Growing the Solution to Eating Healthier
Spring has finally arrived! The temperatures outside are finally warm enough to start planting. What better way to know where your food is coming from than to grow it yourself? With a little bit of work you can grow your own organic vegetables and fruits, and can savor the fruits of your labor by providing food for you and your family. Growing your own food doesn’t mean you have to plant an acre of land. Gardens come in all shapes and sizes. Start by doing container gardening: you can put … Continue reading
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Weight and Your Brain: Considering the “Failure Syndrome”
Most of the battles with weight loss rage not at the dinner table or even at the drive-thru window, but in our minds. All too often we are our own worst enemies when it comes to making healthy life changes. Just realizing where these struggles usually take place and how we are defeated by them can often be the perfect step in the right direction. After helping hundreds of patients lose weight amidst difficult situations, I have personally seen the results of the “Failure Syndrome” time and time again. Failure … Continue reading
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HMR Training
At the end of February, a coworker and I attended another annual national training for Health Management Resources (HMR) – the organization which our weight loss clinic has enthusiastically partnered with for the last eight years. The training just happened to be in Orlando, Fla.. If you’re not familiar with HMR, they are the clear nationwide leader in providing high-quality, medically monitored weight loss programs – which is the reason Alegent Creighton Health continues to work with them. For those of you who didn’t have the privilege of joining me … Continue reading
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Have you ever thought that food could be good, bad, or ugly? I frequently hear from my patients that they were “bad” or “good” because they ate a certain food. Somehow, we’ve equated our self-worth with what we eat. If we eat foods that aren’t “allowed” on our diet, then we are bad, bad, bad! And since we’ve eaten the “bad” food then there is no point in continuing to eat the “good” food, and now we feel “ugly” about ourselves and stop following the diet. One way to change … Continue reading
Never Standing Still
Have you seen the new commercials or billboards for Alegent Creighton Health? You’ve got to check them out: http://www.alegentcreighton.com/transformational-leadership What an amazing message. If you’ve had any interaction with a team member at Weight Management, then you know that this is a marketing campaign that delivers. Transforming lives, making significant, meaningful change in the way people manage their health is what we do. It is who we are. Think about the message “never standing still.” For me, some days this phrase describes either an exhausting 14 hour day or my … Continue reading
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