Click here to text us! As professional women, we've had to learn a lot of things to make it in the career we chose. We took classes, attended years of school, and entered into the workforce ready to apply all that we've learned, but, as I'm sure almost all of us found out, there was still so much we needed to learn beyond didactics and practical knowledge in order to find success. A big part of work is learning how to communicate with your coworkers/partners, managing your emotions, and understa...
Jan 10, 2024•21 min
Click here to text us! Give yourself a pat on the back! You made it through to the other side of the holiday season and now we have a new year to look forward to! Even if you love the holidays and cherish the time that you get to spend with family, there are often some tough moments, especially for those of us on a weight loss journey. Whether it's food pushers, fighting relatives, or increased temptation with treats, they can make the holidays a bit harder. I know that this is definitely the ca...
Jan 03, 2024•14 min
Click here to text us! I think it's fair to say that we would all like to stay healthy, active, independent, and vibrant through midlife and far beyond into the later years of life. Because after all, what's not to love? It means being able to enjoy more of the things we enjoy for longer, and not having to think about the physical tasks required to get through everyday life. It's a win-win situation! One of the best ways to make this a possibility for ourselves as we continue to age, is through ...
Dec 27, 2023•35 min
Click here to text us! This week on the Vibrant-MD Podcast, I'm thrilled to have had Dr. Lola Ashaye join me to talk about building healthy habits. Dr. Lola Ashaye is a primary care physician, double board certified in family medicine and lifestyle medicine. She is the CEO of InTouch Primary Care, a concierge/direct care clinic in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land TX where people with or without health insurance can easily access consistent quality health care under a membership model. She is pas...
Dec 20, 2023•20 min
Click here to text us! Amongst all the hype surrounding some of the new obesity medications that have come out in recent years, and an emphasis on lifestyle modification to lose weight, it can be really hard for people thinking of starting a weight loss journey to know where to start. So today on the Vibrant-MD Podcast, with the help of obesity medicine specialist, Dr. Nikita Shah, we're going to try to make the decision a bit easier by shedding some light on how obesity medicine doctors think a...
Dec 13, 2023•36 min
Click here to text us! Did you know that it takes somewhere between 90 seconds and 5 minutes to fully process an emotion? In this episode, with the help of Dr. Arpita Gupta DePalma, we're going to be looking at anger and how it shows up in our lives as professional women and people on our final weight loss journeys. Anger is a tricky emotion for a lot of us to come to terms with, because it means coming to term with all the other negative feelings that we might be having. Jumping to anger gives ...
Dec 05, 2023•36 min
Click here to text us! "You are already whole and complete as you are." Feel the power in those words and let them sink in. This idea of being whole and complete is central to the Ayurvedic arts, and when I first encountered it, I remember feeling like a weight had lifted off of my shoulders. I hope you do too as you listen to this episode! Today, I'm joined by Dr. Rashmi Schramm to talk about how the practice of Ayurveda can be a great tool in weight loss. Dr. Schramm is a Board Certified physi...
Nov 29, 2023•27 min
Click here to text us! I like to think that the holiday season strolls in each year with the best of intentions, but without knowing, it usually brings some baggage that we could do without- especially those of us on our final weight loss journey. There's always an abundance of food and drink, often times there are family stressors, routines change, and all of this adds up to make weight loss seem impossible at this time of the year. But don't worry, you can get through it and I'm going to help ...
Nov 22, 2023•11 min
Click here to text us! Do you think miracle drugs exist? I think most doctors (myself included) would say that they don't exist, but after hearing my guest, Dr. Lina Qazi, talk about some of the weight loss medications out on the market, we can at least say that science has produced some pretty incredible medicine! Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are just a couple of the numerous weight loss medications that obesity medicine doctors like Dr. Qazi prescribe their patients. They all work similarly i...
Nov 15, 2023•24 min
Click here to text us! "Sitting is the new smoking." You've probably heard this before, and I'll admit that it's a bit provocative, but there is a lot of truth to the fact that sedentary lifestyles lead to greater risks of cardiovascular and cardio-metabolic diseases. Now, there's a new study out in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) saying that sitting may increase the chances of dementia. Let's get into this a bit more! In this episode, I dive into the details of the articl...
