MOVE2020
Losing even a little will help!
The most significant benefit of the MOVE! Program is feeling better than you have in years! The MOVE! program provides amazing tools to help you learn how to make minor changes over a lifetime to keep the weight off and feel great. Encouraging healthy eating behavior, increasing physical activity, and promoting even small weight loss can reduce health risks, prevent or reverse certain diseases, and improve quality-of-life and longevity. Focusing on readiness, motivation, and the use of SMART goal setting, helps to get Veterans on the right step to begin their weight loss journey.
The Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center and Community Based Outpatient Clinics offer several MOVE! Program options including weekly or bi-weekly group sessions which are offered in person or through video conferencing to outpatient clinics, individual visits focused specifically on nutrition and exercise, group exercise classes called BAM (Be Active and MOVE!), access to a free body composition analysis on our state of the art DEXA scan machine, MOVE! Telephone Lifestyle Coaching for those Veterans who prefer one-on-one contact via telephone with a designated weight management coach, and our MOVE! Coach mobile app and the Annie app for Veterans for additional weight management support between appointments. Utilizing our Virtual Medical Room, Veterans can even have their individual nutrition appointments from home, work, or anywhere they have Internet access. The VA also has a partnership with the Saginaw YMCA offering Veterans the use of their facility every Tuesday, all day, with Veteran ID card, and a weekly aqua band class every Thursday at 2:00 p.m..
“The things I’ve learned from MOVE! have already made a big change in my life. I’m eating better choices and doing the correct kinds of exercise for my personal health conditions. At present, I’m looking forward to more weight loss, more exercise, and hopefully taking less medication. This was the best health decision I’ve ever made, to attend MOVE! Classes,” states one Veteran who has been involved in the MOVE! Program.
In addition to the above programs, our facility also offers a more intensive residential MOVE! program option to Veterans who are actively participating in the MOVE! Program and have already completed one of the initial MOVE! Program options. This program is a residential 12-day program for Veterans with a BMI of 35 or higher, or a BMI of 30 or higher with severe medical problems due to their obesity such as diabetes, hypertension, or sleep apnea. During this 12-day intensive program, Veterans stay at the VA Medical Center as an outpatient lodger and attend educational classes with the multidisciplinary team, attend scheduled exercise sessions, and work with the MOVE! staff to better understand eating cues and behaviors related to overeating and to develop lifestyle changes that help them to continue and maintain lost weight.
Want to join the program? It is as easy as calling our MOVE! Team today. Program Coordinator Sonya Mack, RD, CDE 1-800-406-5143 extension. 13846 or Rebecca Mcinnis-George at extension. 13534 to schedule your MOVE! orientation class today!
Please visit this link from the National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for more information on Striving for a Healthy Weight: Strive for a Healthy Weight
