Thriving As A Physician: How to Lose Weight & Love Your Life

For years I looked for the one "right way" to fix my eating — the perfect diet, the magic amount of willpower, the finish line where I could finally relax.

Turns out most of what I believed about weight loss and my stress eating wasn't just wrong. It was making the whole journey harder.

In this episode I walk through five myths (plus a bonus one) that keep so m...

"If it's in my house, I'll eat the whole thing. So I just don't buy it."

Ice cream, chips, cookies, the good chocolate — whatever yours is, you've been handling it by keeping it out. And that works fine… until the food shows up at work, or at a party, or at your friend's place, or on the dessert menu.

Because you can keep it out of your house but you can't keep...

You know how you're always the one taking the photo? Never in it. You tell yourself you'll get in the pictures once you lose the weight, or fit the clothes, or just feel a little better about your body.

Here's the hard truth: there's no magic day when it gets easier. If you don't do the body image work, your brain will still find something to pick apart — even after yo...

For years I assumed I'd lose weight over the summer. Warm weather, fresh food, more time off — it just felt like lighter eating should happen on its own. It took me way too long to notice the truth: summer was actually the hardest time of year for me, and I usually gained.

If that's you too, this episode is for you. I walk through the four things that quietly make summ...

You set the goal: get the weight off before the long weekend, before the conference, before you see those people again. And you're great at it… for a couple weeks. Then you get sick, or your kid gets sick, or you have a week from hell — and one off day turns into "well, I blew it, I'm done."

In this episode I sit down with registered psychotherapist Brian Baumal to tal...