For many people, embarking on a weight loss journey is the first step to connecting with their bodies again. Taking control of your health and taking care of yourself is no small feat.
Unfortunately, traditional fitness efforts usually fail to spot-treat unwanted fat and excess skin around the face, neck, and body.
If your figure stops responding to diet and exercise, it can feel discouraging—but you are not alone in your efforts. At The Well Westlake, our expert providers can boost your weight loss results with a FaceTite procedure in Westlake, or with more comprehensive BodyTite treatments.
Continue reading to learn how targeted FaceTite and BodyTite sculpting treatments can put the final polish on your hard work, or contact our team to start looking and feeling your best.
What Causes Skin Laxity?
If loose skin continues to affect your pants size or your jawline even after weight loss, it can help to understand the factors responsible for unwanted tissue laxity.
Skin Aging
As we get older, many processes throughout the body naturally slow down. In adulthood, our capacity for new collagen production decreases by about 1% per year. With reduced collagen synthesis, the framework of the skin weakens, resulting in a less firm appearance.
Mature skin also loses necessary elastin fibers that give the skin its ability to “bounce back” into place. So once gravity pulls the skin downwards, it can’t fully return to contract around our contours.
With age, our facial bones recede, fat pads separate, and muscles weaken. With less volume beneath the skin to give it shape, the tissue might look loose or fall into wrinkles.
Hormonal imbalances associated with age further contribute to the overall sagging effect, as low hormone production affects skin quality, muscle mass, metabolism, and more.
Weight Fluctuations
After a significant weight loss win, you might lose the pillowy fat pads that gave the temples, cheeks, undereyes, and lips volume. As a result, the facial skin droops over those newly hollowed areas.
Dramatic fat reduction around the upper arms and abdomen can also result in excess lax skin that has lost its ability to snap back into place around your figure.
Sun Damage
UV exposure from the sun contributes to photoaging, or radiation-induced collagen degradation. This means that your sun-damaged skin ages more quickly, losing structure and taking on a crepey, lined appearance.
Lifestyle Habits
Regular alcohol consumption, smoking, and poor nutrition can also accelerate skin aging, causing spikes in our stress hormones that hinder collagen and elastin production essential to skin repair.
These habits also deteriorate your skin quality by dehydrating the tissue and damaging your existing collagen and elastin fibers, leading to a damaged skin barrier susceptible to wrinkles and sagging.
What Contributes to Weight Retention?
Stubborn pockets of fat can also linger around the face, jawline, and body, despite weight loss efforts.
Metabolic Adaptation
Adipose tissue, or body fat, might resist reduction even in a caloric deficit, as your body adapts to your new diet and lowers your metabolism for more effective energy consumption. For many, this leads to a frustrating plateau in progress.
Hormonal Imbalance
Hunger, thyroid, and sex hormone dysfunction can contribute to weight loss resistance.
As your body fat decreases, you have less tissue to produce leptin. Leptin sends fullness cues to your brain—and with lower leptin development, you might constantly battle cravings.
Thyroid and sex hormones also play a part in your metabolic rate, influencing your energy expenditure, muscle mass, digestion, and more.
Stress
In times of chronic or intense stress, your glands secrete elevated levels of cortisol. This stress hormone prepares your body to fight off the perceived “danger” by storing additional fat for fuel.
Skin-Tightening & Fat Reduction Treatments
As your weight loss journey comes to a close, you deserve to feel satisfied with your hard work. Our talented practitioners can put the finishing touches on your figure and face with a BodyTite or FaceTite procedure.
In Westlake, we tailor your sculpting treatments to you and your goals. This personalization begins with your consultation and continues through your recovery.
Consultation
Prior to scheduling your minimally invasive procedure, you sit down with one of our expert providers to discuss your medical history, aesthetic concerns, and expectations for treatment. Armed with these insights, your provider can shape a treatment plan for your BodyTite or FaceTite procedure in Westlake.
FaceTite
Our providers often recommend FaceTite, or radiofrequency-assisted liposuction (RFAL), for patients experiencing unwanted signs of aging concentrated around the lower face and neck.
FaceTite helps treat:
- Loss of definition in the neck area
- Skin laxity under the chin
- Loose neck skin
- Sagging jowls
We bear in mind your unique anatomy and goals throughout the treatment process, tailoring our clinical and aesthetic approach to you.
