The Program
Physicians' Choice for WeightLosssm believes that good food choices and increased exercise and activity are important ingredients to long-term successful lifestyle changes that will positively affect health and fitness. A healthy body results from a healthy lifestyle, which means improved mental, emotional, and physical health.
Physicians' Choice does not dictate what an individual can or can't eat, only what are healthy food choices and exercise goals that have been established by nationally recognized institutions (NIH, NCI, ADA, AAP). We provide information, knowledge, tools, and motivation to help you make the decisions that are right for you regarding nutrition and exercise.
We will help you make healthy eating decisions, and encourage you to become more active through planned exercise and increased activity. Physicians' Choice provides motivation, support, accountability and encouragement through weekly contact. Your success is important to Physicians’ Choice for Weight Losssm, and making a lifestyle change consisting of good eating and exercise habits for a lifetime is our goal.
Physicians' Choice Offers
Customized Diet: A personalized macronutrient intake based upon your ideal body weight. Your diet will include necessary calculation of ideal protein, carbohydrate, fat and fiber intake based upon your ideal body weight. Your program will provide a list of suggested food choices and recipes that will encourage healthy menus.
Exercise Prescription: A personalized target heart rate zone, and specified aerobic exercise program. Key resistive exercises to maintain muscle.
Online Support: Online support with personalized instruction from a weight loss counselor 5-7 days per week via e-mail. 24 educational modules along with quizzes to facilitate your learning. Thirty motivational modules that encourage behavioral changes.
Accountability: A Behavioral Contract as a personal promise to follow through with theprogram, and a Charitable Contribution Contract, which raises support for charities. These contracts are designed for the client to make a public commitment of intent to follow through with a life-changing programthat will improve their health and fitness.
Educational Modules: Informational modules on obesity and disease from National Institutes of Health.
Program Maintenance: A Lifetime Behavioral Contract and the Maintenance Program are designed to keep you at your optimal body weight for the rest of your life.