“Diabetes is as much an emotional disease
as it is metabolic. Successful treatment entails working
with the total array of health behaviors…”
~
American Diabetes Association
Where Do Motivated Women
Go To Learn
How To Manage Type 2 Diabetes?
If you're like most women with Type 2 diabetes, you've
heard your physicians recommend proper diet, weight loss and
exercise to better manage your diabetes. But…
- It's not like you haven't already tried that.
- The thought of trying again, on top of all the other
tasks that comprise our already time-constrained lives,
seems formidable.
- Type 2 diabetes often develops after our behaviors are
already well-entrenched, and changing them is clearly a
complicated process.
- The perception that anything less than perfection in
making needed changes is necessary undermines many of us
before we begin.
The truth is that successful diabetes
management
is a lifelong process of learning…but
you need to be in charge.
After 37 years of working with women with Type 2 diabetes,
we at Green Mountain at Fox Run know this is sage advice.
But we also know that having some help from experienced professionals
can make the process of change easier, more successful, and
more enjoyable.
Type 2 Diabetes Management:
How Green Mountain at Fox Run Can Help You
Research from the Diabetes
Prevention Program Study (DPP) , conducted by Edward
Horton, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
past president of the American Diabetes Association, clearly
underscores the value of a lifestyle approach for both prevention
and management of Type 2 diabetes.
Since the late 1970s, women with Type 2 diabetes have come
to Green Mountain at Fox Run for help in establishing a healthy
lifestyle that's truly livable. We understood then,
as we do now, that an integrated healthy lifestyle program
of healthy eating, active fitness, mindful meditation and
behavioral change empowers women to ‘take charge'
of their diabetes and their health. But it needed to be a
program that allows women to live normal lives, not as ‘diabetics'
but as women who live well with diabetes.
Why Green Mountain at Fox Run is Different
Green Mountain at Fox Run began in 1973 as an experiment
to test a lifestyle approach that features feel-good behaviors
that foster and intrinsice desire to:
- Eat well, including our favorite foods, instead of starving
or restricting
- Move our bodies in a way that feels good and makes us
want to keep moving
- Deal positively with stress and emotions that lead to
overeating and negativity
What has evolved over those 37 years is a time-tested program
for taking care of ourselves in a way that truly feels good,
easily fits into busy lives, and is therefore sustainable.
As it turns out, this approach is the same that's
necessary to successfully manage Type 2 diabetes.
The Diabetes Professionals Who Guide the
Green Mountain at Fox Run Type 2 Diabetes Program
Approximately 5 years ago, Green Mountain at Fox Run began
discussions with the Joslin
Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, one of the most
renowned international research and treatment centers for
diabetes.
The goal: To assess the behavioral and medical
strategies that would be most effective, for women, to improve
Type 2 diabetes through a healthy lifestyle approach. It was
clear that Green Mountain's distinctive approach for
lifestyle change was working…so Joslin added its expertise,
via specialized workshops, and the addition of an endocrinologist
as medical educator.
Mastering Type 2 Diabetes:
A Lifestyle and Behavioral Approach for Women Only
Those efforts resulted in a one-of-a kind program that has
received national attention in the professional publication
Diabetes Self-Management,
Sept/Oct 2006.
Living
Well: A Women's Program for Mastering Type 2 Diabetes
Featuring the combined expertise
of the Joslin professional faculty and the experienced Green
Mountain staff, this integrated health lifestyle program
offers women a hands-on experience for developing the attitudes
and behaviors that support healthy eating and increased
physical activity, both of which are proven behavioral strategies
for improving management of Type 2 diabetes.
Green Mountain at Fox Run's Healthy Lifestyle Program
for Management of Type 2 Diabetes
For women who can't make it to our Joslin-Green Mountain
program, the good news is that our regular program contains
virtually all of the elements of our special diabetes program,
but with a stronger focus on lifestyle management components.
This is the same program that has been offered for the past
37 years to women seeking improved health outcomes via healthy
weight loss, fitness and exercise and stress and behavioral
counseling.
And because our special diabetes programs are offered three
times each year with Joslin Diabetes Center, the Green Mountain
at Fox Run staff continually updates our regular program with
the latest information presented from these workshops and
what the research has to offer.
You will be taught by the same professionals that are intimately
involved with the joint Joslin-Green Mountain at Fox Run program.
Deciding Which Diabetes Program
Is Best Suited For You
Making the right decisions about your health can
be difficult.
Dr. Alan H. Wayler, our executive director and MIT-trained
PhD in nutritional biochemistry and metabolism, invites you
to email him to explore which of the Green Mountain at Fox
Run diabetes programs is best suited to meet YOUR needs.
Email Alan at alan@greenmountainatfoxrun.com.
Or call him today to get started on changing
your life
to better manage or prevent Type 2 diabetes.
Call (800) 448-8106 or (802) 228-8885 for international
calls.
You can also make online reservations
for a stay at Green Mountain.
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Green Mountain at Fox Run, Ludlow, Vermont. This information
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