What is the Foundation of Weight Control Workshop?
The Foundation of Weight Control Workshop is just what the title suggests. It helps you build a lasting foundation for weight management. Where most weight loss programs fail is in their emphasis on the foods or exercises they prescribe instead of on the underlying factors that get in the way of you sticking to those foods and exercises forever. And forever is just what life at your desired weight is about.
How is the Workshop different from other products and programs you have tried?
When you build a house, you must pour a strong foundation if you want the lovely architecture and interior décor to last. The same applies to weight management. If you want to really lose (instead of just temporarily misplace) your excess weight, you must lay a lasting foundation to support that lifelong goal.
The Foundation of Weight Control Workshop gives you the missing link behind most failed weight control efforts. No matter how you try to lose weight, there are basic shifts in your thinking, understanding, and motivation that must first happen for you to achieve long-term success.
What exactly will the Workshop teach you?
You will build a permanent foundation for weight management by learning to …
Control the physical, psychological, and social factors that control your weight,
Gently shift your daily habits to create a healthy-weight lifestyle, and
Identify the weight management approach best suited to you.
How is the Workshop structured?
The day is divided into six steps that you will take toward lasting change:
Step 1 - Identify, enhance, and capture your motivation.
Learn how to use the excitement of the day to keep yourself motivated well into the future.
Step 2 - Understand the complex factors that cause excess weight.
The better you understand the physical, psychological, and social pressures that affect your weight, the easier it will be to control them. Dr. Wolfe and Dr. Ross bring to you decades of research and experience in the treatment of obesity. They will help you understand the forces that have made obesity epidemic in our time. More importantly, they will help you understand how those forces affect your life, and what you can do about them.
Step 3 - Learn how to manage the factors that make you overweight, and create a healthy-weight life.
This is the heart of the day. Some of what we discuss will be easy, like planning simple changes to your eating environment and brainstorming fun ideas for exercise. Other topics will be more demanding. We will explore the personal meanings that food holds for you, disentangle your social life from your food life, and develop strategies for coping with emotions without overeating. The catered luncheon we provide will form the basis for Hunger Awareness Training and the practice of mindful eating.
Step 4 - Analyze your lifestyle for the easiest way to integrate foundation behaviors that promote weight management success.
One reason your weight loss has always been temporary is that your strategies were chosen for promised quantity or speed of weight loss, and not necessarily for their fit with your life. As a result, you may well have been able to lose weight, but keeping it off was impossible because the loss was based on forcing a lifestyle that was not comfortable for you. Our detailed Lifestyle Analysis will help you identify changes that are comfortable for you. Changes that are comfortable are sustainable. If you sustain the changes, you will maintain your weight loss.
Step 5 - Evaluate weight loss programs for safety, sanity, and size.
There are thousands of weight loss strategies to pick from, and many of them are safe and effective. However, for any given program to work for you, it must also be sane and a good fit. It must meet your tastes for nutrition, as well as comfort and the amount of time, money, and energy you want to invest. In addition to guidelines for evaluating programs, the Workshop Manual includes a free Program Directory from a leading on-line diet analysis service.
Step 6 - Plan your next steps.
You will leave the Foundation of Weight Control Workshop motivated to live a healthy-weight lifestyle and having already started to practice the behaviors that make up that lifestyle. You will have outlined the gentle changes you can make that will allow your next weight loss effort to succeed -- permanently!