As we create our own course to transformation, it is important to break these larger steps down into their respective doable steps and apply them to our own lives.
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More than 60 percent of American women are considered overweight. That's a lot of people to exclude from medical treatment.
It took getting my ass kicked by a kidney stone for me to realize I was giving K-Fed a run for his money in the "shocking weight gain" sweepstakes. After my brush with death, I swore I would adopt a healthier, sodium-reduced diet.
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While becoming a teetotaling, vegan, shut-in, marathon runner might well help you to manage your weight, is that a life you'd be willing, or even able, to live with forever? No. Weight loss is about living the healthiest life that you can enjoy.
If you're afraid that Oprah's mindful-eating coach, Geneen Roth, has moved on since "The Oprah Show" came to an end, rest assured. The best-selling anti-diet book writer who inspired Oprah to stop dieting is not abandoning food issues for money problems as some fans fear.
Quite honestly, I would be more scared to think of how unfulfilled my life would be if I hadn't taken the risk. Try asking yourself what you'd risk for a more fulfilled life.
People with common sense in fine working order routinely turn it off when it comes to weight loss hucksterism. The more outrageous the claims, the more irresistible they have tended to be.
Ask yourself: is your doctor or nurse practitioner (NP) comfortable having a conversation about weight with you, or do they beat around the bush in order to spare your feelings?
t's not just what you eat; it's not just about how you eat or when you go to the gym. It's the system, folks -- the simple facts about our basic life functions.
So what is the most efficient strategy to lose that weight -- diet, exercise or liposuction? Body weight is controlled by the number of calories you eat every day and the number of calories you burn.
A Loveline caller is beginning to knock the pounds off but she has an unusual concern that only Loveline's Dr. Drew and Mike can handle.
Once you have made the most important step in the transformation journey -- choosing to change -- it is time to map the course.
What is quite startling, however, from the social network research is that obesity spreads almost like an infectious disease, not just to friends but to friends of friends, and further.
What the dieter needs is an actual human being, not a virtual one, with whom to share the dieting journey.
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Loveline's Dr. Drew fields a call from a guy who wonders if it's a good idea for his girlfriend to get laser liposuction. Co-host Mike Catherwood wonders how fast the weight really comes off. Could it be... instantaneous? Is it weight loss? Is it magic? Is it light sabers?
My goal is big, yet simple: I want to disseminate the knowledge and create the tools to reverse the obesity trend in America.
Over the years, I've had some patients tell me they only need to smell food to gain weight. Of course, the point they're trying to make is that they gain weight more readily than others.
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