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Thriving as a Physician

How to Lose Weight & Love Your Life

Podcast

Physicians… Ready to lose weight and manage emotional or binge eating while loving your life more?

Hosted by Dr. Siobhan Key, an Obesity Medicine Physician and Certified Coach, this podcast teaches you practical, sustainable tools to lose weight and thrive in your life at the same time. Each episode will show you how to move away from always feeling restricted and frustrated to discovering what really works for lasting weight loss. You deserve to thrive. [Previously the Weight Solutions for Physicians podcast.]

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“I don’t think I can lose weight”

Many physicians have told me that they don’t think they can ever lose weight… … maybe because they look at their family and see an inevitable genetic destiny of weight issues … or because their body has changed (like with menopause) and isn’t responding the way it did...

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Finding Balance: Juggling parenting, medicine & life

Work-life balance. Does it even exist?? Sharing my thoughts in this email and in this week’s episode of the Thriving As A Physician Podcast. I spent most of the early years of my career swinging wildly from feeling like I was doing okay and saying yes to the requests...

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Shifting Weight Loss Gears

We’ve been told there are 2 gears in managing our weight: 👟 The Pedal to the metal, full out, head down and get it done gear OR 🐢 The go back to old habits and stop trying (while trying to psych yourself up for another try) gear Does that sound sustainable? Not at...

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Decoding Types of Eating

Decoding Types of Eating

Ever find yourself snacking and wondering if you are really hungry? Hear people talk about stress eating but not sure if that really describes you? There are so many different labels and descriptions around, no wonder you feel confused at times. In this week’s...

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My 45th Birthday Reflections

My 45th Birthday Reflections

I recorded this week’s podcast episode the evening before my birthday last week to share my reflections on the year. And to be completely transparent, it has given me a lot of anxiety ever since. I have thought about completely re-recording it multiple times this...

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Avoiding Food FOMO

Avoiding Food FOMO

It sucks to feel left out of the fun for any reason. If you have ever experienced this, then you know the deep ache FOMO can give you. And when FOMO shows up around your food choices, it gives your healthy eating goals a run for their money. Eating healthy...

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Traveling Hacks

Travelling and vacation can be a big challenge when it comes to weight loss. You have your routines and go-to options that work for you at home and then all of the sudden you have to reinvent it all on the road. Add in tempting different food options around you and it...

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3 Core Values to Transform Your Physician Weight Loss Journey

3 Core Values to Transform Your Physician Weight Loss Journey

Diet culture has it all wrong. It has handed us the following values: 👎 Do whatever it takes to lose weight the quickest 👎 Sacrifice is not only required but celebrated 👎 Short term results trump long term sustainability any day 👎 If it is hard and feels...

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Reclaiming Portion Control

Do you shudder when you think about “reducing your portion sizes”? 🥴 It’s such common diet advice (and a solid part of the old “eat less, exercise more” philosophy we were all trained in) that many of us walk around thinking about reducing portion sizes but finding it...

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Navigating a World of Tempting Food

“I do ok if I can just keep the chocolate out of my house. Should I just try to keep it away from me?” This came up in a recent coaching call inside Thrive Academy for Physicians and I thought I would share my thoughts with you in this week’s podcast episode. Back...

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When You Have Zero Time for Yourself

Let’s face it… life as a physician often means feeling like you are constantly running and never quite catching up on everything. There is always something else to do on that endless list. It is no surprise that you may have really good intentions to find some time...

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Handling Other People’s Comments

Regardless of where you are in your weight journey, you can pretty much assume you will have to deal with comments about your eating, your weight or your appearance. Most of these will be well intentioned. But that doesn’t mean they feel good. When I am coaching...

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How to Thrive in Your Weight Loss & Life