The weight management team includes physicians, dieticians, exercise physiologists, nurses, and psychotherapists. Weekly group and individual clinic visits focus on building skills for lifestyle change. On-going support groups are available. The Better Weigh is a 10-week program for those individuals who want to improve their health and weight through exercise, food choices, and a new understanding of the psychology of eating. The program includes a nutrition assessment, percent body fat measurements, and moderate calorie food planning.
Skill building for lifestyle interventions is emphasized.
On-going support groups are available. The group meets weekly for one hour and is open to all who have completed The Better Weigh, Optifast, or Individual counseling. Group focus is on individual goal-setting, and informal discussion of progress. Specific needs, such as high cholesterol, eating disorders, kidney and liver disease nutrition management, allergies, general nutrition and vegetarian meal planning, are addressed in the session. These teach healthy, low fat, low cholesterol vegetarian cooking in a small group, hands-on atmosphere.