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Panache People to Know – John Kent

February 10, 2013 By Nina Stanley Leave a Comment

John Kent North Pinellas Adventure Boot Camp for Women - Photo: Don Shepherd XOPIXO

John Kent began his professional fitness career in an unconventional way. He was a stage performer and had to be in peak physical condition at all times. Once John discovered the benefits of health and fitness for himself, he studied to become a Certified Personal Trainer. For many years, he worked one on one with people seeking to get in shape.

But then John saw a Boot Camp from Southern California and liked the format. He quickly realized he could help more women reach their health goals at a fraction of the cost of hiring a personal trainer. John’s Adventure Boot Camp for Women is a convenient way to add a fun-filled hour of activity and movement into your life to achieve your fitness and weight loss goals.

John’s fitness philosophy is unique. He believes exercise should not be what you live for, but the thing that helps you live better. John also understands that you need Boot Camp to be fun, exciting and different every day. If it’s not, it’s just drudgery. At Boot Camp, time moves so fast that BAM! It’s over before you know it.

A 30+-year resident of Tampa Bay, John currently lives in Dunedin, Florida with his wife, three daughters and a son.

Panache: Why did you choose this business or line of work?

John: After owning a personal training service for about 10 years, I discovered the fitness boot camp model out in Southern California in 2007. It provided two key elements to my clients that personal training could not: 1) The boot camp model makes time fly and working out fun! 2) It was affordable – you can come to 5-days of boot camp for the price I used to charge for 1 session of personal training. For me, the added value I was able to give my clients by switching from personal training to boot camp was a no-brainer.

Panache: What is your primary role or duty in your company?

John: There are only 2 employees in my company, me and my wife. So obviously that means that we both wear multiple hats, but my primary duties are Program Design and Fitness and Nutrition coaching for our 100+ monthly campers. My wife handles most of the office administration. We made a very conscious decision to not expand our business and be “Small, but GREAT”.

Panache: What sets you apart from your competition?

John: We live in a world where “instant gratification” is king and marketers have learned to play on that. There are many fitness and weight loss programs that offer “quick fixes and magic bullets”, but just like the get-rich quick schemes that most of us would never fall for, they seldom work in the short-run and almost never work in the long run.

At North Pinellas Adventure Boot Camp for Women, we don’t sell outrageous (and sometimes harmful) programs that promise you’ll “lose 30 lbs. in 30 days while you sleep, eating all of the foods you love and with no exercise needed”. There are many programs out there that will provide quick weight loss, but the results and methods to get there are not sustainable for life (and many times, not healthy).

North Pinellas Adventure Boot Camp for Women - Photo: Don Shepherd XOPIXO

Instead, what we offer is a habit-based nutrition coaching program which teaches you how to develop habits and rituals to help you lose weight and maintain long-term success. We like to focus on what you can do and not on what you can’t do.

But, that’s not all, we also provide expert, science-based fitness instruction so you don’t have to do it alone and so you can be assured that you are doing “purposeful exercise”…not just some random stuff that will never help you reach your goals. Time flies in our fast and fun, never-a-dull-moment, one-hour boot camp. Our boot camp meets outside so you’re not stuck inside all of the time. (Our 9 AM camp does move indoors for the summer due to the heat, but other than that, we are a completely outdoor boot camp and the ladies in our camp love it that way!)

The combination of the habit-based nutrition coaching and our science based exercise program, is our recipe for your long-term success.

This way your weight loss effort is not like the movie Groundhog Day where you’re always starting over with the next new diet, new exercise program, new pills, new gadget, etc.

Panache: What would you be doing now if it weren’t for your business, taking money out of the equation?

John: As shocking as it may sound, I would like to go into the ministry (possibly even as a pastor) and go on missionary trips.

Panache: What do you do for fun?

John: I own my own business and I have 4 children (11 and under), but with all the free time I have besides that…LOL…my wife and I love to travel whenever we get the opportunity and go on little adventures with our family.

Panache: Who or what is most important to you, personally or professionally?

