Track Weight in a Healthy Way

Monitoring your weight, diet and physical activity are some of the most successful strategies seen across multiple weight-loss studies. Self-monitoring keeps you accountable and aware of how key behaviors are...
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Fall into Healthier Habits with the Change of Seasons

Falling leaves and cooler weather can signal a change of seasons but it can also indicate it’s time to change up your healthy lifestyle routine. A change of seasons is...
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3 Tips to Make Healthy Eating Easier at Home

Though your home is the one environment you have most control over, my patients often struggle to take charge of the foods that are available at home. I tell them...
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Make Progress, Not Perfection

A common misperception my patients struggle with is thinking they have to strive for perfection in order to be successful managing weight and boosting health. But this perfectionistic mindset only...
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Strive to Try New Things as You Progress in Your Weight Management Journey

Living a healthier lifestyle and better managing weight have many benefits you may be unaware of. I’ve found that as individuals get healthier, many also start feeling motivated to try...
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Can You Spare 5 Minutes Toward Improving Your Health? 

Can improved health really be that simple? It’s all about making small changes in your daily activities and deciding what healthier steps you are motivated to start taking today. Helping...
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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,...
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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...
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