Health Weight is not a diet, it’s a life style.
Components of obtaining any successful weight control program include:
- Understanding your calorie needs and adjusting your intake patterns to live within these parameters
- Incorporating exercise into the pattern
- Working on changing long term eating habits that are not conducive to healthy eating and long-term weight maintenance
- Working on a diet that is heart healthy and promotes wellness
Our program
Steps to Developing a Healthy Eating Pattern
Steps to Developing a Healthy Eating Pattern is a long-term weight management program. It is tailored to meet individual life styles and is specific to individual medical situations. Since changing eating patterns is not an over night process, this program provides a systematic and long term approach to changing your health status.
You will meet with a diet counselor either monthly or twice a month, depending on your needs and choices. A systematic approach of developing healthy eating patterns will assist you with a monitored program designed to change your ways of eating.
If you are working on your cholesterol management, your blood sugar management, blood pressure management or just trying to obtain a healthy weight, this program is for you.
This program provides:
- Individual sessions
- Confidential counseling – no group sessions
- A program based on a proven pattern but tailored to your individual needs
- A schedule of visits determined by your goals and needs
- Sessions with a specific focus
- The tools to make this change a part of your lifestyle
- Cost that are competitive with other weight management programs in the area
Why is this important?
Weight patterns of Americans continue to be an issue for children, adolescents and adults today. Data from the most recent NHANES (National Center for Health Statistics) survey indicate obesity has increased from 31% in 2003 to 35.5 in 2005. Obesity is defined as a BMI (Body Mass Index ) of greater than 30.
Obesity increases the risk for many health related issues. According to the Center for Disease Control these include:
- Coronary Heart disease
- Type 2 Diabetes