Weight Management
Weight Management
Dr. Amber focuses her practice in supporting cognitive and physiological barriers to successful weight loss.
Modern medicine is evolving to recognize so much more than just calories in and calories out for weight loss. The actual food choices, types of exercise, hormones, stress, sleep, mental health, etc. all play an important role in success.
If you feel ready to let go of fad diets and exercise challenges, Dr. Amber can support you in creating a personalized, life-long plan that suites your health needs and lifestyle to sustain your best weight.
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
Lifestyle medicine focuses on addressing the root causes of illness by optimizing key areas of daily life, including:
Nutrition
Exercise and movement
Sleep quality
Stress management
Mental and emotional health
When these foundations are aligned, other interventions and therapies are far more effective.
Barriers to successo succ
In some cases, despite making lifestyle changes, health changes can prevent you from seeing weight loss. This may include:
Hormonal changes (menopause, PCOS, hypothyroidism, etc.)
Blood sugar, insulin and hunger signalling changes
Mental health and stress
Sleep quantity and quality
Food choices (it is not just about caloric deficits)
Movement choices (type, amount and intensity of exercise matters)
The role of lab testing and supplementation
When biological barriers to success are suspected, that is when we may look deeper. Exploring personalized lab testing to uncover barriers such as nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, blood sugar and insulin dysregulation or sleep disturbances that may be preventing weight change.
To support success on your path to weight management, I may recommend targeted supplementation to bridge the gap. Supplements may be used to support you in overcoming barriers to success such as:
low energy, low motivation, mood changes
food cravings, overeating, emotional eating
blood sugar, insulin resistance
hormonal changes
sleep changes, etc.
Supplements are ideally not a long-term solution, they’re tools to help you build momentum until lifestyle habits take over naturally. For this reason we always have a long term plan in place for when we would like stop needing the aid of supplements.
Dr. Amber is knowledge in supporting patients who are using obesity treatment medications who are looking for life-long results and optimizing outcomes from these medications.
Why you will experience something different here
This is not a quick fix diet or exercise routine programming, this is a sustainable lifestyle change that looks at your entire health picture to support life-long success.
Your care plan is always personalized and research supported
We take the time to understand your symptoms, history, goals, preferences and barriers to success that are missed in diet or exercise only programming.
Together, we co-create a step-by-step plan that is realistic and sustainable to reduce overwhelm and enhance clarity and confidence needed for success.
When we work in office together, I am happy to share modules from the Mindset Medicine online program with patients who could benefit at no additional cost.
Clinical Hypnosis is another tool that we may discuss using to more deeply support rewiring habit formation, desensitizing unwanted behaviours, and enhancing your confidence in your ability to make change. Learn more at the links below: