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medical weight loss bucks county philadelphia paOften times achieving your weight loss goal can be very very difficult. So much so that over the course of time you may just have had enough and throw the towel into the ring. I find that this happens usually when people do not have a solid plan for losing their weight. In this article I’m going to review a few steps to assist you in achieving your weight loss goals.

Tip 1: Forget about dieting. In order to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your life you have to make lifestyle changes.  Sadly I see in my office all of the time people go up and down losing weight and gaining weight because they go on fad diets. People come to me and tell me that they have tried juice diets, fruit diets, high protein diets, etc. and the problem is that they usually gain all of the way back after losing it. So this is why you really do have to make lifestyle changes. Just take one day at a time and try to follow your plan as best as you can. If you make a mistake it’s no big deal. Because this is about making changes that will give you a healthier life and make you skinnier for the rest of your life.

Tip 2: make a plan on how you intend to lose the weight and determie how much weight you really need to lose. You have to have a specific plan if you want to lose weight. Without a plan or a playbook even the best football teams do not succeed.

Tip 3: do not weigh yourself each and every day. Your weight actually does fluctuate throughout the course of the day. Depending on how much liquid you drink and the amount of food you eat during the day you can gain as much as 5 pounds just from all of the food and beverages that you consumed during the course of the day. 

Of course the next morning you will go back to your normal body weight if you followed your weight loss plan. Especially with females depending on the time of the month your body weight can vary as much as 7 pounds depending on the time of the month. I usually recommend that you weigh yourself once a week but if you are the type of person that needs to weigh yourself constantly I would say weigh yourself once every other day or every three days.

Tip 4: make sure you are drinking at least 64 ounces of water each and every day. Drinking water decreases your appetite and helps flush toxins and dead cells out of your body. I also suggest that you should drink at least three glasses of ice water every day. This creates a thermogenic effect because your body has to raise its temperature in order to return your body to a normal temperature. Drinking water also increases your overall health.

Tip 5: do not starve yourself. You have to eat small frequent meals throughout the day. I usually suggest that most people eat breakfast within an hour of waking up and that there breakfast consists of good healthy protein, good healthy fats like in avocado or flaxseed or Chia seeds or flax oil were avocados and even a little bit of carbohydrates healthy carbohydrates. And I am just going to remind you that a sugar jelly donut is not a healthy carbohydrate. After breakfast it is a good idea to make sure that you eat some type of protein every 3 – 4 hours.

Tip 6: do not torture yourself. Let’s be real here there are going to be days when you really have cravings for a certain type of food that may not be totally conducive to your weight loss program. I have found that if you are having uncontrollable urges to eat a type of food let’s say for example chocolate that it is always best to have a small portion of that food. So if you are craving chocolate treat yourself to a really good chocolate. Break off a small piece of the chocolate and savor it. Do not gobble it down like you have never eaten before. Let the flavor of the chocolate tantalize your taste buds and do not feel guilty about enjoying it. Please just be sure that you do not eat a pound of chocolate. Just give yourself a small portion as a treat.

Tip 7: snack frequently. Make sure that you have good healthy treats to snack on throughout the course of the day. These include cheesesteaks, almonds, cashews, and my favorite vegetables. Vegetables are the greatest snack that you can have throughout the day to make you healthy and make you skinny.

Tip 8: get a partner. It’s always easiest to accomplish your weight loss goals when you were doing it with a buddy. In our medical weight loss office it is quite common for us to treat family members, coming in at the same time, spouses coming in to lose weight together, coworkers and friends. It’s always a good idea to have someone that you could lean on for support when you need it and hold you accountable to your daily routines that you establish to help you achieve your weight loss goals.

I hope you found these weight loss tips helpful.

If you would like a complementary consultation with us in our medical weight loss office please call us at 215-821-7336 and let us help you achieve your weight loss goals.

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Diet Doctors in Bucks County, PA

Diet Doctors in Bucks County, PA

We utilize appetite suppressant medications, Vitamin B-12 Injections and Nuttrition Diet and Exercise Programs to assist patients achieve their weight loss goals.

