Your SNACKING TOOLBOX to Improve Daily Health Habits
Sustainable health habits aren’t typically developed as a complete overhaul of one’s lifestyle. Instead, it’s more realistic and doable if they’re created as one small ‘snack’ step at a time,...
With Better Appetite Control on Newer Anti-Obesity Medications, is a Healthy Lifestyle Still Needed?
If you’re less hungry and losing weight while taking a newer anti-obesity medication, you may wonder if you still need to modify your eating and exercise habits. During Obesity Week...
Changing Hearts & Minds about Obesity
I recently attended the Obesity Action Coalition’s (OAC) Your Weight Matters 2023- Engage conference in Orlando. No matter how long I’ve been practicing, I continue to be inspired by those...
Weight Journey Reflections can Help you Move Forward
Before I help patients develop a personalized weight loss plan, I want to better understand each person’s weight journey – and how they got to where they are today. I...
Maintain Health Behaviors despite Life Transitions
Many life transitions are anticipated – a new home, moving to a new city, starting college or grad school, getting married or starting a family. As your daily routines change,...
Who to Partner with to Manage Weight and Achieve Better Health?
With all the exciting new treatments available to help those who struggle with weight, you may be wondering who you should turn to for help? Though your primary care professional...
Build on Weight Loss Motives to Boost Success
So much focus surrounding weight management is on the ‘WHAT’ to do and ‘HOW’ to do it to lose weight and keep it off. However, it can be helpful to...
Treat Yourself Better – You Deserve it!
When I see patients who are doing well following their new healthy lifestyle behaviors but complain that the scale isn’t budging fast enough, I ask them to make a list....
