“People don’t realize how many calories they are obtaining from caloric beverages and snacks, and these can be easy interventions … that can help reduce calories,” Victoria Catenacci, MD, assistant professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center told WebMD. Her advice is important to keep in mind when discussing food journals,…

National Public Radio highlights the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center’s Maintain Not Gain holiday weight program Can you relate to this? It’s the holiday season, and the parties, the rich meals, the sweet treats can seem bottomless. “Well, it is a little bit of challenge, because I do like food,” says Margo Waite, an administrative assistant…

A woman weighing more than 300 pounds came to Extreme Weight Loss this season with a goal – lose the weight so she could fulfill her dream of becoming a mom. But Hannah’s journey was not easy. Along the way, she broke her foot, slowing down her workouts. “You saw Hannah decide she wasn’t going…

Weight-loss seekers flock to Colorado for boot-camp vacations Two miles into a 5-mile hike, with a rocky cliff to her left, a snow-covered trail underfoot, and a rogue spring whiteout pelting her cheeks, 52-year-old Lynn Robinson begins to cry. “I have to stop,” she tells her husband, Rob, as her intense fear of heights and…