Healthy Living
Health For Life Classes
If you feel like you’ve put on a few holiday pounds, or just want to stay trim during the approaching cold winter months, a new program through Ashtabula County Medical Center is the place to start.
Health for Life is a weight loss and wellness program that includes wellness-oriented education and exercise classes that will motivate you and teach you how to make better choices to live a healthier life.
It is a program that has been growing in popularity each year. Over the last two year, nearly 400 people have gone through the program, and have lost more than 2,600 pounds.
This year’s program promises to be an even bigger success and will offer:
- Wellness education classes by ACMC professional staff and physicians.
- 1 Free Premiere Fitness class each week for six weeks.
- 3 Free YMCA of Ashtabula passes to use for any class.
- Half off the joiner’s fee at the YMCA of Ashtabula if you become a member.
- Cooking tips
- Nutrition education
- Prizes for participation and healthy weight loss.
Points are awarded for every educational and fitness course attended, plus participants will weigh-in every other week. Cash and other prizes will be awarded for the healthiest weight loss. A $500 prize will be awarded to the male and female who lose the most percentage of weight (as determined by regular weigh-ins at ACMC, Premiere Fitness or YMCA). There are also other prizes to be given away, including four $50 cash prizes, a night’s stay at the Lodge at Geneva State Park, and memberships to Premiere Fitness and the YMCA.
This year the program is limited to 150 people. Program registration begins January 2, with the program itself starting January 18, and continuing through May 2. An entry fee of $20 is required. Money from the registration fee is put back into the program for incentive prizes. Complete program information can be picked up at ACMC Rehabilitation Services, Premiere Fitness or the YMCA. For more information, call 997-6634 or view our wellness center classes online.
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