Uncategorized

      By Molly Wangsgaard, MS, RDN, LD, NSCA-CPT, CHWCTransformation Weight Control www.transformationweightcontrol.com The downfall of the American diet, and much of the diets around the world, can be summed up in one word – ultra-processed. Before I explain, it’s important to understand what unprocessed and processed mean. Unprocessed foods are whole foods. These are […]

by Rich Weil, M.Ed., CDETransformation Weight Controlwww.transformationweightcontrol.com Compounding pharmacies are special pharmacies that customize medications for a patient’s special needs. They are legal, and when necessary, will fill a doctor’s prescription to precise instructions to meet the needs of the patient. According to the American Pharmacists Association there are roughly 56,000 pharmacies in the United

  by Rich Weil M.Ed., CDETransformation Weight Controlwww.transformationweightcontrol.com The shortage of, excessive prices, lack of insurance coverage, strong demand, and desperate consumers, has created the opportunity for a very lucrative international criminal enterprise for counterfeit weight loss medications. Zepbound and Mounjaro (tirzepatide – Lilly), Wegovy and Ozempic (semaglutide – Novo Nordisk), and Vicotza and Saxenda

Richard Weil, M.Ed., CDEFounder and DirectorTransformation Weight controlwww.transformationweightcontrol.com Finding GLP-1 receptor agonists such as Ozempic, Mounjaro, Victoza, Trulicity (all FDA approved for diabetes), or Zepbound, Wegovy, or Saxenda (all FDA approved for weight loss), is a real problem. And even when you find the weight loss medication, the pharmacy may not have your dose. In

Rich Weil, M.Ed., CDEFounder and DirectorTransformation Weight Controlwww.transformationweightcontrol.com   Sugar addiction is very common and powerful. Sugar can be more addictive than cocaine in rats, and humans as well. In fact, if you looked at an image from an MRI of the brain lighting up when a rat or human is presented with sugar or

      by Richard Weil M.Ed., CDE Transformation Weight Controlwww.transformationweightcontrol.com When I first read the package inserts for Wegovy and Ozempic, both semaglutide and GLP-1 drugs for weight loss (see images of the package inserts below), where they say that a reduced calorie diet and exercise (i.e., diet plan for weight loss and exercise),

By Richard Weil, M.Ed., CDE Transformation Weight Controlwww.transformationweightcontrol.com If you think you’re going to wake up one day and a wave of energy, commonly known as motivation, is going to wash over you and get you doing the activity you’ve been putting off, think again. And if something like that does happen, I’ll bet my

By Richard Weil, M.Ed., CDE Transformation Weight Control www.transformationweightcontrol.com A Brief History of Psychological Treatment Therapies for Weight Loss and Preventing Regain I. PSYCHOANALYSISIn the early part of the 20th century the Freudians (that’s Sigmund in the image below) made an effort of solving the challenges of weight loss and  preventing regain). It turned out

By Richard Weil, M.Ed., CDETransformation Weight Controlwww.transformationweightcontrol.com I covered the first part of the ABCs of CBT in the blog, “The ABCs of Cognitive Behavior Therapy – CBT Part 1 of 2”. In a nutshell, you start with an activating event, you then have a belief about that event (often an irrational belief), and that

by Richard Weil, M.Ed., CDEFounder and DirectorTransformation Weight Controlwww.transformationweightcontrol.com See images at the end of the post which illustrate and clarify some of the content.  BMIA bit of background.The original BMI was created in the 1830’s by Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, and sociologist. He called it the Quetelet index and developed it