Are you a busy physician who wants to lose weight permanently so you can have the life you want? This podcast is the resource you’ve been looking for. I’ll guide you on the journey to overcome stress eating, exhaustion, and overwhelm - and move into freedom around food.
Each week, this podcast brings you specific tools and resources to meet the challenges busy doctors face. Your time is valuable - and so is your well-being. We’ll help you find the time to care for yourself as well as you care for your patients.
Learn new ways of thinking that make good eating decisions automatic and result in permanent, effortless weight loss. Find out how to gain the time and energy to take care of yourself the way you tell your patients to! We’ll show you how to stop overeating and using food to deal with stress and exhaustion. You’ll learn to improve your relationships and to better deal with the difficult people in your life so you don’t need food to cope. This can be the best stage of your life yet - just like you thought it would be when you started your training. And most importantly, feel better in all aspects of your life without anything or anyone else having to change.
Your host, Dr. Katrina Ubell, is a board-certified pediatrician and a certified life and weight loss coach. After completing her pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Dr. Ubell worked in a private pediatric practice for 10 years before retiring from her practice to become a life and weight loss coach for busy physicians. Dr. Ubell lost 45 pounds in 12 months without any surgery, pills, or unhealthy crash diets.
You can find out more about Dr. Ubell and her work at www.katrinaubellmd.com.
Weight Loss for Busy Physicians offers methods for losing and keeping weight off. This podcast is not about a lose-weight-quick approach or a fad diet or lifestyle. Host Dr. Katrina Ubell offers practical ways anyone can use for permanent weight loss. The podcast may be for doctors, but anyone with a busy life can adopt the principles Dr. Ubell teaches. The pediatrician-turned-life coach provides life-changing advice many have found helpful. The host shares ways people can build a healthy relationship with food.
Dr. Ubell once struggled with weight loss. Then, she found a way to break the repetitive circle of drastic weight loss and weight gain. According to the podcast host, she gained and lost around 40 pounds at least ten times before her breakthrough. Today, she's at her happy weight and has been sharing the tools she used to reach that point.
The host is also a master-certified life coach who offers brain-based solutions. Her coaching programs have risen in popularity among doctors and non-physicians. She started Weight Loss for Busy Physicians in 2017.
Coming from a clinical background, Dr. Ubell knows a doctor's struggle. Physicians face job fatigue and dissatisfaction, which may lead to depersonalization while working. Research has shown that these negatives have an impact on public healthcare. Physicians themselves are also at risk, with female physicians more likely to experience job fatigue or stress. Stress leads to overeating, unhealthy crash diets, or emotional eating. This is where the host steps in to help through her website and this podcast.
Various guests join Dr. Ubell on the podcast to discuss their relationship with food. Guests include mental health and lifestyle coaches, doctors, and other practitioners.
The weight loss coach shares tips and insights for breaking unhealthy eating patterns. She illustrates how one can rethink eating. She teaches that it's not about resisting temptation. Dr. Ubell shares how reframing one's relationship with food is the key to keeping the extra pounds off. Overall she makes clear Weight Loss for Busy Physicians is not only for doctors. New episodes come out weekly and are about 30 minutes long.
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