John: God and my family

Filed Under: 2013, February 2013, Panache People to Know, Tampa Bay Tagged With: Fitness, Health, John Kent, North Pinellas Adventure Boot Camp for Women, South Tampa, Tampa, Tampa Bay, Weight loss

98% Percent of All Self-Directed Weight-loss Programs Fail

December 17, 2012 By John Kent Leave a Comment

John Kent

Here’s How You Can Succeed in 2013 By John Kent, North Pinellas Adventure Boot Camp for Women

The New Year is coming. That means you are getting ready to be bombarded with the long parade of weight-loss offerings. Here’s what you need to know to protect yourself against weight-loss offerings that don’t deliver.

But before I give you the information that you will need to protect yourself against these poorly designed weight loss offerings, let’s talk about some of the things that you may have tried in the past?

Low calorie diet
Atkins diet
Low-fat diet
Meal replacements
Over-the-counter pills for weight loss
Not eating past a certain time a day
Supplements found in health food stores
Aerobics or strength training
Exercise-at-home videos
TV shows
Infomercial products
Programs like Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig?

The truth is, most of these are not permanent solutions or they are only partial solutions at best.
If you’re going to succeed with your weight-loss goals in 2013 your weight-loss solution needs to have these crucial five elements:

Nutritional Control
Resistance Training
Cardio & Interval Training
Habit-Based Coaching
Fun

1) Studies have shown repeatedly that although exercise is important, without nutritional control you will not be successful with your weight-loss goals. What you need to do is create a negative energy balance. If you have a negative energy balance you have put your body in a state where weight loss is possible. If you are in a neutral energy balance, your weight will stay the same. This is called homeostasis. And if you’re in a positive energy balance you will gain weight. But, oh, if it was only that simple! The problem is when we cut our calories too drastically we slow down metabolism and all the processes in the body. The body does not know the difference between drastic voluntary calorie restriction and starvation. Also, highly processed foods disable our natural satiation mechanisms. So, we need to find a way to consume lower calorie whole foods that taste great, fill you up, satisfy you and are easy to incorporate into our lives.

2) Resistance training is key. 70% of all the calories you burn everyday come from your resting metabolic rate (RMR). The problem is, as we age, our resting metabolic rate declines. We cannot make ourselves get any younger but we can slow or even reverse our declining metabolic rate by adding muscle. We do this by incorporating resistance training. Not only does this speed up our resting metabolic rate (we burn more calories at rest) but it also helps us to feel stronger, helps our moods, helps us have a sense of well-being and helps prevent osteoporosis along with many other great benefits. Feeling strong feels good!

3) Cardio/Interval Training this is where we burn excess calories. If you’re doing traditional steady-state cardio for longer duration you’ll burn more calories while you are exercising, but not much after you’re done. Interval training is a great option. Although you may not burn as many calories while you’re training, you will burn more calories in the hours after you have trained with this shorter duration/increased intensity exercise training. If weight-loss is the goal, it is best to have a combination of traditional steady-state cardio and interval training incorporated into your weight-loss program.

4) As mentioned earlier, 98 percent of all self-directed weight-loss programs fail and this is where Habit-Based Coaching comes in. The main reason is people try to change too much too fast. But if you focus and work on changing one habit at a time, you have a 76% chance of being successful in changing that habit. If you try to change two habits at the same time your chance of success drops to 35%. Most people approach the New Year and New Year’s resolutions with a kamikaze, 100% or nothing mentality. But just like sprinting, you can’t give 100% long-term. So within one, two, or maybe three weeks after the New Year most resolutions are dropped and forgotten about until the next year or until that “I’m fed up with being fat” feeling comes back again. And then it is like Groundhog’s Day every time one wants to lose weight…they start a new diet and start completely over again. It is like Yogi Bear says, “It’s like déjà vu all over again”.

5) Fun! As complicated as we think we are, anything we do or don’t do is done for only two reasons. Not 100, not 50, not 10, not 5…but only two reasons. The reason you do or don’t do anything is either to gain pleasure or to avoid pain or some combination of the two. It really comes down to just that. So, if you’re going to be successful with a weight-loss program or fitness program it needs to be FUN! Hopefully it has a social element where you can find people that you have things in common with, where you can make friends, and even do other things together.

So, whatever weight loss solution you choose to go with over this next year, remember it should include nutritional control, resistance training, cardio/interval training, and have habit-based coaching to help you take one step at a time. And above all it needs to be fun!

Now that you know why 98% of all other people will fail with their weight loss attempts, now you can succeed!

