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Wellness and Weight Loss Programs |
As healthy eating habits get put on the back burner, employee wellbeing
suffers. Overweight employees are at higher risk for developing
preventable and reversible lifestyle conditions such as high blood
pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and certain types of cancer.
Employers pay an additional $1,500 to insure an obese employee versus a
healthy weight employee. Research shows that even a modest
reduction of body weight can reduce the expected lifetime healthcare
costs of obesity-related diseases by $2,200 to $5,300.
Our signature weight loss program is designed to motivate and inspire
employees to make healthy lifestyle changes that will affect them for
years to come. The interactive easy-to-follow format assists
employees to make simple and effective changes in everyday habits to
keep the weight off for life!
Participants learn to incorporate label reading, exercise, smart
grocery shopping techniques and healthy meal planning into their
lives. They also learn about the mind-body connection, rarely
covered in most programs, and how to make a life-long
transformation. Our weight management team consists of dietetic
technicians and registered nutritionists accustomed to working with
corporate populations.
12-Week Weight Loss Challenge includes:
a. Preliminary health questionnaire and weight/measurements - starting
point for each participant, progress tracking, data collection and end
results report to take to your insurance company
b. Once a week meetings with six 60-minute presentations including
label reading, exercise, mind-body connection, grocery shopping,
carbs/fats/proteins, recipe and meal planning and six 60-minute open
forum Q & A meetings with dietetic technician/nutrition and weight
management experts.
c. Unlimited email support for each participant
d. Fun challenges and prizes for weekly goals
e. and more
4-Week Jump Start
Are you feeling tired or sluggish? Do you have lack or focus or “brain
fog?” Get frequent headaches or muscle aches?
Our 4-week Jump Start program is a great way to start your transition
into healthy living. Topics include: cleaning out your pantry, health
assessment questionnaire, elimination-diet guidelines, the “Dirty
Dozen” of produce and reducing exposure to toxins in your home.
Week 1: Health questionnaire, introduction to how simple nutrition and
lifestyle changes can improve overall health. Homework - 7-day
food/fitness journal, pantry-cleaning guide and jumpstart healthy foods
shopping list.
Week 2: In depth discussion of the “nuts-and-bolts” of a healthy eating
plan, specific foods, recipes and daily menu guidelines.
Week 3: Benefits of eating organic, identifying the “Dirty Dozen” foods
to avoid, overcoming challenges.
Week 4: Making changes to transition into healthier habits, follow-up
heath questionnaire to evaluate progress.
5-Week Blood Pressure Control
One in three American adults has elevated blood pressure. Known as “the
silent killer,” high blood pressure can go undetected for years and
strike without warning. This program is designed to help participants
learn how to lower blood pressure and reduce the risk for heart disease
through healthy lifestyle changes. We will discuss how food choices,
stress management and physical activity play a role in maintaining
healthy blood pressure. **Participants are encouraged to bring their
most recent cholesterol test result to class.
Week 1: Know your numbers** - “good” and “bad” cholesterol and what the
lab test numbers mean, behaviors, heredity and health conditions - what
causes elevation and/or reduction,
tracking your cholesterol - obtaining and maintaining optimal levels,
learn, how to follow a heart healthy diet.
Week 2: Nutrition and meal planning - carbs, fats and proteins,
cholesterol-lowering foods, reading a food label, developing a game
plan and shopping list.
Week 3: The role of cholesterol in the body, cholesterol-inflammation
connection and how this contributes to heart disease, body weight and
body fat distribution, the role of medications - side-effects and
reducing and/or eliminating your dependence.
Week 4: Food and recipes, dining out, supplements, tips to prevent and
reverse heart disease risk.
Week 5: How to maintain healthy cholesterol levels for life, action
plan for nutrition, exercise and stress reduction, closure and
evaluation.
5-Week Cholesterol Management
High cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease - the #1
killer of both men and women. Over half of all Americans over age 20
currently have elevated cholesterol levels. Every 1% decrease in LDL
“bad” cholesterol can lower your risk of heart disease by 1%. Geared
toward those with borderline high or high cholesterol, this program
provides tools, resources and instruction for improving cholesterol so
that medications can be avoided or reduced.
Week 1: Overview of heart disease and how to evaluate your risk
factors, guidelines and health risks associated with high blood
pressure, behaviors and health conditions that cause elevation and/or
reduction, action plan - ‘The Big 3’, tracking your blood pressure and
obtaining optimal levels.