Treatment Process
To begin your treatment, your provider injects a numbing agent, so you remain relaxed throughout the procedure. Then, they mark the agreed-upon incision sites around the face. Through these tiny incisions, your expert physician inserts a small device with electrodes that emit radiofrequency (RF) energy.
The thermal RF energy gently heats the targeted fat cells, melting them. This controlled heat also stimulates the skin’s healing response, prompting renewed collagen and elastin production within the treated tissue.
To conclude the treatment, your provider uses a small cannula to suction out the liquefied fat cells. Your FaceTite package also includes 3 sessions of Morpheus8 RF microneedling, which we begin after completing liposuction during your first FaceTite procedure.
Once removed, the fat cells do not regenerate, yielding a slimmer, more sculpted profile. As the skin repairs itself, the restored collagen and elastin fibers strengthen the tissue, resulting in a firmer, tighter, more supple appearance.
After-Care Steps
Most patients resume their daily activities within 48 hours of treatment, returning to work within 3 to 5 days of FaceTite. Before and after your FaceTite procedure in Westlake, your doctor outlines recommended care steps to smooth your recovery.
To maintain your defined features, you should follow your provider’s after-care instructions as directed, making sure to practice healthy habits to support healing and longevity.
Often, these steps include:
- Refraining from alcohol consumption or tobacco use for the first 48 hours after your procedure.
- Wearing the provided compression garments to reduce inflammation and support the tissues as they heal.
- Avoiding NSAIDs and other blood-thinners for 5 days after treatment.
- Scheduling your remaining 2 Morpheus8 sessions, each 4 weeks apart from each other.
BodyTite
The licensed physicians at The Well Westlake can also use RFAL technology on the body to highlight your hard-earned curves.
With BodyTite, we can treat stubborn fat and excess skin around the arms, abdomen, back, love handles, thighs, and knees. Your provider personalizes your application points according to your unique treatment goals.
Treatment Process
As with the FaceTite procedure, your BodyTite provider starts your treatment by administering local anesthetic to the targeted area. Once the skin is numbed, your expert physician makes tiny incisions in the skin.
There, they insert small cannulas equipped with electrodes to address the unwanted tissue. The thermal RF energy heats the skin and underlying fat, permanently breaking down the fat cells and activating your skin’s healing process.
Your provider then removes the electrodes, inserting liposuction cannulas into the incision sites to gently suck out the melted fat cells. Typically, the RFAL process takes just 2 to 3 hours to complete. After liposuction, your provider administers Morpheus8 RF microneedling in the treatment area.
The fat removal process is permanent. Once extracted from the body, these cells cannot regenerate in the area. The controlled heat damage and microneedling trigger ongoing skin renewal, stimulating increased collagen and elastin production for firmer, tighter tissue.
After-Care Steps
As your body recuperates, give yourself grace. Most patients require about 48 hours of rest following a BodyTite procedure, and they wait 3 to 5 days to return to work.
During this time and in the subsequent weeks, you can follow your personalized after-care guidelines to foster a healthy recovery.
Similar to a FaceTite procedure in Westlake, your provider might recommend these instructions after BodyTite:
- Stay well hydrated and eat nourishing foods to support your body as it heals.
- Avoid alcohol consumption or tobacco use for the first 2 days.
- Wear the provided compression garments as directed.
- Avoid blood-thinning medications for 5 days after your procedure.
- Schedule your remaining 2 Morpheus8 RF microneedling treatments with your provider.
Following any procedure that reduces body fat and tightens the skin, we recommend maintaining healthy lifestyle habits to avoid regaining weight and stretching the skin again. Barring future weight fluctuations, you can expect to enjoy the toned results of your BodyTite treatment for up to 4 to 5 years.
Choose Yourself
We know it is not easy to choose yourself, especially as life’s stresses pile up. But when you practice self-love and invest in your goals, you reiterate something important: you are worthy of the effort. You deserve to feel happy and comfortable in your own skin, and we are here to help you achieve that inner confidence.
And a weight loss victory is about more than just the number on the scale—it is a culmination of your hard work, commitment, and personal goals. Receiving a final nudge from a FaceTite procedure in Westlake is embracing refinement.
By accepting help to push past a plateau, you can access a lasting network of medical and aesthetic support—so you can continue achieving more goals. We are proud to be in your corner every step of the way.
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