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Weight Loss & Obesity
Evidence-informed guidance on obesity treatment, hunger, GLP-1 medications, weight maintenance, and body composition.
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Are You Hungry? The 6 Defenses for Sustainable Weight Loss
By Amy Eiges For decades, it felt like I was hitting my head against a brick wall trying to lose weight and improve my health. Every day brought…
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Non-Scale Victories: How to Measure Weight Loss Progress
Highlights from a Toward Health coaching discussion about non-scale victories, day-to-day weight changes, setbacks, and remembering why you started.
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Tales From The Scale: The Evil Metal Box
Health Coach Amy Eiges: Dealing With a Bad Case of the F***-Its By Amy Eiges This is not the blog post I intended to sit down and write…
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How to Keep “Cheats” From Sinking Your Weight Loss Goals
By Brian Wiley In most cases, I don't think using the term "cheating" to describe a deviation from your diet is appropriate, because cheating is defined as “acting…
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Why You Still Have Room for Dessert: Sensory-Specific Satiety and Food Variety
A plain-language summary of sensory-specific satiety, food variety, and the practical examples discussed during a Toward Health coaching meeting.
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Remote Monitoring Tools Become Even More Useful Amid COVID-19 Concerns
Patients Can Reverse Symptoms of Diabetes, Come Off Meds & Overcome Obesity, and More Without Visiting Doctor’s Office In the midst of a pandemic that has literally…
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New Beginnings: How I Selected the Location for My Medical Weight Loss Practice
By Dr. Tro Kalayjian Opening my own medical practice was truly a humble beginning for me. When I left the large hospital system I was working for, I…
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How Stress Drives Hunger, Cravings, and Weight Regain
You can be eating well, following your plan, and feeling in control—and then life gets hard. Work pressure rises. Someone you love becomes ill. Sleep falls apart. Conflict…
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It’s a Miracle I Haven’t Started Tweeting Obscenities About This…
By Dr. Tro Kalayjian I was in the middle of writing a blog post about last Tuesday’s highly successful low-carb/keto event when I saw a tweet linking to…
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“I Am Not Broken”
Freedom is Attainable — It’s On the Other Side of the Mountain of Garbage We’ve All Been Fed “Jeez, Amy. What are you getting so worked up about?”…
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Grand Rounds Presentation on Hunger & Obesity at Virginia Commonwealth University
On Thursday, June 13th, 2019, Dr. Tro Kalayjian presented at Virginia Commonwealth University, to the Department of Medicine at Internal Medicine Grand Rounds. The presentation was made to…
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Is Fruit Healthy?
Patients ask me all the time… “Is fruit is healthy?” Many patients are shocked to discover that my recommendations are NOT to eat as many fruits and vegetables…
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The Myth of Calories: Why Counting Alone Misses Hunger and Satiety
Calories are real. They measure energy, and long-term changes in body weight necessarily involve changes in energy storage. The myth is that knowing the number—or trying harder to…
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Long-Term Weight-Loss Strategies
There are exactly 5 ways to lose weight in the LONGTERM- WITHIN a low carb, keto/carnivore dietary paradigm •Preventing Carb Creep •Time Restricted Feeding •Protein Leverage •Hunger Re-Assessment…
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