Weight Loss
Creating health, starting with weight loss
Optimal Health is a whole new approach to well-being that is based on creating health with the Take Shape For Life Program. Three unique components— your Health Coach, the Medifast 5 & 1 Plan, and the Habits of Health—create the foundation and long-term support that will guide you along your journey.
- Start by losing up to 2 to 5 lbs per week, quickly and safely
- Learn the Habits of Health that can create health for a lifetime
- Become a part of a thriving Bio-Network of Clients and Health Coaches who are taking back America's health and wellness
How is Take Shape For Life different?
Take Shape For Life starts with making the decision to get healthy—now.
Achieving a healthy weight is the first step in along the path to Optimal Health. The Take Shape For Life program offers you a free personal Health Coach who will guide you as you lose weight on the Medifast 5 & 1 Plan®, by using the clinically proven, doctor-recommended, portion-controlled nutrition of Medifast Meals. Along the way, your Health Coach will share with you the Habits of Health that can help you to make the choices that will allow you take charge of your health for the long term.
Reaching a healthy weight is just the beginning—there is much more to come.
The Path to a Longer, Healthier Life
Choose Optimal Health today, and become a part of the Take Shape For Life Bio-Network and the thriving, vibrant, grassroots movement of Health Coaches, Health Professionals, and Clients who are redefining the path to health and well-being.
Our Health Program
Take Shape For Life is an entirely new approach to well-being based on creating health, not reacting to illness. Reaching a healthy weight is just the beginning. Through the Habits of Health and the BeSlim lifestyle, our program can help guide you to Optimal Health.
As you work toward Optimal Health, you learn to take charge of your lifestyle and be as healthy as you can be, for as long as you want.
With Take Shape For Life, you'll master the ability to:
- Create health in your life, step-by-step, through nutrition, proper sleep, exercise, and stress management.
- Transform your world into a supportive environment where healthy habits can grow and thrive.
- Identify unhealthy patterns and triggers, and use the power of choice to stay true to your health goals.
- Cultivate the Habits of Health — step-by-step, one day at a time —that can gradually replace the habits that make us ill, overweight, and unhappy.
- Grow a healthier you, with proven techniques of people who have been successful in maintaining their healthy weight loss for years.
A Unique Health Program
From weight loss to healthier life
Take Shape For Life has the answers to the obesity crisis that is sweeping our nation.
Over two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese. And 85% of those who lose weight through dieting gain it back—sometimes with added pounds.
Being overweight, sick, and tired is expensive. And the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer related to obesity is all too real. Missed work, doctor visits, high-priced prescriptions, and lost opportunities are keeping too many Americans in a vicious circle.
Our Program
Take Shape For Life is not a short-term solution for obesity or a quick-fix diet. It is a thoughtful, doctor-developed, long-term program for healthier living, and reaching a healthy weight is just the first step.
Your personal Health Coach will teach you how to live the BeSlim® lifestyle and guide you as you learn the habits and techniques you will need to support lasting change and improved health.
Habits that create health
Take Shape For Life starts with healthy weight loss using Medifast Meals and the Medifast 5 & 1 Plan®. But that's just the beginning. Our Health Coaches guide their Clients along the path to Optimal Health with the Habits of Health—small, simple changes that, when repeated day after day, can create a future of better health, lowered disease risk, and overall increased well-being.
The health care system that isn't
"Our current health care system is not about health, it's not caring, and it's not a system," explains one Take Shape For Life Health Professional Health Coach.
Today's doctors are wrapped up in the red tape of managed care, and they can do little for the obese patient who's stuck in unhealthy habits and getting sicker. Too many doctors are trained and paid to react to disease and prescribe medications, not to create health and prevent illness from happening in the first place.
The Habits of Health focus on the building blocks of good health—proper nutrition, adequate sleep, regular exercise, and stress reduction—freeing you from an inevitable downward spiral of failing health, more prescriptions, and, even more important, the false notion that a better life isn't possible.
