Drink Diet Soda, Get Skinny (or even RIPPED)
While vaccines may be the number one health topic on the internet that gets people arguing, artificial (or non-nutritive) sweeteners seem like a close second. I got an angry email the other day regarding my recommendation in my book The Fat Loss Prescription to drink diet sodas instead of regular sodas (if you have to choose) […]
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 […]
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 […]
Addressing the Fear of Failing at Weight Loss
They {individuals with obesity} feel a shame that they are failures and failure itself is such a powerful thing that it eats away at a person. How do you fuel positive change through guilt and shame and feeling like a failure? – Dr. Yoni Freedhoff In the weight-loss world, fear is almost as bad of a word […]