Double your Veggies and Halve your Starch

Want one weird trick to lose fat without trying? This is it. Many of my patients have the standard American dinner, which is a meat, vegetable, and starch. An easy way to cut calories (and carbohydrates) is to literally just take whatever vegetable portion you normally eat and double it while cutting the starch portion you […]

Dumbbell Incline Bench Rows

I have found that many of my patients and online clients ignore their backs. Everyone likes to build their chests and shoulders (and arms), but the back gets neglected. That’s a shame. For women who like to wear backless dresses, you want some muscle back there to show off (in my opinion anyway). For guys, […]

The Reason you Should NEVER Eat Bananas

I was on Facebook this morning and I saw this article about why you shouldn’t eat bananas for breakfast. It lists a bunch of pseudoscientific reasons for not eating them. Complete BS. If you like bananas, go ahead and eat them. They are cheap, convenient, tasty, and despite having some natural occurring sugar, they are […]

Dumbbell Deadlifts

Deadlifts are one of the BIG 3 (bench, squat, and deadlifts) exercises everyone says you HAVE to do if you’re lifting weights. I don’t necessarily agree with that, BUT I do think deadlifts are a great exercise for functionality, strength, and of course looking better. The exercise works your backside including your butt (glutes) and legs […]

Don’t Compare Your Weight Loss to Others

As a weight loss doctor (Obesity Specialist Physician), many of my patients are going through their weight loss journey at the same time. They start to know each other and they see how fast each lose weight. This CAN be good, but I think if anything it is mostly bad. No matter what anyone tells you, we are […]