I began fighting the weight battle once I was old enough to look into a mirror and compare myself to the other kids in elementary school. Thankfully, after many years of beating my head against a wall getting nowhere, I had the idea of diving into the science of the process to see if there […]
Many of my patients struggle with the desire to eat in the evenings – typically a few hours after dinner, usually while watching T.V. There seem to be two very distinct reasons that people do this. For many people, this is a version of what we call “reward eating.” In other words, it’s eating because
I ask all of my new patients what their barriers to success are going to be. Some people are completely surprised by this question – they’ve never really thought about it. Others have clearly thought a lot about it and can rattle off their obstacles like most of us can recite the Pledge of Allegiance.