going to
be kind of talking about, youknow, what we offer at Couture
Med Spa in regards to weightloss and just not just weight
(01:17):
loss on its own, but kind of ourclients whole journey together
when it comes to weight loss.
So not focusing on just theweight, but kind of overall
health, everything together.
You know, yeah, Lifestyle,everything that goes with that.
So, um, let's jump right intoit One of my favorite things
that we offer, and go into thatlater, I'm sure a great journey,
(01:39):
lindsay, thank you.
Um, so yeah, I would say first,let's just start off right into
it.
What does Couture Medspa offerin terms of weight loss?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So we have a couple of things.
We've had our body contouringfor years now.
So we offer, you know, ourmachines, our Vanquish that
helps like kind of melt the fatwe have our Emsculpt kind of
tones, the muscles.
We do offer semaglutide andtrisepatide are two injections.
There are glp-1s that help, youknow, lose weight, kind of
(02:13):
obvious, like obviously a wholelifestyle changes and stuff we
spoke about.
So yeah, it all works together.
We offer also b12s.
We do and not that we're likeregistered dietitians or
anything, but we do consults,like full consults of what like
you come in, you give me yourgoals and what do we have here
and how can we help you reachyour goals.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Perfect.
So kind of give us a little bitas far as what GLP-1s are.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, so they're kind of everywhere.
I mean you've heard there'sdifferent kinds Tuikeri,
semiclutide and Serizepatide.
So what they do basically isthey kind of slow like your
gastric emptying.
We know that.
What they also do, like theyhelp with like diabetes
management, you know glucosestuff, but like most drugs on
the market, there's things thatthey do off-label right.
(03:05):
So these um help slow thegastric emptying, which kind of
helps you feel full, like fuller, longer.
Um kind of suppresses yourappetite, kind of cravings,
hunger signs, um, it's notsupposed to turn them off.
I think that's one of themisconceptions, so we can go
into that later.
But yeah, so it just kind ofgives you like a little
motivation.
(03:25):
It kind of helps your physicalbody Cause physical weight loss
and mental weight loss.
You know they go hand in hand,but it's hard.
You know, like when you'reprogrammed as a child and I
think, like most of us were likefinish your plate before you
get up, like eat all your food,and our portions are quite large
.
Most of us were like finishyour plate before you get up,
like eat all your food, um, andour portions are quite large
(03:46):
most of the time.
Um, so I think it just helps.
Um, it's not an end-all, be-allthing, but it it does.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's like a kick start to you know losing weight
and I think that what she wasjust saying was perfect.
It's a kick start to losingweight.
It's, it definitely is used asan aid, yes, in weight loss.
Yes, you know, I think a lot ofpeople go into it thinking that
they can just take theseinjections and do nothing else
right changing your lifestylehabits, and like, oh, they're
(04:13):
magically going to lose weight.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's, it's a tool, it's something else in their
toolbox that can help them.
I mean, yeah, it's likeanything.
You go to the gym once a month.
What do you what?
What do you expect?
You know, like you eat onesalad a month.
You know like it's, it's, it'severything, and I think a lot of
it is accountability.
You know, like there's only somuch medicines and going to the
gym will, you know, do like diet?
(04:35):
I mean, as we all know, there'sa huge, huge, huge part in
weight loss and there's alsostuff like genetics, like
there's going to's gonna it'sgonna be harder for some people
to lose.
But that is why, like we domemberships where and you know
we can speak on that where youhave accountability for a
(04:56):
certain amount of months, like,I think, with people like when
you pay for something you'relike, except really the gym,
actually you pay for the gym andyou never go, um, oh, I can
just sit there, um, but you knowyou're paying for these shots.
You're gonna come in, you'regonna get weighed in, you're
gonna go be doing your bankwishes and numbscopes, um.
So I think that's important toofor accountability of going in
and getting it done.
(05:16):
You know, not just sitting onthe couch.
You know like you're like, oh,I got my injection today I can
eat a little bad stuff, and I'mnot saying not indulge, because
I'm an indulger.
If I want chocolate, I'm havingchocolate and I'm not just
going to have a bite, no, I'mhaving the piece.
