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Diabetes – Glucose Control
At Nestle Health Science, we know that maintaining your OPTIFAST weight loss is important. We also know that it’s not always easy to know which foods are best to include in your meals. We’ve listed several foods below that can help you maintain your weight and better manage your blood glucose level...
Mindful Eating
Tools for success • Understand the principles of mindful eating and how it can help you change the way you eat. • Use the principles of mindfulness to increase awareness of your feelings and thoughts during meal planning, food preparation, and eating. • Learn the hunger and satiety scale and use ...
Be Kind to Yourself
You are a special person with wonderful qualities and talents. You deserve to treat yourself well with a positive attitude every day. Concentrate on Your Best Qualities What do you like best about yourself? Maybe it’s your great sense of humor, your skills on the piano, or your ability to paint li...
Making the Transition
The transition period of your weight management program is the time to shift from using meal replacements to eating mostly foods from the grocery store. The length of time for your transition depends on what your OPTIFAST® program provider decides is best for you. How to go about including more conv...
Lifestyle Change
Making lifestyle changes to support your long-term goal of a healthier life takes both courage and commitment. At times you might even feel like a salmon swimming upstream, especially when people around you seem to be eating whatever they want and spending lots of time watching TV or playing video g...
Getting off to a Great Start
Congratulations on your decision to join the OPTIFAST® Program. We treat the whole you, not just your weight! You will receive medical supervision, personalized support, counseling, lifestyle education, and meal replacements to help you enjoy long-term weight-loss and significantly reduce weight-rel...
Taking the Lead in Your Weight Loss
Sometimes it’s easy to blame other people when things aren’t going your way. And the more you focus on why other people or situations make it hard for you to lose weight, the more powerless you feel. When it comes to weight management, success comes with realizing it’s up to you to solve your weight...
Travelers’ Guide to Healthy Eating and Activity
“Three weeks into the maintenance program, I received a promotion to a job that required two weeks of travel per month. With a new job, a new body, and new-found confidence, I was ready to hit the road. Despite my best intentions, after one month of travel I found myself gaining weight. When I got o...
Improve Your Strength
Strength training is one of the four key components of fitness (the other three include endurance, balance, and flexibility). The Benefits of Strength Training As we age, we start to lose muscle mass and increase the percentage of fat in the body. Doing strength training exercises can enhance our ...