Nov 08, 2023•15 min
Click here to text us! Sleep is not just a luxury. It's a biological necessity that keeps us going and allows us to operate at our best. As professional women with careers, families, and hobbies, it's so easy to forget this and let sleep get pushed aside to create more waking hours- which is why I'm so happy to have had Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown as a guest on the podcast to help us with our sleep health. Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown is a board-certified sleep physician and the founder of Restful Sleep ...
Nov 01, 2023•24 min
Click here to text us! I'm sure you all have heard time and time again that it's important to drink water, and this seems obvious, right? It's the healthiest drink option and our bodies need it to perform their basic functions. But when it comes to weight loss, there's so many more benefits that drinking water provides. In this episode, we're going to get into those benefits, such as raising metabolism and providing feelings of satiation, as well as urinary urgency. Urinary urgency is something ...
Oct 28, 2023•12 min
Click here to text us! In this episode, I had a great conversation with Dr. Anshul Gupta about reversing Hashimoto's Disease. Dr. Gupta is a best-selling author, speaker, researcher, and a world expert in Hashimoto’s disease. He is a Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician, with advanced certification in Functional Medicine, Peptide therapy, and also Fellowship training in Integrative Medicine. He has worked at the Cleveland Clinic Department of Functional Medicine alongside Dr. Mark Hyman and...
Oct 19, 2023•41 min
Click here to text us! We can all define hunger with our words, but when it comes down to it, can we describe how it feels within our own bodies? As professional women, odds are that our worlds are constantly full of an abundance of food, which also means that we have the opportunity to never feel hungry if we don't want to. So when I tell people to eat 3 meals with proper spacing in-between so they can feel hungry before the next meal, it's not always clear what the signs of hunger truly consis...
Oct 11, 2023•9 min
Click here to text us! In this episode of the Vibrant-MD Podcast, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Dana Gibbs to talk about thyroid and weight loss. Dr. Dana Gibbs is a speaker, educator, hormone expert, board-certified ENT, and allergist. She maintains an online education platform where she shares her knowledge of Hormone Management and Allergy treatment methods with other interested physicians. Dr. Gibbs also presents virtual or in person workshops and free content that introduces t...
Oct 04, 2023•36 min
Click here to text us! Have you ever wondered where the intersection between alcohol, breast cancer, and weight loss is? For this episode, I sat down with my friend from residency, Dr. Stacey Devine to talk about the ways in which our alcohol consumption impacts weight loss and contributes to our risk of breast cancer. Dr. Devine has been a board-certified family medicine doctor since 2000 and has also completed a fellowship in lifestyle medicine from the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center...
Sep 13, 2023•27 min
Click here to text us! In this episode, I had a great conversation with Dr. Sadaf Lodhi about sex, intimacy, and body image. Dr. Lodhi is a board-certified OBGYN, an intimacy coach for women, and the founder of the Muslim Sex Podcast. She's been practicing as an OBGYN in New York for over 20 years with the mission of empowering and educating women, however, most recently she opened up a Telehealth practice to help women in NY and Michigan with sexual and menopausal health. Her goal is to help wo...
Sep 07, 2023•31 min
Click here to text us! There are countless weight loss programs out there at every possible price point for women to choose from. It can be tough trying to find the right program, and what I often hear about is someone will try a couple of the cheaper options without any success, and they'll turn to a higher ticket price option with the hope that the higher price will lead to better results. So if you are in the situation where you're about to invest in a high ticket price option, how can you kn...
Aug 30, 2023•20 min
Click here to text us! As a parent, doctor, and weight loss coach to other parents, I know that it often feels like there's no easy way to interact with our teens. Now factor in trying to talk to them about weight, body image, and health... We all want to good parents to our children, but there's no perfect way to do this. So the question I get frequently from my clients is this: How can I instill positive messaging about health in my children while making changes to what I eat on my weight loss...
Aug 25, 2023•27 min
Click here to text us! We're in mid-August now, which means most summer vacations are coming to an end, so I thought it would be a good time to talk about something that I know a lot of us can relate to: vacation weight gain. When we're on vacation, we tend to eat and drink more, and our routines go out the window to a large degree. With this in mind, it only makes sense that we might gain a few pounds. As we get back into our normal lives, however, I know that the vacation weight can feel like ...
