The Weight-Focused Visit
Whether you’re a patient or a provider, you know how quickly time can pass during a health care encounter. Your provider’s priorities may be to discuss your chief complaint, medications,...
Time to Update Your Heart Health
The American Heart Association has a new checklist for lifelong good health. It’s called Life’s Essential 8, which was recently updated by a panel of experts who reviewed 2500 scientific...
Shared Decision-Making in Weight Management
Shared decision-making is a process whereby health care providers take into account each person’s personal preferences, priorities and goals before selecting a specific treatment plan. As a weight management expert,...
Stop Unhealthy Habits to Achieve Better Health
As you move through your weight loss journey, you will encounter two kinds of habits – healthy habits you want to create (such as eating more fruits and vegetables) and...
Use Leftovers to Recreate Healthy Meals
“Doc, I just don’t eat leftover foods” is a comment I sometimes get from patients during my weight management counseling. I always encourage them to reconsider. With grocery prices soaring...
Is Lifestyle Modification for Weight Management Still Worth Your Time and Effort?
With all the exciting new drugs being developed to help people better manage weight, you may wonder if the time you’re spending on improving health habits are still worth your...
Rethinking Weight Goals
In my practice, patients often have high hopes of losing a large amount of weight in a short period of time. I tell them that it’s important to have realistic...
Nutritional Nudges to Improve Your Health
I am a firm believer that making small changes to what you eat and how you prepare foods can help improve your health. That’s because small diet changes are easier...
