integrative nutrition, Wellness & Weight Loss
Your Long-Term Wellness Plan

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At the Center for Integrative Healing and Wellness @ Civana, your holistic health and wellness plan is completely personalized based on your individual health goals.  Each program (Medical, Nutrition, Fitness and Wellness) is customized to your specific health focus.

The Problem

  • Research shows that obesity rates are increasing and pose a major health issue.  More and more people are struggling to lose unwanted weight, with traditional approaches to dieting proving ineffective.

  • In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported increased obesity rates, with this now affecting 39.6% of American adults (affecting 93.3 million American adults) and 17% of American children.

  • Obesity has been cited as contributing to approximately 100,000-400,000 deaths per year and has increased health care use expenditures, costing society an estimated $147 billion in direct and indirect cost.

  • Nearly 70 million Americans have high blood pressure, which triples your chances of heart disease.

  • Dieting is a $60 billion a year industry with 95% of dieters regaining their weight within 1-2 years.

  • Repeated diet attempts can alter your metabolism, increase fat and increase risks for cardiovascular disease.  No fad diet has proven long-term success with weight loss.


The Solution

The Personalized Wellness Plan at the Center for Integrative Healing and Wellness

Weight loss can be a challenge for many people, often because every piece of the health puzzle is not being addressed. By utilizing therapies that address the whole person and look at the internal physiological and behavioral causes of weight gain, healthy weight loss goals can be achieved and maintained, while overall health and vitality are elevated to new heights.

In many people, diet and exercise are not enough to lose weight, why is this?  It is because there are often several dysfunctional metabolic and physiological cycles in that person’s body that are keeping the weighed from coming off.  Blood sugar, hormone level, toxic load, gut health are all reasons that will thwart weight loss efforts.  For most people it is incredibly relevant to begin to explore these as it makes diet, exercise and stress management much more effective.

Our guests achieve life changing wellness and weight loss through our customized programs. You receive individual nutritional consults, personal training, behavioral consults, and comprehensive blood lab tests with a consult with our board certified integrative medical doctor that all work together to not only addresses current wellness & weight problems, but also provide a long-term wellness & weight loss plan that fits your lifestyle.

Through our four pillar multi-disciplinary approach combining medical, nutrition, fitness and mind-body health - you can experience a fit and healthy body, a sharp mind, and a vibrant spirit!

Medical

Our integrative medical team will help you meet your wellness & weight loss goal with a multi-faceted approach, including:

  • Proper nutrition, portion control and digestive health

  • Health history including current muscle or joint aches and pains

  • Stress management, quality of sleep and energy levels

  • Emotional and behavioral patterns

  • Past physical and emotional traumas

  • Hormonal function, inflammation and ability to detoxify

  • Integrative & natural management of high blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes

Nutrition

Our nutritionist will teach you how to eat for healthy weight loss without feeling deprived, including:

  • Change your relationship with food and its role in your life

  • Rid yourself of the negative food habits of dieting

  • Understand the metabolic benefits of nutrient dense foods

  • Learn how adding food can lead to losing weight

  • Rewrite your food portfolio

  • Grocery shopping and label reading tips

  • Meal planning and healthy food preparation

  • How to plan for social events and travel

  • Hands on healthy cooking with our Chefs and Culinary Medical Staff

  • How to deal with cravings

Fitness

Our fitness team will design a specific fitness plan based on your individual fitness level, that will give you the best results possible, including:

  • Non-intimidating activities that are fun

  • Low-impact exercises to minimize risk of injury

  • Which exercises will boost your metabolism, helping you burn more calories even while you rest

  • How you can get great results in half the time, using proven exercise techniques

Mind-Body Health

Our mind-body team will work with you in both group and individual sessions to:

  • Identify and uncover possible origins of your wellness issues and what might also be contributing factors that maintain your struggle with your weight

  • Address emotional eating patterns

  • Teach you new strategies to more effectively cope with negative emotions without using food for “comfort”

  • Address negative body image issues which further foster poor self-esteem and low self-efficacy and inhibit your ability to achieve success in your weight loss goals

  • Increase your self esteem

  • Learn self-motivation techniques

  • Learn to increase your awareness of ingrained mental patterns, emotions, and signals from your body to create new, positive mental and physical patterns

  • Mindfulness and mind-body awareness through meditation, yoga, and Tai Chi