Weight Loss Myths

Semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) isn’t a cure for obesity. Yes, most people who take them experience some weight loss, but the average effectiveness is 15% weight loss – over the course of more than a year. Don’t get me wrong – 15% is clinically significant (and I would jump up and down if all of my patients […]

I am constantly trying to undo disordered thinking about food.  By the time most people come to my clinic, they have tried every weight loss program out there.  Sadly, most of the programs in the world are not based in science.  Most are based on calorie counting and cheerleading – which is not super helpful […]

There is so much debate today about the process of weight loss. Some people claim it’s all about calories and others claim it has nothing to do with calories altogether. The fact that not all health professionals have the same opinion means that we don’t have it all figured out yet. It probably doesn’t surprise […]

Preventing disease is usually fairly straightforward.  Prevention is never perfectly guaranteed to work (nothing in medicine is), but most of the time, we can prevent lung cancer by avoiding smoking and air pollution.  We can prevent pregnancy by using reliable contraception.  We can prevent paralysis from polio by getting a polio vaccine.  However, preventing disease […]

Patients periodically ask me about apple cider vinegar. I stay away from social media and news, so perhaps the interest waxes and wanes with marketing and propaganda, but regardless, since the topic seems to come in bursts and has reemerged lately, so I thought I would address it. Apple cider vinegar is a type of […]

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, then file it away as a fact. When we hear something that contradicts it, we dismiss the new information as untrue and move on. The older I get […]

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 […]

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!

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.  We get diagnosed with pneumonia and the people around us give us their advice. Things like; “when my mom had pneumonia last year, her doctor gave her xyz […]

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 number 4. The 5th and final installment in this series will be published in our monthly newsletter along with our updates, news, and recipe of the month. If […]

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 about our bodies! Myth #3: Obesity is genetic:  This is a touchy subject for some people.  Although we would like it to be true, it simply isn’t.  Now, […]

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 – being repeated over and over again without an ounce of proof.  Here’s another myth that I hear from patients all the time. I sympathize, as I believed […]

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 and over again – statements that are not grounded in facts, but in repetition.  This amounts to a lot of noise regarding the subject. Noise that often prevents […]