2010

Exercise is the world’s best maintenance program. The easiest way to (almost) freely feed and maintain your weight, or maintain weight you have lost, is by exercising. The most common use of exercise in the U.S., when it has been surveyed, is that exercise allows people to eat more, and maintain their weight. There’s a […]

There’s no good science that suggests eating breakfast is a good thing to do if you want to lose weight. The studies that suggest eating breakfast may help weight loss are not good science, but rather survey questionnaires sent out to dieters. Don’t assume that eating breakfast is necessarily a good thing. I always tell […]

Nutritionists have preached for years, that if you decrease your caloric intake by 500 calories a day, you’ll lose a pound a week. There are 3500 calories in a pound. The theory is, if you eat 500 calories less than you need every day, (roughly speaking, most women need about 2000 calories a day to […]

If you’re not hungry, don’t eat is my biggest secret and my best strategy for weight loss. Go ahead and skip a meal or skip multiple meals. Most patients can go for days without eating, in perfect health. The biggest mistake most patients make, is thinking they have to eat. If you’re not hungry, don’t […]

I love the fact that weight loss support groups just don’t work. When one of the largest weight watching support group in the country was studied, they actually had a negative success rate. The average victim weighed more when they quit than when they joined. All makes sense to me, as overweight is a medical […]

I’m not a big fan of all the low carb fake foods on the market, simply because they can take both your carbohydrate and calorie level to stupid. You will lose weight about twice as fast on a very low carb diet (about 8 grams of carbohydrate per feeding), but at some point, the number […]

The American and world-wide obesity epidemic is caused by excess carbohydrate comsumption. We’ve replaced fat calories (pretty darn harmless – http://nutritionandhealth.info/downloads/softsciencefat.pdf ) with carbohydrate calories, that cause excess fat storage. The average American eats about 150 pounds of sugar a year. Before the turn of the century, we ate about 20. Most patients can maintain […]

Here’s a quick guide to the prescription medications currently in use to decrease your sweet, starch and alcohol cravings. Topemax and Zonegran started out as a childhood epilepsy medications. Topemax became the number one drug in the country for migraine headaches, before it was approved for migraine use. Both of these drugs are safe and […]

The problem with behavioral measures for weight loss, is that the weight loss stops the minute you stop doing them. If you write down everything you put in your mouth in a special weight loss diary, this kind of diet journaling does promote weight loss. But as soon as you stop writing, your weight loss […]

Liquid calories can be deadly. The first thing I tell patients who want to lose weight is absolutely no liquid calories. It’s almost impossible to lose weight if you are drinking sugared soda or Starbuck’s drinks with milk or sugar in them. Liquids provide way too many calories, way too fast. It would take you […]