Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

Dr. Katrina Ubel is a pediatrician turned master certified life and weight loss coach.

She helps busy women identifying physicians permanently end their overeating and weight

struggle through life coaching and the latest weight loss science. And she's lost over 50 pounds

herself utilizing the very tools she teaches. Today she's here to chat about her new book titled

How to Lose Weight for the Last Time. Brain-based solutions for permanent weight loss. Katrina, welcome.

Thank you so much. So glad to be here. So let's start with your personal journey. You've gone

through this. So let's let's start there. Yeah, so I mean, I think it's really easy to think that

doctors have it all figured out that hey, if we all went to medical school, we wouldn't struggle

with anything related to our bodies anymore. And that's just not the case. My story, you know,

I definitely like sugar and you know, I like sweets and things like that growing up that I didn't

really really start struggling with my weight until my medical school, like my medical training.

And really what ends up happening during that time is a very gradual progression of the taking away

of things that support you, you know. So if you had maybe during college or before that kind of

schooling, if you had any kind of hobbies or ways that you like to spend your time, you know,

you just have less and less time for that and less and less and less availability for it

as you progress through the process. And over time, you end up kind of just being consumed with what

it is that you're doing. Like if you have a family, it's your family in school. And if you don't

have a family, it's basically school. So you're working long, long hours, you're exhausted, you're

also studying and taking really big important tests. And then once you get into your internship

and residency and really get into that training, it often gets even worse. And they're really,

you know, I don't, I don't, I think there's a very gradual change, maybe possibly happening now,

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