IME Community Podcast

Listen up, Parents, Teens and Doctors! Sometimes, I crack myself up. Do you do that? I hope so. Take your work seriously, but not yourself is my philosophy. Life is meant to be fun. Is easeful a word? It should be if it isn’t. I'm helping you take something that is very difficult, meaning having a conversation with your teen about weight, and create a more easeful approach. It will never be...

Dr. Karla Parent Coaching Coffee Talk Teens and Weight Bullying First, 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 80's rock song. Video is hilarious too in case you want to transport yourself back to my teen era.   Good morning or whatever time of day it is for you. I've been talking about teens and bullying t...

Hey, First, I want you to know that I'm talking about a sensitive topic in this YouTube video. I'm talking about bullying and its harmful effects, how common it is, who's at risk, the different types of bullying, but, most importantly, what you can do about it. Make sure you work with your pediatrician or family doctor and/or seek help from a licensed medical health provider to address your indivi...

• IME/UBU MONDAY o We are talking Relationships and boundaries for Week 12 of the IME Reverse Your Insulin Resistance Challenge o What do relationships and boundaries have to do with reversing your insulin resistance, reaching your health goals and losing weight? I’ve told you before and I’m gonna tell you again this week that taking action on a goal you are setting for yourself i...

Stress Less Sleep More: It’s Week 11 of the IME Reverse Your Insulin Resistance Challenge! • Welcome to Week 11 of the IME Reverse Your Insulin Resistance Challenge on TikTok, IG, YouTube and the IME Community podcast on Apple and Spotify. Check them all out and share with your friends! • Learning how to Stress Less Sleep More is a very important part of your overall health and hea...

Do you fully love and accept yourself no matter what? Did you know that self-acceptance is always available to you like a nice warm blanket? Did you know that self-acceptance has nothing to do with your weight? Self-love superpower is why I created IME Community. Welcome to Self-love Superpower, Week 10 or the IME Reverse Your Insulin Resistance Challenge! We just wrapped up Week 9: Diffusing LowC...

LowCarb is not zero carbs! Carbs are not bad. Eating LowCarb is not restriction. You don’t have to count carbs to eat low-carb. The low-calorie and low-fat diet craze that we’ve been attached to for decades has been an epic failure and has driven the epidemic of obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and all of the other psychosocial and economic costs that have come along wi...

Life Coaching Teens on All or Nothing Thinking! Hey, Teens and Parents and Doctors and everyone, it's time to get out of all or nothing thinking. In this awesome YouTube video and IME Community podcast, I'll teach you about dualistic, black and white, on again and off again thinking, and the harms of staying stuck. When I am life coaching teens on health and weight goals, I teach them, step by ste...

"Time after Time" by Cindy Lauper is the theme song of the day and everyday for those of us visionary pediatricians who keep speaking up and advocating for children and teens! I wasn't planning on doing a YouTube video today or IME Community podcast, but was made aware of a new study by Dr. Brynn Marks and her team at Children's National Hospital in Washington D.C. that showed that Type 2 Diabetes...

CoachU Monday: Welcome to what I believe is the most important and foundational principle you will learn when it comes to life coaching, reaching goals, and chasing your dreams. First, what I’m going to teach you isn’t anything new? Psychologists, philosophers, scientists, religious leaders, have known and taught this through the ages and that is, drumroll please, your thoughts create...

Do you know the ABC's of Food Choice? IME Community Radio Blast! Welcome to another IME Community Radio Blast! Are you a teen, 12 to 18, who is overweight or struggling with pre-diabetes, high blood pressure, PCOS, fatty liver disease, body image? Are you a parent of a teen and you want a different and more empowering way forward to help support your teen's health independence? Join IME Community...

Let's Trust Our Teens to Make Their Own Choices! I'm jammin' out to Miley Cyrus' cover of Blondie's Heart of Glass. I could listen to that intro over and over and I do! What's on your playlist for today? Here's the deal, if you are a parent of a teen, we have to start letting them figure out their health and that includes what food they want to eat Your teen's weight has nothing to do with you as...

