Weight Management

Managing your weight, espeically during menopause with LeAnne C. Skinner

LeAnne C. Skinner who has been in private practice for the past 35 years as a registered dietitian nutritionist who contributes to the Changing Ways program by Estroven joins eHealth Radio and the Female Health, Nutrition and Weight Management Channels. She disusses how to manage your weight, especially during menopause and more.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest LeAnne C. Skinner discuss the following:Why is it that women often face greater weight management challenges during menopause?Can you provide some simple diet tips that you tell your clients to help manage their weight during menopause?Tell us a little more about your contribution to the “Changing Ways” program.What are some small but important changes that women can make in their daily routine to help diminish their menopause symptoms?What other everyday tips do you have that can help our listeners manage their weight—especially during menopause?
Duration: 7:04
LeAnne C. Skinner, RD, LD has been in private practice for the past 35 years as a registered dietitian nutritionist for individuals, corporations, professional athletes, local celebrities, restaurant chains, the State of Texas and medical institutions. Her Texas-based company, Austin Nutrition Consultants, offers individualized counseling, corporate wellness programs, medical nutrition therapy, recipe and menu development, sports and fitness counseling, and qualified nutritional speakers.
Skinner is nationally recognized as a leader in the entrepreneuriafield of dietetics, having served as a national and state officer, founding member of the entrepreneurial dietetics group and a national mentor. In the private sector, she works with OBGYNs and their many patients, and often recommends natural supplements, including Estroven, to her clients. Skinner cites menopause and its associated weight change as a common complaint on which she routinely counsels her patients.

Links: www.estrovenchangingways.com

First-ever fitness plan for menopausal women, part of the Estroven Changing Ways Program

Deb Horn, a Licensed Personal Trainer in Bergen County, N.J. who has designed the first-ever fitness plan for menopausal women as part of the Estroven Changing Ways Program joins eHealth Radio and the Female Health & Fitness Channels.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Deb Horn discuss the following:Why is it that women often face greater weight management challenges during menopause?Tell us why you decided to create the Changing Ways workout program.How does the Changing Ways workout program help deliver results?What is the most important thing that you tell your clients who are going through menopause?What other everyday tips do you have that can help our listeners manage their weight, especially during menopause?
Duration: 7:15

Deb Horn is a 46-year-old trainer in Bergen County, N.J. who has 20 years of experience and continued education in core training, balance training, high intensity training, functional training, sports conditioning, sport & specific training, BOSU and TRX. Whether it is for a busy professional, a stay-at-home parent, a seasoned athlete or someone recovering from an injury, Horn prides herself on designing fitness programs that are time efficient, goal-oriented and fun. By using functional training, real life expectations and motivation, her experience gives clients (many of whom are menopause-aged) tangible results. She has certification from the WITS Training School and The American Council on Exercise and is AED/CPR certified by the American Heart Association.

Links: www.estrovenchangingways.com

Men & Eating Disorders with Dr. Nina Savelle-Rocklin

Dr. Nina Savelle-Rocklin, a psychoanalyst who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders and writes the award-winning blog, Make Peace With Food joins eHealth Radio and the Weight Managment Channel.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Nina Savelle-Rocklin discuss the following:
There’s been a lot of coverage in the media lately about eating disorders in men and boys. Why is this becoming more prevalent?What do you attribute to the shift in attitudes towards male eating disorders?Is there any difference between eating disorders in women and men?What are the particular struggles that men have in terms of dealing with eating disorders?Would you be saying that eating disorders are ultimately about emotions?
Duration: 11:04
Dr. Nina Savelle-Rocklin, Psy.D., is a psychoanalyst who specializes in helping people stop dieting and start living their best lives. Through her private practice in the Los Angeles area and her award-winning blog and podcast, Dr. Nina provides a fresh understanding of problem eating. Her personal experience gives her an understanding of what it's like to struggle with this issue, and she knows that recovery is possible. She provides empathy and understanding, as well as professional and clinical expertise, in the treatment of eating issues.
 Dr. Nina's blog, Make Peace With Food, was named a "Best Eating Disorder Blog" by Healthline in 2012 and 2013, and her popular podcast, Win The Diet War with Dr. Nina, was named "New & Noteworthy" by iTunes. She recently launched a YouTube channel, The Dr. Nina Show, in which she shares "food for thought" on how to have a happier, healthier relationship to food.

