Revitalise Your Health
8 week Lifestyle Medicine Program
This program will give you the knowledge and skills required to restore and maintain your health and vitality. We hope you will enjoy learning in a supportive group environment and take pride in making some sustainable changes to your diet and lifestyle. Whether you are all in on our healthy living plan or just making modest changes, we will support you and respect your personal lifestyle choices.
8 week Lifestyle Medicine Program
This program will give you the knowledge and skills required to restore and maintain your health and vitality. We hope you will enjoy learning in a supportive group environment and take pride in making some sustainable changes to your diet and lifestyle. Whether you are all in on our healthy living plan or just making modest changes, we will support you and respect your personal lifestyle choices.
The program is based on lifestyle medicine principles, prescribing healthy behaviours across the domains of nutrition, activity, sleep, stress management, substance use and social connectedness. Lifestyle medicine is a branch of evidence-based medicine and supports rather than replaces conventional treatments such as medications. However, lifestyle medicine often has such a powerful therapeutic effect that your doctor may need to reduce or cease some of your medications.
Who is the program for?
The program will suit people who:
- Have heart disease or type 2 diabetes
- Want to lose weight in a way that is sustainable
- Want to learn how to have the best chance of preventing heart disease, diabetes, cancer and dementia
- Want to improve their health and well-being – to look and feel better, have more energy and sleep better
- Want to make significant lifestyle changes with the guidance of qualified health professionals
- Enjoy the social connection of learning how to improve your health in a group environment
Why do this program?
Why do this program?
- We can help you arrest and reverse your heart disease and/or diabetes.
- We can help you lose excess weight. Our program involves no calorie counting or portion control. You need not feel deprived.
- For men, these lifestyle changes can restore sexual potency. Erectile dysfunction is a “canary in the coal mine” for heart disease.
- We can help you reduce and in many cases cease taking medications.
- As a result of our program you will feel more energy, less aches and pains, have improved sleep.
- We can greatly reduce your risks for future hospitalisations and surgery.
- As a result of our program you will gain the tools to take control of your own health.
You may have had a diagnosis of heart disease or be taking medications for cholesterol, blood pressure or diabetes. Perhaps you have good health and wish to maintain vitality as you age.
This program will help you cut through the hype and confusion to give you a simple, yet powerful, nutrition and lifestyle solution. We will work with you and your health care team to make the lifestyle changes that are right for you.
Program content
The program content will be based around the lifestyle medicine domains and will be presented by team members with expertise in each area. Nutrition is the keystone of healthy lifestyle and will therefore be given the most time.
Nutrition
Principles of optimal nutrition centred on a whole food, plant based diet. How to lose weight without portion control. How to create tasty, simple, fast and healthy food. Strategies for eating out and food in a social context. Strategies for staying on track.
Physical activity
Principles of exercising for health. Developing a personalised exercise plan.
Sleep
The science of sleep and strategies to improve your sleep.
Stress management
Techniques and strategies to reduce your stress levels, including gentle yoga classes, mindfulness, and meditation.
Substance use
The psychology of addictive behaviours including ‘food addiction’ and strategies to stay on track.
Social connectedness
The group dynamic is a key feature of successful lifestyle programs.
Program structure
One intensive weekend – Saturday and Sunday afternoon 12:30pm to 5:00pm (AEST) followed by:
- 7 weeks of Wednesday evening webinars 7:30pm to 9:00pm
- Group meet-up webinars for a further 3 months
Program structure
One intensive weekend – Saturday and Sunday afternoon 12:30pm to 5:00pm (AEST) followed by:
- 7 weeks of Wednesday evening webinars 7:30pm to 9:00pm
- Group meet-up webinars for a further 3 months
Included in the price are all education sessions, a printed manual with key resources and information for getting started, recipes and colour photos, additional support via emails and a Facebook group, and 3 months of group support webinars. Individual sessions with our personal trainer and consultations our facilitators are available at an additional cost.
Our next 8-week program will start in April 2023. You can express interest via the form below.
Comprehensive supports included
The program will provide you with comprehensive, wrap-around support to ensure that you succeed with your health goals and includes:
- Weekly group meetings – Wednesday evenings online
- Key principles of healthy nutrition
- How to treat disease with Lifestyle Medicine
- The importance of our microbiome
- Cooking classes 100-page resource manual and cook book with colour photos
- How to read food labels
- Pre- and post-program health check ins and blood testing
- One-to-one medical, dietetic and fitness consultations
- A personalised exercise plan
- Mindfulness and gentle stretching classes
- Mental health check in and support
- Skills for sleeping well
- Support with cravings and addictions
- Supermarket tour
- Group support via a closed Facebook group
- Regular email support
- Phone check-ins
- End of program celebration
- Three months of follow up support
Your investment
There is a discounted rate for couples and a special offer for our first program.
SINGLE $ tbc
COUPLE $ tbc
Next program intake
Next Program Begins: tbc
Program Ends:
Location: Online
If you wish to discuss if this program is right for you please call Peter on 0405 616 003 or email peter@melbournelifestylemedicine.com.au
You can register your interest in the 8-week program via the ‘enquire today’ form.
Join our 4-part nutrition webinar series
Please note we are not running the 8-week lifestyle medicine program in 2024.
Instead, you can register for our 4-part plant-based nutrition webinar series.
The next webinar series begins Sunday 7th April at 7:30pm AEST.
Details and registration via our partner website