September 2020

Mindset

Food is not good or evil…

If you have ever been a patient in my office, you know that I hate to refer to foods as “bad” or “good”.  I think giving food a label like that can be very destructive.  If we refer to cookes as “bad” then when we eat one, it is all too easy to then define […]

Eating emotions

How to Manage Cravings

Merriam Webster defines a craving as: an intense, urgent, or abnormal desire or longing Cravings can be triggered by all different things – memories, habits, smells, thoughts, emotions – you name it. We all have cravings. If one of your goals on your health journey is to eliminate cravings – good luck. It’s not going

Mindset

Never and Can’t

“I can’t have pasta anymore?”    “You aren’t going to let me have soda any more?”   I hear questions like this every day.  I hate them for two reasons:    First, as an Obesity Medicine doctor, I don’t make absolute rules about what my patients can and cannot have when they leave my office.  My job is

habits

More About Habits:

I’m sure you all know how much I like the book, “Atomic Habits”.  I’ve written about this book multiple times as I think the principles outlined in this book are so incredibly relevant to what we do at Heartland Weight Loss.  Making health a habit is a very hard thing for many people to do.  

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