Week 2: The role of sodium - hidden sources of sodium, reading a food
label, dining out, how to make realistic changes in your diet, making a
shopping list.
Week 3: Natural ways to lower blood pressure including, exercise,
supplements, biofeedback, weight loss and stress management.
Week 4: Stress management solutions for lowering blood pressure, ‘The
Big 3’ revisited, website resources.
Week 5: Develop a personalized healthy heart plan by using all the
techniques previously discussed.
5-Week Smoking Cessation
Tobacco use is a leading cause of workers' lost production time -
greater than alcohol abuse or family emergencies. Quitting smoking or
even just cutting back, improves productivity. Our smoking cessation
program will help your employees plan a successful quit attempt by
providing essential information, identifying smoking triggers, teaching
skills for coping with cravings and group support.
Tools include but not limited to: “Nicotine Addiction Test,” “Why You
Smoke” questionnaire, National Cancer Institute “Clearing the Air”
booklet and the “Stop Smoking Contract.” **Participants are encouraged
to choose a quit date that falls within the 5-week program.
Week 1: Introduction to quitting smoking, nicotine dependence, smoking
triggers, smoker types and benefits of not smoking.
Week 2: Develop a quit plan - quitting methods, nicotine withdrawal and
setting a quit date**
Week 3: Nicotine replacement therapy.
Week 4: Discussion about weight gain concerns and the importance of
seeking support from friends and family.
Week 5: Staying smoke free for life, benefits of not smoking,
strategies for avoiding triggers and avoiding long-term cravings.
Every session includes a presentation of the week’s topic, group
discussion and assignments/homework. Tools include but not limited to:
“Nicotine Addiction Test,” “Why You Smoke” questionnaire, National
Cancer Institute “Clearing the Air” booklet and the “Stop Smoking
Contract.” **Participants are encouraged to choose a quit date that
falls within the 5-week program.
5-Week Stress Solutions
Although stress is a natural reaction, we now live and work with levels
of stress that can be truly damaging over time. People with highly
stressful lives and jobs are at a higher risk for heart disease, high
blood pressure, digestive issues and others. Effectively identifying
stressful triggers and learning techniques to manage stress will result
in improved health, productivity and morale for the individual – and a
healthier bottom line for the company in the form of lower absenteeism
and higher productivity. Each class will focus on different stress
management techniques including: journaling, breathing techniques, goal
setting and physical activity.
Week 1: What is stress and how does it affect your body? Stress and its
negative effect on health, journaling to identify sources of stress,
stress assessment questionnaire.
Week 2: Setting S.M.A.R.T. goals to relieve stress.
Week 3: Food and mood – emotional food cravings and the top 10 “Good
Mood Foods.”
Week 4: Mindful meditations, progressive relaxation and breathing
techniques.
Week 5: Move your body to calm your mind - stretches and easy “office
yoga” poses to relieve stress and keep you energized.
10-Week Mastering Pre-Diabetes,
Diabetes & Heart Disease
$13 billion a year is spent on diabetes drugs. If someone is
overweight, losing just 10 to 20 pounds may improve their blood sugar
control so much that they can stop taking or reduce their medication.
This program addresses the prevention and reversal of cardiovascular
disease and type 2 diabetes. Participants will explore the relationship
between the two conditions and work to make long-term lifestyle changes
(nutrition, exercise, behavioral change). Topics to be addressed
include emotional eating, the role of exercise, carbohydrate counting
and nutrition. The program works to instill confidence and
self-efficacy in reducing, preventing and/or managing chronic health
conditions; raising HDL cholesterol; reducing/eliminating dependence on
medications; reduction of LDL cholesterol, blood sugar and blood
pressure. We will address other risk factors of heart disease and
diabetes, including the role of being over-weight, metabolic syndrome,
stress and physical activity.
Week 1: The facts about diabetes, pre-diabetes and heart disease
(prevention causes, etc.), introduction to carb counting (reading and
interpreting labels), tracking your blood sugar.
Week 2: Carbs, fats and proteins, eating to beat diabetes, body weight,
physical activity.
Week 3: Practical portions - portion control’s role in blood sugar and
weight management, introduction to meal planning (ingredients, reading
labels and more).
Week 4: The role of the mind-body connection in disease
management, introduction to blood sugar, physical activity and
exercise.