Call us at 215-821-7336 or 215-332-4770 for your Free Consultation.

Offices in Philadelphia, PA and Bucks County, PA.

7439 Frankford Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19136

1200 Bustleton Pike Suite 9 Feasterville, PA 19053

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Medical Weight Loss Diet Protocol 1

These Nutrition and Diet Recommendations are for our patients who are following Weight Loss Management Protocol 1.

Please watch this video while reviewing your Booklet.

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Philadelphia Medical Weight Loss Center Offers Holiday Weight Loss Programs to Help You Get Thin

Philadelphia Medical Weight Loss Center Offers Holiday Weight Loss Programs to Help You Get Thin Fast!

The holidays are almost here, if you're not looking the way you would like, our Philadelphia Medical Weight Loss Center offers holiday weight loss programs to help get you in fast! Here are a few tips to help you get thinner before the holidays arrive.

If you would like to schedule a personal consultation at our Philadelphia or Bucks County office  just call us now at 215-821-7336.

Holiday Weight Loss Tips: Dr. Kenny and Dr. Duffield help you get the body you want at our Philadelphia Medical Weight Loss Center.

Getting your holiday body does not mean you have to starve yourself and cut out all of the good foods that you enjoy eating. In order to maintain your weight loss you still have to eat some of the foods that you really like what you also have to eat good healthy foods as well.

Here are some healthy eating weight loss tips to get your body ready for the holidays fast.

Make sure you drink at least 64 ounces of water every day. Water helps keep our body working properly and cleanses us of harmful toxins that actually are the main reasons why people are fat and overweight.

Listen to what your mother said and eat your vegetables. Vegetables provide your body with the nutrition that it needs to regenerate, heal itself, stay healthy, burn fat and lose weight. Try eating your vegetables first when you have your meals. Vegetables are very filling and will prevent you from overeating.

You should eat  our first meal within the first hour of waking up and you should eat every 3 – 4 hours after that. This means that you should be eating 5 – 6 small meals a day. Each meal should include a little bit of protein, good healthy fats and a lot of nutritious vegetables. Eating like this will make you more healthy, speed up your metabolism and help you lose weight fast.

Avoid eating foods that are loaded with sugar. If you eat them they will just make you fat.

You should sleep at least 7 – 9 hours each night. When you sleep seven consecutive hours a night your body increases its natural production of human growth hormone and this is a natural fat burner. Getting enough sleep also helps decrease and helps prevent  the production of stress hormones like cortisol.

Making good healthy lifestyle changes like eating good food, exercising properly and getting enough sleep will help you achieve and maintain the body you desire.

If you need help we would love to help you at our Philadelphia Medical Weight Loss Center with our holiday weight loss programs to help you get your body ready for the holidays. We will make you a medical weight loss plan that will help you lose weight not only fast but also safely. Call our Philadelphia medical weight loss center and schedule an appointment at one of our Philadelphia or Bucks County locations.

 Call Dr. Duffield and Dr. Kenny at 215-821-7336

Call now at 215-821-7336 if you are serious about finally losing weight.

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Philadelphia Medical Weight Loss Diet

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Best Beginners Exercises for Weight Loss and Fat Burning

Hi everyone this is Dr. Kenny.

When you're just starting out on your fat burning and weight loss exercise program the best type of exercises to do are low intensity exercise cardiovascular exercises like walking or bike riding.

Your goal is to perform 60 consecutive minutes of either walking or riding a bike with your target heart rate between 60 and 75% of your maximum heart rate. The reason why you have to perform this type of exercise for 60 straight minutes is because during the first 30 minutes of the exercise you will just be burning the sugar that is in your blood stream and making your heart healthy. From minute 31 on you will be burning fat and losing weight.

Now to figure out what your target heart rate is you would just subtract your age from 220 and that will give you your maximum heart rate. Then you just times your maximum heart rate time 60%, 65%, 70 and 75%.