You know, I'm going to enjoy,I'm going to enjoy, like we have
one life.
Come on, um.
So, and I think too, weight'snot everything, you know.
(05:38):
I think that I mean that stigmaof women should be, you know,
like I don't believe in all that.
I believe you can be whateversize you are.
You want to be and be happy andas long as you're happy,
literally like who cares whatyou look like, you know, and of
course you want to look yourbest and feel your best.
But so I was so excited when,you know, we added this on, and
(06:00):
I mean for me personally, I hada baby 17, 17 months ago and I
could not for the life of me getthat weight off, like I was 30
pounds heavier than I want it tobe, um, and it was like really
hard.
So I, you know, started on theweight loss and it gave me that
kickstart and I have startedfinally looking into two piece
(06:23):
bikinisinis again summer.
I'm like she can go intotwo-piece again, you know, and
um, I think for me it's aboutgetting my confidence back and I
think that's more importantthan my size, than my weight.
Like, I don't even go on thescale, I go by how I'm feeling,
so I'm not a big.
Yes, people want to see thosenumbers go down, but it's also,
(06:48):
you know, like when you come in,you're getting weighed in,
you're checking your, yourmuscle mass, your hydration,
your, your BMI, you know which.
I can all that.
So I think it's important tonot also hyper focus on numbers.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
No, I think that's great and I think you touched a
little bit on the membershipthat we do have, that we offer,
and I think one of the biggestthings that and we'll get into
the membership here in a littlebit but I think one of the
biggest things that, like yousaid, people are, they're paying
for this, it's something thatthey're spending money on, and I
(07:22):
think a lot of people reallyexpect to see results very
quickly and honestly when itcomes to weight loss.
Even if you're not paying forit, you want to see those
results really quickly.
You want to use that.
I mean, why bad diets have beenaround for as long as they have
and there's always a new one?
Because people want a quick fixand they want something, um, to
(07:45):
lose weight very quickly.
But, um and obviously you canspeak on this just as a nurse
more than I can a little bit butlosing weight slower is going
to be a little bit healthier andable to maintain it and keep it
off.
Um, you know for, for the longterm, yeah, not have that
rebound yeah, yeah and not havethat come right back.
So I think that you know,accator, having you know the
(08:08):
membership that we have reallykind of allows people to kind of
stay on it for that that longrun, yeah, and not, you know,
look for that drastic weightloss.
But I would say kind of goinginto with the weight loss
membership, like how would yousay that helps our clients
achieve those health goals thatthey're looking for, whether
(08:29):
it's the weight loss membership,the body contouring membership
that we have, um what's?
I would say kind of even justlike your advice to um clients
as far as you know why we dohave a membership and what those
membership benefits are to them.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, so I mean nothing is going to be a quick
fix, right, I mean surgery.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But even then, who wants to go through all that?
Even then there's downtime.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
That is true, yeah, but yeah.
So I think that, like youmentioned, you want to go slow,
I think, just for health,obviously.
Obviously it's better that wayanyway.
But the memberships are.
We do memberships because it'snot just you're going to get one
(09:16):
, two, three injections andyou're going to start losing all
this weight.
It's a kickstart to okay, I'mgoing to start eating healthier,
I'm turning off those foodcravings.
I don't get all those sweetcravings like I used to anymore
and, hey, like I lived throughit, you know like I can have a
cookie instead of six and stillfeel that.
You know, um, I think for metoo, like it just being on them.
(09:38):
They made me like more thirsty,which is pretty cool Cause I
was not getting enough water andI I mean hydration plays a huge
role in anything, you know,whether you're on weight loss
injections or not, butespecially when you're on weight
loss and especially if you'relike doing, say, the vanquish or
the m scope machines that wehave, um.
So, yeah, I think it's perfectthe way we like the setup of a
(09:59):
membership and also that we'reholding you accountable to
coming in, to getting weighed,and even clients who prefer to
do their injections at home oncertain days or whatever,
because usually it's, you know,once a week.