About the Author, John Kent : John’s North Pinellas Adventure Boot Camp for Women was recently voted #1 Best Boot Camp on the Tampa’s A-List for 2012. Time flies in this fast and fun, never-a-dull-moment, one-hour boot camp. Register for the next camp at www.BootCampRocks.com or call John directly at 727-420-8139.

Filed Under: 2012, December 2012 / January 2013, Health, Tampa Bay Tagged With: Fitness, Health, John Kent, North Pinellas Adventure Boot Camp for Women, Tampa Bay, Weight loss

Pampering From the Inside Out

September 21, 2012 By Linda Baldwin Leave a Comment

What is “pampering” but taking care of yourself? Sadly, most of us consider taking care of ourselves to be a once-in-a-while luxury – like scheduling that long-awaited facial on your birthday. It’s partially because we’re busy, and it’s partially because we’re care-givers for everyone else, but either way – we are better people when we take care of ourselves every day. For me, my daily “pampering” starts from the inside-out by taking the time to prepare and eat sinfully delicious foods – that make me feel and look sinfully delicious as well!

Who Needs a Facial When You Have Dark Chocolate?
I’m just kidding – you should have both! But, while a facial treats the outer layer of skin, that dark chocolate (and spinach, pumpkin seeds, Brazil nuts, salmon, oats, squash, pine nuts and edamame) will increase the Magnesium in your diet. Magnesium is one of those under-represented nutrients that helps your entire body work better, especially with calcium absorption. But, it’s also essential for slowing the aging process of skin by maintaining elasticity and moisture at normal levels. You’ll often find it as an ingredient in your skincare (it can be absorbed topically), but most women don’t consume enough. It’s the easiest thing to do for yourself: Eat just one Brazil nut a day, and you’ve got your daily recommended dose. But, personally, I like dark chocolate better.

Heart

Eat Walnuts to Avoid Looking Like a Walnut
All types of redness and obvious acne is caused by inflammation, which is strongly related to diet. In fact, eating too many foods high in Omega 6 oils, like soybean oil, vegetable oil, and corn oil products (the main ingredients in margarine, salad dressings, mayonnaise and processed foods) increases inflammation. However, if you pick up foods high in Omega 3’s, you’ll look ten times better – and feel better too. Walnuts, canola oil and flax seeds are high in what’s called Alpha-linolenic acid, a type of Omega-3, that maintains a healthy rate of skin cell renewal and reduces inflammation. That means a younger-looking fresher faced you – without the microdermabrasion.

Nothing Says Sexy Like Sun-Dried Tomatoes
I’m not kidding – eating Niacin-rich foods like peanuts, chicken, veal, sun-dried tomatoes and paprika give you the stuff to produce sex hormones, dilate blood vessels, and rev up your heart for action. Not only does Niacin promote healthy skin, improving moisture, lightening hyperpigmentation, and decreasing acne, it can also make you better in the sack. How’s that for a healthy glow?

The Cure for Wrinkles – and Everything Else
Vitamin C really is a super-food. Not only does it boost your immune system, it’s key to producing collagen which gives skin firmness and strength. As an antioxidant, it slows free radical damage responsible for dry skin and wrinkles, and recent studies have shown it can even reverse DNA damage. Fortunately, Vitamin C is everywhere – in dark leafy greens, broccoli, brussel sprouts, kiwi, guava, papayas and strawberries. And oranges, of course.

With all of these great foods – you can pamper yourself every day. Don’t be surprised if your friends start asking for the name of your day spa.

Linda Baldwin

Linda Baldwin, is a Credentialed Diet & Nutrition Expert and a Professional Catering Executive (CPCE) whose skills have been honed by 25 years in the catering, restaurant, and event production industry. She is know as local foodie, ultra healthy prepared foods specialist, educator – columnist and creator of Amore and Amore To-Go a lifestyle company, based in South Tampa since 2006. She leads a team of professionals that include chefs, and educators in the field of health and wellness.

