It’s Hard but Not Impossible to Lose Weight If You Have Thyroid Problems Why is it that so many thyroid patients struggle to lose weight? One of the biggest reasons is that just about all of the standard weight loss advice doesn’t work if you have a thyroid problem. If you spend your time restricting your calories …
Where You Gain Fat Tells you A Lot About Your Hormones Most people are concerned with being overweight but they pay little attention to WHERE the fat on their body is accumulating. This is a huge mistake. Why? Because the location of the fat on your body can give you valuable information about what type …
Do Prescription Medications Work for Weight Loss? I remember way back in the day (okay, about 4-5 years ago) when I first started practicing, I thought that helping people lose weight was going to be easy. All I needed to do was write a prescription for a couple of weight loss medications, have the patients …
Phentermine Helps with Weight Loss but Should you Use it? Phentermine is one of the most common prescription weight loss medications used to help patients lose weight. But if you are thinking about using Phentermine (or if you’ve used it before) you NEED to pay close attention to this article. While Phentermine may help with …
What is the Reverse Diet? Is it possible to eat as much as your body demands and not only maintain your weight but ultimately lose weight and keep it off? It sounds like it might be too good to be true (and it really is) but there is a place for this type of diet …
Leptin The Primary Fat Loss Hormone By now you’ve probably at least heard of the hormone leptin. Leptin is a hormone secreted by your fat cells which are primarily responsible for helping your body regulate your body weight (1) and your metabolism. It is the single most important hormone when it comes to managing your weight, …
Why Staging your Leptin Resistance Matters Already know a little bit about leptin resistance? Want to take your knowledge to the next level? If so, then you will find the information in this article incredibly helpful! Today, the topic is all about leptin resistance and staging your serum leptin level. Why does this matter? Because …
Leptin resistance is a major and seriously underappreciated cause of weight loss resistance and weight gain. The good news is that there are many ways to treat this condition which is very common among obese people. The bad news is that your doctor isn’t likely to know much about it which leaves it up to …
This is going to sound crazy but there are certainly some of you out there who will ultimately end up needing to gain weight before you lose weight. And the way that you should do this is by increasing the number of calories that you consume. This information does NOT apply to everyone but it …
Over the past several years, I’ve had the opportunity to help thousands of people not only lose weight but to keep it off long-term. Along the way, I’ve also been able to help a number of people lose between 50 and 100 pounds. I consider this a bigger accomplishment than helping someone lose just 10-20 …