Um, they want to come in andget weighed in on our scale
because it's just that, likethat motivation that we are
(10:19):
weighing them in and you havethat accountability and you, I
don't know, you want, like yourother people, to like see, like
you know they're cheering you on, they're seeing the numbers too
.
You know it's not just you,it's like that's a whole team.
Um, I mean, a lot of us are areon them and there's absolutely
no shame in that and you knowour stories are posted and stuff
.
Um, but like for me, uh, I losta lot of baby weight and back to
(10:44):
before I had kids, and it'sjust like I find myself making
better decisions.
I mean, I probably don't workout as much as I should.
You know, like, yeah, I couldbe on the little walking machine
while I'm watching TV orsomething, and sometimes I'm
like, nope, I'm just gonna siton the couch, had the greatest
cake last night.
Nope, I was going to sit on thecouch, had the greatest cake
(11:06):
last night and then had an extrahalf a piece and did not feel
guilty.
So I think it's just helped melike feel better and make better
decisions.
You know, because I know that Ican't have extra stuff and eat
extra stuff.
And, you know, have likerelaxing days because I have
like the support behind me.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You know, yeah, and I think that goes into too,
talking about the support thatcomes behind it with having that
membership that we do offer.
There is that, yes, you knowyou said coming in getting
weighed.
You have that support of youknow, your providers, all the
girls that work at the spas, butalso kind of holding the
accountability as well when youhave, I would say kind of on
(11:43):
both ends.
If you have someone who is nothaving as much success or maybe
they're not, you know, losing,they've had stalls for a couple
weeks and they just don't knowwhat to do, you have that
support to where you're comingin, you're talking with your
provider.
You guys can go over differentthings, yeah, different options.
Do you maybe need to go up indose?
Do you maybe need to be addingmore protein to your diet?
(12:06):
You have again going back tothat support that's behind there
and again on the other side ofit too, if someone is having,
you know, side effects, some ofthese medications for some
people not everyone, but do comewith side effects and you know
we don't want to just, you know,prescribe you a medication and
you know see in three months andnot see you.
Yeah, um, you know if you'regetting some nausea or if you're
(12:27):
having, you know, any sort ofunwanted side effects that you
don't know what to do with.
Again, you're coming in.
You have that membership withus.
You can speak with the providerand you guys can troubleshoot
any of those issues.
Um, I think makes a makes a hugedeal with that.
Um, with the membership as well, there isn't a commitment to it
.
Yes, it is paid monthly, butthere's not a commitment because
(12:48):
not everyone's weight loss andhealth journey is the same.
At least with our weight lossmembership, not everyone's
journey is the same.
Some people might be on thisfor years, some people and know,
and you know it's it's, it'snot locking you into a certain
amount of time that you have tobe on this membership Again,
coming with that support fromour providers.
(13:10):
That you know, when, say,someone hits their their goal
weight, they've got their goalweight, they've got where they
want to do and they come in andthey're like, okay, I'm done,
I've, I've hit my goal weight.
Right, you know, I'm going tocancel what.
What's some advice that youwould give to someone who they
(13:31):
have reached their goal and wantto?
You know, come off of thesemedications.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
As far as from a medical standpoint kind of
what's that guidance with that?
Yeah, so when, when you wouldcome in, you would do a full
consult, right, we'll get yourgoals, we'll get all your
measurements.
You know, we'll haveconversations kind of where you
want to be.
Have conversations kind ofwhere you want to be, um, and I
always, um, I always want tohave a conversation of it's a
drug, right, it's a, it's a,it's medicine that is going into
your body, um, and it's notsomething that you want to just
(13:56):
stop cold Turkey, um, becauseyou can have that rebound, you
can get side effects, you know.
So, with that, it's justknowing that once you hit your
goal, like it doesn't stop, youknow you still have to continue
lifestyle, you can go on into amaintenance, but it's you have.
You want to wean down slowly.
So, knowing that, okay, we'regetting closer to your goal.
(14:18):
And that's why we, we havethese conversations too.
When you come in, you know like,hey, how are you feeling?
What are the side effects?
How close are we?
You know where are we at inthis journey, because it's not
one that you want to just belike okay, I'm done, cancel my
membership, see you later.
