About Dr. Brian Alman

Byline: Dr. Brian Alman, Ph.D., has worked for more than 30 years to help people find permanent weight loss solutions. He is a world-renowned expert on medical weight loss and author of the bestselling book Keep it Off. Dr. Alman holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego. He developed motivational techniques used by top health care and weight loss companies and clinics. His Keep It Off For Life program provides personalized phone coaching to help people lose weight and keep it off. To learn more, visit his Web site at www.keepitoffforlife.com.

Broadcast BIO: Dr. Brian Alman has found a way to help people lose weight and keep it off using personalized motivational phone coaching. His Keep It Off For Life system supports people in the diet and exercise programs they choose, providing a crucial boost to help maintain a healthy weight for life. Almost 95 percent of people who lose weight later gain it back. Keep It Off For Life has a much higher success rate — half of people who use the program keep the pounds off. Dr. Alman holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and helps people resolve underlying issues with food and eating that are often the result of unhappy childhood experiences. Find out more at www.keepitoffforlife.com. Welcome, Dr. Alman. How do childhood experiences translate into unhealthy eating habits?

Full BIO: Dr. Brian Alman, Ph.D., bestselling author of Keep it Off, is a world-renowned medical weight loss expert and creator of Keep It Off For Life (www.keepitoffforlife.com). This innovative program provides personalized phone coaching to help people lose weight and keep it off.

He studied at Suffolk University in Boston and later earned his clinical psychology Ph.D. at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego. Working since 1997 at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, Dr. Alman conducted a double blind, scientific study on long-term solutions for weight loss.

With the help of scientists at MIT, he created his patented, proprietary system to support people in their diet and exercise programs. That is critical to helping people get off the roller coaster of weight loss followed by reoccurring weight gain. While almost 95 percent of people who lose weight later gain it back, half of all people who use Keep It Off For Life keep the weight off.

Dr. Alman has taught workshops for major corporations such as Kaiser Permanente, Kraft, Apple Computer and Sony Pictures, as well as the University of Paris, Harvard Medical School and University of California. Kaiser Permanente, the world's largest healthcare organization, uses his Keep It Off For Life program as a part of its strategy to bring proven weight loss solutions to healthcare providers worldwide.

Dr. Alman helps people resolve underlying issues with food and eating that are often the result of unhappy childhood experiences. At Kaiser Permanente he has worked with Dr. V. J. Felitti, a co-author of the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study on the relation of childhood trauma to problems later in life. An ongoing collaboration between Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control, the ACE study is the largest scientific study to analyze the relationship between multiple categories of childhood trauma and negative health and behavioral outcomes. More information on the study can be found at www.acestudy.org.

Since 1979, Dr. Alman has been in private practice in Southern California. He provides training to professionals from all disciplines in stress reduction, pain control, dealing with difficult people and situations, peak performance, problem solving, eliminating dependencies and addictions and achieving and maintaining healthy weight for life. Dr. Alman has authored many books, tapes and videos, including Self-Hypnosis: The Complete Manual for Health and Self-Change, published in 14 languages worldwide.

To learn more about Dr. Alman and his work, visit his Web sites at www.KeepItOffForLife.com and www.TruSage.com.

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