Filed Under: 2012, September 2012 – Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay, Wine & Dine Tagged With: Diet, Dieting, Dining, Food, Gourmet, Health, Linda Baldwin, Nutrition, Pampering, South Tampa, Tampa, Tampa Bay, Weight loss

Commitment to Fitness

July 18, 2012 By Laurie Talerico Leave a Comment

John Kent

Admit it, sometimes working out can be a bore. For some women it’s one more thing on the daily to-do list that’s as thrilling as doing the dishes. But thanks to the creative mind of John Kent, the North Pinellas Adventure Boot Camp for Women is here putting an exciting new spin on fitness training. His motto is a commitment to fitness, fun and friendship. And if you are ready for an exciting change to the average workout routine, then this is the program for you. Boot camps aren’t just for soldiers anymore.

John Kent, owner and fitness coach, has been a certified personal trainer for 10 years and was a stage performer before that. He started the boot camp in October 2007, combining his experience as a personal trainer and stage performer to transform the rudimentary workout into a fun fitness experience that takes the drudgery out of exercise and makes working out an adventure to look forward to.

The boot camp concept came from California, and it provides two key elements that personal training at a traditional gym cannot do. One element is the boot camp makes time fly and it puts the adventure into a workout. When you are mentally engaged in an energizing activity, there is no chance for boredom to set in. Secondly, it is also affordable. Five days of boot camp training costs the same as one session with a personal trainer and the results are amazing. John’s philosophy is that exercise shouldn’t be what one lives for, but what helps one to live better.

Behind all of the fun, there is a scientific theory to this fitness program. This is life changing, science-based fitness and nutrition coaching exclusively for women. The training is different every day. Time in boot camp moves so fast then BAM! it’s over before you know it. Expert fitness instruction is provided so clients can be assured they are doing purposeful workouts, not just random exercises. Every day is an adventure and every day is different. Since the body is efficient and designed to become conditioned to routine, John’s training activities change every five to seven minutes during each session so the body won’t have a chance to become complacent. John uses a combination of resistance training and interval training to “blast fat off the body.” Training is offered three times a day, 5:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., and 7:00 p.m., to fit into everyone’s schedule. The boot camp meets outside in the open air so clients workout in a natural setting instead of inside a gym. During the summer months, the 9:00 a.m. boot camp meets indoors to avoid the intense Florida heat.

John’s program also includes habit-based nutrition coaching to teach clients how to develop habits and rituals to aid in weight loss and maintain long term success. He is committed to a program with proven results. He realizes there are many diet and exercise programs on the market that claim “quick fixes and magic bullets.” But, there isn’t a fix-all pill, fad diet or pixie dust anyone can use to transform themselves. John accentuates the positive and likes to focus on what clients can do, not on what they can’t do. The combination of John’s science-based exercise program and habit-based nutrition coaching is his recipe for long term success. “This way the weight loss effort is not like the movie Groundhog Day where you’re always starting over with the next new diet, new exercise program, new pills or gadgets.”

This boot camp positively impacts the women who commit to the program, but there is one instance that touched John and remains in his thoughts. One day he noticed one of his clients off to the side, crying. He approached her with concern and asked if she was alright. She told him that she felt silly, but that she was crying tears of joy because she’d finally found a program she could stick with. John realized at that moment what a huge impact he could have on the ladies in the boot camp and in the community. John is able to inspire his clients and keep them enthusiastic, which motivates them and keeps them moving in a healthy direction. John, in turn, owes his success to God and is motivated and inspired by his wife, a/k/a “Super Assistant Extraordinaire.” He says her support allows him to be a better trainer and coach while she keeps everything running smoothly in the office and their home with their four young children.

The home base for the North Pinellas Adventure Boot Camp for Women is north Pinellas county and is easily accessible to clients in Pinellas, Pasco and east Hillsborough counties. For more information go to www.BootCampRocks.com or call 727-420-8139.

Filed Under: 2012, Entrepreneur, July/August 2012 - Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay Tagged With: Entrepreneur, Features, Fitness, Health, John Kent, North Pinellas Adventure Boot Camp for Women, Tampa Bay, Weight loss

Just in For Summer: A Wealth of Health

July 18, 2012 By Linda Baldwin Leave a Comment

As daylight hours lengthen and the kids are being packed up for day camp instead of school, it can only mean one thing: summertime! Warmer weather means not just shedding sweaters from our wardrobe, but the chance to shed a few unhealthy habits too. I’ve got a few summer-inspired tips for keeping your body healthy.

