Once you have received adequate education and are ready to start an obesity program, you will want to consider how you want to incorporate obesity medicine into your practice. There are several options for practice models for an obesity program or clinic. Here, we discuss a few options, however, there may be other models that are best suited for your needs and goals. Finding which model is best suited for your clinic is a highly personal, individualized decision. All models can include insurance, cash, or a combination of insurance and cash reimbursement. Models include small private practice, large groups, and hospital or university-based programs.

It is never too late to turn your health around. You do not need to be perfect. We all have setbacks and struggles. We live in a world that makes it challenging at times to make healthy choices, and some of us face more challenges than others. Temptation is all around us, all the time.

Just commit to making the next healthy choice and take it one day, one minute, at a time. Whether that is choosing to go for a walk today, eating a healthy meal, throwing away the cookies that keep calling your name, or choosing to turn off the TV so you can get to bed on time. It is never too late to start eating and moving like your life depends on it, because the truth is, it does.

Today, January 25th, is my birthday. I am celebrating my 39th trip around the sun. As is often the case with birthdays, especially ones that comes before a new decade, I look back and think about how much my life has changed over the past ten years. And I look forward to what’s to come.

What I realized in that moment, was why my low-fat, calorie counting approach wasn’t working

Follow me on my journey as I made my way towards realizing my true calling!