Links: www.winthedietwar.com

Is America the most obese country in the world with Dr. Nwe

Dr. Nwe, board certified in both internal medicine and Obesity medicine and the founder of Ace Medical Weight Loss Center where she helps her patients lose weight with a revolutionary portion control method she created called the SlimPlate System joins eHealth Radio and the Weight Management & Health News Channels.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Nwe discuss the following:Is America the most obese country in the world?How did we become one?The weight loss industry is built on failure, why?How do we get healthy weight loss one person at a time?What is the slimplate system & how does it help to lose weight?How we are going to keep this upcoming new year resolution of losing weight in 2014 and how can you help the audience to achieve it.
Duration: 10:45
Dr. Nwe is a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and is passionate about her work as a weight loss physician. She is also a practicing primary care physician and board certified in Internal Medicine.
She is the founder of Ace Medical Weight Loss Center, a successful physician supervised weight loss practice in Rock Hill, South Carolina. She advocates behavioral change in the diet as important as the initial weight loss strategies. Dr. Nwe does not recommend gimmicky weight loss diets or medicines without proven track results or long-term sustainability.
She has structured and refined her weight loss techniques using portion control, initial intensive counseling and use of body fat analysis to guide further weight loss strategies. Her primary interest and area of research is various portion control aids and their use to induce behavioral changes for long term success. She has been intensely involved in development of weight loss techniques and aids – which are easy to use by patients. Through her research, she has invented the SlimPlate System.
In her practice, Dr. Nwe is attentively listens to her patients’ successes and challenges, in maintaining a healthy weight, while counseling patients on obesity and healthy lifestyle. Her patients’ challenges become her own and gives her motivation to find a solution for them. She also concentrates on myths related to weight loss and gives lectures and presentations to the local community.
In her spare time she likes to play chess, racquetball and travel.

Links: www.SlimPlateSystem.com

Commit To Get Fit: Find the Secret to Your Own True and Everlasting Weight Loss with Laura Dion-Jones

Laura Dion-Jones, author of Commit To Get Fit: Find the Secret to Your Own True and Everlasting Weight Loss joins eHealth Radio and the Weight Management Channel.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Laura Dion-Jones discuss the following:Your brand new book, Commit To Get Fit: Find the Secret to Your Own True and Everlasting Weight Loss - launches any day now! Tell us about it...What was your goal in writing Commit To Get Fit?We hear you have a Warning printed right on the front cover of your book that says: Warning: This Is NOT Your Typical Diet & Fitness Book! Tell us about that!What other kinds of things do you help motivate and inspire people to do?Tell us how you help folks with your 90-minute introduction to your Commit To Get Fit seminar and your follow-up 6 and 12-week support seminar series. And also your private coaching...What was the final straw that led you to turn your life around the way you have -- losing 150 pounds and keeping it off 10 years later?What, in your opinion, is the biggest cause of our country’s obesity epidemic?>
Duration: 15:50
Laura Dion-Jones is a Pro-Health Activist, Certified Corporate Wellness Coach (CCWC), Certified Wellness Coach (CWC), TV & Radio Show Host, motivational weight loss and lifestyle advice writer, speaker and published author of Commit To Get Fit: Find the Secret to Your Own True and Everlasting Weight Loss.
Laura also specializes in all things motivational and to improve the human potential like developing discipline and a positive mindset, how to overcome adversity, as well as fashion, fitness, beauty, and advice about related women's and men's issues on improved personal appearance and increased self-esteem. In essence, everything else that it takes to find the secret to your own true and everlasting weight loss . . . and be strong.
Laura also helps you find the diet that’s right for you, develop the daily cardio discipline and achieve lifelong wellness success.
Laura writes human interest-human nature, travel and canine articles as well as screenplays, essays, short stories, and of course, motivational articles. She teaches, inspires and motivates from the heart -- based on real-life experience. After living a lifetime of chronic obesity, she lost 150 pounds in 2-1/2 years by smart healthy eating and a commitment to daily cardio. Almost ten years later -- she’s kept all the weight off.
Today Laura is waging her own private war on our nation’s escalating obesity epidemic. She speaks to community groups, church groups, associations, health and wellness organizations and businesses. She also coaches individuals struggling with weight issues who want to achieve and maintain a fit and healthy lifestyle.
Commit To Get Fit is Laura’s series of accountability-based weight loss management and fitness programs, motivational seminars and custom-tailored wellness programs -- a no-nonsense, comprehensive means to a fit and healthy lifestyle for individuals, organizations or corporate workplaces.

Links: www.commit-fit.com

Weight Loss is a Mental Game with Maaria Mozaffar

Maaria Mozaffar, founder of the Skinless Project joins eHealth Radio and the Weight Management Channel. Maaria lost over 50 pounds in 7 months naturally after the birth of her twins and talks about how weight loss is a mental game and much more.


Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guests Maaria Mozaffar discuss the following: One of your two blogs we’re discussing here. The title is poignant but also throughout provoking “Somalian mothers lose their children but we feed ours twinkies.” Maaria, that’s a bold statement about obesity and starvation around the world. With Thanksgiving this week, what are you thoughts about childhood obesity?Why do you think its so important to teach your children about eating healthy from a young age?You recently lost over 50 pounds. Have you been able to keep it off? What do you recommend to our listeners who can’t resist temptation during the holidays?Your second blog “Journey of A Triathlete, Are You a Super Hero in Hiding,” talks about how you stepped out of your box and trained for a triathlon. Where did the inspiration come from to do this? How did you do it?What sort of advice would you offer our listeners who are trying to shift into a living a healthier lifestyle?
Duration: 16:49
Maaria Mozaffar is a wife, mother and lawyer and most importantly founder of the Skinless Project. Maaria lost over 50 pounds in 7 months naturally after the birth of her twins. She focused on eating clean, staying active but most of all staying positive. Maaria says weight loss is a mental game and the he most important attribute of weight loss is the positive space you are in. The second is recognizing how foods play a role in your positive space and your relationship with food.

Links: www.skinlessproject.com

Diet-to-Go, a producer of fully-prepared diet meal plans proven to promote natural weight loss

Rachel Lynch, the Vice President of Administrative Services at Diet-to-Go, a leading producer of fully-prepared diet meal plans scientifically proven to promote natural weight loss joins eHealth Radio and the Weight Management and Nutrition Channels.

Diet-to-Go meals are delivered right to people’s doors and can be heated in just minutes for a convenient way to eat healthy and lose weight.Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guests Rachel Lynch discuss the following:Tell me a bit about Diet-to-Go. What does the company provide people and how does it help people?So who does Diet-to-Go work best for?Tell me a bit about the program. How does it work?Does Diet-to-Go offer any way for customers to control their meal plans.You’ve got this great way to help busy people lose weight by providing them with nutritious meals. Does Diet-to-Go offer any other support when it comes to weight loss or management?So we’ve talked about how the program works, if Diet-to-Go had one philosophy around losing weight or living healthy, what would it be?
Duration: 9:50
Diet-to-Go is a meal delivery company focused on making healthy eating both easy and affordable. Its goal is to change perceptions of what it means to eat healthy and help customers achieve and maintain a healthy weight for life. Diet-to-Go seeks to help people establish a common-sense approach to healthy eating, an approach that can be sustained so that making smart food choices becomes a way of life.
Diet-to-Go delivers meals anywhere in the continental U.S. Customers can also pick up meals fresh in several cities, including Washington D.C., Greater Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco and L.A.
Diet-to-Go offers three menus: low-fat traditional, low-fat vegetarian and low-carb. Customers can choose their calorie counts (between 1,200 and 1,600) for both the traditional and vegetarian menus. The low-carb menu follows the Atkins-style diet, with only 30 net carbs per day.
Customers can also manage their account online through myDiettogo, which allows them to personalize menus, make meal substitutions, stop and restart service and change menus, all from the convenience of their own home. Diet-to-Go does not charge cancellation fees and does not have a contract. Customers can stop and start their meal plans at their leisure.
Diet-to-Go’s main goal is to help customers eat freshly-made, healthy meals and learn about proper portion-sizes and nutrition so that they can make changes that will last a lifetime.

Links: www.diettogo.com

Hollywood stunt double Bobby Holland Hanton talks about his daily personal care

Bobby Holland Hanton, a Hollywood stunt double who has doubled for the likes of Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, and Daniel Craig joins eHealth Radio to talk about his daily personal care and much more.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Bobby Holland Hanton discuss the following:As a stunt double, your job entails making your body look like the actor you’re working with – how do you gain or lose weight so quickly?Describe a day in the life of one of Hollywood’s top stunt doubles?What is your typical diet and exercise plan?What personal care products do you use to maintain a your on camera appearance?Since you’re the stuntman behind some of the biggest on-screen superheroes including Batman, Thor, and the Green Lantern – which superhero is your favorite?
Duration: 8:59
Bobby is a 28 year old Stuntman and has been doing stunts in movies since the beginning of 2008; he has appeared in 22 feature films and counting. He recently wrapped up the new Wachoski's movie "Jupiter Ascending." Additionally he has performed in such blockbuster action films as "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", "Quantum of Solace", "Harry Potter", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Sherlock Holmes", "Captain America", "Robin Hood" and the Oscar winning "Inception.” This has involved being a stunt double for the likes of Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Daniel Craig, Ryan Reynolds, Channing Tatum and Jake Gyllenhaal.
At the tender age of four, Bobby started his career as a Gymnast, and climbed through the ranks to compete as a National Squad Member and National Gold Medalist for Great Britain. Bobby competed and also won gold medals in countries such as France, Russia, United States of America, and training camps in the Ukraine. Bobby retired from Gymnastics at 17 and turned his attention to football, quickly becoming a semi-professional footballer for Fareham Town FC at the age of 19.
With his huge appetite for performing unabated, he started to perform in Live Action Shows, Pantomimes, various TV Shows and worldwide modeling campaigns & commercials for K-swiss trainers, Adidas, Pepsi, Joop aftershave and many more. Some of these jobs found Bobby doubling Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, and David Beckham before he decided to become a professional Stunt Performer.
Bobby then trained in all the disciplines needed to achieve the goal of becoming a Stuntman, which took the best part of 4 years (training full time). This meant qualifying in skills such as Kickboxing, Swimming, 10m High Diving, Gymnastics, Trampolining, and Scuba Diving.
Links: bobbyhollandhanton.com | www.dovemencare.com

