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

Do you think that creating peace and freedom around food is magical thinking? I think before we can answer that question, we have to explore what magical thinking actually is and whether it’s good or bad. In this episode of Weight Loss for Busy Physicians, I’m taking a deep dive into magical thinking and why people often think that certain weight loss methods are a type of magical thinking.  It’s...

If you’re already feeling behind, pressed for time, and like there are never enough hours in the day, how do you make time to create peace and freedom around food? For a lot of us, this is the million-dollar question.  Our thoughts and past experiences lead us to believe that creating peace and freedom around food is a lot more time-consuming than it actually is. In this episode, we’re reframing t...

Have you ever wondered if my approach to coaching is the same as intuitive eating? This has come up a few times with my clients, so I thought it might be helpful to break down what intuitive eating is and how it compares to coaching.  There are a lot of amazing principles in the intuitive eating approach that I completely agree with and teach in my own coaching sessions, but there are also a few a...

Have you been putting off going to the doctor’s office? You would think that as doctors we would have no problem going to get medical care for ourselves, but it’s actually pretty common for doctors to avoid going to the doctor’s office. This comes up again and again for my clients and I’ve dealt with it too, so if this is something you struggle with, you’re not alone.  Why is it that we avoid goin...

Do you have a complicated relationship with your work?  A lot of doctors do. Some days are great and some are really hard; there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that.  I want to help you reconnect with your reasons for becoming a doctor so that you can feel more satisfied with your work, even on the hard days.  In this episode, I’m offering a different way of thinking about your relationship wi...

How do you go about asking for what you want in the workplace? No one really teaches you how to have difficult conversations when it comes to asking for the compensation you deserve, so it can be hard to speak up and advocate for yourself. The reality is if we want to have any hope of closing the gender pay gap in medicine then we have to learn to ask for what we want. On top of that, you deserve...

I want to propose an alternative to work/life balance. What if we worked towards work/life alignment instead?  I don’t know about you, but I cringe when I hear the term “work/life balance.” The more we try to achieve it, the worse we feel about ourselves. For something to be balanced, it has to be perfectly matched on both sides, and I just don’t think that’s realistic when it comes to work and li...

Have you ever felt like it’s impossible to thrive as a woman physician in our healthcare system? That breaks my heart and it’s time it changed.  In this episode, we’re celebrating National Women Physician’s Day (February 3rd), and I figured what better way to celebrate than by talking about what helps women physicians to thrive?  I’ve learned a lot from coaching women physicians for so many years,...

This is the fourth and final episode in the New Year, New Thoughts series, and it’s a special one because it’s the six-year anniversary of the podcast! Can you believe it? I can’t! Whether you’ve been listening since the beginning or you’re a new listener, thank you so much for being here. Over the last few episodes, we’ve been reading from chapters of my book, How to Lose Weight for the Last Time...

Are you ready to talk about science? If you’re tuning into this podcast, I’m guessing you probably love science as much as I do. Science makes sense. It’s reliable, predictable, and fact-based.  In this episode, we’re covering chapter 6 of my book, How to Lose Weight for the Last Time: Brain-Based Solutions for Permanent Weight Loss. I’m sharing the five steps of the scientific method and teaching...

We tend to think of winning or losing as black or white. It’s one or the other. What if that didn’t have to be the case? Welcome to the second episode in the New Year, New Thoughts series. In this episode, I’m talking all about chapter 3 of How to Lose Weight for the Last Time - reframing losing. I’m reading some small sections from the book and then going even deeper right here on the podcast, so...

This is the first episode in the New Year, New Thoughts series that I’m hosting here on the podcast. I’m rejecting the concept of “new year, new you,” because I don’t think you need to be a new you. I think it’s okay to accept yourself just the way you are right now.  In this series, I’ll be elaborating on some of the chapters from my book, How to Lose Weight for the Last Time: Brain-Based Solutio...

