“Can’t I just try a prescription? I’ve tried everything else, and I have three friends who look amazing after their doctor’s prescribed weight loss pills.” That’s what Donna asked me when she came for a consultation, frustrated by the difficulty she was [...]
“I’ve tried so many things to lose weight, but none of them have worked. My cousin started taking semaglutide a couple of months ago, and she’s finally losing weight. Do you think I should try that?” Donna’s question was a familiar one [...]
“You did what?!” Heather asked our other friend, Jeannie, at dinner. Jeannie had just told us that earlier in the week, she’d had a weight loss hypnosis session. And honestly, Heather’s reaction was pretty on par with what I’ve seen and heard [...]
I know a lot of married women who constantly communicate using the word “we”, but with Rosa, I had to laugh. “We were feeling really sluggish in the spring, and we put on some weight,” she was saying, “but in July, we [...]
Updated 04/09/2023 When I told Sandy that I thought an elimination diet was the best course of treatment for her symptoms, she cringed. “Elimination diet? Doesn’t that mean I can’t eat much of anything?” The answer, of course, is no. There are [...]
Updated 04/23/2023 In a recent discussion with my client, Jenny, she detailed what she usually ate in a day – and it wasn’t very much. Still, she was struggling to maintain a healthy weight. “I don’t understand. I don’t eat sugar or [...]
Updated 02/05/2023 “Remember that old question ‘can you pinch an inch?’ I am WAY beyond that in my belly!” That’s what Darlene said to me during her consultation for my weight loss program. “I never used to have belly fat. What happened?” [...]
Updated 05/28/2023 When the results of Florence’s genetic testing came back, her first response was despair. “Am I just doomed to be this size forever?” she asked, looking down at her size 22 body. Luckily, the answer is an emphatic NO! Florence [...]
Here we are, in full swing of summer. So many of my clients have told me that they’re really feeling the aftereffects of the homemade banana bread we ate or the daily rosé we drank during the pandemic. That was fun! What’s [...]
Updated 08/06/2023 “Wait, carbs are okay?” Pamela’s confused expression was familiar. She, like many of the patients I’ve seen over the past 30 years, had bought into the “carbs as the enemy” myth. And the type of carbs that quickly come to [...]
