New Year's resolution to get healthy? Here's the answer.
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MARQUETTE -- How would you like to kick off 2010 with your own personal trainer and personal dietician? The YMCA of Marquette County and the Marquette General Nutrition and Wellness Department are teaming up for a 12-week-program called "Health Seekers," just in time for a common New Year's Resolution: "I want to lose weight and get healthy...now how do I do it?"
"A healthy lifestyle is about a lot of different things, and so we really want to find the spirit, mind, body connection," said Jenna Zdunek, the YMCA's Health and Wellness Director.
The program, now in its second year, is like NBC's Biggest Loser only without all the pressure of national TV and absurd goals. Less than $200 gets you 12 weeks of guided exercise with a YMCA trainer and a meeting with an MGH dietician to figure out healthy eating habits.
"When we look at weight loss, diet alone doesn't work, exercise alone doesn't work. Because when we look at 3500 calories as a pound, how does the deficit occur?" said MGH Registered Dietician, Monica Nelson.
The "health seekers" will meet with a nutrition coach for an hour every week and a personal trainer an hour every week...not just to lose weight, but to get healthy.
"So we're hoping that with the 12 weeks, they'll learn the fundamentals, they'll get some positive reinforcement, and then they can carry it out through the rest of their life," Nelson said.
"And that's how our program is different 'cause we're going to focus on all the things that make someone healthy--not just the exercise and nutrition which are very important--but the aspects that go into being a healthy person," Zdunek explained.
If you'd like to join the "health seekers," contact the YMCA directly at (906) 227-YMCA.