Have you ever wondered if weight loss medication could work for you? These medications have been getting a lot of attention on TikTok and other social media platforms lately, so let’s talk about them.  In this episode, we’re taking a look at how weight loss medications fit into the journey to permanent weight loss. Could they work for you? What are the side effects? How effective are they? These a...

Could you use some help processing a loss or supporting someone else through their loss? Those of you who have been around for a while might recognize our guest in this episode, Krista St-Germain, from her earlier episodes on the podcast. Krista is here to talk about how to cope with loss and grief.  She’s sharing some of the latest research and insights into grief, what the grief plateau is, and...

Why is it so hard to break old habits and create new ones? Really it comes down to the science behind how your brain works. The more you think a certain thought, the more you strengthen that neural pathway in your brain, and the easier it becomes to think that thought again. In this episode, we’re talking about the challenges of blazing new neural pathways alone vs. with help.  I have quite a stor...

Do you struggle to spend money on yourself? Whenever the Weight Loss for Doctors Only program opens up, I hear from women physicians who are interested in it but can’t bring themselves to sign up. They want results, they know it would help them, but they just can’t do it. I want to explore why we struggle so much to invest in ourselves.  As a doctor, you are highly influential in other people’s li...

You might have heard of toxic positivity, but have you heard of toxic independence? In this episode, we’re talking about how to move away from toxic independence and closer to an appropriate amount of independence.  You’ll learn what toxic independence is, where it comes from, and how to overcome it. You might be surprised to learn as you listen that you have more toxic independence traits than yo...

Do holidays make you feel out of control when it comes to food? The holidays can be a challenging time for those of us who are trying to find freedom around food and put our health first. It’s a time when there always seems to be an excess of food! This episode is all about how to approach food-centric holidays. We’re talking about the 6-8 weeks of the holiday season, but the principles from this...

Could your relationship with food be affecting your pet’s health? Nadina Cojocaru is here to talk to us about how pets become overweight as a result of being overfed by their owners.  When a pet parent is no longer emotionally eating, it is common for them to start offering more food to their pet instead. Nadina sees many overweight pets who have been emotionally overfed by their owners and she wa...

Have you ever had a little stumble and felt like you ruined your whole plan; like you’ll never be able to lose that weight? If you stumbled on the sidewalk, it wouldn’t stop you from ever going for a walk again, right? So how do we take that approach to stumbling and apply it to weight loss?  We all stumble physically and sometimes we stumble figuratively on our journeys to weight loss or freedom...

When you are faced with a problem that you don’t know how to solve, what do you do? This episode is all about weight loss problem solving.  Sometimes we come up against a problem that we don’t know how to handle and then we start to tell ourselves that we just can’t do it. Trust me, it happens to all of us. I want to share some problem-solving methods to help you overcome those obstacles instead o...

Many physicians experience burnout at some stage in their careers, putting themselves, their patients, and even their colleagues at risk. With the amount of responsibility and ever-increasing hours, it’s not hard to see why this is such a common occurrence. However, this inability to find a work-life balance is not sustainable and should not just be accepted as the norm. So, in this episode, Dr. J...

We've all had those experiences where something was not what we expected it to be. Whether it’s having kids, or a new job, or a certain type of relationship in your life, you have no doubt experienced the phenomenon where reality does not match the expectation. In this episode, I’m sharing the three steps to help you get through those difficult situations that are not what you had hoped for....

Do you pay attention to the way in which you think about aging? And in particular, what you think about yourself as you age? You may not realize that there are sneaky ways in which your own self-talk can actually hold you back, and that’s exactly what I’m diving into in this episode. Listen in as I explore how our thoughts and our words can have a dramatic effect on how we view not only aging, but...

Today I’m turning the tables and answering questions from my physician clients all about weight loss and so much more. If you’ve been wondering what I eat every day or what my funniest intern or residency memory is, this is an episode you won’t want to miss! You can find show notes and more by clicking here: http://www.katrinaubellmd.com/300 Free Class: How to Weigh What You Want Without Doing Sh*...