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
“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
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.