Progress takes time. It is achieved one step, one day at a time. When you approach weight loss with a macro focus, you can easily get overwhelmed, which can derail your larger initiative. This is why our weight management program includes small goals that are used to expand total wellness understanding and address common challenges that participants face during certain periods in their weight loss program.

For example, at the four-week mark, you might be asked reexamine and “ReSet” your strategy—because typically this is the point in the diet when you begin to plateau and feel like you’re stuck in a hamster wheel of dieting. To resolve this feeling, we have a session dedicated specifically to the goal of jumping out of the dieting mindset and jump into the lifestyle-change mindset.

Similarly, at the week-seven mark, your schedule may include a workshop that will help you detect when fats are hidden in foods and how to manage the situation through smart substitutions. The idea is that after this week participants will not only leave feeling more confident in their ability to understand and interpret nutrition labels but also gain a more critical outlook on their personal health and food consumption—which, as we’ve surely mentioned before, is vital to achieving optimal wellness.