Week 5: Continue last week’s fitness and physical activity - an action
plan, website resources for diabetes and heart disease, cooking and
preparing food - using food to control your blood sugar.
Week 6: Top 5 lifestyle tips, diabetes prevention program -
implications and applications.
Week 7: Cooking tips, examining emotional eating.
Week 8: Navigating a restaurant menu, remarkable recipes.
Week 9: Creating your own exercise and nutrition plan for diabetes and
heart disease management, prevention or reversal.
Week 10: Refining your plan, class closure and evaluation.
12-Week Weight Loss Challenge
As healthy eating habits get put on the back burner, employee wellbeing
suffers. Overweight employees are at higher risk for developing
preventable and reversible lifestyle conditions such as high blood
pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and certain types of cancer.
Employers pay an additional $1,500 to insure an obese employee versus a
healthy weight employee. Research shows that even a modest reduction of
body weight can reduce the expected lifetime healthcare costs of
obesity-related diseases by $2,200 to $5,300.
Our signature weight loss program is designed to motivate and inspire
employees to make healthy lifestyle changes that will affect them for
years to come. The interactive easy-to-follow format assists employees
to make simple and effective changes in everyday habits to keep the
weight off for life!
Participants learn to incorporate label reading, exercise, smart
grocery shopping techniques and healthy meal planning into their lives.
They also learn about the mind-body connection and how to make a
life-long transformation.
Program Start: Participants will complete our preliminary health
questionnaire and take starting weights and measurements.
Week 1: Label reading, energy (calorie) needs, how to measure progress.
Week 2: Open Forum – Q&A with nutrition and weight management
expert.
Week 3: Exercise – what, how much and when?
Week 4: Open Forum – Q&A with nutrition and weight management
expert.
Week 5: Mind-body connection, mindful eating, the role of
planning/organization.
Week 6: Open Forum – Q&A with nutrition and weight management
expert.
Week 7: Grocery shopping and navigating the store, creating a shopping
list.
Week 8: Open Forum – Q&A with nutrition and weight management
expert.
Week 9: Carbohydrates, fats and proteins – how much and meal timing.
Week 10: Open Forum – Q&A with nutrition and weight management
expert.
Week 11: Recipe and meal planning.
Week 12: Final measurements, maintenance.
The program includes food logs, progress tracking, data collection and
end results report to take to your insurance company, unlimited email
support for each participant, fun challenges and prizes for weekly
goals.
On-Going Weight Management (every
10-weeks)
Our innovative weight management program is a unique and holistic
approach to mind-body health and well-being. Not only do participants
receive the nutritional information and tools for losing body fat and
keeping it off, they are given specific sample meal plans that can be
prepared at home or ordered at restaurants. Participants learn the
value of ‘cheat’ meals and how they are an important part of a
realistic and healthy life-style. Most important, participants learn
how to use the mind-body connection to re-wire their relationship with
food and their bodies. They learn tools to ‘un-do’ negative body image
and learn to be at peace with food and their bodies.
Each week participants receive valuable handouts in conjunction with
group instruction, as well as an interactive Question and Answer
session at every meeting.
Week 1: Introduction to concepts - including 5-6 small meals a day,
sample meal plan, cheat meals, determining carbs, fats and proteins,
learn to track your own measurements.
Week 2: Determine how many calories to eat in a day for your goal
weight, creating a shopping list, website resources, packing and
cooking food.
Week 3: How to read a label - activity w/ partner.
Week 4: Introduction to the mind-body connection - the missing
piece of the puzzle.
Week 5: Fitness - physical activity in your daily/weekly/monthly
schedule, strength training and cardio to burn calories and/or stored
fat, how to change your fat percentage (body composition).
Week 6: How and where to shop, eating out at restaurants.
Week 7: Cooking tips, recipes, mid-series evaluation.
Week 8: Eating to obtain and maintain your goal weight, continuation of
the mind-body connection.
Week 9: Carbs, fats and proteins, muscle cells and fat cells - how they
get bigger and/or smaller
Week 10: Owning your results for life, specific behaviors that set
apart those who maintain and continue progressing from those who don’t.
Also Available:
One-On-One Counseling (on-site)
On-site 15 to 30-minute private sessions with a health coach.
Virtual Counseling
Convenient on-line and telephone sessions with a health coach.
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