Ideal Weight Program Introduction

What is your ideal weight?

According to the Ideal Weight Program, a person’s ideal weight is a weight target personalized to them. It’s a weight range where you feel a balance between health, appearance, performance, and overall well being. It’s also a weight you can achieve and sustain. You can refine it using trial and error to find the best fit.

What are some of the main concepts of the program?

The program presents guidance on six factors that impact your weight. These include your food environment, appetite, food reward, sleep, physical activity, and psychological stress. A key focus of the program is applying strategies that favor long-term results by addressing common barriers to weight loss maintenance . The Ideal Weight Program helps you create a personalized strategy that not only supports your weight management goal, but helps you feel more comfortable at your new weight so you can sustain it.

Is knowledge enough?

We’re swimming in a sea of information about weight loss on the Internet, on television, and in our social groups, but knowledge isn’t useful unless it’s prioritized and connected to effective ways of implementing it. The Ideal Weight program sifts through this information to find the most effective levers for weight management, and ways to pull those levers to achieve and sustain our goals.

Do I have to count calories to lose weight?

Body fatness is determined by calorie intake and expenditure, but calorie tracking is not part of the Ideal Weight Program.

Most people have better results when they use strategies that cause them to naturally reduce their calorie intake without having to track anything or feel excessive hunger. This is a central idea of the program.