Umbareen Mahmood, MD, a board-certified plastic surgeon in New York City, says shes now even encountering men and women with already-low BMIs who are using the drugs to lose a few pounds for a big event or beach vacation. Surprisingly, many of these patients are still seeing negative aesthetic side effects, likely due to how rapid the weight loss wasthose who lose weight gradually tend to have better tissue elasticity and skin retractionand also because their margin for loss is smaller given that they were already at a healthy weight for their body. (When someones BMI is low to start, she explains, losing a few pounds can have a significant impact on the little bit of fat you have.) Jerry Chidester, MD, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Draper, Utah, tells me that close to half of his patients are currently using a GLP-1 or have in the past

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Start with every other day for the first week to see how your skin responds, then gradually increase to daily use
Rapid weight loss can also signal stress to the body, prompting it to conserve energy, including by dialing back reproductive functions