Expert Advice and Updates on Medical Weight Loss

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Healthy Sleep Habits for Weight Loss

Getting plenty of quality sleep every night can positively affect your weight loss efforts in Denver. While it may vary, most adults need at least eight hours of sleep every night in order to function optimally. If you’re going through a medical weight loss program, there are already plenty of changes you’ll be making to your lifestyle and things you’ll be dealing with.

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Focus on Mind and Body Fitness

Most people know that the mind and body affect each other. When your body is physically ill, your mind reacts by shifting your mood. You may feel depressed or irritable because you don't physically feel well. In the same way, if your mind is "ill" or you're in a bad mood or depressed, your body may react by giving you physical problems—a headache or backache perhaps. This often happens to alert you that something is wrong and to help you get your mind and body back in a healthy balance. Your weight loss doctor can provide you with insight about beneficial ways to lose weight as you focus on mind and body wellness.

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Start Your Day off Right

Breakfast has long been labeled the most important meal, yet an astounding number of people claim to skip breakfast in hopes of cutting calories from the start of their day. To lose weight, it’s important to follow a healthy weight loss program that features breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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How About If We Walk While We Talk?

During my past 10 years with CNC, I've spent countless hours brainstorming strategies with patients to help keep the weight off. The problem is, the main drivers of weight re-gain are genetics and environment. Most of my patients aren't getting any younger, and most don't report improvements in the environment with weight loss. So, after losing weight, in addition to no improvements in genetics and no improvements in environment, we now understand that biologically the body is desperately trying to regain the lost weight through many mechanisms.

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Snack Smart

Snacking is merely superfluous eating, devoid of nutritional value, right? Actually, picking your foods properly can turn snacking into a great way to make sure you’re getting appropriate amount of fruits, veggies and whole grains in your daily diet. When going through a medical weight loss program, you’ll need to make many changes in your diet and lifestyle to lose weight, and replacing your unhealthy snacks with their nutritious alternatives can be a great boon for your healthy weight loss.

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Here Comes February

Have you recovered from the long weeks of excessive food pushing and eating? It's part of our culture. We start with peanuts and candy corn in October, slide into apple and pecan pies in November, top off Christmas with red and green M&M’s, and wash it all down with champagne at New Year’s celebrations! How many of us swore this behavior off in the first days of 2014? Congratulations and best wishes for a healthier, more nutritious year! But wait! We have yet another winter barrier to hurdle!

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Five Benefits of Exercise

Whether it’s jogging outside or taking a yoga class at the gym, regular exercise offers numerous benefits to your health. As you are working towards your weight loss goals through a medical weight loss program, it’s important to maintain a regular exercise schedule in order to enhance your weight loss results. A person who exercises every day for 30 minutes will notice positive changes in both body and mind.

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Debunking Four Diet and Exercise Myths

There are more supposed “facts” about weight loss than there are sites on the web, so which ones should you believe? Every day, new ideas about dieting and exercise are introduced, debated and discredited, making it a chore to separate good from bad and fact from fiction. When taking part in a weight loss program, here are some myths you can bust yourself and tips on how to take advantage of their wrongness.

Carbohydrates 101

Carbohydrates 101

When it comes to carbohydrates, many people have mixed emotions or simply do not understand the role they play in maintaining a healthy diet. Some say all carbohydrates are bad, while others tell you they’re okay as long as they’re eaten in moderation. When you’re trying to lose weight, how are you supposed to know how much is too much and which carbs are the right ones to be eating?