Prevent T2
Your lab work shows elevated A1C or prediabetes? Lifestyle changes can reduce your risk for type 2 diabetes. The support you need, nutrition education, and personalized plan are rolled into our year-long program. The first 6 months are focused on laying a foundation where participants work together with a lifestyle change coach to learn about healthier eating and being active. During the second 6 months, participants, along with their coach, work on developing healthy habits for life to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.
(HSA, FSA, and Self Pay)
In-person and online sessions offered.
Are you at risk?
Why should you care about prediabetes? The sooner you know you have prediabetes, the sooner you can take action to reverse it and prevent type 2 diabetes.
Empowered Lifestyle Change Program
In this CDC-approved lifestyle change program, you’ll learn, laugh, share stories, try new things, and build new habits—all while lowering your risk of type 2 diabetes and improving your health.
Program Includes:
- CDC-approved curriculum with lessons, handouts, and other resources to help you make healthy changes.
- A lifestyle coach, specially trained to lead the program, to help you learn new skills, encourage you to set and meet goals, and keep you motivated. The coach will also facilitate discussions and help make the program fun and engaging.
- A support group of people with similar goals and challenges. Together, you can share ideas, celebrate successes, and work to overcome obstacles. In some programs, the participants stay in touch with each other during the week. It may be easier to make changes when you’re working as a group than doing it on your own.
Time Commitment:
The program runs for 26 sessions.
- During the first 4 months of the program, we will meet once a week either in person or in our virtual interactive classroom, depending on the program you choose. In months 5 and 6, we will meet every other week.
- During the second 6 months, we will meet once a month.
Making lifestyle changes is an ongoing process. Staying in the program for the full year is essential to help you stick to new habits and avoid slipping back into old habits. And if you have not reached your goals in the first half of the program, your lifestyle coach and other group members can help you succeed.
What You Will Learn:
During the first half of the program, you will learn to:
- Eat healthy without giving up all the foods you love
- Add physical activity to your life, even if you don’t think you have time
- Deal with stress
- Cope with challenges that can derail your hard work—like how to choose healthy food when eating out
- Get back on track if you stray from your plan—because everyone slips now and then
In the second half of the program, you will enhance the skills you’ve learned so you can maintain the changes you’ve made. These sessions will review key ideas such as tracking your food and physical activity, setting goals, staying motivated, and overcoming barriers. Your Lifestyle Coach and small group will continue to support you.
Ready to Make a Change?
For Employers
Diabetes is the costliest of the 155 most common diseases in the country. It can affect an employee’s well-being and raise your company’s health care costs. On average, people living with diabetes incur $9,500 in related healthcare costs each year. Our diabetes prevention program is a fraction of that cost.
With the increasing rate of individuals with prediabetes, preventive care has never been more important. Offering the Empowered Lifestyle Change Program as a paid benefit to your employees is an investment in their future and could positively impact your bottom line.
We’ll be happy to run a cost analysis to see if offering the Empowered Lifestyle Change Program would work for your business.