Today’s blog topic is one that has been under debate for many decades.

Contrary to what you may have been told, dieting is not the solution but the problem itself.

Dieting is, in fact, associated with weight gain.

When you start a traditional dieting program, there are many potential...

On today’s episode I am joined by Dr. Alicia Shelly, who is a Board Certified Internal Medicine/Obesity Medicine physician based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the the host of a weekly podcast & Youtube channel entitled Back on Track: Overcoming Weight Regain.

Dr. Shelly has personally...

Have you ever wondered if bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) is for you?

Or maybe you know someone who had bariatric surgery and you secretly think “that’s cheating”.

There are so many misconceptions about bariatric surgery:

• It’s cheating
• You only do...

Have you “fallen off the wagon”? Are you having trouble getting back on?

What if I told you there was no wagon. Just life – messy, imperfect, full of ups and downs life.

The idea that there is a wagon that you’re either on or off stems from perfectionistic, all-or-nothing...

Today’s episode is part 1 of a 2-part series about Creating Your Breakthrough Year in 2022. You get to create – that means you get to intentionally craft and design what you want your life to look like. Do you believe that?

Some of you who have already disqualified...

In this week’s episode of the podcast, we hear from Jennifer N. An inspirational client who has been with the High Metabolic Clinic for over 2 years, has lost over 100 lbs and maintained it, and overcome binge eating.

We talk about:

• Her initial reluctance to accept that her weight...

We all know we should sleep more… But somehow it just doesn’t seem all thaaaaat important at 10pm when you have emails to catch up on, Instagram Reels to peruse, or Netflix to binge.

What’s the deal? Why is sleep important and how can we get better at it?

In this week’s...

Listen in to my interview with Dr. Ali Zentner, Obesity Medicine Physician and Medical Director of the Revolution Medical Clinic in Vancouver.

In this episode, we talk about:

• The history of obesity medicine in Canada
• The origins of weight bias and fat shaming
• The need to come up with new...

Today’s episode of the podcast was inspired by a Facebook thread in a women physician’s Facebook group exploring:

• Is obesity a real disease?
• Does labelling it a disease alleviate or promote fat-shaming?
• What language should we use to describe obesity? Fat person? Larger-bodied?

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I believe that each and every one of us is destined to live an abundant, full, rich and meaningful life, a life of influence and impact – where we leave the world a better place.

And yet, this is the exception and not the norm.

So many people live their life on autopilot. Following the...

In this episode we talk about Ryan’s history with “diet and exercise”, arriving at an understanding of the physiology of weight dysregulation, and his realization that he is “an emotional eater”. Ryan shares an experience of fat-shaming and how that propelled him...