Program Overview
At Shea Aesthetic Clinic, our medical weight loss program focuses on achieving lifelong results. We give you all the tools and support you need to look and feel like the best version of yourself!
The level of attention, care, and guidance you get from our experienced medical professionals is unmatched by other weight loss clinics in Oak Ridge and Knoxville.
From nutrition and exercise guidance to emotional support, Shea Aesthetic Clinic is truly invested in your long-term success.
Ultimately, we’re here to keep you accountable, cheer you on, and provide all the expert advice and support you need to build muscle, lose weight, and keep it off for good.
When to Start
The sooner you start your weight loss journey, the sooner you can decrease the health risks of being overweight or obese—not to mention feel a renewed sense of confidence and capability!
Below, we’ll review some of the benefits of working with Dr. Kirk Bass and the weight loss and fitness team at our weight loss clinic in Oak Ridge.
What You Get
- Optimized Nutritional Intake: We provide tailored dietary advice to optimize your nutrition. This focus on high-quality foods supports overall health, aiding in weight loss and maintaining muscle mass.
- Customized Exercise Plans: Our personalized exercise plans are designed to fit your specific needs and capabilities. These plans aid in weight loss and improve cardiovascular health and physical strength.
- Sustainable Weight Management: Our services emphasize sustainable weight management and teaching habits you are able to maintain in the long run. This approach helps prevent the common weight loss and gain cycle, leading to better health outcomes.
- Support and Accountability: Regular check-ins and support from our team provide accountability, which increases successful weight loss. This structured support ensures that you stay motivated and on track toward achieving your health goals.
How You’ll Feel
- Regulated Appetite Control: The GLP weight loss shots will decrease your appetite. Our program will provide dietary advice and lifestyle (activity and exercise) education and recommendations. Patient’s typically eat about 30% less while taking the GLP weight loss shots. By eating less and eating healthier foods, your health will only improve.
- Improved Sleep Quality: Weight loss and improved nutrition significantly enhance your sleep quality. A healthier body weight has been linked to reduced sleep apnea and less snoring, leading to more restful nights and energized days.
- Enhanced Mood & Mental Well-Being: Physical activity and a balanced diet support improved mental health. Regular exercise releases endorphins, which reduce feelings of depression and anxiety, while a nutritious diet supports overall brain health. Recent research suggests that losing weight with GLP weight loss shots improves mood and decreases depressive thought patterns.
Why It Works
- Lower Blood Pressure: Weight loss is often associated with a reduction in blood pressure levels. This benefit may decrease the risk of heart disease and stroke, contributing to a healthier cardiovascular system and less risk of heart attacks..
- Improved Glycemic Control: Weight loss and increased muscle mass improves glycemic control. This is especially important for individuals with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes. A 5% weight loss decreases the risk of developing Type II diabetes by 50%, and a 10% weight loss decreases that risk by 80%. Less Type II diabetes means lower risk of diabetes-related complications (heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, blindness, pain, erectile dysfunction, loss of limbs, and death).
- Boosted Immune Function: Maintaining a healthy weight positively affects your immune system, making it easier for your body to fight infections and diseases. A balanced diet rich in nutrients supports immune health, while obesity is often linked to impaired immune function.
- Increased Longevity: Adopting a healthier lifestyle through structured weight loss may extend your life expectancy. Reducing the risk of chronic diseases and improving overall health markers contributes to a longer, more fulfilling life.
Weight Loss Consultation
You will start with a thorough consultation with Dr. J. Kirk Bass or one of our experienced team members.
What We Discuss
During this session, we:
- Discuss your weight loss goals and concerns
- Review your medical history
- Perform a physical examination
- Conduct any necessary health assessments, such as weight, body composition, and basal metabolic rate
- Address any questions you have about our treatments
Developing Your Personalized Weight Loss Plan
Using the information gathered during your consultation, we create a weight loss plan designed specifically for you. We base your plan on factors like your:
- Age
- Medical History
- Lifestyle
- Body Composition
- Personal Goals
At our physician-led weight loss clinic in Oak Ridge, our team will meet with you for a weekly regimented check-in that includes the following components.
Ongoing Education
Education is a cornerstone of our weight loss program. With foundational knowledge about diet, nutrition, and exercise, you’ll feel empowered to make healthier choices in your everyday life.
We will help you develop a holistic understanding of the relationship between your diet and your physical activity.
Diet & Nutrition
As a patient in our weight loss program, you will track everything you eat within an app, which we review with you during each visit.
While on weight loss medications like semaglutide and/or tirzepatide, your appetite should be much lower than you might be accustomed to. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still be mindful of your calorie intake!
We provide you with foundational knowledge about macro-nutrients to fuel your body and keep you feeling full; and discuss the best ways to incorporate them into your diet. This includes lists of healthy meal and snack suggestions focusing on high-protein/low-carb options tailored to enhance your metabolic rate and support muscle mass.
