As a family medicine physician, one of my passions is helping patients manage and improve disease through lifestyle modification.
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Tired of ineffective diets? Learn the basics of permanent weight loss and better control common weight-related ailments
Learning to manage urges and food cravings is essential to lose weight and prevent weight-related disease. In this podcast, Dr. Vaughn discusses managing the strong desires or impulses to eat foods that don’t serve the body. She introduces the idea of recognizing and validating the urge without acting upon or complying to the urge. In …
Indulging in unproductive thoughts, such as worry and confusion, can undermine happiness, accomplishment and even weight loss. These thoughts keep our brain spinning without producing a useful action. Indulgent emotions are our primitive brain’s attempt to minimize negative emotions by avoiding failure. This podcast will help you better recognize indulgent thoughts and overcome them so …
Did you start the new year resolved to lose weight? Is your commitment starting to wane? When it comes to weight loss, it’s easy to lose motivation. Perhaps, in a moment of weakness you snuck a cookie or some chips. Eventually, these little cheats lead to bigger cheats and then – BAM – you’ve quit. …
Do you use food, alcohol or another vice to buffer away negative emotions? Buffering is the attempt to avoid feeling bad by pursing false pleasures. The truth is, a truly authentic and full-life is a balance of positive and negative emotions. Recognizing and accepting this balance can help to avoid many of the pitfalls that …
When it comes to losing weight, most people look for “fool proof” diet plans that promise success without decision-making. When these highly-structured plans don’t work, we blame the plan. Shifting blame to the plan allows our primitive brain to emotionally insulate ourselves from feelings of failure. This natural inclination to avoid feelings of failure undermines …
Anyone who knows me, knows I drop the f-bomb like it’s a comma. In this Podcast I discuss another f-word… FASTING. The concept of fasting is not new. For centuries, people have fasted a variety of reasons including politically-motivated hunger strikes and religious observances. Yet today if you mention fasting, most people cringe and explain …
Permanent weight loss is hard work and requires significant behavior changes including understanding and changing how you think. This often includes challenging fixed false beliefs. In this Podcast, Dr. Vaughn discusses how thoughts produce feelings, actions and inevitably your results.
Biology may encourage and reward you for eating poorly. Carbohydrates, sugar and processed foods stimulate feel good hormones, such as dopamine. This podcast will discuss the effects of these foods on the brain and body, and why you should avoid them.
Following my Facebook LIVE on intermittent fasting, I was inundated with questions. I put together this FAQs on fasting to provide additional clarity and information.
Do you struggle with weight loss? Perhaps you have tried various diets only to experience initial weight loss followed by plateaus and relapse. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. Millions of Americans struggle with overeating or other unhealthy patterns of behavior. While we often blame ourselves for "not being disciplined enough" to stick …
Do you struggle with weight loss? Has your doctor warned you that your high blood pressure or diabetes is the result of excess body mass? Perhaps you tired various diets only to experience initial weight loss followed by plateaus and relapse. You are not alone. Millions of Americans struggle with overeating or other unhealthy behaviors that lead to weight gain.
My name is Dr. Delane Vaughn, and I’ve been in your shoes. Like you, I’ve struggled with uncontrolled eating and steady weight gain. To gain control over my own addiction to food, I hired a life coach who helped me gain “freedom from food” by addressing the underlying reasons for my eating. My life coach was so influential in improving my life, I became a life coach myself. Now I use my medical degree and life coaching techniques to help clients achieve their wellness goals.
Effective and permanent weight lose requires addressing the underlying thoughts and emotions, which drive our actions and inevitably our results. Like most doctors, I started my career telling patients to make better life choices. I would say, “lose weight and follow-up in six months.” Then, I’d act shocked when they were unsuccessful. While I wanted my patients to be healthy, I was operating in a system of “disease care” not health and wellness care. Health and wellness is a completely different model that takes more time than a 15-minute doctor visit. Proactive and effective health care requires addressing the thoughts, which produce emotions and the resulting patterns of behavior. Only by altering these patterns of behavior are we able to produce effective and permanent improvements in health and well-being.
Today, as a doctor and life coach, I’m finally fulfilling my purpose of helping people achieve a better quality of life through preventive health. If you are interested in learning how your own personal life coach can help you achieve your health and wellness goals, contact me today for a free mini-coaching session.
If you are interested in effective and permanent weight loss, contact me today for a free mini-coaching session.