IME Community Podcast

Welcome to a year in review of Metabolic Health in teens!  A year in review: Teen Metabolic Health in 2023   I can’t think of a more prolific year for teen metabolic health than 2023. And, I’m not just talking about the FDA’s approval of GLP-1 medications like wegovy. In fact, did you know I created my metabolic telehealth clinic well before I even heard of the STEP teens trial showing the results...

Parents, Teens, Doctors, listen to a Mom of an adolescent with insulin resistance and obesity talk with Dr. Karla about her journey of how she advocates to get her daughter effective treatment with the new Anti-Obesity Medications. It's been a long road for Mom, Kailey, and her family as she has advocated since her daughter started to gain unhealthy weight in early childhood. Though she was shut d...

A Doctor’s Take on Weight Loss Medications & Teens Go to drkarlamd.com to learn more. The results of the STEP TEENS phase 3 trial of once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide 2.4mg (Wegovy) in adolescents aged 12 up to 18 years old with obesity are very promising. Published in November of this year in the NEJM, the study showed that patients who received semaglutide vs. placebo had greater reductio...

I'm struggling with wanting to help my daughter who is overweight.  I want her to be healthy and feel good about her body. I also know there is so much stigma about size in our society. I feel stuck. How can I help her?   This is what I call dualistic thinking, black and white, two sides of a coin, where on one side Mom is stuck in wanting her daughter to be body positive and fully love and accept...

Ready to challenge beliefs? Like, really challenge beliefs? Do you know your thoughts have power? Your current thinking creates your current reality. Your Now thinking creates your Now result. Your brain is a story making machine. Most of what goes on in your brain, the thousands of unconscious thoughts coming up on the daily are just stories. Thoughts are a rainbow that comes and goes; a sentence...

To learn more about my self-love superpower approach to create healthy habits for life for teens and parents, like and subscribe to my YouTube channel and go to imecommunity.com and check out my Cut the Cringe downloadable healthy conversation script. Self-love superpower, Dr. Karla When it comes to helping children, teens, and parents who have struggled with weight gain, health issues like pre-di...

Do you bully your body? How to get unstuck from your body negative thoughts! IME Body Image Thoughts to Think for June! Welcome to summer! Whew! So far, it’s been a whirlwind for our family with my daughter’s graduation from High School and tomorrow I’m headed to Texas to move my oldest daughter into a new house (for her) with new roommates! I’m grateful I get to do it. IME...

Parents, stop weight bullying your kid and your kid's friends! You're crossing an inappropriate boundary when you judge and comment on a child's body. Do better! Now! Here's the logic thread: If you weight bully, your kid will bully. If you are bullying, do a U-turn. You are bullying yourself. If you bully, you are stuck in diet culture and its toxic harms. All of it trickles to your kid. You are...

Setting Boundaries with Teens to Stop Weight Bullying   First on the playlist for the week is "We're not gonna take it" by Twisted Sister, a real get you pumped up to set some powerful boundaries with bullies 80's rock song. Video is hilarious too in case you want to transport yourself back to the 80’s.   When it comes to setting boundaries, are you an avoidant or compliant or are...

Hey,    Whether you are a teen, parent, physician, healthcare provider, teacher or school administrator, listen up!    I want you to know that I'm coaching you on a very sensitive topic in this first blog of my ongoing series.    In my teens and weight bullying series, I'm talking about bullying and its harmful effects, how common it is, who's at risk, the different t...

How do parents get it wrong when it comes to helping their teens struggling with weight and body image? Are parents helping or harming? I’m learning so much coaching teens and parents and learning on TikTok all the ways parents are getting it wrong. But, don’t worry. You are most likely working with good intentions and surely are getting a lot of parenting right. Let’s work toget...

What a great theme for the February IME Community Self-Love superpower daily mantras. February was a powerful month of mantras! We canceled diet culture, let go of the negative self-talk and learned the power of showing up for yourself! Pick out the daily mantras that are a good fit for you, write them down, change them up if you want and post them on your bulletin board or write them in a journal...

