TEENS: Look Great — Feel Great
You only get one body, so it’s important to take care of it. In fact, what you eat and how much physical activity you get when you’re young affects your risk factors for certain diseases, like heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity, when you’re an adult. So, it’s important to start making healthy choices now.
This site gives you immediate access to information that can help keep you fit and healthy.
WHAT WE DO
Community Care has developed this program, the NICE Weight Transitions Program, specifically for children and adolescents who want to get fit and stay fit. We have a team of professionals behind the program, including an expert panel of physicians, a health coach, personal trainer/sports nutritionist, and supporting staff, all committed to helping you improve your lifestyle.
At NICE Weight Transitions, we believe that healthy attitudes towards exericse, food and body image can all help your overall physical and psychological well-being.
PRINCIPLES OF OUR PROGRAM
NICE consists of 4 dimensions to help you achieve optimal long-term wellness.
Nutrition - Intelligence - Confidence - Energy
Nutrition: It’s important to develop healthy habits during childhood and early adolescence. With the support of the NICE team, we strive to teach you how to make healthy eating choices. We do not put you on a diet! There are a wide variety of foods rich in essential nutrients necessary for growing bodies. What you learn can be used throughout your life to get you healthy and keep you healthy into adulthood.
Intelligence: You can’t change your habits and stick with it if you don’t truly understand what you should be doing and why. Part of this program includes explaining the recommendations that are made in the program and how these changes will improve your health. We want you to be able to incorporate what you learn into your daily life. With the NICE program, we involve adolescents in understanding all the factors contributing to weight management decisions.
Confidence: Being overweight may affect your self confidence. Sometimes, other kids can be cruel if you are a little bit different. Losing weight not only improves your health, but it can give you back the confidence you should have. Remember, there’s nothing wrong with being different! At NICE, we want you to be healthy and feel great.
Energy: You’ve probably heard it a million times…you need to eat right and get some exercise. Although eating the right foods is important to managing your weight, you also need to stay active. NICE has a personal trainer on staff to help get you moving and come up with activities that you want to do to stay fit. It’s all about having fun and finding a routine you can stick with!
The NICE program allows us to apply intervention techniques that build on an adolescent’s social network and personal motivations for achieving their weight management goals with the use of a health coaching, personal training, and nutritional counseling.
Program Details:
- Program is open to individuals between the ages of 11-18 years of age
- The program consists of two 2 hour mandatory sessions, two times a week and 2 – 4 hours of open program time to work on the patient’s goals
- The start of our beta program begins in January 2010 (please call for dates)
- ORIENTATIONS – Begins at 6:30pm
- January 6th (Wednesday)
- January 13th (Wednesday)
- The start of a full time program is scheduled for February 1st, 2010