Improving your health through nutrition
When you begin the program, your Health Coach will help you get started on the Medifast 5 & 1 Plan. The five Medifast Meals you need each day are low in calories, have a low glycemic index, and are scientifically formulated with an optimal balance of protein, carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, and minerals.
Medifast Meals are designed to help you lose weight quickly and safely while feeling full and satisfied and getting all the nutrition your body needs.
The ultimate goal is to reach a healthy BMI, as it will cut the risk for dangerous diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes. You'll also free yourself from the stress and exhaustion of chronic, preventable bad health. You may even save money: As you get to a healthy weight, your doctor may be able to cut back or eliminate some of your medications.
One-on-one support
A Health Coach is a caring, knowledgeable consultant who works with you, one-on-one, along your journey to Optimal Health. It begins with making a choice to get healthy and then setting your goals. Your Health Coach will be there each step of the way, providing guidance and support as you approach your weight-loss goal and learn the Habits of Health.
The Habits of Health are the keys to healthy weight maintenance and long-term health.
Discovering the Habits of Health
A major key to healthy long-term lifestyle change is a thorough understanding and implementation of the Habits of Health. These habits are small daily choices that help you lower your risk of returning to unhealthy habits once you have reached your weight-loss goals.
Your Health Coach will show you the tools you need and guide you as you learn the Habits of Health and move down the path toward Optimal Health.
The Habits of Health System, beginning with Dr. A's Habits of Health, is your guide to these lifestyle changes. This comprehensive book, along with its companion guide, Living a Longer Healthier Life, will help you incorporate what you've learned into your daily life.
Your Take Shape For Life Health Coach:
- Provides you with FREE one-on-one coaching
- Has access to products, programs, and support to help you restore your health and well-being, and to teach you healthy habits for life
- Benefits from training and support from a strong, well-financed company
Take Shape For Life really is "for life." We offer much more than just fast, safe, effective weight loss; it's your key to better health. Through the Habits of Health, you learn a healthier way of living. You also get the continuing advantage of personalized one-on-one coaching from a Health Coach, who can keep you on course to help you achieve the results you desire.
Doug lost 130 lbs!
"The most fun part about this has been on five separate occasions good friends that I had not seen in over a year didn't recognize me!"
One day I had just taken my dad to his doctor's appointment and was helping him into his car from his wheelchair. Don Miller approached me to help and asked about my father's health. I explained that he'd had hip surgeries, staph infections, and was 100 lbs overweight. Don said he'd like to help and gave me his card.
I checked him and Take Shape For Life out online, and my father and wife and I watched the DVD he'd sent on achieving Optimal Health. We decided to try it for three months. The first week, I lost 15 lbs; my wife lost 9 lbs, and my wheelchair-bound father lost 8 lbs. We were hooked!
I am so much healthier after losing weight! I am actually getting eight hours of awesome sleep every night and wake up rested. I no longer have lower back or hip pain; my cholesterol is down from over 250 to under 160, and my blood pressure is right at normal. I have better balance, better endurance, and I can tie my shoes and breathe at the same time!
We're Health Coaches now, and look at it as a calling to "pay it forward." We didn't have to look hard for Clients; so many people came up to us and asked what we were doing to get healthy.
Linda Sue lost 75 lbs!
"I love my life! I have more energy, and love to shop for clothes and groceries. I can walk all day without pain!"
Before Take Shape For Life, I was obese and very unhappy with the way I looked and felt. I had severe osteoarthritis in my knees, and I would go straight to the couch or bed as soon as I came home from work.
I kept getting bigger and heavier, and my doctor recommended bariatric surgery, but because I suffer with strokes and TIAs ("mini-strokes") I wasn"t a candidate.
When my Health Coach introduced me to Take Shape For Life, I saw results after week one! I lost ten lbs the first week and I have averaged about 2 - 3 lbs a week since then.
My friends are just stunned at the results that this program has given me. And, thank goodness, my husband was entirely supportive. It would have been so easy for him to say, "No, we can't afford this," but instead, he said, "We can't afford for you to be unhealthy and unhappy."