Dr. Karla Life Coaching GenX Parents of Teens   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eating Disorders Thrive in Secrecy, so Let's Talk About It! If you are struggling with an eating disorder or believe you may be, Go to the National Eating Disorders Association ( https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.o... ) for their Free online chat, call their Help Line at 1-800-931-2237 or contact their Crisis Line by Texting "NEDA" to 741741. Dr. Karla talks with Dr. Jillian Rigert (DMD and MD)...

Self-Kindness is the Key to Your Health Goals! Self-kindness is the key to Your Health Goals! I talk about self-love superpower all the time, but where should you start to get there? Self-love superpower starts with self-kindness. Happy Valentine's Day, by the way! I'm coaching you to be your own Valentine every day. Self-kindness leads to self-trust that you will have your own back as you take ac...

It's IME Community's One Year Anniversary! Guess what I'm doing to celebrate a year of IME Community building? Making this YouTube video! What else would I be doing? I'm sharing with you all my wins, losses, fails, all the things. I've been a founder of many things and, let me tell you, it's been a year. It's been incredible and so tough in many ways. Coaching teens has been the absolute best part...

Are you ready to have self-trust when it comes to eating? What if you could create a healthy relationship with food? What if you could accept yourself no matter what and also accept that you are worthy of your healthy life? You will be successful when your why will be to build self-trust by committing to loving yourself no matter what. That’s it. I bet you trust yourself in many areas of you...

How do you really feel about Food ?   Do you have a crush on Food ? Is Food like an ex that won’t go away?   Maybe you are grateful to Food for helping you get through tough times in life?   Want to create a healthy relationship with Food in 2022?   Start by writing a Dear Food letter.    Food is such a weird word!   Here’s my Dear Food letter:  ...

Happy 2022! Driving in a blizzard is something you shouldn’t willingly do, but sometimes cannot avoid.  Do you want to get home so much that you are willing to be stuck in an adrenaline surge for 12 straight hours?   We recently drove through a Colorado winter snowstorm in our family van (aka the family truckster).    Our kids are 21, 18 and 15 and I don’t know what...

Did you grow up hungry?  I did. The first time I shared my story of child hunger was when I was asked to do a write-up for the Food Bank of Lincoln's newsletter.  I was a new Board member and had my non-profit and as a community pediatrician, there were many intersections and common visions.  But, I had not shared the real reason why I wanted to serve on the Board of the Food Bank o...

Welcome to the December IME Parent Coaching Coffee Talk where I coach parents on all the happenings in IME Community. This is jam-packed with helpful goodness. I just know, since I’m a mom of three amazing humans, that we have good intentions as parents. The problem is, even though we have good intentions, it doesn’t always translate to showing up as a loving and supportive parent. So,...

Hello, I’m so excited to launch the IME Community Solutions for Children’s Health Podcast and YouTube series focusing on local solutions, highlighting the impactful work of visionary champions like my first guest, Jessie Coffey, MS, RDN! Want to hear about the time Jessie was working in the School Nutrition Department and one of the middle schools boycotted school lunch? Then, when she...

Welcome to another hot mess TikTok Live Coaching session! I have fun coaching wherever I have the opportunity. Unedited rapid question coaching is the best coaching. Are you stuck in fear of failure and lack of self-worth? Maybe you don’t even know you’re stuck in fear and lack with your parenting. It’s super tough to find a balance with our teens. It’s tough to know when t...

TikTok Trolls are gonna hate, I guess. We can't control that or the first comment they post on our videos. Oh wait. Yes, we can. Report. Delete. Block and then Lather. Rinse. Repeat. That's my strategy. I was coached by the IME Community member teens to only reply and to do so with a video to the outright misinformation that trolls try to spread. Otherwise, ignore. I'm lucky, I suppose, that I usu...

Parents, Don't be Stupid! In other words, stop sweating the small stuff with your teen. As a teen life and healthy weight coach and parent coach, but most importantly as a parent of three, who are 20, 18 and 15, believe me I have been stupid a lot and on many occasions. It's okay. We're creating a more helpful approach moving forward. First, does your teen struggle with their weight or body image...