The ILWM Experience

At The Institute of Lifestyle and Weight Management (ILWM), your home for weight loss, we recognize that you unquestionably desire a positive experience when you participate in a weight loss program—especially one as comprehensive as a residential program. Too often, however, you are disappointed and dissatisfied with the service you received. Whether you were not exposed enough to other important components of weight loss like exercise, disappointed with the poor conditions of the facility, did not receive the personalization or individual attention you expected and deserved, or just found it to be boring, is irrelevant. The important fact is that your experience was not complete and did not do enough to ensure you that you can achieve lasting success. For those of you who want more out of your weight loss program, we have designed the total residential weight loss experience for you.

Our program is not only engaging, but one that will create a life-changing event for you. Our clients find their experience to be an inherently personal one, where they are engaged on emotional, physical, intellectual and even spiritual levels. Because of this unprecedented level of personalization, no two people can have the same experience.

The ILWM Residential Weight Loss Program Provides a much Richer Experience than Other Residential Programs.

Client Participation
At ILWM, your home for weight loss, we have developed a community of participation. This means that our program requires extensive participant contribution. It is simply not enough to sit in a classroom environment and learn about fitness, like in other programs, to be successful. We have learned through years of experience that time invested in the gym “everyday” with the support of our trainers is where you discover and adapt to long term success. In fact, you will receive at a minimum four one-on-one personal training sessions per week. By the time the month-long program is over, you are already forming positive habits and are well on the way to realizing your goals. Your time in the program is split between learning in a classroom environment and applying that knowledge in the gym.

Client Immersion
Every aspect of the program is immersive. Everything that you learn at ILWM, your home for weight loss, will be reinforced throughout your experience. Each participant is steeped in what they are learning; by the end of your stay in Raleigh, each participant has spent significant time in the gym, kitchen, and other key environments, where they have practiced implementing what they have learned. Participants need only continue the new learned behaviors rather than trying to learn and implement them on their own once they leave. Throughout the program, participants are under the guidance of knowledgeable and empathetic instructors and counselors. Participants are supported emotionally and are provided with the knowledge necessary to bring about permanent changes. This emotional support is imperative and is not provided in other programs, which often seem too sterile and hospital-like. Most weight issues have a strong emotional component to them; any effective solution for this problem must offer a robust emotional support component.

Client Education
While learning and putting into practice nutrition and fitness elements, participants attend self-awareness classes, group counseling sessions, and seminars on topics designed to exercise the mind while they are exercising their bodies. Activities designed to expand the mind and spirit are an integral part of each participant’s success. Often, a participant’s weight issues stem from the mind; by improving the mind and bolstering the spirit, one can pave the way to long-term success.

A Community of Support
As they progress through the program, participants bond with each other and support each other as a community. Group activities further this bonding and culture of support. They even continue to support each other after the month long program is over. This community of shared purpose helps drive participants to success.