Comprehensive Medical Weight Loss
Learn how to lose weight and keep it off!
Who doesn't want fast results, especially those who are trying to lose weight? That's why diet pills and extreme diets are such an easy sell. What could be quicker than swallowing a pill and watching the pounds melt away! Emotionally, we'd like to believe this is possible, but reason tells us that any weight we lose using extreme techniques won't be sustainable.
According to a study by Northwest University, people who actively share their weight loss challenges and progress on social networks drop twice as much bodyweight as those who keep their weight loss stories to themselves.
It's important to have goals in life. If you don't have anything to achieve, it's easy to feel lost and aimless. Yet for many people self-improvement has become an exhausting process of demonstrating their worth to others.
It isn't hard to lose weight on a budget. There are plenty of ways to get the healthy nutrition and exercise you need, without spending much money at all. Here are tips.
You may think that losing weight is the hardest thing you can do, but keeping those lost pounds from coming back can be even more difficult. Following a strict diet may help you lose weight in the short term, but if you want to make that weight loss permanent, you need to develop healthier habits.
For decades we have been told that in order to lose weight we have to eat breakfast every day. But new scientific research casts doubt on this myth. Where did this recommendation come from? One source may be from the…
Okay, okay – so I am a physician and you expect my posts to be serious. However, sometimes humor is the best medicine, and yesterday, I learned a valuable lesson from none other than my 4 year old son on…
Thanksgiving has passed and the next set of holidays is right around the corner. What better time to learn from our successes and/or mistakes.
How did your Thanksgiving go? Did you have a plan? Did you stick with it? Did you feel successful, or did it feel like a big failure? I think it is helpful to reflect on how we did to empower us to do even better! I like to be concrete, so have developed the following scoring system
One of my favorite things about summer is weekend trips to the farmer’s market!
I spend each weekend picking up produce and some of my favorite household staples at my local farmer’s market. There are so many benefits of supporting local farmers, and buying fresh and local produce. This is hands down the best place to get inspiration, farmers work so hard to bring beautiful produce each weekend, and it inspires me to make healthy, nutrient dense meals to bring to the table.
Here are some reasons why I love shopping at farmer’s markets and you should too!
“This article, co-authored by a patient living with obesity and his obesity medicine specialist, reviews how the patient has successfully lost 200 lb and maintained that loss for over a decade. This was achieved primarily with a behavioral intervention including support visits, a structured food plan, and changes in his physical activity. He did not undergo bariatric surgery. For the majority of this time, he was not treated with anti-obesity medication. This article will review how the patient lost the weight and kept it off, particularly in relationship to the importance of decreasing sedentary time.”