You know you want to go slowlyand safe.
Safe.
(14:39):
So we go down, you know, everycouple of weeks and your doses
and stuff.
That's a conversation with yourprovider.
But just know that it's notlike you're taking this, you get
your goal and, boom, it's goingto stay off forever and you
have to do work because I thinkyou know you fall off the train
a little bit and you're gonna.
You probably have some rebound,weight gain and stuff, which is
fine, but you want to do itsafely and smartly so that all
(15:04):
that work and money and timethat you spent getting to your
goal is not wasted, right?
So yeah, with the side effectsyou said we have, you know we
have some scripts for likeanti-emetics or anti-nausea.
Constipation is a big one, somaking sure you're staying
hydrated, I mean that just goesalong really with weight loss in
general.
You know there's a lot of things, a lot of it's homework, you
(15:26):
know, to get to your goals and,yeah, we get you there and keep,
try to keep you there, you know.
And then we have other thingsas far as toning, like the em,
sculpt, sculpt and some likecryo.
So things that we offer to thatalso help because, yes, the
weight's gone, but did you losemuscle, like, how's the skin
(15:47):
looking?
Well, you know it's, it's, it'sall encompassing, right?
So something we always talkabout, too, is making sure
you're getting enough protein,because if you're not getting
the protein, you're breakingdown your your muscles too.
That's why we're always, atevery appointment you come to
weigh in, we're checking yourmuscle mass, you know, to see
where you're at.
If you're just losing, losing,losing muscle, like, that's not
what we want, you know.
So you know, some weighttraining, adding additional
(16:09):
protein, getting some proteinbars, protein shakes, whatever
it is.
Um, I think, a lot of timesclients just want, and and
people you know, you just want.
You're like oh well, I still,I'm still hungry.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, you should be, You're a human you're supposed
to eat.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
You know like we don't want to just turn that off
.
So, misconceptions, you knowlike, oh, I'm going to.
You know I started last week onon this and I haven't lost
weight.
Well, nope, it's not even likebuilt up in your system.
It takes weeks, you know.
Just like any other drug, anyother blood pressure medication,
um, you know, any medication,it takes a while to build up in
(16:49):
your system.
Um, so that's education too.
You know I'm I'm a big educator.
I always go back to that, um,but it's, it's knowing, right,
so you can have more realisticgoals and expectations.
Um, you know, getting aninjection, or even one day at
the gym, or one MScope orvanquish, it's not an end, all
be all.
You know like, lifestyle changeis huge and I think we kind of.
(17:10):
You know, you, you focus on the, on the getting the drug, and
then you're like, oh cool, Ilost weight, you know, easier
than I did before.
And then when I get off, it'sgonna be so easy to keep it off.
It's not because I think backto the program, I think we're
just programmed to like portionsin America are crazy anyway,
right, um, but eat till you'refull, not until your plate's
(17:33):
finished and I think that's hugeum and don't.
I don't believe in deprivingyourself.
I don't believe in like oh, Ican't have anything, I can't
have sugars, I can't have sweets, I can't like yeah, absolutely.
You can't.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You just make better choices, you know, like yeah, I
mean, that was the biggest thingthat I would say.
I learned, you know, with beingon the injections I did.
I was on semaglutide for nine,nine or ten months and then I
switched over to chrysopatide,um, when I was kind of getting
closer to my my first goal andthe weight started slowing down
(18:04):
a little bit.
But, um, I've tried everythingout there when it comes to
losing weight.
I've taken other medications,I've tried every bad diet you
can do and they may have workedfor a little bit right, um, but
this time, with the help of allmy providers at couture, um has
been insanely supportive ofadding so much more than just
(18:29):
taking the the shots.
You know, um, yeah, I count mycalories almost every single day
.
Um, you know, going to the gym,working out, making that
lifestyle change became so muchmore possible, um, with these
medications, and for the firsttime in my life, it finally felt
like something was like.
It felt like it was like whatmy body was missing, almost,
(18:50):
which sounds crazy to say, um,but I don't constantly obsess
about food.
