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  • Clark's knowledge, attentiveness, and sense of humor have helped me go beyond what I thought I could manage while at the same time respecting my body's limitations.

    —Carolyn Burke

Our Nutrition Team

Take Shape For Life- Trilogy of Optimal Health

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What Is Optimal Health?

For many people "health" means feeling good, achieving a certain weight or being free from ailments or illness. At Take Shape For Life, "health" and more importantly, Optimal Health, extends far beyond these common associations to include physical, mental, and even financial health.

Several aspects of your life have a positive effect on your health; the more apparent aspects being proper nutrition, regular exercise, and adequate sleep. Factors negatively affecting your health include stress, pressure, time constraints, and the lack of financial stability. Optimal Health can be achieved by adopting the positive aspects - and eliminating the negative aspects.

Optimal Health can be broken down into three critical areas of life:

  • Healthy Body- physical health is the foundation of a happy and fulfilling life. Achieving a healthy body requires two things: 1) reaching a healthy weight using Medifast Meals, and 2) adopting the BeSlim philosophy which incorporates six core behaviors to help attain and maintain Optimal Health.
  • Healthy Mind- how we feel about ourselves also affects long term Optimal Health. Through personal development, learning ways to release stress, and creating time for ourselves, we take control of our lives. That sense of freedom breeds happiness - another key to Optimal Health.
  • Healthy Finances- debt causes stress - and stress can take a severe toll on both your physical and mental health. By managing and eliminating debt, learning ways to budget, and or seizing financial opportunities, you further yourself on the road to Optimal Health.

Take Shape For Life offers you the opportunity to achieve a healthy body, a healthy mind, and healthy finances. Together these three vital elements blend to form the Trilogy of Optimal Health - a specific lifestyle that elevates happiness and minimizes stress. Optimal Health allows us to become more alive. Optimal Health allows us to be difference-makers. By achieving Optimal Health, our possibilities are limitless!

Weight Loss Program

A healthy body starts with a healthy weight.

Take Shape For Life provides a safe and effective way for you to live and stay healthy:

  • over 25 years of experience
  • clinically proven research from prestigious university teaching hospitals and the National Institutes of Health
  • a program recommended by over 20,000 physicians

It's easy, affordable and available from the comfort of your home.

Create health!

Are You Healthy?

A healthy body starts with a healthy weight. When you go on a weight loss program, you're positively setting your life in motion!

With each pound you lose, your confidence grows. Now is the time to set your life in motion to achieve Optimal Health!

First, let's begin your virtual health assessmentby determining your Body Mass Index (BMI). Click the link below for our pop-up BMI Calculator. Simply enter your current height and weight to calculate your BMI.

Calculate your Body Mass Index

What did you discover?

Learn more about the Take Shape For Life 2-phase approach to long-term optimal health:

  • Phase 1— Safe and fast weight loss with the 5 & 1 Plan and your health coach.
  • Phase 2— Transition to the BeSlimTM philosophy of lifelong weight control

Our phenomenal program is easy, affordable and available from the comfort of your home.

Create health!

Weight Loss Program

Value of a Health Coach

Our Health Coaches help you succeed because:

  • each of them has had personal success on the program, and
  • each of them has been trained to provide the guidance and support you need

Take Shape For Life Health Coaches mentor each and every one of their clients with compassion, knowledge and professionalism. These trusted and valued consultants help people restore their health and improve the quality of their lives. Take Shape For Life Health Coaches offer long-term solutions to weight management challenges while providing the informed, caring support their clients require.

Each Health Coach thrives on developing trusting relationships that last a lifetime.

The Take Shape For Life program works for so many clients because of the clinically proven Medifast products, and also because of the guidance provided by our Health Coaches. Our goal is to help people optimize their health — leading to richer and more fulfilling lives.