Fruit

Follow Your Mother (Nature’s) Advice
Mama Nature’s natural tendency come summer is to pull all the animals out of hibernation – and that includes you. As sunbathing becomes part of your daily routine, you’ll notice a natural aversion to dense and heavy foods, like stews, pot roasts, and casseroles. Trade in those winter-reminders with lots of the easily accessible fruits and veggies. Those bright berries and lush greens expedite our bodies ability to detoxify, naturally making us feel cool in the heat.

Curious as to what summer fruits and vegetables you’ll find to fill your plate? Apricots, avocados, basil, beets, blueberries, mango, peaches, plums, squash and tomatoes are just a few natural treats that will be plentiful. Imagine a simple lunch each day of fresh basil leaves and heirloom tomatoes drizzled in olive oil. Perfection. Add a sprinkle of goat cheese for a more fanciful fare.

Summer Additions
Water, water, water: staying hydrated come summertime is vital to your health and wellbeing. Remember, your body is a graceful, gorgeous temple…that also houses more water than anything else. Replenishing yourself frequently will help keep your energy high, your spirits higher, and even allow you to sleep better at night.

GMO-Free: look for foods that are not genetically modified organisms. A GMO has genetic material from unrelated organisms – like a fish gene in a tomato (um, weird). In theory, GMO’s breed hardier plants by helping them resist drought and pests. But what GMO’s do to humans over a long period of time is not known. Wait until you know the facts before you buy into the fads.

Avoid These for a Healthy Summer
Faux wheat: yes, pure wheat and whole grains can be good for you (if you’re not gluten intolerant). But not everything labeled as “wheat” is truly made from wheat. In fact, wheat bread is generally made from white flour, and thus the same as eating Wonderbread. Anything can be labeled as wheat if the flour used comes from the wheat plant. Check your label for the ingredients list and if it contains the words “wheat flour” or anything “enriched” or “blanched” pass over it. Instead go for a 100% whole -grain like Ezekiel or Sunflower bread, and look for the terms “100% pure” and “organic whole grains.”

Fat Free: no, really. Anything fat free is to be avoided, unless it’s naturally made so. If fat is removed, so is flavor…which means food manufacturers added artificial ingredients, high fructose corn syrup, or sugar to make it taste decent. The exception here is natural fats, or “good fats” as they’re often called. Nosh on avocados or nuts guilt free.

Most Importantly, Have Fun
Summer is a time for playing outside and embracing your inner child. Enjoy what the sunshine has to offer (with sunscreen of course!) and occasionally let yourself enjoy a cup of frozen yogurt (I recommend Pink Berry) or a dollop of Greek yogurt – those are good fats too, when used sparingly.

Linda Baldwin

Filed Under: 2012, July/August 2012 - Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay, Wine & Dine Tagged With: Diet, Dieting, Dining, Food, GMO-Free, Gourmet, Health, Linda Baldwin, Nutrition, South Tampa, Tampa, Tampa Bay, Weight loss

Zig-Zagging Your Diet to Eat, Look, and Live Better

April 16, 2012 By Linda Baldwin 1,219 Comments

It’s so hard to find a diet you can stick to, much less live with, for long enough to see real changes in your waistline. Like most of us, I’ve been looking for that diet for most of my adult life, because I love food.

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Believe me when I tell you – as a chef, caterer, and a lifelong student of nutrition, I really love food. And I don’t believe you have to sacrifice flavor or satisfaction while cutting calories.

When I heard of the “Zig-zag” diet weightlifters used, I was intrigued. Here’s a diet in which you aren’t stuck with the same 1200 calories every day for months on end. Instead, you vary your caloric and carbohydrate intake, which not only boosts your metabolism and avoids those resolve-shattering plateaus, it gives you more room in your diet to eat the variety of foods you need to maintain a healthy body. You can even enjoy dessert now and then. Now that’s a diet I can live with.

Weight lifters use “Zig-zagging” to build more muscle while losing fat at the same time. But any dieter can use the same principles to jump start her own metabolism to keep losing weight. Not only will Zig-zagging keep your metabolism moving, you’ll feel healthier, stronger, and have more energy than you would if you stuck to the same low-calorie diet plan.