I think that's a lot of thingsthat people get with it too.
It's just like the help with thefood noise, and it sounds crazy
to say that to someone who hasnever struggled with food noise
Like, oh yeah, like I thinkabout food too, like when I get
hungry and I'm like, no, I couldeat an entire plate of food and
(19:11):
dessert and then like, see acake walk by and be like I want
that too, like my body.
Just I was constantly thinkingabout what I was gonna eat next.
So, right, not only focusing onthe physical side of what these
medications do, but the mentalside as well.
Um, I love that, and you know,after I, I finally hit my, my
first goal weight, um, which wasit was 100 pounds, which seemed
(19:33):
absolutely not even possible.
Right when you say my brain,when I was like um, but you know
, going on to the other servicesthat are offered at Couture as
well, I just recently startedadding um, you know, m-sculpt,
um and all of our bodycontouring into it as well.
Because, just like you said,yes, you can lose weight and you
can get that fat off, butlosing a hundred pounds and I
(19:55):
still have more to go.
I have loose skin now and, yes,do I work out at the gym?
I do.
Am I building my muscle as muchas I would probably like, or
should kind of focus a littlebit more on cardio?
But you should work on yourmuscles.
Um, and sculpt has been amazingfor that Um, helping to kind of
like tighten my abdomen muscles, getting that core back.
Um we also offer.
(20:16):
We also offer cryotherapy andwe're going to be offering red
light therapy as well.
All of these together are goingto help the full body
transformation, because it isn't, like you said, just about the
numbers on the scale.
It is, yes, the number, youknow you're losing weight, but
are we maintaining that musclemass?
(20:36):
Are we doing the most that wecan for the overall health of
our body, right?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
um and feeling good while doing it.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, exactly proud of yourself, and you know yeah
empowering you for that too yeah, and so, oh, I also get the.
I get a b12 injection once aweek as well.
Yes, um, so there's differentlike add-ons that you can
include um in our in our weightloss memberships as well, which
is really nice to be able tocustomize what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Everybody's a little different.
Everybody's body is a littledifferent.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Exactly, yeah.
So for me I felt like I waskind of I wouldn't say I had a
side effect of it making metired, but I will say that I did
it Okay.
Yeah, I got extra tired and Iwas like oh, I think I like to
just tell myself that it wasn'tthe shots and that I was just
like tired from work or whateverit might've been from that, but
so doing a weekly B12, rightKind of boosted that metabolism.
(21:28):
gave me a little bit more ofthat energy to then make me want
to go to the gym a little bitmore, or give me that as well.
So there's so many differentthings that, yes, we we offer
weight loss and we offer weightloss.
We have our weight lossinjections, but really focusing
on the full health in general.
You know, working on thatmetabolism, on that energy,
doing your vanquish to help, youknow, even when we're losing
weight.
So I can attest to that, losing100 pounds, I'd be fine if I
(21:52):
didn't lose any more in my armsor somewhere my like abdomen
area there's still so much thereand will not go away.
That's where, like vanquish andend, sculpt and your cryotherapy
and your red light can come into help that as well.
Because, yeah, you may be atyour target goal weight per se
or even if it's going back tonot focusing on the scale, even
if it's not a weight that you'regoing, you're loving how your
(22:15):
body looks, how you feel,everything's feeling great.
But you have that stubbornlittle area that just won't go
away Right.
Yep, yeah, so you know, addingour body contouring into it as
well.
You have these other tools thatcan help you.
I can go to the gym and I cando my cardio and I can do
crunches all day long, but thislittle stubborn area doesn't
(22:36):
want to go away Doing theEmskull, doing the Vanquish
again.
All of our body contouring thatwe offer is going to help kind
of push that over the edge aswell.
So, yeah, there's a fullencompassing of that, of how it
all really blends together.
And again going back to howjust the membership aspect of
that does work because it holdsyou accountable.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
And I think that's the biggest thing work because
it holds you accountable yeah, Ithink that's the biggest thing
um I've always struggled with itwas consistency, and so, yeah,
I mean most people right, yeah,but again, like I said, the gym
I sometimes would, you know,just let that on auto pay and go
.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
But if I'm paying for something, I'm gonna go in and
use it, right.
