The most comprehensive study of weight loss success ever conducted is the National Weight Control Registry (The National Registry) was developed by Rena Wing, PhD, at Lifespan, Brown University and the University of Pittsburgh, and James Hill, PhD, at the University of Colorado. The National Registry has identified more than 5,000 individuals who have lost significant amounts of weight (average 30 pounds) and kept it off for long periods of time (average 5 years).

What this study found was that there are some fundamentals that people who are successful at long term weight loss share. The La Jolla Weight Loss Program embraces these key factors to help you succeed and adds important elements to make the process easier.

The La Jolla Weight Management Program tailors methods to your specific needs. Each person has a unique set of circumstances and background factors associated with being overweight or having related health concerns such as diabetes, heart disease, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Lambrou works with you on an individual basis to establish a plan that addresses your specific needs and goals.

One of the challenges of staying with any healthy eating plan is the tendency to use food as comfort or relief from emotions or stress. Emotional eating is addressed through a combination of building your skills in emotion and stress management, and in reprogramming your subconscious mind to use those new approaches in a virtually automatic way, just as you now may eat almost automatically when angry, sad, anxious or stressed-out.

Another challenge to long term weight control is developing a habit of physical activity that is appropriate for your health and abilities. It is not difficult to KNOW what to do, what is a challenge is to DO it with consistency. Removing the subconsicous blocks to eating healthy and increasing physical acitivity, and then building motivation to sustain those activities is another part of the Program. This is accomplished using innovative methods derived from hypnosis and energy psychology developed by Dr. Lambrou and his colleagues. You can learn more about how these methods work from his books: Instant Emotional Healing, and Self-Hypnosis: The Complete Manual .

A structured eating plan is important. If you have a plan that works for you but you’ve been unable to stay with it, then the Program will focus on helping you stay with your eating plan. If you have not found an eating plan that works to accomplish your goals then Dr. Lambrou will help you explore what WILL work for you. One eating plan he has found very effective for both safe and rapid weight loss, as well as part of a long term maintenance program is called Take Shape For Life™ using Medifast® food supplements. To learn more about this Click Here.

You can arrange a Free consultation with Dr. Lambrou to assess your situation and learn more about how the Program can work for you.