Weight Loss and Nutrition Blog

Pete first came to Weighless MD on Jan 7, 2019 after years of struggling with being overweight and was at a high weight of 308 lbs.  It was a wake up call when he had gone over 300 lbs and knew he was getting unhealthy and needed to do something.  He had gotten into some…

Have you lost some weight, but there’s just that little bit left… that little bit you just can’t seem to get rid of? Maybe it’s a little roll at the bottom of your stomach or a little bit of flopping under your arms… your thighs… It gets really frustrating when you do all this exercise,…

Brominated Oils… Potassium Bromate… Azodicarbonamide… Sound scary? These food additives are found everywhere… in processed food products. And you might not even know it unless you’re really looking at the ingredient list. But why? Why do companies use these chemicals? There are a couple of reasons: Greed  Enhanced flavor Extended the shelf life Reduced bacterial…

You need fat. And a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet is probably making your cholesterol worse. I talked in my previous articles about how low-fat diets can rob your body of the building blocks for producing proper hormones and healthy tissues (link to part 1). I also told you how statins could cause more problems than they…

The best way to lower your cholesterol is to stop focusing on the cholesterol. There’s no fast fix, pill poppin’ or miracle cure that’s going to make you healthy and take care of the real cause of your high cholesterol. It takes real work to fix the root cause. This process is typically very fast. …

Do you have high cholesterol? Looking to lower it? Maybe you aren’t satisfied with what the doctor recommends? You aren’t alone. I have this friend who discovered insanely high cholesterol at 24. Healthy, active, primarily plant-based diet, she would have been the poster child for health and wellness. So, how did this happen? What went…