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Rediscovery Program - Long-term Weight Loss

Where will you be 18 months from now?

Most weight loss programs only focus on getting to your goal weight - and that’s what leads most supposed success stories back to square one within a year or two of losing the weight. 

As our client, we know exactly where you’ll be 18 months from now: on higher ground, popping the cork, celebrating a year’s worth of weight stability at your target weight.

We know that because it’s our track record. Statistically, that’s what happens by 18 months.

Frank talk about losing a lot of weight

If you have more than 30 pounds to lose -- and especially if your Body Mass Index is over 30 or your doctor has told you you’re obese -- the dynamics of weight loss are different for you.

Your body is likely pre-programmed to:

•   Be hyper-efficient at burning food: other people need more calories than you do.  That means on the exact same diet (even a healthy diet) they’ll stay thin and you’ll gain.  It’s not fair, but it’s the scientific truth.
•   Be spring-loaded to convert excess calories to fat.  Some people are more tolerant of excess sweets than others.  Some people aren’t.  If you’ve struggled with your weight, chances are you’re in the “aren’t” category.  Again, this isn’t just subjective, it’s real weight loss science.

This means that you’ll need to use a diet specifically formulated for your metabolism, and that you’ll need extra help post-weight loss in order to stay weight stable.  In fact, we recommend a years worth of weekly check-ins and Compass classes following weight loss.   Here’s why:

• The average amount of weight lost by New Directions patients is 60 pounds, or about 20% of most client’s body weight. 
• The average time-to-goal weight is 5 months. 
• New Directions clients are typically able to go off of one or more medications taken for common problems like hypertension, high cholesterol, pre-diabetes, diabetes, and such. 
• New Directions clients lose this weight while totally avoiding “normal” meals or foods.

Put those things together and you have breathtaking positive physical and psychological change occurring over a short time period AND the introduction of a whole new variable into the equation: meal planning. 

With weekly meetings, patients can confidently negotiate living in their new, thin bodies and we can help them catch any small few-pound gains and get them back on track.  They also get help and reinforcement from the behaviorists at each Compass class.

Does 5-6 months of weight loss and another years worth of classes/check-ins seem like more than is needed?  Not according to 20 years of experience, no.   We didn’t pull the number out of thin air.  Statistically, patients who completed our post-weight loss program were several times more likely to remain weight-stable, even when we checked back in with them 2, 3, 5, and even 8 years later.

If you could push a button and be thin tomorrow (and stay thin) would you?

Who wouldn’t, right?   Well, 5-6 months from now this moment will seem like yesterday, and having completed the weight loss phase of our program, you will be thin, rediscovering your future... if you pushed the button today.

Regardless of your decision, 6 months will go by.  And then a year.   And so on.   The only question is where will the next 18 months find you.  We want them to find you celebrating.  That’s our wish for every perspective patient and it’s our wish for you.