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Take Back Your Health
Experts in chronic medical weight management for preventing, managing and reversing health conditions.
We prescribe and manage chronic weight managment pharmacotherapy within a structured and comprehensive program for the best long term results.
We are a medical program, not just a prescription.
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Healthy Home Makeover
Before the pandemic, I would have said that many people spend as many waking hours at work as they do at home. Now, many people spend a...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jul 30, 20226 min read
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Alcohol & Health: Friend or Foe
Alcohol has somehow managed to take a significant place in our society. Primarily in the form of ethyl alcohol (ethanol), it has occupied...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jul 23, 20225 min read
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Stress: Hidden but Harmful
Stress: it seems to have become an omnipresent thing in so many people’s lives for the past two and a quarter years or more. While stress...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jun 26, 20224 min read
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Shame, Anxiety & Weight Bias
Yesterday, it hit me once again; I failed my patients. In April 2020, faced with the start of the Covid pandemic, school closures, and...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jun 18, 20223 min read
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Body Image, Disordered Eating & Obesity
Obesity is a medical disease characterized by a chronic metabolic dysregulation of energy in which there is a higher than normal weight...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jun 4, 20226 min read
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Obesity Action Coalition: Setting the Record Straight
Losing weight and keeping it off is difficult enough for many reasons. Add to the intrinsic difficulty the mixed messages people get, the...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Apr 2, 20223 min read
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Week 8: Making Weight Loss Last
Congratulations! You have now gotten down all of the integral parts of weight loss! Look at all of the wonderful things you are doing:
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Feb 26, 20224 min read
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Week 7: Celebrating Your Victories!
Congratulations! You are on Week 7 and half way through a 12 week program. This is a fun week. We are going to celebrate your victories!...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Feb 19, 20226 min read
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Week 6: Take Back Your Mealtime
Congratulations! You are on your sixth week of your program! If you are doing a 12 week program, which is typical for women losing about...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Feb 12, 20224 min read
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Week 3: Trust Your Body
Congratulations! Each week, you are getting closer to your goal! You have completed two weeks of a very low calorie diet/protein sparing...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jan 22, 20223 min read
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Week 2: Practice Makes Permanent
Congratulations! You have made it through Week 1, or Adapting Week! The first week can be the hardest with physical symptoms. If you...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jan 15, 20225 min read
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The Power of Positive Thinking
Mindset is possibly the most important part of a health and wellness plan. Unfortunately, self-blame, shame and guilt have been...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Dec 11, 20212 min read
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The Perfect Week
The Perfect Week
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Oct 30, 20214 min read
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There's an App for that: Your Health!
During the Fall Challenge, you have been asked to do "Color My Day" to win an entry to a drawing. But, that is only the tip of the...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Oct 2, 20217 min read
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Stress & Health: Week 2 Fall Challenge
It is week 2 of the Fall Challenge. Congratulations to everyone who has decided to invest some space in your brain, time, and life to...
Valerie Sutherland, MD
Sep 18, 20216 min read
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