Aug 16, 2023•11 min
Click here to text us! Remember Debbie Downer, the old SNL character who had a real pessimistic view of things? Well, after my last couple of podcast episodes where I talked about how the preserved meats on charcuterie boards are bad, and how protein shakes aren't good either, I've been feeling like a Debbie Downer. So in today's episode, I decided to turn things around and tell you what you CAN and SHOULD eat instead of telling you what you SHOULD'NT eat. I talk about how to build a charcuterie...
Aug 09, 2023•10 min
Click here to text us! Charcuterie boards have been around for a while, but in recent times they've really become popular across social media. And understandably so, right? You can design them to your liking with your favorite fruits, nuts, seeds, meats, cheeses, jams, etc... and they are extremely aesthetically pleasing to look at. In this podcast episode, we'll be talking about the good and the bad sides of charcuterie boards. They can be a lifesaver if you're ever at an event with limited foo...
Aug 01, 2023•11 min
Click here to text us! In this episode I'm joined by Dr. Malathi Acharya, an integrative medicine physician and founder of Ayur Integrative Medicine. She is passionate about all elements of integrative medicine, including, nutrition, supplements, botanicals, mind-body treatments, and treatments from alternate medical systems. We sat down to chat about antioxidants and where to find them. If you're a longtime listener of the podcast you know that I love to have berries everyday for their antioxid...
Jul 26, 2023•18 min
Click here to text us! Night-time eating. We've all been there, right? It's just so easy and comforting to plop down on the couch with a snack and nibble on it, but as far as weight loss goes, it's not doing us any favors! So, if we're on a weight loss journey, how do we cut this behavior out? On this episode, we'll go over the 4 main reasons why people eat during the night, as well as how to override whatever the reason, so that you can feel nourished both physically and mentally during the tim...
Jul 19, 2023•12 min
Click here to text us! "Breakfast like a Queen, lunch like a princess, and dinner like a pauper." This is widely regarded as a healthy way to eat, and a way to eat that will help you along your weight loss journey. And I'm not going to argue with it! Studies have shown that eating a big breakfast, a medium sized lunch, and a smaller dinner is an effective way to both maintain and lose weight. But you may be asking yourself, " What if I'm not hungry in the morning ?" or " How can I have a sizable...
Jul 12, 2023•9 min
Click here to text us! When you think about summer, I'm sure one of the first things that comes to mind is food. It's seemingly everywhere at picnics, barbecues, holiday celebrations... you name it! And for professional women over 50 who are on their final weight loss journey, it can feel like an impossible task to attend all of these events and not suffer a setback. In this podcast episode, I've put together some pieces of advice that I like to share with my clients to help them enjoy these sum...
Jun 28, 2023•15 min
Click here to text us! Nuts are so nutritious and delicious, but so easy to overeat! We love their protein, fiber, healthy fats, vitamins, mineral, and antioxidants, but we love to eat a lot of them. They are nutrient dense, which is a good thing, but also just plain DENSE. It's hard to stop at one serving with that delectable CRUNCH. Today on the podcast, I let you know how much is a good amount, so you can enjoy these little goodies on your weight loss journey. If you are looking for a guide o...
Jun 21, 2023•12 min
Click here to text us! Do you have a go-to side dish that you bring to a cook-out? Is it something you would eat on your weight loss journey, as well as delicious? On the podcast today, I talk about the ins and outs of picking a great dish that will serve your weight loss journey, as well as be a hit at the meal your friend's backyard BBQ. Great news for summer! Here's a link for our free weight loss mini-course too: https://www.vibrant-md.com/free-course-optin-vibrant-md ... Are you a professio...
Jun 06, 2023•14 min
Click here to text us! Did things go well on your weight loss journey, but now you've noticed the number bumping up on the scale again? There is help! Alicia Shelly, MD is my guest today and she is an expert on this topic. She shares her wisdom today on the podcast. If you're interested in the great work that Dr. Shelly is doing, check out her social media platforms with the links below: - Podcast - Website - Instagram - YouTube ... Are you a professional woman over age 50 who's ready to lose we...
May 24, 2023•13 min
Click here to text us! Did you ever go to a party and eat or drink something you didn't want to please your friends? Are you a people pleaser at work? I discuss this today with my friend, and a fellow physician coach, Dr. Mary Leung. Dr. Mary Leung is a physician who is board-certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology. She is also a certified life coach who is passionate about serving physicians who are stressed, overwhelmed and burned-out to leave work at work on time, and ...
May 11, 2023•29 min
