“if we acquire a good through exchange, effort or achievement, or by right, then we don’t typically feel gratitude. Gratitude is an emotion we feel in response to receiving something good which is undeserved” – Lacewing I’m going to follow up my last post about Thanksgiving with another one – there is just too much […]
I’ve gotten so many questions the past few weeks about how to navigate the Thanksgiving holiday without falling off the health wagon. Maybe Thanksgiving isn’t worrying you a lot – but I would bet someone in your life is grappling with this idea right now, so having a way to talk through it can be
I was putting together a lecture this weekend and started organizing my slides about metabolic disease and how it’s the biggest problem we are fighting and I realized that although that concept is common knowledge to me, that many people haven’t heard it. Although I tell all of my patients that when we are fighting
Information about the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment has come across my desk several times in the past few weeks. That’s a sign that I need to bring it to you! For those of you that aren’t familiar, the marshmallow experiment was performed on a group of preschoolers in 1972 and was performed by a group studying
Have you started celebrating this crazy holiday yet? Hopefully not. This holiday is responsible for a lot of unplanned weight gain for many of us. Why? Because it lasts a good five months. Every year. You know what I’m talking about, right? The holiday usually begins about mid-October. We fight it at first – walking
Only 12% of American adults are considered metabolically healthy. 12%. That means that 88% of us have some sort of disease or condition that impacts our metabolic health. Diseases like overweight or obesity, prediabetes and diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, fatty liver, etc. These diseases are called lifestyle diseases. They are directly related to
Americans today spend over fifty percent of their annual food budget on food prepared outside the home – and this number keeps increasing year after year. The research is solid. There is a direct correlation between the number of meals prepared or eaten outside of the home with a person’s risk of obesity and metabolic
I try to spend a portion of each day improving myself in some way: physically, mentally, and/or emotionally. I think it’s a huge part of what keeps my cup full. As part of this process, I listened to an interview with Edith Eger last week. This woman is amazing. Inspirational. Motivating. Although I seriously doubt
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
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