Metabolism & Exercise
Increasing muscle mass can improve the body’s metabolism, which will further aid in your weight loss journey. We take the time to teach you the best exercises that will help you build muscle effectively.
This may look different for each patient, as our goal is to help you develop healthy habits that you can sustainably integrate into your overall lifestyle. For some, this looks like regular and consistent gym workouts; for others, it’s incorporating physical exercise with play and social interaction.
Living a Balanced Lifestyle
Balance is key, but it might take some time to find that for yourself. We’ll be here every step of the way to guide and support you through this discovery.
While weight loss medications will help you get to your target weight, it takes commitment and diligence to maintain these results into the future. Dr. Bass and the team at Shea are here to help with high-level lifestyle guidance as part of your weight loss plan.
We’ll help you develop responsible, sustainable diet and exercise habits so you can maintain your new physique well into the future. We’ve seen patients continue to lose weight even after stopping their injections just by sticking to their exercise and diet routines!
Measuring Progress
At Shea Aesthetic Clinic, we go beyond tracking the numbers on the scale and monitoring your daily food intake. During each weekly check-in, we utilize our InBody device to provide deeper insights into your progress.
InBody is an advanced, non-invasive body composition tool that delivers precise measurements of fat, muscle, and water distribution throughout your body. We also measure basal metabolic rate!
This detailed tracking helps us see not just the change in weight but also improvements in body composition and metabolism. This comprehensive understanding of your overall health allows us to track not just weight loss, but specifically fat loss.
For those focused on strength training and building muscle, InBody is particularly valuable. It helps “explain” the scale by revealing how increases in muscle mass may influence slower weight loss. This insight ensures you stay motivated and informed about the true changes happening in your body.
Weight Loss Medications
You and Dr. Bass will determine which weight loss medication is best for you. Then, you’ll visit us once a week for your injections, body composition analysis, and nutrition coaching.
We’ll teach you how to change your choices, how to eat better and exercise properly.
These medications will help you lose weight while you are learning to change your life.
The life style changes will be what enables you to maintain your weight loss results for good!
GLP-1 & GLP-2
Injectable weight loss medications like semaglutide (GLP-1) and tirzepatide (GLP-2) are an important component of our weight loss clinic in Oak Ridge.
The active ingredient in both of these medications is glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). GLP-1 is a natural hormone made by the intestines. Food in the intestines causes the GLP-1 level to rise. The increased GLP-1 levels, then give a message to your brain that you are satisfied.. This quiets “food noise” and curbs cravings.
These medications also keep food in the stomach longer than usual, so that you are full longer after your eat. The result is a significantly reduced appetite. People typically eat about 30% less while taking GLP-1 and GLP-2 medications.
These medications are appetite suppressants, not stimulants.
GLP-2 has another active ingredient, GIP. GIP enhances and fine tunes glucose control by regulating insulin production. GIP also decreases acid production in the stomach. This is why people have less gastrointestinal side effects with tirzepatide,(GLP-2) compared to semaglutide (GLP-2). The addition of GIP to GLP-1 makes tirzepatide more effective than semaglutide for weight loss.
It will feel easier than ever for you to eat fewer calories and achieve visible and sustainable outcomes.
Lipotropic Injections
Lipotropics are nutrients, vitamins, and other ingredients that can help boost your metabolism, slow down or remove fat deposits in your liver, and enhance your body’s natural fat-burning process. Depending on your unique needs, genetics, and InBody analyses, we may recommend layering lipotropic injections into your weight loss program.
Additional Treatments
Being enrolled in our weight loss membership means you receive exclusive discounts on treatments that can help further support your confidence both during and after your weight loss journey.
Every recommendation we make at our weight loss clinic in Oak Ridge is highly personalized and informed by our extensive experience in medical aesthetics. We’re proud to say we are the highest-rated medical spa in East Tennessee.
So many semaglutide and tirzepatide patients struggle with loose skin after weight loss. Saggy skin after weight loss can make patients appear older.
To help tighten skin after weight loss, the most common aesthetic and wellness treatments our weight loss patients opt for include:
- Emsculpt NEO, a noninvasive device that builds muscle, burns fat, and tightens skin.
- EvolveX, another device that increases the body’s muscle mass, reduces fat, and tightens skin.
- Ellacor, a micro-coring device that tightens loose skin on the face, neck, and other areas of the body. Ellacor tightens skin by removing skin. It does so without scalpels and without any scars!
- Morpheus8, an innovative skin rejuvenation device that is used to tighten skin on the the face and body
- Dermal fillers, which can help restore volume to the face after significant weight loss.
Our weight loss patients also love the Emsella chair:
- Emsella is a noninvasive device that strengthens the pelvic floor which decreases urinary incontinence and improves sexual function in men and women.
Our experts are happy to answer questions about how best to treat any of your aesthetic concerns at any point during your weight loss experience.
