The EMERY Behavioral Medicine Weight Loss Program
Change More Than Your Body
Do you want to lose body fat? Do you want to look and feel better? Do you want to make a change? If you answered yes, then here is a solution for you:
The EMERY Behavioral Medicine Weight Loss Program.
The EMERY Behavioral Medicine Weight Loss Program was developed by Dr. Bret Emery, PhD Psychology. Dr. Emery, a former United States Cycling Federation Category 1 International and Olympic level cyclist, has created a program that successfully integrates proper nutrition, brief exercise, and constant feedback that has helped thousands of people transform their life. There are no drugs, no low calorie gimmicks or expensive supplements involved. All you need is the desire to change. In fact, to date, the EBM Program boasts a 98% success rate for weight loss clients. Your fat loss goals are virtually guaranteed.
What makes this program unique from the hundreds of other weight loss plans on the market? The EBM Program is based in the science of behavioral medicine. Therefore, the focus is on targeting, analyzing and then modifying your actual behaviors; not just implementing a cookie-cutter approach. Once your behaviors are targeted and addressed, they are replaced with healthy behaviors or “habits”. Behavioral science stresses that it takes twenty-one days to create a habit. Therefore, the EBM Program is strategically designed and implemented over a four week time period. This allows the proper amount of time for the information to be taught, implemented, and a behavioral change to take place.
How does the EBM Program work?
It all begins with a baseline measurement using the exclusive Physio-Graph® technology. In order to set a goal, you must know where you are starting. The Physio-Graph provides a ‘snap shot’ of your exact body composition. It shows, in detail, how much of your body weight is fat, muscle, fluid, and bone. This baseline measurement allows the Weight Management Specialist to prescribe a nutrition and exercise plan that will work best for your body. You will know exactly how many calories you can consume to maintain or lose weight.
Once your initial Physio-Graph is completed and the data is analyzed, the Weight Management Specialist will create your nutrition and hydration plan. Since each individual and their lifestyle are unique, each EBM Program nutrition plan is unique too. You are prescribed a plan, using the foods you already enjoy, that advises you when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat. This takes all of the guess work out of the nutrition. Most experts agree that, when it comes to fat loss, nutrition is 70% of the process. So, after the first week, you will be 70% there!
To successfully lose fat and keep it off, cardiovascular exercise must be incorporated. Week two of the EBM Program focuses on creating a cardiovascular conditioning program tailored to your fitness level, time constraints, and goals. Cardiovascular exercise is monitored with a Polar heart rate monitor. Exercise intensity is emphasized over exercise duration. You are prescribed an exercise plan that tells you when to exercise, what exercises to perform, and the intensity level to do them at. Your Weight Management Specialist will educate you on the science of nutrient timing; ensuring that your time and effort is as effective at targeting fat loss as possible.
The remaining two weeks of the EBM Program are geared toward monitoring and improving your fat loss efforts. You receive a weekly Physio-Graph measurement, which provides instant feedback as to how well your program is working. You are able to see, in real time, what is happening in your body. This allows the Weight Management Specialist to modify your program accordingly. The Weight Management Specialist reinforces your positive behaviors and gives you the necessary tools to change your other behaviors. You create life-long healthy habits. It is this constant feedback and accountability that makes the EBM Program so effective.
Let’s see some results.
Below is the actual Physio-Graph of a 45 year old male after 6 weeks of the EBM Program. A nutrition, hydration, and exercise plan was tailored to his body requirements. The black line indicates the change in his body weight. The yellow line indicates the change in his body fat. The red line represents his muscle mass change. The blue line indicates his fluid change. As the graph demonstrates, this man lost 18 pounds of fat in just six weeks while maintaining all of his muscle mass.
These results are typical. The EMERY Behavioral Medicine Weight Loss Program will help you do it.
Sweat Life Client Lost 9 Pounds of Fat in Her First 3 Weeks!
Jenna, a 29 year old female photographer and graphic designer, came to us 3 weeks ago with the goal to lose some weight and look and feel better. We took her initial Physio-Graph assessment and helped Jenna formulate a plan for her success. We developed a specific nutrition and exercise prescription, which she followed for 3 weeks. She said it was fun to do and easy to follow. She was able to eat foods she already liked and she is very happy with her progress so far. These results are typical! Here is Jenna's Physio-graph. Way to go Jenna! We are proud of you.
Jenna's Physiograph
FAT LOSS VS. WEIGHT LOSS
If you would like to lose weight just stop eating and you will “lose weight.” However, you will only be able to do this for a short while, not because you will die (you can live for weeks without food), but because rather quickly your body will react to the starvation by slowing down all metabolic functions. This occurs because starvation forces the body to break down fat for energy and muscle for amino acids. When you lose weight by dieting alone, one-third to one-half of the weight loss will come from your muscle tissues! When muscle is broken down, your body’s metabolic rate drops in unison. Think of your muscle as the machinery of caloric usage. Calories are burned in muscles. When you have less muscle mass your body uses fewer calories. This is why you can live for weeks without food. Your body actually uses itself to survive. The same process occurs when people go on low calorie diets. Their weight begins to drop because their body is using stored fat to meet energy needs, and muscle tissue for amino acid requirements.
Now, what happens to people who diet to lose weight? They break down muscle in addition to fat to create the weight loss. The lost muscle results in a lower basal metabolic rate, meaning their body needs fewer calories to function than before they began dieting. If this person were to return to their pre-diet consumption of food (as all dieters do sooner or later) they will gain weight at a faster rate than they did before they dieted because they now have less metabolically active muscle tissue! This explains why 95% of all dieting attempts fail, and demonstrates how dieting can make you fatter. The pattern of losing, regaining, losing, and regaining weight has been called “the yo-yo syndrome.”
The traditional goal in weight reduction has been to reduce body weight. Our goal is to reduce body fat without reducing muscle weight. The result will be a leaner body and a more effective metabolism. We subscribe to the motto “leaner, not lighter.” This is why we use a measurement procedure called the Physio-Graph analysis. This allows us to measure the pounds of fat and muscle mass on your body.
From both a health and a vanity standpoint, fat loss should be our main focus. When we lose fat and maintain or build muscle the result is a body that looks firmer and leaner than if we lose both fat and muscle tissue. Often, people following our program have a greater fat loss than overall weight loss. This is possible because while losing fat, the person also built lean muscle.
The scale is a good “global” indicator of progress but it does not provide enough detail about how the body is changing. The scale provides feedback on weight loss only. In order to measure fat loss a more scientific measurement is needed, and that is why we utilize bioelectrical impedance analysis and the Physio-Graph.
The Physio-Graph will show within 1/10th of a pound how your body is responding to the exercise and nutrition plan you are following. This will confirm you are losing body fat, and not just muscle or fluid.