And if I'm paying for theseservices, um, and I'm seeing the
difference that they're making,and I'm seeing the difference
that they're making and I'mseeing those results, it's going
to want me to keep coming back.
Yeah, doing more, um, but yeah,I think there's.
There's so much more that goesinto these weight loss
medications than you know.
(23:30):
Honestly, if half the peopleout there are saying that they
do use them, half the people outthere are saying that they do
use them, half the people outthere are saying you know, not
saying it.
And I think that is everyone'sown journey.
If you are open to talkingabout it, that's great.
If you want to keep itcompletely to yourself, that's
completely fine too.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
It's nobody else's business, yep.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's nobody else's business what you're doing, but
I'm a huge advocate for them.
I, you know I have nothing butamazing things to say.
I've been lucky and had zeroside effects from them.
But going back to you know,talking about having that
consultation with the providercoming in holding you
accountable, is because I triedvery hard to meet my water
(24:16):
intake every day, to get myelectrolytes in every day to
stay, you know lower fat foodsand do my part, but yes, I still
indulge.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I still let myself have this cake when I want it.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Or, you know, I would find other alternatives to.
I'm still really craving, youknow, some type of dessert, but
let me try and make a healthierversion of it when that's not
kind of been fun for me to like.
Getting creative and findingdifferent ways to make this a
long term journey, but havingCouture there to help me stay on
(24:48):
that long term journey, I think, is really important to I.
Have so many clients that samething.
We, you know, talk during ourfacials.
You know cause?
they'll ask me how my journey isgoing, and they've just started
it, but they've seen yourjourney you know, and they, you
know they haven't, they've seenit and but they've just started
it and you know they'll be like,oh well, what can I do for this
?
Or how you know, this is whatI've been struggling with, so,
(25:10):
having that support all aroundyou know, at the fall, like you
said, a large majority of ushave been using these
medications as well that theyjust, you know, we're able to
have that discussion with themand be able to kind of give our
different feedback on thingsthat have worked for us or might
work for them or differentthings.
(25:30):
So you know there's all kinds offun stuff when it comes to that
Again, having that.
You know it's not a a form youfill out online and some doctor
prescribes it to you and theyship it to your house and you're
on your own and yeah you don'tknow what to do, right um, you
know, pull it up, exactly yeahso you know you can come in and
have all of these conversationswith your provider and the girls
(25:52):
at the spa to be able to makethat custom journey for
themselves I I think too withaccountability.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
like even when I'm working with you, I'm like, hey,
you want to order lunch, andyou're like, no, I brought my
lunch, and I'm like okay, yeah,I'll do that next week.
I'm like.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I'm gonna get pizza today.
It does help when you havepeople around it and that's why
for me, like I, am so open aboutmy journey, because I know
other people struggle and I knowother people aren't as open
about it, and it is fine, but I,the more that I can help
someone else who's strugglingwith the same things that I've
struggled with, I think isreally important.
(26:31):
So, if I can use my I won't sayplatform because, cause that's
not what it is, but my- just youknow my yeah my story and my
interactions with all of ourclients that come in out of the
spa.
If I can give them just a littlebit of hope that they can have
you know right a change in theirlife as well, I would love.
(26:53):
You know I will share my storyany day, but I it's.
Wait.
So how much have you lost?
In total, 102.
102 pounds.
So my my starting weight was271.
My goal is I don't know why Ipicked such a large goal to
(27:14):
start off with, but my goal wasto lose 100 pounds to get me to
170.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
And go back.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, why not?
Honestly, I picked 170 becausethat's kind of where I was, I
would say a little bit post-highschool like my early 20s.
Yeah, that's where I was for awhile.
Yeah, and yes, at that time Iknew I still was like overweight
and I would have loved to loseweight at that time.
But I stayed at that weight fora really long time and I told
myself if I could at least getback to that then I could kind
(27:40):
of go from there.
So I hit.
I was like 169.2 this morningor something like that so right
around 102 pounds.
I'm going to keep doing them,I'm going to try and get to.