Serenity Valley Wellness Retreat, specializing in Women’s Holistic Healthcare

Gina Faubert, Owner of Serenity Valley Wellness Retreat joins eHealth Radio and the Fitness and Weight Management Channels. They specialize in Women’s Holistic Healthcare, Weight Management, Detoxification, Fitness Programs and Unique Wellness Experiences.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Gina Faubert discuss the following:I understand that you had a vision of building Health Retreat when you where just 15 years old. Can you tell us about Serenity Valley and how it came to be a health retreat?In your upcoming book you talk about the missing piece in everyones workout goals that will make or break the outcome. Can you share this secret with us? What about your diet and fitness recommendations. There is so much information out there. Can you give our listeners some advice on how to get started and what strategies you use to get results with your clients?  I see on your website that you use coaching techniques to overcome self sabotage, and giving up. Can you share a few strategies to stay motivated?  Can you give our listeners advice on what to look for when considering hiring a coach or fitness professional?Share with us where we can get more information or get involved in one of your programs?
Duration: 16:53
Gina's extensive expertise in fitness & lifestyle coaching started over 15 years ago when she became determined to discover how to really inspire change for great health. After completing Fitness, Nutrition & Lifestyle Management at George Brown, her quest has lead to becoming a certified Personal Trainer, Pilates Teacher, Yoga Teacher, and Life Coach, Master NLP Practitioner, BioSignature Practitioner, and certifications in Thai Massage, Reiki and Reflexology.
Through her years of training and speaking to Olympic athletes, Fortune 500 companies, and small business owners, she’s created a system for results driven programs, life changing events and inspiring workshops.
Gina has a reputation of being a catalyst that inspires people to undergo significant shifts in there life and finally achieve their health goals. Her recommendations are backed by the latest research and proven strategies for change. She is constantly on the forefront of industry knowledge and goes to great lengths to study with the best health and fitness professionals in the world such as Tony Robbins, Charles Poliquin, Seane Corn, Dr. Natasha Turner, and Louise Hay to name a few.
She speaks regularly on the link between the mental/emotional connection to fitness, no nonsense nutrition, and developing the rituals to create exceptional health.
Gina holds memberships with ACMS, IFPM, ICF, BioSig, and sits on the advisory board for George Brown College's Fitness, Nutrition & Lifestyle Management program.
Gina is also founder of Serenity Valley Studio in Burlington, Ontario, a countryside wellness retreat integrating health and wellness services in a spa-like setting. Since opening Serenity Valley 10 years ago, Gina has dedicated her life to improving the well-being of every person who visits Serenity Valley.
They specialize in Women’s Holistic Healthcare,  Weight Management, Detoxification, and Fitness Programs. Services include Osteopathy, Nutrition, Personal Training, Coaching, Classes and Massage.  We hold special retreats involving cooking classes, outdoor adventures, Wellness Workshops, and spa services.

Links: www.serenityvalley.ca

Measures that women can take to best manage weight during menopause with Dr. Shari Brasner

Dr. Shari Brasner, an obstetrician/gynecologist and member of the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai joins eHealth Radio and the Weight Management & Female Health Channels to discuss managing weight when women are in menopause.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guests Dr. Shari Brasner discuss the following:Why is it more difficult for women to manage weight during menopause?What measures can women take to best manage weight during menopause?What are some of the symptoms that affect weight management during menopause?In addition to diet and exercise, what are some other recommendations you have for women looking to manage their weight?Which supplements do you prescribe to your patients for menopause symptom relief?
Duration: 9:10
Dr. Shari Brasner is an obstetrician/gynecologist and member of the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. For the past 18 years, she has been in private practice in New York City since completing her residency training at Mt. Sinai in 1995. Dr. Brasner attended NYU’s School of Medicine, earning membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society.
Dr. Brasner was born and raised on Long Island, NY and now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with her husband Jeffrey and their 17-year old twins. Besides women’s health, she enjoys most topics associated with motherhood, child rearing and the transition to menopause, as well as travel and knitting.

Links: www.estroven.com