Initially just keeping a target heart rate between 60 and 65% for maximal heart rate is enough to get you fat burning and losing weight then each time you have a plateau in your weight loss you would just increase it to the next level.

So as example I'm going to calculate the target heart rates for a 30-year-old person.

220-30 = 190 Maximum Heart Rate

190 × 60% = 114

190 × 65% = 123.5

190 × 70% = 133

190 × 75% = 142.5

So if you are 30 years old when you first start with this program you would like to keep your heart rate between 114 and 123 and this should burn fat off of your body and cause you to easily lose weight.

When you have weight loss plateau you would like to increase the intensity and keep your heart rate between 123 and 133.

At your next weight loss plateau try to keep your heart rate between 133 and 142.

Please remember that your goal is to do this exercise routine for 60 consecutive minutes.

But if you are not able to do 60 straight minutes of cardiovascular exercise just do what you can.

Remember Common Sense Dictates in any type of exercise program.

So just do what you can and gradually increase the amount of time that you can exercise.

This is usually the best and safest way to start your weight loss exercise program but it is always recommended that you check with your healthcare provider to make sure that this program is right for you.

If you need help with your program please call me at 215-821-7336.

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Is Your Cardio Making You Fatter

Can you believe your cardio exercise could be making you fatter? 

 
Well the answer is yes it can!
 
What exercises do you think are great fat burning exercises?
 
The exercises I instantly think of are jogging and other long-duration cardio methods like exercise bikes and ellipticals? After all, they’re proven to burn loads of fat right?
 
Well, if that’s what you think, you’re certainly not alone. In fact, over 36 million people turn to jogging every year in the hopes of getting a lean and attractive body.
 
But unfortunately, those folks are in for major disappointment. So I would personally like to say “I’m sorry” to you on behalf of the entire fitness industry. If you’ve been on the cardio-craze band wagon, please accept my sincerest apology for the myths and tall-tales that have been leading you down the golden path.
 
And if you were thinking of taking up a cardio routine to shed a few pounds, make sure you read this entire page to discover exactly why that’s a very, very bad idea that will end up making you even fatter!
 
There’s no sugar coating it. You have been lied to, plain and simple. Every magazine you’ve read, every website you’ve visited, and every local trainer you’ve met who has told you that you need to do steady-state cardio to get lean has been wrong.
 
I’m talking about those hard 45 minute distance runs, the tough marathon sessions on the elliptical, and the brutally hard aerobics classes. Please ditch those right away if you want to accelerate your fat loss and keep the weight off permanently.
 
But you might be thinking…
“I sweat like crazy, my heart is racing, and I’m exhausted after those cardio sessions, so they must be helping me strip off my body fat, right?”
 
Wrong!
 
Unfortunately, relying heavily on steady-state cardio (where you keep the same pace for the duration of your workout) in the so-called “fat-burning zone” to get leaner is a recipe for actually getting FATTER.
 
This is why:
 
The 3 Ways Your “Cardio” Is Making You FATTER
 
1. You’re increasing the “gas mileage” you get out of your calories
Humans aren’t cars.
 
Getting 70 miles per gallon in your new hybrid car is awesome. But, when you’re looking to lose weight, the last thing you want is to be fuel-efficient.
 
No, you want to be a gas-guzzling — calorie burning — machine! You want to be more like a high-octane, powerful Lamborghini that burns through fuel faster than the cast of The Jersey Shore burns through hair gel!
 
If you do a lot of traditional cardio (going for a 40 minute jog 4-5 times per week), you’re actually teaching your body to burn FEWER calories to fuel your activity. That’s because your body adapts quickly to this kind of workout and gets very efficient at it. This means that despite your best efforts, your long runs are putting more thunder in your thighs and more love in your love handles!
 
2. You’re boosting fat-storing hormones
Traditional cardio not only makes you burn less fat for fuel over time, it increases the activity of hormones that make you STORE fat.
 
There are several culprits, but the main one I’m talking about is cortisol. Cortisol is a stress hormone that your body relies on for energy during periods of fatigue. While cortisol does some important things in your body, chronically high levels cause increases in the size of that pouch of fat that hangs off the bottom of your belly.
 