The next time you hit a weight loss plateau, try this: Eat low calories for two to three days, then high calories for two to five days. Then return to your low calorie diet. On the high days, increase your fat intake and complex carbs – whole grain pasta, fruits, beans, and starchy vegetables. On the low days, stay away from starchy carbs and return to lean proteins and greens.

For example, if your normal diet calorie count is 1200, increase that to 1400 on the high days, and decrease to 1100 on the low days – then try experimenting with more cardio with higher calorie counts on the high days. But be warned: Do not extend the low calorie days past three – your body will go into starvation mode, making weight loss more difficult.

The Zig-zag diet is heavily dependent on exercise, especially cardio, because it’s not just food that affects your metabolism, it’s your activity level. Daily cardio workouts are critical, or those high calorie days will make you gain weight. You’ve got energy to burn – use it!

My favorite part about this diet plan is that it takes away the guilt of going out to eat with my friends once in a while. A couple of restaurant splurges during the high days doesn’t hurt my diet at all – as long as I maintain my cardio workouts and switch back to the low calorie part of the cycle later.

However, don’t let this become an excuse to eat unhealthy foods – it’s not carte blanche for donuts! In order to look better, feel better, and live better, keep eating whole foods and good fats.

Linda Baldwin

Filed Under: 2012, 2012, April 2012 - South Tampa, April 2012 – Tampa Bay, South Tampa, Tampa Bay, Wine & Dine Tagged With: Diet, Dieting, Dining, Food, Gourmet, Health, Linda Baldwin, Nutrition, South Tampa, Tampa, Tampa Bay, Weight loss, Zig-Zag Diet

César Lara – Creative, Passionate and Purposeful

November 15, 2011 By Nina Stanley 743 Comments

Dr. César Lara

“Creative, Passionate and Purposeful” – These three words describe Dr. César Lara best! For more than 20 years now, it has been his passion to become one of the most powerful forces in America’s ever growing obesity crisis…one patient at a time.

Dr. César Lara is a Board Certified Family Physician and a leading expert in the treatment of obesity and weight loss management. Dr. Lara’s dream of helping men and women overcome diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and other chronic conditions related to obesity was realized with the emergence of the César A. Lara, MD Center for Weight Management as a premier weight loss center in Tampa Bay.

Although Dr. Lara has been treating obesity for over 20 years now, dating back to the day he first hung his shingle, it was about seven years ago that he changed the focus of his medical practice to tackle obesity head on! His main focus and his philosophy that drives him and his practice are to help people change their lifestyle, not to just lose weight. The only true way to do that is to make real adjustments, to change behavior. Diet by itself is not the answer to the true problem. We asked Dr. Lara what sets him apart from the competition, his reply was very humble. “I try not to compare myself to other people; a lot can be learned from many in our community and world. My main focus is to treat each and every patient individually; I don’t use a cookie – cutter program. I address their problem that will be a lifelong change for them, not temporary. At all of my clinics, we first recognize that it is a spiritual journey, how you think, how you react. We utilize hypnosis, nutritional supplements and the newest technology available, that’s how we do it”.

Dr. Lara treats patients from all over, not just the Tampa Bay area. Some come from as far as California and Latin America. Currently, there are 3 locations to serve you, Clearwater, Palm Harbor and St. Pete. Soon Dr. Lara will be expanding to Hillsborough County as well.

Dr. Lara is also a member of many, many organizations, is known for his strong personal faith and his many generous contributions to the Tampa Bay community. He also regularly appears on television as a medical contributor to Bay News 9 en Español.

Each and every patient is memorable to him, he feels they are a gift to him, they are allowing him to take care of them. Dr. Lara feels blessed by all his patients, but one in particular stands out just a little bit more that the others, his mom. Dr. Lara began treating her about five or six years ago. She was a diabetic, over weight and insulin dependent. He first told her to stop taking the insulin. She said to him “are you trying kill me?” Of course he wasn’t, he loved his mother, but he knew there were other ways to treat her diabetes. She questioned her own son, who was a doctor and a good one at that! He was right. Today, Mrs. Lara is 50 lbs. lighter and not on insulin.

When not treating patients, Dr. Lara is a family man, first and foremost. With his beautiful wife Penelope by his side and their three beautiful kids; Julian, Marcus and Zoe, his home is where his heart is. Zoe, who is fourteen, is the only child still at home, and she is daddy’s girl. Dr. Lara tries to spend as much time with her as possible and makes it a point to have a family dinner, each and every night, with his two favorite girls, Penelope and Zoe.

