Weight Management

You're working hard to lose weight, and even though you've had some success, it's not easy. Maybe your weight loss has stalled. Maybe your diet is beginning to bore you. Maybe you're having cravings you just can't ignore. You need help to stay motivated. Let's talk about some tricks that can keep you on track.

It seems we don't always have time for traditional meals. We may grab a quick bite while working, or eat while we're "on-the-go." We may choose foods we know aren't healthy. Eating this way isn't good for you. Junk food is bad for your body. And when you eat while focused on other things, it's easy to eat too much. To combat these bad habits, you can practice a technique we call "mindful eating."

This is a low-carbohydrate diet that stresses the importance of eating fats. It can help people lose weight. And losing extra weight improves your health.

This eating plan helps some people lose weight. With intermittent fasting, you eat a healthy diet during some periods. During other periods, you don't eat. Or, you eat very little. We call these "fasting" periods. Fasting helps you eat fewer calories overall than you normally would. This helps with weight loss.

Staying fit is a challenge for many people. Carrying too much body fat is bad for your health. Being "overweight" means you weigh more than what we consider normal for your body type. If you keep gaining weight, you may become "obese." Let's take a few minutes to learn about weight and your health.

Many overweight men carry their extra weight in the belly area. If you have a lot of belly fat, you may think it's harmless. But your tendency to gain weight in the belly area means you have a higher risk for some health problems. Let's learn more about what belly fat means for you.

This helps you lose weight without surgery. It's done through an endoscope. That's a long, thin tube with a light, a camera and a channel for instruments. This procedure makes the space inside your stomach smaller. You'll eat less and feel full longer. It can help you lose a lot of weight.

If you want the health benefits of a sauna session but can't tolerate high heat, infrared sauna therapy may be right for you. An infrared sauna directly heats your body with light. This is different from traditional saunas. They heat you up by warming the air around you.