I’m here to break the bad news to you that traditional cardio actually causes cortisol to run rampant in your body.
 
Going for an easy walk is fine and good for your health, but those hard distance runs, long elliptical sessions, and aerobic dance classes cause your cortisol to make deposits of fat around your belly button at a rate greater than Donald Trump makes deposits at the bank!
 
3. You’re taking fuel out of your metabolic furnace
Think of your metabolism like a wood-burning furnace. The more wood you have on the fire, the hotter it will burn.
 
The wood in your body’s metabolism is lean muscle tissue. Higher levels of lean muscle create a huge demand for calories, even when you’re not exercising at all!
 
Traditional cardio eats away at muscle mass, which then decreases the amount of calories you burn on a day-to-day basis.
 
So if jogging ain’t so great, what the heck should you be doing instead?
 
Forget about “cardio” and turn to “the perfect fat burning training system” instead.
Technically, you could still call the perfect fat burning training system work “cardio,” because it does train the cardiovascular system, but in a VERY different way.
 
Unlike cardio training, perfect fat burning system training actually stimulates fat loss, while SIMULTANEOUSLY maintaining muscle mass so that you can keep the furnace hot!
So what can you do to shift towards perfect fat burning training system training and avoid the 3 problems with traditional cardio?
 
The answer is really quite simple.
 
First, you need to make sure you’ve got a good resistance-training program.
 
Too many people make the mistake of ignoring their metabolically active muscle mass. This is the base of your fat burning metabolism. Don’t ignore it. Whether you are a woman or a man, a well designed resistance training program is a must.
 
Next, you should do your perfect fat burning training system exercises 2-4 times per week, but utilizing high intensity intervals instead of your standard 30-45 minute boring jog.
 
High intensity intervals burn more fat than steady-state cardio, they boost your metabolism, and they increase your fat-burning hormones.
 
Here’s a sample plan for you:
 
For each workout, choose whatever method you want whether it is sprinting, kayaking, cycling, rowing, etc. The principles remain the same no matter what you’re doing.
 
Workout 1: 6 rounds of 30 seconds as hard and as fast as you can go followed by 1 minute and 30 seconds of low intensity activity or complete rest 
 
Workout 2: 8 rounds of 1 minute as hard and as fast as you can go followed by 2 minutes of low-intensity activity or complete rest
 
Workout 3: 20 rounds of 10 seconds as hard and as fast as you can go followed by 30 seconds of low-intensity activity or complete rest
 
Make these quick and easy changes to your workout plan and kiss your body fat goodbye forever!
 
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. All these principles, and many more cutting edge scientific fat loss methods, are part of our brand new program.
 
Call us for a consultation and let us assist you in acieveing the body you have been dreaming about.
 
Call us at 215-821-7336
 
I appetite suppressant medications eliminate your appetite making it easy to follow the right diet program. When you combine that with our perfect fat burning training system the weight melts away. 
 
So call now at 215-821-7336
 
 
 
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Beware Hidden Sugar In Food Labels

Hidden Sugar In Food Labels

In this article I will will review the many names of sugar. We all know that sugar is not good for us but we do not know the various names of sugar that are on our food labels. So in this article I am going to give you all of the other names that you will see on food labels that mean sugar. So when you see these names on your food labels put that particular item of food down and do not buy and definitely do not eat it.
 
So here are the many names of sugar:
  • barley malt
  • beet sugar
  • blackstrap molasses
  • brown sugar
  • cane juice crystals
  • cane sugar
  • Caramel
  • carob syrup
  • castor sugar
  • confectioners' sugar
  • corn sweeteners
  • corn syrup
  • D-mannose
  • date sugar
  • demerara sugar
  • dextrin
  • dextrose
  • diastatic malt
  • diatase
  • evaporated cane juice
  • fructose
  • fruit juice concentrate
  • galactose
  • glucose
  • high fructose corn syrup
  • honey
  • invert sugar
  • lactose
  • malt syrup
  • maltodextrin
  • maltose
  • raw sugar
  • rice syrup
  • sucrose
  • syrup
  • treacle
  • turbinado sugar
 
So if you see any of these names on any of your food labels stay away from that food – do not eat it put it down. If you would like more help on weight loss and foods that are good for you and more lists of foods that are not good for you call us for a concultation.
 
