Why Patients Turn to a Med Spa for Weight Loss

In this short video, Jackie Umgelder, Lead Medical Assistant at Express Med Spa in Frankfort and Mount Greenwood, explains why so many patients arrive at a med spa after weight loss has stalled everywhere else. She describes what happens when a primary care visit does not produce the support a patient needs, how the medical team builds a plan around the individual rather than a template, and why the menu spans non-invasive therapies, injectables, and pill-form options. Jackie also shares her own history as a patient at the practice before she joined the clinical team.

Disclosure and disclaimer. Jackie Umgelder is currently an Express Med Spa employee and was a patient before joining the clinical team, so this is an employee endorsement. The weight-loss result she describes is her own individual experience. It is not typical, it is not what patients generally achieve, and it is not a promise of any particular outcome. Individual results vary. Every plan at Express Med Spa follows a health assessment and lab review with our nurse practitioner team.

Read the full guide: Medical Weight Loss Options, Injections, Pills, and Non-Invasive Treatments →

Video Transcript

My name is Jackie. I’m a medical assistant at Express Med Spa in Frankfort. At Express Med Spa I see patients for weight loss services. It is extremely common for patients to battle weight gain through their whole life. I was one of those patients that battled with weight ups and downs for many, many years.

So just two years ago I was a patient at Express Med Spa, and I came to Express Med Spa to lose weight, and over the past two years Express Med Spa has helped me reach my goal weight. I’ve lost over 150 pounds in two years by using Express Med Spa services.

The result described in the sentence above is one individual’s own experience, reported by a current Express Med Spa employee. It is not typical and is not what patients generally achieve. Individual results vary with starting point, health history, and consistency.

So sometimes patients will go to their primary care physician and they’re not able to get the services that they necessarily need for weight loss, so they’ll try a med spa. Our medical team will design a plan that’s best suited for the patient. We offer multiple different choices for weight loss, ranging from non-invasive therapies to injectables to pill form.

One of my favorite things to see is patients finally reaching their weight loss goal after multiple failed attempts, knowing that they can make it, they can actually get where they want to be.

I feel like I’m great at weight loss services because I’ve been there. I know how it feels. I’ve struggled for years with weight gain and I finally have kept it off. I know what it’s like to not want to leave the house. There was a point where I didn’t want to leave the house because I was so nervous about what other people would think, and I had a newborn at home, and there was just multiple things going on at the time. And I took control over my life, and Express Med Spa helped me to reach my goals.

If you’d like to make an appointment for a weight loss consultation, please call 877-E-MED-SPA or you can visit expressmedspas.com.

Read the full guide on medical weight loss options →