Body Contouring

How Thermage®, RF Microneedling & CoolSculpting® Help Refine Your Shape

Sculpt, Tighten, and Transform After Weight Loss

Losing a significant amount of weight—whether through lifestyle changes or surgery—is a powerful achievement. But even after hitting your goal number, your skin may not fully reflect the work you’ve put in. Loose skin, crepey texture, and stubborn fat pockets are all common after major weight loss and can keep you from feeling fully confident in your new body.

That’s where strategic body contouring comes in. At LaserAway, three leading treatments—Thermage, RF Microneedling, and CoolSculpting—help tighten skin, smooth texture, and sculpt stubborn areas so your results look as good as they feel.

Why Post-Weight-Loss Body Contouring Matters

Significant weight loss can change the skin’s elasticity and structure. After long-term stretching, the skin may not retract completely, even when weight stabilizes. Texture may become uneven, and small pockets of fat may remain in areas like the abdomen, thighs, upper arms, and flanks.

If your weight has been consistent for about a year and you’re in good health, you may be an ideal candidate for minimally or non-invasive contouring—no surgery, no incisions, and no long recovery.

Thermage®: Minimally Invasive Skin Tightening for Firmer Contours

Thermage is a minimally invasive, radiofrequency-based treatment designed to improve laxity and restore firmness. It heats deep layers of the skin to stimulate collagen production, making it especially effective for areas that look loose or less elastic after weight loss.

LaserAway Chief Medical Officer Dr. Will Kirby explains:

“You can expect results from Thermage to show up in as early as one month, but optimal benefits manifest themselves at about the six-month mark.”

Thermage is ideal for:

  • Sagging or loose skin
  • Abdominal laxity
  • Post-weight-loss firmness loss
  • Thigh, arm, or jawline tightening

A single treatment delivers long-lasting, natural-looking results that continue improving over time.

RF Microneedling: Minimally Invasive Tightening + Texture Renewal

RF Microneedling combines traditional microneedling with radiofrequency energy to remodel collagen and improve both firmness and surface texture. It’s especially powerful for crepey skin, textural changes, and stretch marks that may appear after weight loss.

As Arsema Hawariat, RN, Lead Clinician at LaserAway, explains:

“The needles puncture deep into the skin, causing skin cell turnover, while the radiofrequency stimulates collagen and skin tightening.”

RF Microneedling is ideal for:

  • Crepey, weakened, or creased skin
  • Stretch marks
  • Uneven skin texture
  • Areas needing both tightening and resurfacing

This minimally invasive treatment yields smoother, tighter, more youthful-looking skin.

CoolSculpting®: Non-Invasive, Permanent Fat Reduction

CoolSculpting targets stubborn, pinchable fat that remains even after weight loss—without needles, downtime, or surgery. Using controlled cooling, it freezes and permanently eliminates fat cells in treated areas.

Dr. Will Kirby highlights a key requirement:

“With CoolSculpting, the fat reduction is permanent. Now, it’s really important to recognize you have to have pinchable skin… we can permanently reduce 20 to 25 percent of the fat in that area with each treatment.”

CoolSculpting is perfect for:

  • Love handles
  • Abdomen
  • Thighs
  • Upper arms
  • Bra fat and back fat

Results gradually develop over a few months as the body naturally clears the treated fat cells.

Choosing the Right Treatment for Your Goals

Each technology treats a different post-weight-loss concern:

  • Thermage → Best for moderate skin laxity
  • RF Microneedling → Best for texture, crepiness, and fine skin tightening
  • CoolSculpting → Best for pinchable pockets of stubborn fat

Many patients combine treatments—for example, CoolSculpting for contouring plus Thermage or RF Microneedling for tightening—to achieve a more sculpted, refined shape.

Celebrate Your Transformation With LaserAway

You’ve already accomplished the hardest part. Now let LaserAway help you refine and enhance your results with cutting-edge technologies, expert medical providers, and the nation’s leading aesthetic treatment menu.

Schedule a free consultation today and take the next step toward smoother, tighter, more sculpted post-weight-loss results.

References

  1. “Assessment of the Efficacy of Cryolipolysis on Abdominal Fat Deposits: A Prospective Study,” Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, May 3, 2023.
  2. “New Technologies in Skin Tightening,” Facial Plastics, October 11, 2021.
  3. “Prospective Multicenter Clinical Trial of a Temperature-Controlled Subcutaneous Microneedle Fractional Bipolar Radiofrequency System for the Treatment of Cellulite,” Dermatologic Surgery, 2018.

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