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At Real Life Medicine we help everybody, but in particular, our passion is women who have tried everything, who have done every diet known to (wo)man, who are almost ready to give up on themselves. They're our people. They're our tribe, and we help them by understanding the physiology and the psycho...

The cause of obesity is multifactorial and still poorly understood. It is not a simple as an excess of calories. It would be so easy if it was.

Calories in, Calories out-the backbone of the diet industry does not work.

Obesity is a disease of deranged metabolic hormones. That’s a bit scary.

Today I'm talking to you about insulin resistance. It is one of the cornerstones of our practice as weight loss doctors in helping people lose weight, reverse metabolic disease, and really preventing future health problems along the way. 

And sometimes as doctors we forget that not everyone knows w...

This morning my darling said to me, "I hope you have a terrible day." So this is pushback from her. She's 17. She's doing year 12. She's got some demands. And I say demands because I really mean that, not requests.

So I've put some boundaries in place for her,  one of which was you can do one sleep...

“Everything in moderation” is the catchcry of dieters and non-dieters alike. 

We would argue though that this is wrong. 

“Everything in balance” is what we at Real Life Medicine believe. 

The balance bit is sometimes hard and what we need to learn and practice. 

Weight loss is all about balance....

Christmas time is the giving season. Gifts are in abundance. 

We often talk about giving ourselves a Christmas present. 

“I’m going to treat myself this Christmas…” 

And frankly, why not? 

We deserve it. We’ve worked hard all year.

But the one thing that 2020 has shown us is that,

“The most...

Exercise is not the key to weight loss. However, it has an important supporting role and can sometimes be overlooked. 

We, humans, are designed to move. Our ancestors moved a lot. For the vast majority of our evolutionary history, we humans have had to exert ourselves, often quite strenuously, to g...

Following on from a previous blog post on how calorie counting forms the backbone of the diet industry, I wanted to talk about the quality of calories. 

As I mentioned, a calorie is a unit of energy. 

Why we use that as a measure of what we need to eat is beyond me?!

In weight loss circles ...

Is Sanitarium™️ Up & Go™️  a healthy brekky? 

Is Up and Go good for kids? 

We get asked this question all-the-time!

This product is marketed to the busy person who not only doesn’t have time to make breakfast, but they don't have time to eat it!

This in itself is a myth, but we’ll get to that...

It grinds our gears when processed foods are dressed up as health foods and marketed to kids. 

Each week, we are going expose one of these and break down some of the marketing hype.

This week it’s Milo’s turn. 

"Since 1934, MILO® has been giving active kids what they need to get the most out of e...

Let's talk about comfort eating... 

Emotional eating is the number one reason women fall off the wagon...

and our favourite roadblock to conquer!

You know what though?

Emotional Eating is NOT your fault

Eating is a comfort. It is known physiologically that eating causes the release of dopamine ...

I want you to imagine a beautiful dog, maybe he’s your dog. Anyway, this beautiful dog has developed sore knees. He can’t jump up on the couch. He’s not as active anymore. His coat is rough, his skin is dry. You love this dog, so you take him to the vet and the vet, “Ok,  we need to look after this ...