Weight Loss for Busy Physicians | ​​Helping Women Physicians Lose Weight for the Last Time

Are you in the mood for a little heart-to-heart?  I think most of us are craving more connection in our lives, so I’d love to take this episode as an opportunity to get real and raw with you and meet you wherever you’re at.  In this cozy and chatty episode of Weight Loss for Busy Physicians, we’re talking all about ways to improve your well-being. I’m specifically referencing Shira Gill's lis...

What if I told you you could ditch the concept of portion control, never think about it again, and still lose weight? I’m here to challenge some widely held beliefs about portion control because, to be honest, I don’t like it and I don’t think it’s helpful. Many of us feel like we have to use portion control to lose weight even though we don’t enjoy it and it doesn’t feel good. I don’t know about...

Do you spend more time thinking about how you feel or how you look? Like so many of us, you’ve probably been conditioned to put more importance on how you look. There’s not necessarily anything wrong with that, but if it’s at the cost of how you feel, it might be time for something to change. In this episode of Weight Loss for Busy Physicians, we’re exploring the difference between how you feel an...

When was the last time you thought about simplifying your life?  One of the biggest problems that people run into when they’re trying to lose weight or improve their relationship with food is finding time. It can feel impossible to fit one more thing into your already busy schedule. If that’s true for you, I want to help you figure out how to simplify your schedule to create the results you want....

Do you ever feel like no one really understands what it’s like to be in a medical marriage? Whether you’re a doctor or you’re married to one, a lot of the challenges you face are unique to your situation.  Sara Payne is a master-certified relationships coach who specializes in helping women create rock-solid relationships with the most important people in their lives.  I invited her to join us on...

Do you think you’re a sensitive person? We’re conditioned to think that it’s bad to be sensitive. If you’ve ever been told you’re being “too sensitive,” you’ll know what I mean, but is sensitivity really a bad trait to have? I don’t think so and I’m going to explain why.  In this episode of Weight Loss for Busy Physicians, we’re exploring how to know if you’re a sensitive person and what that mean...

What could you be delegating to make your life easier? I want you to really consider this question as you listen to this episode of Weight Loss for Busy Physicians.  I think when we have so much going on in our busy lives, we forget that we could ask for help with some of it. Yes, it will cost you to hire help, but how much is your time and well-being worth to you? When you look into it, a lot of...

Do you struggle to treat yourself with compassion? Self-compassion is a hidden gem in the world of well-being and mental health. A lot of people know about it but not so many people know how to practice it. Sometimes we even start to beat ourselves up for not practicing it, which is totally counterproductive! So how do we change? My goal for this episode of Weight Loss for Busy Physicians is to no...

Why do you need to believe that success is possible before you can achieve something Maybe you feel like there’s an obvious answer to this question or maybe not. Either way, I invite you to explore it with me in this episode of Weight Loss for Busy Physicians. We’re delving into why you need to believe that success is possible, how to start believing it, and how to continue believing it along your...

What would happen if you stopped forcing yourself to eat food you don’t like? This made a huge difference for me when I was losing weight for the last time and changing my relationship with food. In order to have peace and freedom around food, I had to like the food I was eating. Makes sense, right? There are a lot of reasons you might eat food that doesn’t taste good to you. Maybe as a kid, you h...

How do your clothes make you feel? If they don’t make you feel happy, confident, and like yourself, what can we do to change that? It’s become normalized to get help in a lot of areas of our lives which I think is a great thing, but there are still many areas where it hasn’t. There’s one area in particular that I want to take a look at that you might not have considered before, and that’s your war...

Do you dread having to speak in front of groups of people? Do you get so nervous your heart starts racing and you can’t focus on what you’re supposed to say? Yeah, same. At least I used to! It took a long time, but I’ve finally overcome my fear of public speaking! I’m so excited to be able to say that and to share with you how I did it because I know I’m not the only one who struggles with this. ...

Welcome back for Part 2 of our conversation with Erin Aquin and Steve Haase. In this episode, we’re talking about leadership. No one ever really teaches you how to be a good leader, you’re just expected to know how to do it like it’s a skill you’re born with. If you’ve ever found yourself in a leadership role, you know that’s not true. Sure, anyone can be a leader, but that doesn’t mean they’re a...

Do you struggle to make self-care a priority in your busy schedule? What if there was a better way to think about self-care that made it easier to integrate into your life? I sat down with Erin Aquin & Steve Haase to hear what they had to say about taking care of yourself from a leadership perspective and making self-care doable and accessible, even for the busiest doctors.  One of the reasons...

If you’re a doctor you can have Sunday Scaries, Monday Scaries, Tuesday Scaries… it goes on and on. Does that sound like your situation? I know it was mine for a while.  Let’s break down what’s happening when you get the Sunday Scaries, or work dread, and see if there’s a way you can prevent it.  I learned about the concept of Sunday Scaries when I was trying to figure out why I often stayed up wa...

Do you struggle with the Sunday Scaries, always dreading Monday and the week ahead?  You deserve to be happy all seven days of the week, not just Saturday and Sunday, and in this episode, we’re talking about how to make that your reality. One of our Weight Loss for Doctors Only coaches, Cledra Gross, is here to share how she learned to feel good every day and how you can too.  Get ready to do some...

If you’ve been feeling a little off lately, could it be that you’re going through an adjustment period? Going through an adjustment period can throw you off in a lot of areas like weight loss, home life, mood, motivation, and so many others. I’ve been going through this myself lately, so I wanted to talk about what my experience has been like and share the process that has helped me through it.  W...

Is charting an agonizing experience for you? Some people might think I’m being dramatic but if you know, you know. Charting can cause a huge amount of stress that feels like it’s never going to end, and that leads many of us to turn to food as a coping mechanism.  Here on the Weight Loss for Busy Physicians podcast, we’re all about addressing the root causes of your problems so that you’re not rel...

I talk a lot about peace and freedom around food, but what about peace and freedom around politics?  This episode of Weight Loss for Busy Physicians is coming out about a year ahead of the next presidential election in the US. Election season causes stress for a lot of people and so does the build-up to it, so I wanted to give you an episode that you can come back to whenever you need. We’re talki...

Happy Halloween! Whether you love Halloween or not, it can be a pretty intense food day, and there are a lot of other food-centered holidays coming up too, so I want to help you prepare to handle intense food days, whatever they may be for you. There are a lot of days that feel intensely food-centered for different people and they’re not always holidays, so this episode will be here to help you ou...

Have you thought about getting a wearable device like an Apple Watch, FitBit, or Oura Ring to help you on your weight-loss or health journey? I’ve taken a long time to gather my thoughts on this and now I’m ready to share them with you, so if you’re curious what I think about wearable technology, stick around.  I’m sharing the pros and cons of wearable devices, when they’re helpful and when they’r...

What can you fill your time with instead of eating? If you’ve been working on not overeating or emotionally eating and you’ve made some progress, you might notice that you’re not sure how to fill the void that food once filled. This is a great opportunity to reconnect with yourself and the needs you have that you were trying to meet with food.  This episode of Weight Loss for Busy Physicians will...

There are a lot of resources out there for leaders on how to raise the morale of their employees, but how do you go about raising your own morale? Morale is pretty low right now across the board, but it’s particularly tough in the medical field. I want to have an open conversation about what causes low morale and share some simple and practical ways for you to raise your morale.  This episode is a...

Let’s talk about in-laws.  Why do so many of us have strained relationships with our in-laws? Dr. Amruti Choudhry has some answers for you. Maybe you don’t have difficult in-laws but you have other challenging relationships in your life that you’d like to work on—this episode applies to you too.  In this episode, Dr. Amruti is here to share how healing her relationship with herself led to healing...

I often hear from clients that they are Type A and they have all kinds of questions about how they should handle situations based on their Type A personality.  Are you someone who identifies strongly as Type A? If so, I have a bit of a challenge for you. What would happen if you let go of that label, just a little bit? In this episode of Weight Loss for Busy Physicians, I’m exploring where the Typ...