Weight Loss

Sustainable weight loss is about much more than just the food. Follow these 7 tips to find greater health and balance in 2024.

Eating for healing is a major concept in Chinese medicine. Which foods made our list?

TCM's approach to weight loss lies in a few well-kept secrets: a balanced body and a diet rich in Qi-boosting fruits and vegetables that are warm and nurturing.

As long as your body is balanced, disease cannot enter. As long as your body is balanced, weight will drop off naturally.

Many people resolve to lose weight in the new year. Often, that entails diet and exercise routines. But all too often, the weight that is lost comes back on. Learn how to use an entirely new type of thinking to rebalance the body and take the weight off for good, with Dragon's Way Qigong.

This simple secret can change the way you eat, and the way you view food.

Through her journey with TCM, Lucia learned how emotions impact the body, both physically and emotionally.

Clearly something is out of balance. More than half of all American adults are overweight or obese, according to a survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. One-third meet the criterion for obesity, based on body mass index, as defined by Federal clinical practice guidelines released in 2006 by the National Heart, Lung, […]

Most weight-loss strategies are focused on external factors—it’s all about the weight, and the food. Counting calories, adding points, measuring food and even deny food cravings has become the norm. This limited view punishes the body.  In reality, excess weight is the body’s way of showing that it’s out of balance. Learning how to listen […]

Because our mind, body, and spirit are connected, the underlying cause of excess weight or other ailments is almost always related to our emotions. You are what you eat, but on a deeper level, you are what you feel and think! To manifest your best and healthiest body, it's important to clean up your emotional "garbage."

You may be surprised to learn that this list doesn’t include yogurt, raw foods, or salad! Chinese medicine has an entirely different take on how to best eat for weight loss and a healthy metabolism. The Eastern nutrition way is not to count your calories, minerals, or vitamins, but to eat foods that will energetically […]

Feeling stressed just thinking about your stress and if it’s affecting your health and metabolism? Not to worry: here’s what Chinese medicine has to say about stress and how shedding its effects (and those extra pesky pounds) can be as simple as following a few age-old, do-it-yourself techniques. Stress can play a major role in the […]