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William McCarthy

Medical Director, Nova ABC Weight Loss Clinic, NOVA ABC Weight Loss Clinic

www.novaabc.com

703-494-1020

novaabc@novaabc.com

Dr. William McCarthy is the Medical Director at the NOVA ABC Weight Loss Clinic

Dr. McCarthy has been in private medical practice in the Northern Virginia area since 1976. He received a BS (Magna cum laude) at Xavier University in Cincinnati, his M.D. degree at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C, and served his internship and residency in Family Practice at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals in Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. McCarthy is board certified in bariatric medicine, which is the medical specialty of weight disorders. At this time, there are only approximatly 300 board certified bariatricians in the United States.

He has served as the Chief of Staff and board member of Potomac Hospital here in Woodbridge. He founded the nationally recognized Continuing Medical Education program at Potomac Hospital and served as it director for over twenty years. He has been repeatedly voted by his peers as one of the top physicians in the D.C area in the Washington Consumer Checkbook. Dr. McCarthy has also served as a board member of the Northern Virginia Foundation for Health and Medical Care and on the board of Physician’s Care insurance. He was the team physician for the Prince William professional baseball team for many years, chosen by the Pirates, Yankees, Cardinals, and White Sox. Dr. McCarthy has an outstanding reputation as a physician and educator, known not only for his broad knowledge of medicine, but also as a compassionate and caring physician. After years of treating the health consequences that were brought on by excess weight, Dr. McCarthy decided to shift the focus of his care to the treatment and prevention of the actual cause of these medical problems. Dr. McCarthy has attended numerous conferences, intensively studied the most current medical literature, and has spent time working with well known, experienced bariatricians in order to enhance his knowledge in the science of weight loss, metabolism, nutrition, exercise, and behavioral aspects of weight control. He now dedicates his experience and knowledge to those who lives and health are adversely affected by their excess weight.

Weight Loss Challenges - Hunger and Boredom

Dr. William McCarthy from the Northern Virginia Area Bariatric Consultants Weight Loss Center discusses the correlation between hunger and boredom.

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Dr. William McCarthy: Hi! I'm Dr. William McCarthy from the Northern Virginia Area Bariatric Consultants Weight Loss Centre, and today I'm telling you how to over come weight loss challenges.

Now I'll discuss how to over come hunger and boredom while on a diet. Hunger is a major cause of failure. It's a response to depravation, it's a response in any living organism anytime we don't get the food that we are used to or if we are deprived to food we get hungry. We certainly experience evidence of hunger such as stomach growling, maybe we'll smell some food or pass by a pizza place or a doughnut shop, we get this certain urge that we want to eat, maybe we see the M&Ms on our boss's desk. But always feeling hungry will never to lead to a successful weight loss, eventually we're going to overcome that hunger by eating.

So what do we do? We need to plan for those temptations when hunger gets to us. We need to get enough to eat at meals. We need to have snacks in between meals that are healthy, and especially to avoid those what we call Empty Calories. Sometimes hunger can be so much of a problem that it even needs prescription medication. If you have hunger to that degree you need to talk to your doctor, using medication certainly is controversial.

Another issue is boredom, eating the same foods or supplements day-in and day-out, they can certainly help in the short-term, we have medical evidence that they work, because we don't have to make as many choices as we get away from all the foods we're used to eating. But it's not going to last forever, not for the long-term, we need variety and the types of food that we eat, we need to add different foods in our lives, eat different spices. We need to have the variety not just in foods, but in our physical activities.

We're talking about a change in lifestyle not just a change in diet, and so these are just a few tips on how to overcome hunger and boredom while on a diet.