Why ILWM Residential?

The Institute of Lifestyle and Weight Management is your home for weight loss.

Other residential weight loss centers are typically affiliated with hospital systems or exclusive health spas. As a result, the programs are run either like sterile, hospital-like clinical assembly-line operations where participants are ushered into the program several hundred at a time or like lush oases of luxury that run short on science and medicine. Either approach is less-than optimal and significantly less effective than they can be. In fact, often the goal is not to effect long-term weight loss, but to create return customers. At ILWM, we provide a warm, welcoming environment in which you can feel at home while making the lifestyle changes necessary to lose weight and become healthier.

Personalization and Emotional Support
At ILWM, your home for weight loss, the Residential Weight Loss Program was designed to be comprehensive and personal. The individual needs of each member are analyzed and addressed. Emotional support, a much-overlooked component of any lifestyle modification program, is a cornerstone of the ILWM approach—members are not anonymous entities flowing through a standardized program, but are unique individuals with different needs, situations, personalities, and motivators. ILWM has created a warm, encouraging, and nurturing environment in which to learn, experience, and prosper.

Family-Oriented Environment
ILWM doesn’t admit people by the hundreds: admittance is limited to maintain the high quality of the experience. ILWM participants experience smaller class sizes, greater caregiver attention, and increased emotional support. No one is anonymous at ILWM—we will get to know you as a person, not as a patient, and our talented team of caregivers will establish strong emotional bonds with you. ILWM’s family-oriented environment offers warmth and encouragement to you when you most need it. You’ll feel at home while changing your life.

Immersive Environment
Although classroom time is important, it is not enough to simply learn and memorize theories and knowledge. Hands-on experience is essential to your success. Lectures are reinforced by workshops. Unlike most other programs, participants spend considerable time in the gym under supervision; personal training and gym time are integral parts of the program, not expensive add-ons. Knowledge of nutrition and exercise theory is important, but it is not enough by itself—the self-knowledge gained at ILWM is what can make the difference between long-term weight loss and just another temporary solution.

Daily Interaction
Oftentimes, hospital-based programs offer very limited contact with the professional caregivers and rely on time spent with less-experienced lower-level contractors. Most programs allocate one meeting with each type of caregiver per week or less. At ILWM, participants have daily interactions with physicians, dietitians, exercise physiologists, psychologists, and life coaches. Encounters with our professional staff are unlimited, not rationed. Therefore, you can receive more of what help you need. Most programs offer only one personal training session, usually done to prompt you to purchase additional personal training sessions at an additional cost—ILWM includes four personal training sessions per week, at no additional charge. At ILWM, your home for weight loss, you can get the help you need as an individual, and not a cookie-cutter approach to health care.

One and Done
Over half of all participants in traditional residential weight loss programs repeat the program at least once. At ILWM, we are not trying to create return customers. Our aim is to help you to help yourself. We will instill what you need to lose the weight and keep it off in the long term. Behavior modification is the ultimate goal—you will learn to eat right and exercise right. This behavior is actively reinforced through repetition and constant encouragement. Ultimately, participants learn to be self-sufficient and remain accountable to themselves as they move forward.

A Spoonful of Splenda...
Losing weight often feels like an endless chore, which is one reason why most programs fail. ILWM takes an approach that emphasizes fun. Oftentimes, classes and workshops can feel like endless drudgery. Not so at ILWM, where all activities are fun as well as educational. Furthermore, ILWM classes seek to create a healthy mind as well as a healthy body. Classes on such things as journal keeping, public speaking, and even a reading group help to maintain the healthy mind/body balance. If you are having fun and enjoying yourself, you can accomplish more.

Comprehensive Approach
The ILWM approach to weight loss is the most comprehensive in the marketplace. All relevant aspects of weight loss are addressed. In addition to eating right and exercising, contributing factors such as medical, behavioral, psychological, and emotional root causes are identified and addressed. These factors can aggravate or trigger bad eating and exercising choices, and must be addressed for the program to be effective. Stress and time management as well as situational eating strategies are studied and practiced. At ILWM, your home for weight loss, we use a multifactorial approach to address the issue from several different directions, thereby increasing your chances of long-term success.