Healthy and Active Program

Went to an interesting seminar today!

I especially love going to seminars when Anna goes too! It's like the good ol' days when we were still at school, going to seminars as poor students, excited about the free food, and of course catching up.

We were both interested in going to this particular seminar because we both see a lot of patients that come in for weight loss. So it's always great to get the latest research and see what others are doing for success with their patients. Another interesting point made was that it's not necessarily ONLY for people that need/want to lose weight. It is used to improve metabolism overall - so someone with severe PMS or depression, or night sweats or anyone could benefit from eating from such an individualized plan.

One topic I spend time explaining to most of my patients, but especially weight loss patients is the importance of balancing cortisol and insulin. These two hormones are key - you want to keep insulin from spiking throughout the day. That's why I've always said eat 3 meals and an afternoon snack.

Today was interesting because their goal is for the patient to eat ONLY 3 meals a day, no snacks, based on 40 blood markers. So each nutritional plan is unique and individual according to these markers.... things like cholesterol, liver enzymes, iron, sodium, potassium etc.

I'll have to test it out on myself (after vacation!!!) and my parents and friends and see what happens!