When you walk through the doors of Eleve MedSpa inside Surgical Associates in Wausau you feel like you’re entering a high end spa in some big city. It is bright and beautiful. The registration desk is to the right when you walk through the door, it is rounded and that’s where you’ll likely see Kaya’s smiling face. There is a large display of skincare to the left.
Once you check in you are asked to wait in the waiting room through the curtained doorway next to the registration desk. The waiting room has a coffee bar to the right as soon as you walk in, which is a major tease when you have your assessment appointments because you can’t have anything but water the morning of your appointments. The waiting room has lots of comfortable seating, though the chairs are strangely shaped. They remind me of eyes for some reason.
I’ve already told you about my first assessment appointment for the Vitality Program at which I had to do the VO2 Max and the resting metabolic test. The second assessment consisted of the glucose test and blood draws, and the DEXA Scan.
Katrina Krenz is the Wellness Coordinator and she is delightful. She is kind, she is supportive and truly the person you want to work with when you’re at a point in your life you know you need to make a change. She is definitely the person I needed to cheer me on for the VO2 Max I’ll tell you, because that was a tough test, but I know, thanks to her, that it was necessary. She is also the person I needed after my DEXA Scan to help me appreciate the positive results and understand the not so positive results.
When Katrina first took me back for the second assessment we started with the glucose test. If you’ve ever been pregnant you remember doing this. You drink a liquid that tastes like flat sprite, but sweeter, you sit for a while and then you have blood drawn. The blood draws are spaced out in half hour increments until they’ve collected three times. So I had my first round of blood drawn and during the wait time Katrina asked me all the health history questions and some additional questions the doctor had after looking at the health history I completed before my appointment. Then I gave more blood. Then Katrina took me to the DEXA Scan. It’s in a room just down the hall and it’s not at all what I had pictured. It’s just a table that you lay flat on and the scanner moves over top of you all the way from your head to your toes.
Eleve Med Spa DEXA Scan Machine
The cool thing is you get to see the results immediately! It’s like an Xray, that lets you see bone, muscle, and fat. As Katrina said, you wouldn’t be able to tell if someone had a bone fracture, but they get all the information they need. So right after we finished the DEXA Scan, which takes only about 10 minutes, we went back to the room we started in and the last of my blood was drawn. I meant to say it that way because my vein decided to stop giving blood so I had to pump my fist to get it to come out. I made a joke about them tapping me out. I did successfully fill both vials.
After the IV was removed it was time to chat about the DEXA Scan results. I found out that I have a significant amount of visceral fat, this is the fat on the inside of your body around your organs, this is bad. I also have a significant amount of body fat that we need to address, but the focus is really going to be around reducing that visceral fat. The results I choose to focus on though is that I have optimal lean muscle mass and excellent bone density. So the goal here is going to be addressing the fat while maintaining my lean muscle mass.
What I really wasn’t excited to see is that my biological age is 5 years older than my real age!!
Now that the doctors at Eleve MedSpa have all the data from all my testing they are going to analyze it and come up with a plan customized to my lifestyle and my needs. I have my next appointment on March 12th where I get to see the plan the doctors came up with and start working the plan!
If you want to learn more about Eleve MedSpa’s Vitality Program you can visit elevemedspa.com.
Until next time.
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