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!
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!
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.
VIDEOS
Our weight and life coaching experts believe learning should be fun! With IME Community videos, you can get all your burning questions answered with ad-free help from the best in the business.
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.”
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
Celebrate Measures of Self Success – May 2022 Mantras
May is an exciting and often stressful time of year. Lots of wrapping up finals, graduations, planning for summer, all the things! My middle child, Audrey, is graduating from Lincoln High School and, for some reason, seeing her senior pics and the pics of her friends...
Do You Parent with Compassion or Compliance?
Do you parent with compassion or compliance? I don’t have everything figured out. I don’t have some secret that I’m withholding from you. I don’t know any more than you, especially when it comes to your teen. I don’t think your parenting needs fixing or...
Self Awareness and Discovery – Doing the Work
“The Work” of self awareness and discovery is hard. There’s no way around it. Circa 2018 or 2019: “Mom, I know you’ve lost weight and have done a lot for your health, but you act the same. I don’t see much of a difference.” That was my daughter, Katherine’s comment...
How about a free, 3-day challenge to get you motivated and ready to take on all your dreams? All you have to do is sign up for our email list, and we’ll send you the lowdown on how to make it fun to get it done in just a few days.
Here’s a quick preview of what you’ll get:
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.
Get 10 tips from our good friends at Dunder Mifflin — if you know, you know — and apply them to your own life.
Create a concrete action plan with 5 achievable steps that YOU create for yourself.
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