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Sore knees, back pain, being out of breath from walking up a flight of stairs, not fitting into my clothes, feeling sluggish and tired; this is how I started out the year in January 2017. My journey to get healthy started towards the end of 2016; I was tired of not feeling good and being…
Recapping Weeks 7 and 8 of Kathie J. and Larry’s weight loss journey With Holly Wyatt, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center We just finished Weeks 7 and 8 of State of Slim, and I’m so proud of how Kathie J. and Larry soared through the holidays and…
Recapping Week 6 of Kathie J. and Larry’s weight loss journey With Holly Wyatt, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center Last week, we tackled the physical environment which got us thinking about creating an auto-pilot. That led us into the topic of routines, which is what we focused…
Recapping Week 5 of Kathie J. and Larry’s weight loss journey With Holly Wyatt, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center In previous weeks, I’ve talked about experiential learning and how important it is to transformational change. Last week, that experiential learning was no TV. This week, it’s the…
When I begin working with a new client, they will almost invariably put on their “best posture,” or, if not that, will tell me what awful posture they have. The truth is I really don’t care about what their posture looks like. I care about how their individual body segments function as a unit, and,…
When I first started studying with Judith Aston, the creator of Aston Kinetics I was struck with her approach to the challenges with which her students or clients presented her. “Hmmm…” she would say. “I’m curious if…” And then she would proceed to deconstruct a complex task into smaller pieces- always from the position of…
I became a member of the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center close to two years ago. I was desperately trying to find a solution to my weight problem – I was having trouble sleeping and generally just not feeling good and was at my highest weight. I was hoping for some diet pills from my…
Imagine that your survival relies on daily insulin, Humalog, and Lantus doses, plus four blood pressure medications, and a prescription to control cholesterol levels. Each day is a struggle of balancing food, health, work, life, stress, and knowing that your medications are just barely holding things together for you. That’s survival, but that’s not the…
When you think of a powerlifter, what comes to mind? If you’re like most, an Arnold Schwarzenegger-esque bodybuilder is probably the first image that pops into your head. You wouldn’t instantly think it was something a grandmother would be doing, would you? Granted, Maria Portelli, isn’t your typical grandmother, but she’ll tell you that powerlifting…
Shukrallah Abdelrazeq is a successful audiologist with the New York City Department of Education and a father of two with a loving and supportive wife. The stress of his job in Brooklyn was making his health and weight a problem. As he watched the scale creep toward 400 pounds, Shukry knew he needed a change…
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