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From podcasts to printables, take advantage of these amazing free resources to help inspire your total-health journey! Straight from the experts, they’re totally free and created just for teens!
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From podcasts to printables, take advantage of these amazing resources to help inspire your total-health journey! They’re totally free, straight from the experts and created just for teens!
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FEATURED CONTENT
Here within the IME Community we frequently have the opportunity to talk to special guests. Here are some featured rockstars I’ve had the privilege to chat. Listen in on our conversations and learn from their experiences with these free resources available to you.
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ARTICLES
Meet Doctor Karla Lester, MD
Specialty(ies): Pediatrics | Physician Profile
When you work with Karla Lester M.D.(she/her/hers), you get results. Not only is she a rockstar, board-certified pediatrician, obesity medicine doctor and professionally certified life coach with decades of experience, but she also uses her own weight loss journey as fuel for helping teens, parents and physicians succeed — and making it fun! After years of creating community solutions for children’s health, she is bringing all of what works to create IME Community (imecommunity.com).
MEDPAGETODAY'S KevinMD.com
Dr. Karla is a child health advocate who has worked to address the childhood obesity epidemic for two decades on local, state, and national levels. Her vision is “creating community with compassionate connection.” She is a poet, an author of a children’s book, The Magical Everywhere, the poem, “Miracle of Will,” in JAMA, and is the grateful mom of three amazing young people.
Patients say drugs like Ozempic help with ‘food noise.’ Here’s what that means
As more people turn to drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy for weight loss, another side effect for some patients has emerged: less so-called “food noise,” or food chatter.
The terms refer to constant or intrusive thoughts or preoccupation about food, said Dr. Karla Lester, an obesity physician and pediatrician. Whereas “hunger would be the physiologic sensation that you need to eat … food noise and food chatter is more like the craving mind.”
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IME PODCAST
Get educated and motivated on the go! We know you’re busy, so we made it easy to tune in to life and weight coaching at any time. Whether you’re working out or driving to school, you can access the IME podcast from literally anywhere — making this another great free resource!
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PRINTABLES
Want to get a head start on your progress? Check out these optional IME downloads and worksheets for a fun, interactive way to learn about transforming your mind and body through the power of choice!
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5 Keys to Self-Acceptance
Teens, you can use these 5 key steps to get yourself on a path to fully accepting who you are. Don’t wait until you’ve reached your next goal. Love yourself now!
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Let's Meet in the Middle
Parents, this piece sums up my approach to holistic weight and life coaching. Get to know my philosophy and the inspiration behind IME Community’s flexible structure.
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THE REAL EPIDEMIC
Let’s think differently about it. Unhealthy weight gain is hormonal and not simply caloric. The real epidemic facing children and adolescents is Insulin Resistance (IR) and metabolic diseases associated with IR, such as prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease, PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) and metabolic syndrome.
Download my Insulin Resistance in Teens Guide here to learn about my metabolic health approach.
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THE REAL EPIDEMIC
Let’s think differently about it. Unhealthy weight gain is hormonal and not simply caloric. The real epidemic facing children and adolescents is Insulin Resistance (IR) and metabolic diseases associated with IR, such as prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease, PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) and metabolic syndrome.
Download my Insulin Resistance in Teens Guide here to learn about my metabolic health approach.
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BLOG
The IME Community blog is your go-to for articles that will help you feel amazing about yourself and inspire you to live a healthier lifestyle. Hear from the pros about how they’ve made it fun to get it done!
“Should my daughter take wegovy?”
I was recently coaching a Mom of a teen who wanted my help with her daughter who has struggled with her weight “all her life”. Her daughter is 17 and is begging her Mom to let her take the new GLP-1 medications (saxenda, wegovy, ozempic, mounjaro) and Mom is...
80’s Mixtape: Big Industrial Complexes
You just heard St. Elmo’s Fire by John Parr and I started your 80’s Mixtape with You spin me round by Dead or Alive. Playlist for the day is almost all top hits from August of 1985, so 38 years ago. It’s got an industrial feel, so I thought we’d talk about the top...
Megan starts her Junior Year on Wegovy!
Every parent, especially Moms worry about being an Almond Mom stuck in diet culture, potentially causing an eating disorder or doing absolutely nothing to help their teen who has health issues like insulin resistance and mental health issues associated with...
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Learn to create a feeling of FUN with your thoughts! That way, even the things you may not love doing — like homework, eating lots of veggies, or doing your chores — can become an amazing part of your day.
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Get 10 tips from our good friends at Dunder Mifflin — if you know, you know — and apply them to your own life.
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Create a concrete action plan with 5 achievable steps that YOU create for yourself.
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