This 8-week program includes practical information on healthy eating, fitness, stress management, cooking, shopping, and meal planning. But the real secret to permanent weight loss success is guiding participants to effective behavior change techniques such as recognizing and overcoming negative self-defeating food thoughts.
What causes obesity and why can’t you lose weight?
An astounding 65% of all Americans are overweight or obese. A large percentage of these people want to and attempt to lose weight several times a year but statistics show that the majority instead keep gaining weight and gaining fat. Over 90% of American’s that lose weight on a diet regain it in less than one year. Why are they unsuccessful?
In a nutshell–habits. Although there are other problems that can lead to obesity such as hypothyroidism, poor health habits are at the root of the problem. Lifestyle habits such as inactivity, skipping meals, eating too much, eating when you not hungry, choosing the wrong foods, and poor meal planning become ingrained and lead to the imbalance of calories and nutrients that cause obesity. As the years wear on and the poor habits are continued—your body gains fat and loses muscle. As a result metabolism slows down. As the metabolism slows down you get fatter eating the same calories as you did when you were young. If habits aren’t changed the cycle continues and you keep getting fatter.
What is needed to permanently lose weight?
Changing lifestyle habits for good is the only real way. Since lifestyle habits are developed young and deeply entrenched by adulthood, it usually takes time to make permanent changes in habits. For habit change to be permanent, the process of change must be comfortable, gradual, and personally enjoyable for the individual.
The Permanent Weigh Down Weight Loss Program
The Permanent Weigh Down weight loss program developed by Teri Underwood, RD, MS, CD, founder of Sustainable Diets is a program that guides participants through the process of change in a comfortable, enjoyable, and healthy manner enabling you to make controlled lifestyle changes that lead to permanent change and weight loss. The program includes nutrition education, practical information, and habit change techniques developed by Teri, that have been proven successful. Here are few examples of topics covered in the program:
- Learn to eat a balanced diet that is right for you, tastes fantastic, is enjoyable, maximizes your energy level, promotes high level health, and leads to weight loss.
- The latest research about diet, metabolism, genetics, and what you can do to maximize fat loss.
- Everything you need to know to navigate the complex food environment in the grocery store.
- Planning menus that are simple, nutritious, and tasty.
- How to plan a personalized exercise program just for you. One that burns fat, builds muscle, and is fun and easy to incorporate into a busy lifestyle.
- How to take control of emotional and out-of-control eating for good!
- Habit and behavior change techniques that are enjoyable and work.
- Techniques to stop sugar and carbohydrate cravings.
- How to motivate yourself to do all the above.
- Food ideas, recipes, simple cooking and meal preparation.
- Guidelines on dietary supplements; choosing the right one to meet your nutrition needs.