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Focus on gaining health instead of focusing on losing weight.

3/2/2017

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‘If you focus on gaining Health,
you might lose some Weight as a bonus.
If you only focus on losing Weight,
you might lose your Health as a consequence.’
In my medical practice, I sometimes do get patients referred by other doctors to my lifestyle medicine clinic for weight loss to better manage their chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and cholesterol problems.

And at the first consultation, I would always ask them what they think is the primary purpose of their visit and invariably almost every one of them would say, 'My doctor asked me to come see you to help me lose some weight.'. This would also invariably draw a 'philosophical' answer from me reminding them, 'Actually I think your doctor referred you to me primarily to help you gain Health through lifestyle modification, weight loss is just one of the necessary steps towards that, Because If you focus on gaining Health, you would probably lose some Weight as a bonus. But if you only focus on losing Weight, you might risk losing your Health as a consequence.’

And if I have bit more time that day, I might even share with them my personal journey of how when I focused on practising a healthy lifestyle, I accidentally gained health and lost some weight in the process (>>> you can read the story about my accidental weight loss journey o
n my personal blog post on this)

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    My musings about
    Lifestyle as Medicine

    Ever since I accidentally embarked on this journey of learning, studying, discovering, practising, advocating and subsequently teaching about the power of lifestyle, especially our diet on our health, I find myself 'obsessed' with thinking of the obstacles and challenges that people faced in unleashing the power of a healthy lifestyle.

    I think about it all the time, whether I am working in my clinic, in my restaurant or in my school where I teach lifestyle as medicine, I find myself musing about Lifestyle as medicine non-stop, so much so that I constantly carry a small notebook to jot down notes of all my musings  as they come.

    Here, I pen down some of these musings to share with you.

    Have fun!

    Doc

    Lifestyle Medicine
    Lifestyle is 'Powerful Medicine.'
    Lifestyle is also 'Slow Poison'
    We gotta know
    ​We gotta choose

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    Focus on gaining health instead of focusing on losing weight.

    Can we 'LOVE LIFE, enjoy food' instead?


    Blog Posts
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    How & Why I became a Food Coach

    Doctor turned Accidental Chef turned Incidental Chef

    Reflections of 'The Food Doctor'

    ​Why I embarked on a weight loss journey

    Sharing about the power of food in diabetes on Diabetes Lifestyle magazine

    Doctor turned Accidental Chef - How it all began 
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    The birth of The Bento People

    No wasted Journeys -
    Why I Blog


    Buay Chye, God & I. The day God sent me a cook.

    Behind every adventurous man is a long-suffering wife

    Legacy
    How I accidentally left a legacy as a 9 year old boy


    The day blogger Leslie Tay (ieatishootipost) came to visit

    The accidental marathoner
    - how I accidentally ran the marathon when I was 12

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    They call me a Maverick. 
    I say I am an Explorer.
     

    Why & How 'Advocating Healthy Eating' became my purpose, mission & passion.
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