Thank you and have a great day!
 
 
 
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Medical Weight Loss What Makes US Different

Best Medical Weight Loss Program in Philadelphia

In this article I will review why I think – and our Patients think we are the most complete medical weight loss program in Philadelphia, Bucks County, Delaware and Jersey.
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Difference 1:
First of all we only use the highest quality medications and supplements in our program. Many of our patients have told us that the medications that we use to control their appetite and hunger seem to be more effective as compared to the  medications that they were given by other medical weight loss centers.
 
Difference 2:
Our patients tell us that our program is Less expensive than other medical weight loss programs in the Philadelphia, Bucks County, Jersey and Delaware regions.
 
Difference 3:
You see a Certified and licensed medical health care practitioner on each and every visit. You will usually see the Medical Doctor on your visits and on some occasions you may be seen by our certified and licensed Physician's Assistant. Our Physician"s Assistants received their degrees from the Pennsylvania College of Osteopathic Medicine which is one of the finest medical schools in the Philadelphia region and the country. Today you will find Physician's Assistants in most Medical offices taking care of patients under the supervision of a Medical Doctor.
 
Difference 4:
We spend time with you going over a proper diet and nutrition program. Many of our patients tell us that at other weight-loss clinics in Philadelphia they are just handed a sheet of paper with nothing on it but meat, chicken, fish and vegetables and told that this is the diet that they are supposed to follow. They are also told to drink nothing but water.
 
So basically they are told to follow an Atkins like type of diet.
 
Now most of us have tried the Atkins diet in the past and we all have lost weight on the Atkins diet. But the problem is as soon as you eat your first piece of bread, your first piece of chocolate or your first piece of anything that is not a protein or vegetable . You will gain the weight you lost back.
 
Personally there have been times when I myself have lost 30 pounds doing the Atkins diet But as soon as I  ate my first slice of pizza I started to gain the weight back and Actually gained back 50 pounds. So, I gained back the 30 pounds that I lost plus an additional 20 pounds.
 
I don't  know about you but I find it extremely difficult not to have at least a little bit of starchy carbohydrates during the day.
 
So with our program we allow you to eat starchy carbohydrates – just in moderation. In fact, we allow you to eat almost everything in moderation.
 
On our weight-loss program people cannot believe the Normal everyday foods that they can eat and still lose weight. The key to the weight loss success of our program is that we tell you when you should start eating how often you should eat and when to stop eating.
 
We make it simple and easy by giving you a blueprint to reach your weight loss goals.
 
Difference 5:
We give you an exercise program that is custom designed for you. We take into consideration your present health and physical condition when we design your program. Some patients might just walk a little bit. Other patients that are more physically fit may do a more varied type of exercise routine. We have patients that are working out three days a week for only 15 minutes on each of these days and they are losing weight.
 
Difference 6:
We are always just a phone call and/or an email away. We try to answer phone calls promptly but if we are on the phone with other patients your call may go to voice mail but please leave a message because we constantly check our voice mail and return calls almost immediately.
 
What we are about:
This program is not about losing 100 pounds in 30 days. It is about making small lifestyle changes that add up to big results and safe weight loss over a period of time.
 
It is not our goal to make you a size 0.
 
But it is our goal to make you happy with yourself. It is our goal to make you healthy and make you the "Best You" that you could possibly be.
 
Call us now and schedule your personal consultation.
 
Call 215-821-7336
 
We have office in Philadelphia and Bucks County.
 
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Phone Number

(215) 821-7336

Philadelphia Location

7439 Frankford Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19136

Bucks County Location

1201 Buck Rd.
Suite 203
Feasterville, PA 19053

Lehigh County Location

163 N. Commerce Way
Bethlehem, PA 18017
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