How can you keep your face looking youthful while losing weight with semaglutide?
By pairing medically supervised semaglutide/B12 injections with collagen-stimulating treatments, skin tightening, and volume-restoring options at New Orleans Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery, you can slim down while protecting — and even enhancing — your facial contours.
What Happens to Your Face When You Lose Weight with Semaglutide?
Semaglutide helps you lose weight by suppressing appetite, slowing gastric emptying, and improving blood sugar control, which can lead to a 15 to 18% reduction in body weight. Rapid weight loss, especially with GLP‑1 medications, can cause facial fat pads to shrink, leading to cheek and temple hollows, deeper folds, and skin laxity.
As midface volume along the jawline decreases, facial skin can appear loose and sagging, giving you an older appearance even as your body becomes slimmer. This is why you should combine your medical weight loss regimen with a proactive aesthetic plan to preserve a refreshed, youthful look.
How Can New Orleans Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery Support Your Semaglutide Journey?
New Orleans Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery offers semaglutide/B12 weight loss injections alongside surgical and non-surgical aesthetic services to help you look as good as you feel throughout your transformation. The practice is led by Dr. Parker Velargo, a board-certified facial plastic surgeon, Dr. Russell Hendrick, a plastic surgeon specializing in body and hand procedures, and Dr. Celeste Gary, who recently joined the team.
Because the clinic provides medical weight loss and advanced facial and body contouring, your plan can be tailored to manage facial, neck, and body changes as the weight diminishes. Our clinic’s mission is to combine superior care, compassion, and five‑star service for your support through every phase of the process.
How Do Semaglutide/B12 Injections Work at This Practice?
We administer semaglutide/B12 injections weekly as part of a personalized program for overweight and obese adults. Semaglutide helps control blood sugar, reduce appetite, and lower daily caloric intake, while B12 can improve tolerance and reduce common side effects like nausea.
We encourage our patients to follow a sustainable diet of roughly 1,200 to 1,800 calories per day, leaning heavy on lean proteins, healthy fats, and limiting processed foods and sugars, alongside a regular exercise regimen. Many women and men experience a 5 to 15% reduction in body weight over time, which can significantly improve self-esteem and overall health.
How Can You Prevent “Semaglutide Face” As You Lose Weight?
The key to avoiding a gaunt appearance is to protect facial volume and skin quality as you slim down. We recommend the following strategies alongside your weight loss program:
- Maintaining adequate protein intake and strength training to help preserve muscle mass, including in the face and neck.
- Using medical-grade skincare and sun protection to support collagen, elasticity, and overall skin health.
- Planning non-surgical treatments that stimulate collagen or restore volume as changes start to show, rather than waiting until the face looks significantly deflated.
Working closely with a facial plastic surgeon, Dr. Velargo allows you to time treatments around your milestones for the most natural results.
Which Non-Surgical Treatments Can Tighten Skin and Refine Contours?
For many semaglutide patients, non-surgical tightening is an ideal first step to address mild to moderate laxity in the face, jawline, and neck. At New Orleans Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery, EmbraceRF combines Morpheus8 and FaceTite technologies to remodel fat and tighten skin, offering facelift-like contour improvement with less downtime.
- EmbraceRF can precisely target loose skin and small pockets of fat along the lower face, jawline, and neck, areas often affected by rapid weight loss.
- Morpheus8’s radiofrequency microneedling stimulates collagen and improves texture, while FaceTite tightens deeper tissues, helping counteract the sagging associated with reduced facial volume.
For body changes, such as loose skin on the abdomen, arms, or thighs after weight loss, BodyTite is available as a radiofrequency-assisted contouring option to tighten and firm these areas without traditional surgery.
When Are Surgical Facial Procedures a Good Option?
If weight loss leads to more advanced laxity, jowling, or banding in the neck, surgical procedures may be recommended to restore youthful structure. Dr. Velargo offers facelifts and neck lifts to reposition underlying tissues, smooth overlying skin, and refine the jawline and neck, which can be particularly beneficial after significant weight changes.
Eyelid surgery can refresh drooping lids or puffiness around the eyes, an area that may appear more aged as surrounding facial fat diminishes. These surgical options can be combined with non-surgical treatments and good skincare to deliver comprehensive, long-lasting rejuvenation that complements your slimmer body.
How Can Injectables and Fillers Help You Maintain a Youthful Look?
Volume loss in the midface, temples, and around the mouth is a hallmark of semaglutide-related facial changes. Dermal fillers and other injectable treatments like Sculptra available through the practice’s non-surgical offerings can replenish strategic areas, softening deep folds and restoring youthful curves without making you look “overdone.”
By layering fillers with collagen-stimulating treatments like Morpheus8 and EmbraceRF, it is possible to both replace lost volume and improve skin tone and texture for more balanced, natural results. This tailored approach helps you avoid a hollow or tired appearance while still celebrating your weight loss success.
How Can You Plan Your Timing and Protect Your Long-Term Results?
Planning your aesthetic treatments around your semaglutide timeline makes your results more predictable and harmonious. Many patients benefit from an early consultation at New Orleans Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery to establish a baseline, then schedule follow-up visits as they reach certain weight loss milestones.
Maintaining a stable weight after reaching your goal helps your facelift, neck lift, skin tightening, and injectable results last longer and look more natural. Ongoing good habits — healthy diet, consistent exercise, sun protection, and periodic maintenance treatments — are essential to preserve both your slimmer figure and youthful facial appearance over time.
Schedule Your Skin Tightening Consultation Today
For personalized guidance, you can contact New Orleans Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery at their New Orleans office or request a consultation online through plasticsurgerynola.com to discuss semaglutide/B12 weight loss and aesthetic options that fit your goals.