My knees do not swell so badly that I can't even sleep at night because of the pain. My doctors have been able to cut back on my medications. I work out at my gym six days a week, and love it.
The other day a newbie at my gym actually asked me if I was a trainer! I was stunned: me, a trainer! In May of 2009 that would never have entered anyone's mind! I love what Take Shape For Life has done for me!
Cheryl lost 134 lbs!
"My physician beamed as she told me the news..."
When I started on Take Shape For Life I weighed 260 pounds. I wore a size 24, and had hit the threshold for diabetes. I was on medication for cholesterol and gastric reflux. My back hurt, and I felt old. I was afraid that I wouldn't be around to watch my four little grandchildren grow up.
I had spent two decades on a variety of diets. I fought hunger all the time and felt deprived. It didn't take much to throw me off the diet, and I quickly regained all of the weight plus.
I decided to try Take Shape For Life for one month to see if it would work for me. I liked the fact that the Medifast Meals were pre-packaged, because I was tired of counting calories and carbs. I was impressed that this was a nutritionally complete program, and I liked knowing that there was a well-planned, systematic transition and maintenance program designed to help me keep the weight off.
Within a week of starting, my fasting glucose level returned to normal. I didn't feel hungry. It was at this point that I began to think that maybe, just maybe, this was really IT for me.
Seven months after starting the program, my physician beamed as she informed me that based on my blood work, I was no longer diabetic! Today my cholesterol is good (161) without medication, and my elevated blood pressure has returned to normal. My back no longer hurts all the time, and I have SO much more energy!
Matt lost 81 lbs!
"The rapid weight loss and results I was week after week made it easier to stick to the plan. I was constantly lowing inches and pounds!"
I struggled with weight issues my entire life. I can remember needing 'husky' jeans as a kid and feeling bad that I didn't fit in 'regular' clothes. As an adult, being overweight limited my personal, social, and work life. I couldn't enjoy the outdoor sports and activities I loved. In addition, I wanted to get healthy so I could be active with my young kids.
I was introduced to Take Shape For Life and Medifast by a longtime friend of mine, Todd Schemper. I'd always admired Todd's fitness level and integrity. When he recommended the program, I trusted him. Plus, as an accountant, I really appreciated the structure of the plan.
I went on the Medifast 5 & 1 Plan and noticed results the first week -- that was so encouraging! My clothes fit better almost immediately, and after a month I needed to start shopping for new clothes in smaller sizes. Eventually, I even needed narrower running shoes!
I sleep better now, and sometimes awaken on my own before the alarm goes off. I have more energy, and the minor back pain I had before my weight loss is non-existent. I can touch my toes where before I could barely reach past my knees. I can comfortably cross my legs when sitting in a chair. Since the weight loss, I'm more confident about voicing my opinion and trying new things.
Peggy lost 56 lbs!
"I can look in the mirror and see a vey happy and healthy person who can tackle anything the world has to offer!"
After going through the change of life and quitting smoking, I wanted to be healthy and look good, too--but I was still overweight, and my cholesterol was high. I had started avoiding social events and wearing all black to hide the extra pounds.
I saw something in our local paper about someone I knew who lost weight and looked terrific. He hosted a tasting, and when I attended, I saw his 'before' and 'after' pictures. I started to think this could work for me, too, and ordered my first month of Medifast Meals.
I saw results almost instantly! I began feeling better and more energetic. I lost 22 lbs in the first month, and after watching me daily and tasting the food I was eating, my husband decided to join me.
My family and friends are very thankful that I discovered Take Shape For Life. My cholesterol is now under control after using the products and following the plan. I exercise, eat properly, and feel totally alive. I feel so much better about myself. My self-esteem is through the roof, and this has helped many of my relationships.
Knowing that I can take charge of my well-being for the rest of my life with the help of Medifast products is very satisfying-- having Optimal Health is the most important thing ever!
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Spring Spine Center
Spring, TX 77379
Phone: 281-376-1288