Queen Anne Medical Weight Loss Goes to the Northwest Women's Show!

Queen Anne Medical Weight Loss will be participating in the 23rd Northwest Women's Show coming up Friday-Sunday, March 4-6!

The event features all sorts of exhibits of interest to women - actually, of interest to everybody. Free samples are abundant, and there are numerous stage presentations. Check out the show's website, http://www.nwwomenshow.com/ for details.


You are bound to find something of interest to you, provided that you have a pulse(!).


Located in the Qwest Field Exhibition Center, the NW Women's Show is open the following hours:

        Friday 10-5
        Saturday 10-6
        Sunday 10-5


Admission is $15 at the door, but check http://www.nwwomenshow.com/ for information about discounted and online ticket availability. Children under 6 are admitted free.


Queen Anne Medical Weight Loss is offering a Northwest Women's Show special: one week of OPTIFAST Meal Replacements FREE upon enrollment in a Queen Anne Medical Weight Loss Program!

Come and see us at the Show. We'll have several of our Program Participants ready and willing to share their stories and answer questions.

Remember, we're all in this together!
Linda Gromko, MD

Creating our own Happy Valentine's Day

Does Valentine's Day bring challenges for you? Have you had it up to HERE with flower bouquets, cards, jewelry advertisements - the whole Madison Avenue message that if we were only beautiful enough, thin enough, tall enough, smart enough, and - dare I say it, BLONDE enough - that that knight in shining armour would be arriving - well, by midnight at least?

How many of us have purchased Valentine's Day candy, even half-priced the day after, just for the sake of having it?

How many of us have comforted ourselves - for whatever troubles we are suffering - by eating out of one of those heart-shaped boxes, or unwrapping calorie dense candies from red foil wrappers?

Let's put the brakes on! Take a breath. Valentine's Day is a day of sadness for many people! Just as with the Christmas season, Valentine's Day announces to the world when we are without partners, when we don't "qualify" to have a partner, etc.

The expectations can be staggering. What if you do have a partner and he/she doesn't acknowledge Valentine's Day at all? How should you acknowledge the day?

We recommend that you take a page from our Holiday Program advice: buy your own Valentine - the one you really want. (Provided it's not damaging food, and provided that your kids are taken care of!)

Find a non-food reward to celebrate the meaning of Valentine's Day as a day of love, including love of yourself! (If you have no ideas, think "spa.") Humph.

Be alert to the invitations for sabotage that swirl around us in this season. Take a breath, and thank yourself for the outstanding efforts you extend on your own behalf.

Happy Valentine's Day.
We're all in this together.
Linda Gromko, MD