26-Week FRESH START-NEW BEGINNING
Lifestyle Change
Weight Loss Group
Get 26 Weeks of expert guidance and community support.
All online!
This 26-week session is for YOU if:
- you have participated in our programs before and are looking for a FRESH START
- you’re a NEWCOMER looking for a NEW BEGINNING
- you want to prevent regaining the weight you’ve previously lost
- you are, or are not, taking a weight loss medication
- you’re looking for the momentum to make it all happen!
Next Start Date: Monday, May 26, 2025
Time: 6:00pm to 7:15pm ET
Location: Virtual on ZOOM
Frequency: Sessions meet once a week on Mondays for 26 weeks
Fee: $50 per session
We’re so sure that your needs will be met, that we are offering the opportunity to withdraw by 13 weeks if you are not satisfied and have attended at least 80% of the sessions, and the money you paid up until then will be refunded.
Your Coaches - 87 Combined Years of Experience!
Dr. Megan Pietrucha
Clinical and Sport Psychologist
Molly Wangsgaard, MS, NSCA-CPT, CHWC
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Certified Personal Trainer
Certified Health and Wellness Coach
Rich Weil, M.Ed., CDE
TWC Program Founder and Director
Exercise Physiologist and Certified Diabetes Educator
All of our staff have advanced degrees in their area of expertise!
We could not be more thrilled to be working with Dr. Megan Pietrucha (clinical psychologist) and Molly Wangsgaard (registered dietitian/nutritionist), on this 26-week program. They are truly experts in their fields, hard-working, smart, knowledgeable, and 110% committed."
You attend weekly 75-minute sessions facilitated by Dr. Pietrucha, Molly, and Rich! We rotate in and present information and lead discussions in our areas of expertise. Our sessions are a combination of teaching and lots of discussion, what’s known as group psychoeducation, proven to be the most effective method for losing weight and preventing regain. We wouldn’t have it any other way.
FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR PROGRESS,
AND MAKING
SURE YOU DON'T FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS:
- We take attendance and contact you if we haven’t seen you
- We ask you to weigh yourself on the morning of your group session, then…
- Enter your weight in our secure database, and then…
- You’ll receive weekly feedback by email from Rich once he reviews your progress
- You can schedule a Zoom meeting with Rich whenever you think you need it, at no charge
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Topics Covered
People frequently ask ahead of time for the topics that will be covered.
Below is a partial list of curriculum topics. The staff meets weekly as a team to be 100% certain that we’re meeting your needs. We add and modify curriculum all the time to make sure that happens.
The topics include Behavior Change, Nutrition, and Exercise aspects of losing weight, preventing weight regain, and like our name suggests, your transformation!
Our Topics Are
Research Based
Expert Led
Community Focused
Behavior Topics
- Self-compassion | Emotional awareness
- Challenge and change your irrational beliefs
- Maladaptive perfectionistic thinking and enhancing your adaptive perfectionism
- Mindfulness, emotion regulation and radical acceptance Brain and Weight Loss Science (including habit formation and changing maladaptive habits)
- Strategies for coping with food cues and cravings
- Coping with addiction to food and rewiring the brain
- Weight loss plateaus and what to do about them
- Set point, thrifty genes, and compensatory biological mechanisms that make losing weight and preventing regain challenging
- Coping with chronic disease | Stress management
- Assertiveness – learning how to say “no”
- Procrastination and strategies for behavior activation
- Principals of classic and operant conditioning
- Ambivalence and intentional change
- Behavior chains | Intention-implementation |Stages of change
Dr. Pietrucha brings expertise in areas that we know will not only be new to many of you, but directly apply to help with losing weight and preventing regain. Those topics include improving performance (she's a sports psychologist too, focusing on performance enhancement!), building momentum and motivation, coaching, psychological treatments such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and of course, our foundation, Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
She and I see eye-to-eye on many aspects of weight control, including resilience (the most important factor in losing weight and preventing regain), self-efficacy, finding the “zone” and flow, values clarification (self-expression/exploration and its application to weight loss), focus and focus fade, analysis paralysis, and on her website she says willpower is b*** s***, which made me want to hire her immediately!"
Molly brings a skill set unlike any registered dietitian I have worked with in 44 years. She's not only a registered dietitian/nutritionist, but a Certified Personal Trainer, and a Certified Health and Wellness Coach. Her impressive credentials speak to her commitment to all that we offer; behavior change, nutrition, health and wellness, fitness, and weight control. It's a thrill to not only work beside her, but to watch her work. She brings the smarts, knowledge, experience, creativity, passion, and commitment that you are looking for. Truly, she never disappoints.
The three of us believe that you are dealing with a chronic disease, and addiction to food for many of you, and as a result, we treat it with the seriousness and professionalism that you deserve. We are behind you 110% and rooting for you all the way. You have our full commitment.
Nutrition Topics
- Food and Diet Planning | Food for satiety
- Creating and maintaining food plans
- The latest research and review of popular diets such as intermittent fasting and plant-based; what works, what doesn’t.
- Coverage of volumetrics and portion control
- Manipulating the diet for optimizing weight loss and preventing regain
- Food and inflammation, anti-oxidants, and the microbiome
- Macronutrients, minerals, vitamins, and fiber for weight loss
- Mechanics of appetite regulation and defeating compensatory biological mechanisms that make losing weight and preventing regain difficult
- Timing of meals for optimizing metabolism and losing weight
Exercise Topics
- Exercise planning and strategies for maintaining physical activity
- Resistance and aerobic exercise
- Yoga, Pilates, and other alternative exercise modalities
- Exercise and physical and mental health
- Exercise, losing weight, and preventing regain of lost weight
- Exercise and preserving metabolic rate
- Exercise and sedentary lifestyle
- P.E. 101 – all the information about the body and how it functions that you should have learned in PE as a kid but didn’t!
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