Wellness Forum Health Weight Loss is a one-year program designed to help you to permanently change your habits. This is not a typical weight loss program. While the goal is weight loss, this course focuses on two things – health education and literacy (examining the science related to choices regarding diet, health, and medical care) and habit change (which is the only way that permanent weight loss can occur).
Components of the program are:
- InforMED Health 101 – basic concepts of InforMED Medical Decision-Making, how to adopt an optimal diet and exercise program
- InforMED Health 201 – how to read and understand information about diet, health, and medicine; how to understand your blood test results, how to make InforMED choices about your health, how to find and interview healthcare practitioners
- You will be asked to complete a test booklet after each class series.
- Basics of Habit Change
- Principles of Weight Loss
- Twice Monthly Conference Calls
- Periodic review of food, exercise, and behavior journals
This program is not for everyone, and an application and interview are required to determine suitability for participation.
We do not want you to enroll in this program unless we feel that you are highly likely to succeed. Qualifications include willingness to:
- commit to complete specific courses and tasks by deadlines
- follow directions provided by WFH staff
- make big changes to diet and exercise patterns
- participate in conference calls and one-on-one meetings
- be accountable for your actions and progress
Fees
Tuition is a one-time payment of $799 which covers 12 months. You may choose to enroll for additional 12-month periods if you remain eligible. Participants who are not consistent, fail to participate, do not turn in food and activity journals, and refuse to be accountable are not eligible to renew. There are no refunds once fees are paid.
Most people who try to lose weight and keep it off fail.
If you are like most overweight people you already know this; you’ve failed a few times yourself. The longer you have been overweight, the more the odds are against your succeeding. The only thing that will make this experience different than the last is your willingness to do whatever it takes for a long period of time, and to do things differently than you have in the past.
In our experience, the biggest reasons people fail at weight loss or anything else requiring behavior change is their own resistance to doing things differently for extended periods of time, failure to stay engaged in some type of support program, and unwillingness to hold themselves accountable for progress. You should think long and hard before you decide to do this – and make sure you are ready to commit to yourself to a healthier future for the rest of your life.