Human beings (myself included) can be very close-minded and dogmatic about some things. This isn’t usually deliberate – we simply hear something several times and absorb it, […]
Human beings (myself included) can be very close-minded and dogmatic about some things. This isn’t usually deliberate – we simply hear something several times and absorb it, […]
During active weight loss, patients come into the office for a lot of things: doctoring, evaluation, support, community – but one of the things they crave most […]
January 1st. Thank heavens, right? 2020 is over. This is the time of your that everyone starts thinking about goal setting – about resolutions. Before you sit […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Most women I know hate their bodies. They talk about their bodies as though they are vile creations that need to be molded and shaped into something […]
I used to be an adrenaline junkie in my younger days. The bigger the rollercoaster, the better. Upside down and inside out – heck yes. Cliff jumping […]
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. You can’t live in the United States and be unaware of the impact that this disease has on […]
I was talking with a group of people the other day and one of them brought up the fact that his doctor told him that he had […]
I am an Enneagram 1. If you know anything about the Enneagram, you know that means that I am “the improver”. I am a dreamer that sees […]
About age 11, I became painfully aware that I was bigger than the rest of the kids in school. From that point on, surrounded by parents that […]
Doing what I do for a living is immensely gratifying. Most patients that struggle with weight & eating behaviors and have a genuine desire to improve them. […]
Dear readers, I haven’t forgotten about you. There were so many blog posts and social media posts last week about racism and anti-racism and there were so […]
Surely by now, you all know that I am a complete book nerd. Thriftbooks.com probably considers me one of their top customers! However, I am also a […]
I just reread a book called “The Slight Edge” by Jeff Olson. It’s a great book about personal development and all that good stuff that I love. […]
Science doesn’t support the calories-in, calories-out hypothesis. If you are still trapped into believing that model, it’s time to learn more!
As the statistics keep rolling in, we are getting some grim data about obesity and/or chronic medical conditions and COVID-19. Having these medical problems doesn’t put you […]
This idea has generated a lot of conversations amongst my friends and patients this past week. I think it does a great job of summarizing why most […]
I don’t know about everyone else, but the first week of this shelter at home craziness made me feel very discombobulated and out of sorts. I didn’t […]
The Covid-19 pandemic is taking over our lives. As we face this invisible enemy, it’s important to use every tool in our arsenal to decrease our risk […]
I have spent almost twenty years practicing medicine and I bet there hasn’t been a day that I haven’t had to talk someone down from a place […]
Patients come into my office all the time with “confessions” of eating off plan. After one of these confessions, I usually get to hear the reasoning behind […]
Our theme this month is my office is eating emotions. What do I mean by that? When we encounter an emotion that we perceive as being negative […]
I have an amazing job. I get to talk every day with people who are driven. People that are working hard to improve their health, their lives, […]
I can’t get enough of this concept of habits. Just in case you missed the first blog post in this series, most of the information this month […]
Few things can have a more powerful impact on your life than improving your daily habits. However, it often feels difficult to keep good habits going for […]
One of the most common things I hear from frustrated patients is that they know what to do to get healthy- they just can’t seem to put […]
This month at Heartland Weight Loss we are focusing on habits. Routines. Not just setting goals, but actually putting systems in place to make those goals into […]
People like giving advice. People like helping others solve their problems. It’s human nature. We do this to some degree when it comes to all medical problems. […]
Hopefully you are learning more and more each week as we debunk the weight-loss myths that we have all heard over and over again! Here is myth […]
Ready to learn some more? Here’s installment #3 in our Weight Loss myths series. 2020 is the year to expand our minds and learn some hard truths […]
Hopefully last week’s post got you thinking! Well, there’s plenty more where that came from. I love writing about these things! Myths about weight loss are everywhere […]
I have read hundreds of books and articles and blog posts regarding weight and weight loss. Most of the time, the authors repeat the same dogma over […]