12: Dr Lucy Burns on achieving long term health and weight loss

In this episode, Helen chats with Dr Lucy Burns.

Dr Lucy Burns is a GP and lifestyle medicine physician. But that’s really just the headline because she is soooo much more than that.

The first and most important thing to know about Lucy is that she is “real” - a real person and a real doctor with the real health and wellness issues we all experience every day.

In her late teens, Lucy was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy, which impairs her mobility… but not her intellect or determination.

Becoming overweight during her 40s, Lucy embarked on the search for a solution and in 2018 she lost 20 kgs by adopting a real food, low carb lifestyle and applying focussed psychological strategies to adjusting her mindset. 

Her experience highlighted the gap in medical information and education around the relationship between insulin-resistance and weight gain, particularly for women experiencing perimenopause and menopause.

In this conversation, Lucy talks about the importance of setting yourself up for success, understanding the role of insulin resistance in weight gain, and reprogramming your mindset to create a healthy relationship with food and your body.

Highlights:

• Being a “do-er”: Doing something or taking action of any type is Lucy’s go to solution for those moments when she recognises the onset of feeling stuck.
• Career transition: How being fully booked in her clinical practice led to her transitioning her work into the online world in order to meet demand.
• Reframing “healthy”: Dr Lucy explains that being healthy is not about being skinny or “having a thigh gap” but rather about embracing a healthy lifestyle and mindset.
• Unlocking the wood shed: Using her trademark “wood shed” story, Dr Lucy outlines how a carby / starchy diet leads to insulin resistance and weight gain; and, provides some simple strategies to start bringing things under control.
• Medical hypnotherapy: It’s hard to change our behaviour without understanding our subconscious brain and the fact that we’re subjected to a wide range of subliminal or overt messaging influencing our eating habits.
• Holistic health practice: Health care policies and other systemic issues that mean that society is generally more focussed on “sickness” rather than wellness and prevention.

 

More about Lucy

If you’d like more information about Lucy and her work, you can find it here:

Real Life Medicine: rlmedicine.com

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Facebook - @reallifemedicine

Instagram - @real_life_medicine

Connect with Dr Lucy on -

Instagram - @dr_lucy_burns

LinkedIn - @drlucyburns

 

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