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Working With Your Brain, Not Against It, For Easier Weight Loss

If you get my weekly newsletter (and sign up here if you don’t! It’s a fabulous, free, uplifting health resource!) than you already know I turned 50 this year. On my birthday I shared my mindframe heading into the second half-century of my life, along with some holistic longevity tips: I’m 50 Today! Musings On Turning A Half Century Old + 7 Longevity Tips Well turning 50 had me noticing perimenopausal symptoms — there is no more denying it — and with that has come a bit of weight gain. I found myself routinely internally shaming myself for […]

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May 20 2024

You Can’t Lose Stress Weight By Dieting, Do These 10 Lifestyle Hacks Instead

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Are you having fun yet? As much as the holidays can be a meaningful time of connection, damn can it be stressful. You might typically associate stress with a tension headache, or difficulty sleeping at night, or being in a bad mood. But did you know stress also causes weight gain? But if you don’t know that stress causes weight gain, you’ll probably wind up blaming your diet and then stress out about every bite of food you eat. But that’s not necessary. In fact, stressing out about what you are eating actually contributes to more weight gain.

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Dec 18 2023

How Our Environment Can Cause Weight Gain & What You Can Do About It

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Although the traditional approach to weight loss focuses on calories in vs. calories burned, we are starting to become more and more aware about how our environment actually impacts our weight. There are many contributing factors, well beyond diet and exercise, that cause significant issues in our metabolism. In fact, the environment has such an impact on our weight that there is an entire category of environmental chemicals that are now considered obesogens — chemicals directly responsible for contributing to obesity. Obesogens increase fat has, modify our basal metabolic rate, alter our gut microbiota, promote chronic inflammation, interfere with

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May 1 2023

The Two Best Ways Fast: Why It’s Easier Than Dieting & How To Do it

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

This is the third and last blog post on losing weight easily and naturally — and that’s because this is the very last week you can sign up to join my in my 5 day Weight Reset Class! The first article was on losing stress-related weight. The second was on naturally boosting your metabolism. This last one will be a quick intro to fasting — a great lifestyle modification that has long term benefits that are hard to beat: decreased heart attack risk, decreased diabetes risk, decreased cancer recurrence rates, even boosted longevity. I review all of these benefits

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Dec 19 2022

8 Highly Unusual But Effective Ways To Release Unwanted Weight

Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

Last week I shared with you a few tips on how to release weight that accumulates during times of stress, which happens to most of us over the holiday season. Stress weight gain is different from standard weight gain because it is stress-hormone driven. So focusing on rebalancing your adrenals — not dieting — is what works best. But today, I want to give you a few more tips on releasing regular, non-stress related, weight gain. Normal weight gain over time usually reflects a decrease in metabolism, so I’ve got a fantastic list of actionable tips — taken directly

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Dec 12 2022

Holiday Eating And Drinking: What Party Foods To Eat (+ Why You Crave What You Do)

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Holiday stress isn’t just stress over picking out the perfect gift, figuring out how to afford travel (damn it’s so expensive!) or balancing social commitments. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, alcohol, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. So as holiday season gets underway I wanted to give you a few tips on how to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort food, decadent desserts, and celebratory toasts. If there was ever a time that people worry about their weight, it’s during the

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Nov 28 2022

Want To Give Fasting A Try? That’s Awesome & Here’s How.

Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

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Jul 26 2021

Working With Your Brain, Not Against It, For Easier Weight Loss

You Can’t Lose Stress Weight By Dieting, Do These 10 Lifestyle Hacks Instead

How Our Environment Can Cause Weight Gain & What You Can Do About It

The Two Best Ways Fast: Why It’s Easier Than Dieting & How To Do it

8 Highly Unusual But Effective Ways To Release Unwanted Weight

Holiday Eating And Drinking: What Party Foods To Eat (+ Why You Crave What You Do)

Want To Give Fasting A Try? That’s Awesome & Here’s How.

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