Have you heard the one where the student says to her spiritual master, “Everything that you teach us we can read in our holy books.”  She then asks, “Given that, why do we need a guru?”

“Don’t ask me...

Ever eaten a slice of stale birthday cake in the breakroom just to be polite?

Accepted a burnt chocolate chip cookie your child baked because you didn’t want to hurt their feelings?

Or maybe you for...

As a busy doctor mom, how many times have you said this to yourself?

“If I just had more time, I could finally lose the weight.”

It’s one of the most common thoughts I hear from the women I coach—es...

She had tried all the weight loss apps and was stuck.

Carol is a mid 40’s full-time pediatrician, a site leader at her office, a mom to a busy teen girl—and someone who’s tried all the usual programs...

Let’s talk about motivation—or rather, the myth of motivation.

So many of us wait until we feel motivated to take action, whether it’s eating healthier, working out, or making time for self-care. 

B...

I used to think my fate was sealed. Growing up, I watched family members struggle with Type 2 diabetes and hypertension, and I believed I had inherited the same future. I’ve got bad genes, I told myse...

How many times have you thought, I should have weight loss figured out—after all, I tell my patients to lose weight almost daily!

You’re not alone. I hear this from so many physician moms who shame t...

As physicians, charting is an inevitable—and often dreaded—part of the job. Whether we’re racing against the clock to finish notes before heading home or multitasking during downtime, it’s all too eas...

One of my favorite things to do is celebration calls with my clients when they come to the end of my Mama Docs Weight Loss Accelerator.

While some of the transformations they make on the inside of my...

Something happens to doctors in our training process, we stop listening to our bodies. We learn how to disconnect from our bodies.

I remember being a 3rd-year medical student scrubbed into an 8-hour ...

Stress eating is a learned behavior and is one of four bad habits I picked up when I became an emergency physician that made it hard for me to lose weight and keep it off. 

Whenever the ER would get ...

Ever heard the one about intermittent fasting being the weight loss godsend for busy professionals?

'Skip some meals and melt the fat' is the mantra. If only weight loss was as simple as a catchy slo...