Patient's Positive Attitude For Change!


 These are “Actual” Before and After Patient Pictures.
Astounding Difference!!! Doesn’t She Look Amazing Now?!

This is an actual patient in her 50’s that made the decision to get healthy through one of our LoseIt4me Weight Loss and Wellness Programs. With support and a positive attitude, she did great and is getting healthy!
She’s now taking advantage of our Anti-Aging and
Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy and turning back the hands of time.

No Challenge Too Great For Our Patients!


Congratulations to all our weight loss & wellness patients! They followed our customized Fit4me Plans and contributed 67,000 POUNDS of weight loss to this year’s Oklahoma City 1 Million Challenge!
One patient, Penny, followed a Fit4Me plan and lost 200 pounds. She was and is featured on the OKCMillion website. Another Fit4Me patient shared their testimonial at the News Conference this past week celebrating 1 Million Pounds Lost. 
 
It’s not too late to make your New Year’s Resolution for a New You in 2012 !! We have a customized Fit4me weight loss & wellness Plan just for YOU.
Visit our website to see how we can begin to help YOU right now
http://www.barretohealthcare.com/Weight-Loss-Programs.html

If Wishing Could Make It So


Tired of losing at weight loss? If only wishing could make it so…
Learn how to get your diet going by goal setting, getting a diet buddy, and finding the best diet for you. Learn about smart snacks and diet danger zones. The following are ideas and services offered at Barreto Health Care through our Fit4me Weight Loss & Wellness Programs and Healthy Lifestyle Education Behahior Modification.
Set realistic short term and long term weight loss goals. Discover how to adopt new behaviors, like eating less and exercising more, to boost weight loss. Write it all down!
If you’re tired of dieting alone, find a weight loss buddy. Learn how partnering for weight loss can boost morale and keep you from giving up when diet plateaus hit.
Learn what to look for when selecting a weight loss program. Discover how to stick with the program once you get going. We have customized programs and on-going support.
Get the real facts about fad diets, and learn some healthy weight loss strategies that really work. Diet, exercise and journaling everything always works.
Will you be a diet success story? Assess your diet goals and plan. Document, document, document.
Learn the benefits and risks of very low-calorie diets.
Discover the habits that can help you stay on a diet and lose pounds fast.
Learn tips for smart snacking that can help keep you full between meals.
Discover simple ways to break food cravings with Healthy Lifestyle Education.
Discover ways to keep from gaining weight once you’ve reached your goal weight.


Penny's Resolution...Lose Weight & Get Healthy


Penny struggled with her weight and health for years. She finally decided to get serious about weight loss and wellness and lost 200 pounds in 10 months! Way to go Penny!




Take aim at your target weight in 2012 and
 resolve to see a healthy new YOU!!

Which Came First, The Chicken or The Egg?

We all know the famous saying of "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" This adage is perceived as a paradox, because it is believed that only a chicken can produce a chicken egg and only a chicken egg can produce a chicken. This is commonly referred to as a causality dilemma or catch-22. Can the same be said for a healthy diet encouraging exercise? Or is it exercise that encourages a healthy diet? So, which comes first?


EXERCISE ENCOURAGES A HEALTHY DIET?

HEALTHY DIET ENCOURAGES EXERCISE?


According to an article posted 2011-12-23 on WorldHealth.net, this particular causality dilemma or catch-22 has been solved. It seems that Exercise Encourages a Healthy Diet, as further explained in the post below:

While a healthy diet and the right amount of exercise are considered to be key players in treating and preventing obesity, Harvard University (Massachusetts, USA) researchers reveal that an increase in physical activity is linked to an improvement in diet quality.  Miguel Alonso Alonso and colleagues analyzed data from epidemiological studies, finding that tendencies towards a healthy diet and the right amount of physical exercise often come hand in hand. Furthermore, an increase in physical activity is usually linked to a parallel improvement in diet quality.  Exercise also brings benefits such as an increase in sensitivity to physiological signs of fullness. This not only means that appetite can be controlled better but it also modifies hedonic responses to food stimuli. Therefore, benefits can be classified as those that occur in the short term (of metabolic predominance) and those that are seen in the long term (of behavioral predominance). Commenting that: “By enhancing the resources that facilitate ‘top-down’ inhibitory control, increased physical activity may help compensate and suppress the hedonic drive to over-eat,” the study authors submit that: “Understanding how physical activity and eating behaviors interact on a neurocognitive level may help to maintain a healthy lifestyle in an obesogenic environment.”

R. J. Joseph, M. Alonso-Alonso, D. S. Bond, A. Pascual-Leone, G. L. Blackburn.  “The neurocognitive connection between physical activity and eating behavior.”  Obesity Reviews, Volume 12, Issue 10, October 2011, Pages: 800–812.

Which came first? Chicken or the egg…egg or the chicken. Which should come first? Exercise then a healthy diet...healthy diet then exercise. Whichever you believe actually comes first doesn’t really matter…as long as you are exercising and eating a healthy diet, then you are choosing to be HEALTHY in 2012! Happy New Year!!!!