Monday Mythbusters:  Calories are not the key to improving your metabolic health. It’s not that simple. Unfortunately, even though we can look around and see that simple calories in calories out thinking, just Eat Less Move More thinking, remains the standard of care in medicine.  It often doesn’t work.  It keeps us stuck in diet culture.  That’s been beat in...

Diet Culture, "Don't Bring Me Down!" Welcome to another IME Community Radio Blast. My song of the day is from 1979. It's ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down". Hey, fixed and limited diet culture, I'm so very tired and done with you. It's one thing to say reject diet culture, but, how takes a bit more work. I talk about why diets have built into business model failure and shame, why they don't work for perm...

Here we go! Arguing with fatdoctoruk on TikTok! I wasn't planning on this mini podcast, but here goes! I usually agree with about 50% of fatdoctoruk's content and same goes with this recent back and forth. Health and weight are not the same thing. I agree. Healthy weight loss is possible if that's what you want. If you reject diet culture and create your powerful why, learn self-love superpower, a...

I can’t believe we are almost half-way through the amazingness of the 12 week Reverse Your Insulin Challenge! I’m having a lot of fun showing up on YouTube, IME Community podcast and every day on TikTok doing videos and coaching on TikTok Live.    If you have been participating, let me know how it’s going.  You can email me at drkarlaactivistmd@imecommunity.com .&n...

Hey, Are you a teen struggling with your weight or body image like so many of us, especially with the COVID pandemic? The epidemic of childhood and teen obesity has gotten worse during COVID. IME Community is the first and only web-based life and weight coaching community for teens. Do you want to be both body positive now and also reach your health and weight goals? Have you gained weight during...

Here’s your latest IME Community News Headline: Social Media Friend Drama Causes Teen to Buffer Emotions with Food   Coach:  How did you feel when she blocked you on IG?    Teen: “I don’t know.”    Coach: Can you describe it?  Where is it in your body?  What color is it?    Teen: “I don’t know really.  I jus...

Hey Teens and Parents of Teens!  I'm excited to be doing more IME Community Radio Blasts and coach you on the daily on what's coming up for teens.  Are you struggling with pandemic weight gain?  More social anxiety, especially as you are headed back to school?  I know.  I know. Don't mention it.  First, I want to ask you what are you proud of this summer?  It doe...

Movement Monday: Your body was made to move!  7- day FITTE challenge.  What’s your why?  Don’t make it about calories in calories out.  Stay out of all or nothing thinking.  Stay out of waiting for motivation to come to you.  All movement counts. You are an exerciser.      Physical Activity History (remember your past self is only your thoug...

Ready for Week 3 of the Reverse Your Insulin Resistance Challenge?  Let’s go! We're talking urges, cravings and buffers this week.  This is powerful work.   Monday Motivation:   What are the ways you buffer?  Food, social media, shopping, sleeping, procrastination?  All of the above? What are the negative consequences of buffering in your life? Poor health, weig...

Welcome to Week 2 of the Reverse Your Insulin Resistance Challenge (RYIR challenge).    The focus for Week 2 is stop overeating and power of choice.  It’s all about individual autonomy.  Sounds redundant!   Everyone asks me and I get a lot of emails and requests for coaching for adults.  I get to help everyone with reversing insulin resistance and reaching healt...

Welcome to the IME Reverse Your Insulin Resistance Challenge (RYIR)! It’s the Kick Yourself in the RYIR Challenge! Yes, my children who are 20, 17, and 14 are making fun of the name.  That’s their job to make fun of their Mom!   I’m so excited! I’m having a blast with this.  IME Community is up to nearly 30k TikTok Followers from all over the world, so let&rs...

DO NOT TELL ME WHAT TO EAT! I have this edge to me. You do too.  No doubt.  It’s what it takes to achieve goals.    “Don’t say good job, say bad job.”  My daughter, Katherine, used to say that to us when she was a toddler whenever we would praise her. She didn’t like syrupy praise.  She’s 20 and a junior in college and she still can...

IME Community Radio Blast How to feel better (Playlist- “Walking on Sunshine” by Katrina and the Waves) Do you want to feel more positive? I’m not talking about the toxic positivity sugary layer of fakeness slapped on tough situations.  Don’t you just feel like telling toxic positive people to shut their mouths? Positivity has to be believable. You create positivity wi...