Shape Your Future

South Shore Medical Center offers Shape Your Future Program, a 12-week weight loss program designed for children and adolescents.  It promotes better eating habits, regular exercise, demonstrates how to make positive changes in eating behavior and encourages family involvement. Our team includes a Doctor, Nurse Practitioner, Exercise Physiologist & Registered Dietitian.

The Shape Your Future Program addresses:

NUTRITION:  Group lectures and individual goals, 2 family nutrition consults for assessment, making changes & reevaluating meal planning. 

EXERCISE:  An 8-week supervised exercise program.

BEHAVIOR:  Goals for participants include avoiding pitfalls, overcoming barriers, emotional eating, maintaining routine, goal setting, dealing with challenges, reward worksheets & weekly parent support groups.

MAINTENANCE:  Shape Your Future program maintenance establishes follow-up appointments, ongoing individual goals, newsletters & a reunion.

 

Posted May 4, 2006