June 18, 2020
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Program Contents 
• Program Review • Reassessing Goals • Continuing Support • Staying Motivated • Creating a Drift Plan • Resources for the Road Ahead • Conclusion
• guidelines for meal planning
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• healthy cooking and dining out tips
• healthy ways to reduce calories
You now have the important skills and information to lose weight safely and incorporate healthy eating and exercise as part of your lifestyle. Throughout this program, you have learned:
Healthy Weighs for Life Program Review
• the importance of including exercise for   weight loss and maintenance
• nutrition basics
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• skills for successfully changing health habits
Making lifestyle changes and setting long-term goals can be challenging when you first start a weight management program.  Earlier in the program, you determined your weight management goal and learned the importance of setting S.M.A.R.T. goals, along with the benefits of writing them down and having strategies for reaching them. If you find you’re not losing weight at about 1/2–2 pounds a week, you may need to change your goals or the length of time to reach them.   
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Remember, your goals need to be attainable, so be willing to set new strategies and goals if the old ones aren’t working for you.
Reassessing Goals
•  Be prepared for weight plateaus – they are normal, so don’t get frustrated and give up. 
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Once you know what you want to do and how you’re going to accomplish it, the hardest part is sticking to it. Remember these important steps for continued success:
•  Reassess areas of your life from time to time including your priorities, motivation,     environment, goals, and commitments.
Action: Use this Stress – It’s Under Your Control to help you manage stress.
•  Manage stress and build self-esteem daily by practicing stress management     to help you feel better about yourself.
•  Work on your goals each day and reward yourself often. 
Reassessing Goals
•  Re-evaluate your support system – change it or add to it if needed.  
•  Stay active with regular physical activity – it is key to maintaining a healthy weight.
•  Continue with recordkeeping and hold yourself accountable for staying focused on your plan.
If something is not working for you, choose another strategy until you are successful.
Frequently reviewing your roadblocks and progress can help keep you on the road to long-term success.
Assess your challenges weekly and maintain a tracking sheet to record your patterns and accomplishments.
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Continuing Support
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As this program comes to a close, now is a good time to think about what could influence your future progress. You had an opportunity to choose a support team and provide them with ways they could help you. You were also encouraged to look inward for support.  As you continue to lose weight and become healthier, you may need to reassess the type of support you need. Depending on your progress, you may need new players on your team, or new ways to be supported.
•  Were the support people you chose helpful? Why or why not?  •  Did you let your support people know how they could support you?  •  Was the support they gave appropriate?  •  Did you find it easy or difficult to encourage yourself?  •  Did you try any of the activities in the Self-Support section?  •  How did these activities help you?  •  What other types of support do you need?  •  Do you need to join a support group, a local health club or a walking club?  
Think about the following as you reassess your support system and your plan for continued success:
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Continuing Support
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Staying Motivated
Knowing that losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight requires only two behaviors – limiting calorie intake and getting regular exercise – simplifies the task at hand, but remember these key strategies to help you with continued success: 
•  Re-evaluate your priorities and the     most important reasons you want     to be healthy.  •  Choose a support team that will     positively reinforce your lifestyle     choices. 
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Establish a Partnership
•  Reward yourself when you are     working to develop a new habit to     reinforce your healthy behavior.  •  Arrange your immediate     environment to take control of your     life in small but powerful ways. •  Plan your exercise and meals, and     have backup plans for both to ensure     you stay on track.
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Creating a Drift Plan
•  Use the Changing Health Habits skills to     get you back on track. •  Plan to deal with drift before it happens.     Identify triggers that get you off track and     have a plan to deal with them. Come up     with a list of solutions for each trigger.
Everyone hits a plateau or gets off track (or drifts) from their goals from time to time. Life events, major stressors or certain triggers can easily push someone off track with their lifestyle goals. The key is having a plan to get back on track quickly. 
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•  Choose an accountability partner. Select a     supportive person who will tell you when you are     slipping, and will also help you get back on track. •  Keep track of your eating and exercise habits to     catch drift early. If you have been off your plan for     three days or more, then it is a sign you may be     drifting from your healthy behaviors. •  Don’t give up. Stay committed to your goals. Take     one small step so you can experience success, gain     confidence and get back on track.
Creating a Drift Plan
As you move forward with including healthy eating and exercise habits in your life, remember changing habits takes practice and requires continued support. 
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Action: Review The Road Ahead Resources page to find additional support, tools and resources to help you stay focused on your weight management goals and living a healthy lifestyle.
Resources for The Road Ahead
Conclusion
Revisiting goals and activities periodically throughout any type of program is necessary for evaluating your progress and making the appropriate changes to move forward.  This also gives you a chance to reflect on how far you’ve come and to realize the personal growth you’ve experienced. You may be ready to take on new challenges with your exercise or food-related goals. Don’t be afraid to try new things. Change is good because it keeps your routine interesting and motivates you to keep going!
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Now that you have completed the Healthy Weighs for Life weight management program, we'd like to know about your progress and hear your thoughts about the program. Your feedback is important to us so we can continue to provide quality resources.
Conclusion
Remember, it’s important to celebrate your success each step of the way by rewarding yourself with something special, like a trip to your favorite park or shopping mall. Be proud of your accomplishments and enjoy the new you. You deserve it!
Please complete the program evaluation, located in Module 7 at the bottom of Related Resources.
NAVIGATION
Resources
Continuing Support
Drift Plan
Reassessing Goals
Staying Motivated
Conclusion
Introduction
Getting Started
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This self-guided program allows you to work at your own pace. Click the arrow buttons that appear in the upper right-hand corner to move to the next or previous screens. You may also choose to move to different topic areas by clicking on a topic in the navigation bar located on the right. Within the action statements in this presentation, you will  find reference to a handout, tool, link, or other web resource related to the program content in the Related Resources  column of The Road Ahead.