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Weight Loss
Evidence-informed guidance on obesity treatment, hunger, GLP-1 medications, weight maintenance, and body composition.
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Understanding Hunger: Why Your Hunger Has Nothing to Do with Willpower
One of the biggest myths in medicine is that hunger is simply a matter of self-control. If that were true, obesity would have been solved decades ago. Instead,…
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Choosing Maintenance: An Act of Self-Compassion
I was recently working with someone during a health coaching appointment who had spent most of her life fighting with her body. She knew every diet, every rule,…
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10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Weight Loss Journey
My whole life, I thought weight loss was about food and willpower, but after decades in the trenches, it turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong. If…
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When Your “After” Still Looks Like Someone Else’s “Before”
There’s a kind of PTSD that comes from living in a morbidly obese body for decades. There is the reliving of the obvious moments — the stares,…
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What Stress Quietly Changed: An Experiment and 10 Pounds Lost
For years, I followed a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic approach with consistency. This was not a temporary phase or a cyclical strategy. It was a sustained, deliberate way of eating…
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The Importance Of Self-Care
It’s no secret that as a society we are all under a ridiculous amount of stress, and that our own self-care often suffers serious neglect as a result.…
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Cracking the Hunger Code: A Special Interview with Dr. Jason Fung
For generations, we have accepted the story that weight loss never truly lasts. We are told that once the diet ends or the medication stops, the weight comes…
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Sleep May Be the Missing Link in Your Weight Loss Journey
Waking up after a restful night’s sleep is one of the best feelings in the world and is a critical part of just about every aspect of your…
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Medical Gaslighting: Ignoring Patients’ Needs Undermines Health and Trust
I have spent my entire life fearing doctors. No matter what I went in for, an ear infection, the flu, a broken wrist, the conversation always circled back…
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Amy’s Corner: Finding Strength in Recovery
Reflections from the ObesityHelp Conference Recently, Dr. Tro and I spoke at the ObesityHelp conference, an organization dedicated to bariatric patients. I’m always a bit nervous before I…
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Weight Watchers is Dead
Last year, Weight Watchers – the company long held up as the gold standard in smart and sensible dieting – filed for bankruptcy in an attempt to restructure…
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Beyond Diets: How I Found
the Support I DeservedTwo years into my low-carb journey, I found myself in a place I knew all too well after decades on the diet-binge rollercoaster: panicked, frustrated, and angry at…
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How One Simple Tool Helped Shed 69 Pounds and Could Help You Too
A recent Woman’s World feature, Struggling With Belly Fat? Over-The-Counter Continuous Glucose Monitors Can Help, highlights how Suzy Demeester lost 69 pounds and transformed her health with the…
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1-Year Keto & Fasting Study
Proves Sustainable Weight LossIn Case You Missed It Our 1-year study on keto, carnivore, and fasting reversing chronic disease has gained tremendous attention, ranking in the Top 50 in Frontiers…
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New Study: Making America Healthy–One Company at a Time
Toward Health is Making America Healthy: New Study Confirms 12-Month Weight Loss, Medication Deprescription, and Cost Savings Using the TOWARD Approach Tappan, NY – Toward Health is proud…
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Doctor Tro’s
Medical Weight Loss is Now
TOWARD HEALTH“TOWARD HEALTH” Launches: A Transformative Approach to Metabolic Health, Type 2 Diabetes Remission, Obesity Management, and Food Addiction [New York, January 1] – In a pivotal move to…
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Member Spotlight: Scott
First name: Scott Age (optional): 53 Where do you live? Delaware Profession? Professor of Interpersonal Communication at University of Delaware Diet/weight history? Max weight 300+, been dieting since I…
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Lessons from the Gila Monster: GLP-1 and Ketogenic Diets
The Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum), a unique lizard known for its binge-eating behavior, produces the hormone exenatide, the basis for diabetes medications such as Ozempic and Mounjaro. …
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Beyond the Pill: Why Pharmaceutical Quick Fixes Fall Short
In a striking display of marketing prowess, Eli Lilly recently funded a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, touting its latest pharmaceutical offering as a groundbreaking solution…
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Member Spotlight: Bryan
First name: Bryan Age: 43 Where do you live? Long Island, NY Profession? School bus supervisor/trainer Diet/weight history? Weight has fluctuated but I hit…
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