Approved and supported by leading weight loss medical experts, the bellaSavio Approach is a personalized, multi-disciplinary approach that addresses weight loss and weight management from a whole-person perspective. There are many reasons for weight management issues. Maintaining a healthy weight, maintaining wellness, or overcoming the affects of overweight and obesity must take place on multiple levels: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
Acceptance, Wisdom, and Growth
bellaSavio works because it considers all aspects of your being - your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self. The bellaSavio Approach, which is based on the three guiding principles of Acceptance, Wisdom, and Growth, teaches you how to incorporate healthy mind, body and spirit goals into your weight management program. The key to weight loss and weight management is a continuous approach to self-discovery, acceptance, learning, and personal growth.
Using the bellaSavio Approach you can figure out what factors have prevented you from being successful with your previous weight management efforts. You may have been able to lose weight using a particular weight loss program, only to gain some or all of the weight back. Why did this happen? What changes can you make to prevent this from happening again? What are the underlying root causes of your weight management issues?
Understanding and addressing habits, attitudes, experiences, feelings, beliefs, and physical realities that may be hindering health and weight management success is at the foundation of the bellaSavio.
Diet and Exercise Alone Doesn't Work for Everyone
For those who struggle with weight loss, weight management, and wellness issues, diet and exercise aren’t always the total solution. Diet programs have been a popular weight loss treatment for the last 50 years. History has proven that diet and exercise alone don't work for the long term for many people. Today over 60% of the U.S. population suffer from overweight and obesity.
There are currently an endless number of weight loss programs and treatments that range from a variety of diet methods, exercise plans, weight loss medications, weight loss surgery, to behavioral modification. While each of these treatment types can play an effective part of weight loss and weight management, none of these provide the total answer. The question then becomes, what combination of weight loss programs and treatments are right for you?
The bellaSavio Approach works because it helps you identify your personal needs, or what we call "personal factors", so that you can determine what combination of weight loss treatments are right for you. By identifying and gaining a greater understanding, knowledge, and insight about yourself and the underlying causes of YOUR weight management issues, your chances for long-term weight management success are significantly increased.
And that’s why leading weight management and medical doctors are so supportive of the bellaSavio Approach. According to bellaSavio advocate, Dr. Richard L. Atkinson, M.D., former Editor of the International Journal of Obesity, Co-Founder of the American Obesity Association, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Clinical Professor of Pathology at Virginia Commonwealth University:
"Excess weight is due to a complex mixture of medical, psychological, and environmental factors. Individuals trying to manage their weight need to understand the personal factors that contribute to their weight. Most weight management programs focus on weight loss and give little or no consideration to the much bigger problem of weight maintenance. bellaSavio is a program whose purpose is to help people get in touch with all aspects of their weight problem and do everything within their power to help themselves. This approach offers perhaps the best chance of success in losing and maintaining weight over the long term."
"Excess weight is due to a complex mixture of medical, psychological, and environmental factors. Individuals trying to manage their weight need to understand the personal factors that contribute to their weight.
Most weight management programs focus on weight loss and give little or no consideration to the much bigger problem of weight maintenance.