Staying Fit When It’s Freezing

You know you need to keep moving through the winter, for both your health and your medical weight loss program. Don’t ignore the great outdoors—here’s how the change in weather can mean opportunities to inject more challenge and fun into your workout program. From our...

Sleep and Your Weight: What’s the Connection?

If you’re feeling tired all the time and also like you’re gaining weight, it may not be your imagination. Sleep deprivation can cause people to develop metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that may include insulin resistance (when the body doesn’t properly use...

Lose The Guilt, Lose The Weight

 We’ve all experienced it on some level in any one of its forms. Excessive guilt, religious guilt, emotional guilt, neurotic guilt…you name it. But no matter how we frame it, it all stems from the same basic root feeling that we’ve done something dreadfully wrong, and...

9 Ways to Manage Your Weight at Work

As summer begins to wane and fall gradually robs us of daylight hours, many of us leave our active lifestyles behind and stay chained to our desks from 9 to 5 and well beyond. The combination of shorter days, increased stress, and being plopped in front of our...

Beat the Heat: Water for Weight Loss

You can feel the heat. In many areas temperatures are surpassing the 90s, making it all the more important to always have your water bottle in tow. You need H2O to function—after all, it makes up 40 to 70 percent of our bodies. But water can help with weight loss...

Spring Cleaning Your Kitchen

March is spring-cleaning time, which usually means cleaning out your closets and weeding out those things that tend to clutter your life. But when was the last time you cleaned your kitchen from your diet’s perspective? This is the area of your house most fraught with...