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...
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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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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jul 23, 20225 min read
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...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jun 26, 20224 min read
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...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jun 18, 20223 min read
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...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jun 4, 20226 min read
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...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Apr 2, 20223 min read
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...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Feb 26, 20224 min read
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:...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Feb 19, 20226 min read
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!...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Feb 12, 20224 min read
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...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jan 22, 20223 min read
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...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Jan 15, 20225 min read
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...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Dec 11, 20212 min read
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...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Oct 30, 20214 min read
The Perfect Week
The Perfect Week In this week's blog, I am pulling it all together into an example of a “perfect day,” including a weekday and a...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Oct 2, 20217 min read
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...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
Sep 18, 20216 min read
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...
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