As much as he is out and about in our community, attending many events, César Lara is a very private man with only a very few close friends. He cherishes his friendships just the way he cherishes his family and all of his patients. He loves to relax with them in his home, enjoy a good glass of wine and philosophize about life. Panache Vue’ also asked Dr. Lara if there was something special he wanted to share with our readers, something that only those very close to him knew. His answer, he loves to dance and let his feet do the talking!

César Lara is someone you will never forget, if and when you are fortunate to meet him. Extremely handsome and very humble. Soft spoken, smart and exudes kindness and sincerity. He is also the founder of St. Michael’s Free Clinic and Weight Away Tampa Bay, his charitable organizations that provide free medical treatment to those who cannot afford it. His heart is bigger and heavier than its weight in gold!

Filed Under: 2011, 2011, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur - NP / P, North Pinellas / Pasco, November/December 2011 - North Pinellas/Pasco, November/December 2011 - Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay Tagged With: Bay News 9 en Español, Center for Weight Management, Clearwater, Diet, Dr. César A. Lara, Entrepreneur, Features, Health, Palm Harbor, Physician, South Tampa, St. Michael’s Free Clinic, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Tampa Bay, Weight Away Tampa Bay, Weight loss, Weight Management

Bioidentical Hormone Therapy

September 18, 2011 By Nina Stanley 28 Comments

Dr. César Lara

It’s one word that shares millions of unique meanings to millions of unique people. Does your inspiration motivate you? Encourage you to take action? Does it emotionally and physically affect you? Everyone’s inspiration is different, but the commonality is that any form of inspiration breeds personal energy and effort.

An area of everyone’s life that depends on the core concept of inspiration is healthy weight management. Finding the inspiration to set weight loss goals and create a healthy lifestyle begins with an idea, followed by an effort and ends with achievement. The initial idea can be as simple as starting your day with a walk. A walk may seem like an easy physical exercise, but in reality it’s the exact jumpstart needed to take on your day. It not only benefits you physically, but also allows you to mentally clear your head and prepare for your day. You can easily boost the benefits of low-impact cardio by taking it outside. By hitting the sidewalk of your neighborhood or taking the scenic route through a local park, you truly breathe in all the inspiration nature has to offer. Healthy morning activities such as a walk lead to an appetite for a balanced breakfast. This often overlooked meal is essential to keeping our metabolism and energy running throughout the day.

Starting with a morning goal is just one small step that will ignite a chain reaction of healthy changes in your life. You’ll begin to discover that you have become your own inspiration and in turn, begin to inspire the same changes in your family, your friends and everyone you meet.

These new beginnings and achievements are what inspire our weight loss programs. We are here to motivate you to take the first step in creating a healthy lifestyle. Our program will encourage you to set your own goals and be inspired first-hand by your own journey. And there at your side, you’ll find our team assisting in your efforts and applauding your results.

You can think of this as inspiration, but we like to see it as THINSPIRATION!

César A. Lara, M.D. is a Board Certified family physician and a leading expert in the field of medicine, the treatment of obesity, and weight loss management. For more than 20 years, it has been Dr. Lara’s passion to become a positive force in America’s evergrowing obesity crisis…one patient at a time. Dr. Lara’s dream of helping men and women overcome diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and other chronic conditions related to obesity was realized with the emergence of the César A. Lara, MD; Center for Weight Management as a premier weight loss center in Tampa Bay. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, Dr. Lara is known for his strong personal faith and his generous contributions to the Tampa Bay community. Dr. Lara regularly appears on television as a medical contributor to Brighthouse Network’s Bay News 9 en Español and WTSP-TV Studio 10. He frequently participates in corporate health fairs promoting an active lifestyle and healthy weight loss options. He is the founder of St. Michael’s Free Clinic and Weight Away Tampa Bay, charitable organizations that provide free medical treatment to those who cannot afford it.

Filed Under: 2011, 2011, Health, North Pinellas / Pasco, September/October 2011 - North Pinellas/Pasco, September/October 2011 - Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay Tagged With: Center for Weight Management, Dr. César A. Lara, Health, Tampa Bay, Weight loss, Weight Management

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