My next goal will be like 20more pounds to get to 150.
And then see how I feel fromthere.
And going back to what you weresaying was like not really
paying attention to the scale.
I do pay attention to the scale, more so for myself to hold
(28:03):
myself accountable.
Yeah, to know that I'm on thatsame page, right, but honestly,
even at 150, I'm five two, so Itechnically am still overweight,
might even be in the obesecategory when it comes to
medical standards, right, um,but if I feel comfortable at
that weight, um, and that'swhere I'm going to try and stay,
so it's really kind of anevolving journey.
(28:26):
Yeah, more of a feeling, um, butI, you know, I, I, I lost my
train of thought.
But, yeah, these medicationshave been life-changing for me
and I do think that the stridesthat I made this time around on
my lifestyle changes because,just like you said in the
(28:48):
beginning, I was very muchaccustomed to.
My dad used to always joke andsay that my eyes were bigger
than my stomach.
If you give me a full dinnerside plate, I'm filling it up.
I want everything and I'm goingto finish it, and not in a bad
way.
But my parents used to alwaysbe like well, you took it,
you're going to finish what's onyour plate.
Like you know not in a thinkingof a long-term effects of that,
(29:11):
but in my head I always waslike well, it's on my plate.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
If I'm gonna eat them , I can throw it away.
Right, you're not gonna list it.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Yeah, you know gotta save the leftovers, but that's
not the point um so it wassomething that was just always
ingrained in me of I have theselarge portions and I am.
I'm a foodie, I love to eat, Ilove to try different food, I
love to cook, I love to bake,like oh yes yeah, so I know
Nikki can get on her baking tooum, so I love to bake, I love to
do all these things.
Of course, I don't want to eatit, I'm just going to try it.
(29:39):
So, going back to notrestricting, I've allowed myself
to still have these pieces ofmy little cookie brownies that I
make or what I want.
But it really has been a fulllifestyle change and I honestly
don't think I could have everdone it without these
(30:00):
medications.
I think I I mean, I could giveyou the list of things that I've
taken and then I've tried tolose weight and it maybe did
work for a little bit right, um,and then maybe work for some
people.
Yeah, yeah, you know everyone'sdifferent, but for me, I
honestly think it was more ofthe mental aspect, for sure that
it on, which is crazy to say,and I feel like people who
(30:23):
haven't tried them or haven'thad those issues are like that
doesn't make sense, like theydon't understand, but it does.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
No, I think mental is so much, even more important
than physical, and there's somuch a whole other tangent but
so much about the brain that wedon't know.
And there's so much, whole,nother tangent, but so much
about the brain that we don'tknow.
It's like you know, likethere's so much you know.
But one I think you, it's timefor you to make me those caramel
cookie bars.
I can do that, it's been a longtime.
But two, I think that there'smisconception about like, oh, if
(30:53):
you're starting smaller, youdon't really need to lose that
weight or you don't really cause.
Like I was never big, but I didhave that baby weight, you know.
And like I'm not even five foot, um, so like, for me, I'm like,
no, five, 10 extra pounds ishuge and I didn't even realize
that I never I.
So when I went into it, Ididn't have like a goal weight.
(31:13):
I just wanted to fit, honestly,in my pre-pregnancy jeans and
then I did that and I was like,wow, like I feel better.
And then I got to the goal of,well, I'm going to wear a
two-piece and I'm going to getcomfortable in myself post baby
and, like you said, thatstubborn, you know belly like
that's still there.
Um and yeah, so I MScopes on myglutes because, um, that is
(31:36):
yeah.
I was like I feel like I'mlosing weight, but I'm you know
you're losing your butt and I'mlike, no, don't want to lose
that.
So, um, I'm back on my, myMScopes every week.
Um, and I'm so excited to Itake my before and afters, you
know, just for myself y'all.
(31:57):
I take my before and afters, youknow, just for myself, y'all,
but for myself that I felt like,okay, I'm feeling good weight
wise and it's not like I need tobe smaller.
I want to be smaller, I justwant to like tone up now.
So that's where my M-Sculpt arecoming in and I'm still on, you
know, the maintenance of mydose, but adding the M-Sculpt.
(32:22):
I don't do B12s because for meI don't feel like they do much,
but for a lot of our clientsthey're like no, they give me
that extra.
I feel like, you know, being amom to young kids, I'm just
tired anyway.
So, yeah, coffee all day, butfor me the M sculpt is like my
like I go in every week and I goin early and I just sit there
and I just get my my bootysculpted.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
So that's squats and without squatting.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Get my 20,000 squats without nobody knowing.
Yeah, um, so that's, that's a.
That's one of my favorite partsis that we offer so much that
you know, I'm not so worriedabout getting my abs back.
I'm like I'm not.
You know, I want.
I want a good butt and I'm at myweight goal.
That's what I want, that's whatI'm happy with, you know.
So, um, I think that's.
(33:03):
It's just so nice to haveeverything in like one-stop shop
, you know.
And then I mean, like you said,the red light, like I'm so
excited that we're literallyadding that what?
Two days, three days yeah.
Right.
So it's like we're everevolving, we're ever changing,
we're ever trying to add morestuff that makes sense for us
and to add on, you know, tothese memberships and stuff
(33:25):
which is just so exciting, likeI just feel like we're always
going to try, like I mean,medicine's always evolving and
you know, we're always learningand there's always so many new
things in the aesthetics world.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I think that's one thing that I would say I feel
like Couture is really good atis staying on top of it.
Staying on top of it but alsonot just like jumping on every
trend that's out there too, wedo take our time to research
these devices.
That we bring in try them out,make sure that they fit into
what we really want to offer forour clients and maybe we've
(33:57):
been looking into red light fora while, um, but really being
able to find one that um fitsinto what we're doing, um, I
think, yeah, being able to haveall these different, just like
you said, these differentmodalities that, yeah, we can
focus on weight and you know thethe physical aspect of it, but
then, yeah, transferring it overto our body contouring
(34:19):
membership, where we're toningthose muscles, we're targeting
those little stubborn areas thatwe can't really get rid of on
our own, to be able to make it afull, yeah, one-stop shop where
you can come in and haveeverything together.
You have the same provider andthe same team following you
through that journey, so you'renot going somewhere else and
they don't know what you'redoing at another.
Right, Everything's here whatyou're doing at home
(34:40):
everything's together ExactlyEveryone knows what's going on.
Treatments are spaced apart howthey're supposed to.
It's very easy to to encompasseverything all into one.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So I think that's really beneficial for our
clients.
Yeah, and then, like you know,obviously the GLP-1s are like a
little more weight loss, butalso we have our body contouring
, which is the Vanquish and theEmsculpt, and the Red Light and
the Cryo, which will be, I'msure, another episode, but you
don't have to be on GOP1s to dothose.
We have a couple of clients whoare in the competition, like
the bodybuilding and stuff, whocome and get Emsculpt because it
(35:13):
just helps them do that andthey're not looking to weight
loss, they're looking to musclegain and to tone gain.
So, like you said, it'scompletely customizable.
We have so many options.
You just come in for a consultand kind of see what we have for
you and see if it fits, youknow.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I think that's great advice yeah, there's so many
things that's offered there andto help everyone, like you said,
on different parts of theirjourney.
Like you said, on differentparts of their journey.
So, yep, well, I think that's.
I think we covered a lot of iton.
I know, love me some, love mylove, my glp ones, love my body
now body back, that's all right,all right.
(35:49):
Well, that is a wrap on today'sepisode.
Um, so I hope you're feelinginspired, empowered and ready to
embrace your own unique beautyinside and out.
Um, feel free to again schedulea consultation with us.
Um, you can go to our website,that is wwwtourmedspacom.
(36:09):
Um, there should be some linksin our bio as well.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
So, reach out to us before and afters on there as
well.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I think there's even some client testimonials.
I think my testimonial is onthere.
So, um, you know just anythingyou need.
Reach out again, come get aconsultation with one of our
amazing providers.
Um, so, until next time, umkeep embracing your confidence
and always remember that realbeauty starts from within.
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