The Healthy Weight for a Lifetime program focuses on creating a long-term solution for weight loss by addressing the emotional, physical, and nutritional issues contributing to obesity. This 10-week mindful living program is set apart due to the multidisciplinary approach that includes:

Nutrition Counseling: Our Registered Dietitian will encourage participants to eat with awareness and define weight and health goals.

Behavioral Health: Our licensed psychotherapist teaches participants to live with awareness while setting realistic goals for lifestyle changes.

Exercise Coaching: Our certified exercise coach helps participants to move with awareness for life-long behavior change.

This physician-supervised program will help participants create a foundation to ensure sustained success and maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle.

Program participants will learn the following:

• Tools to ensure sustained success and maintenance of a healthy weight and lifestyle
• How to develop a healthy body and self-image
• Instruction in meal and exercise planning
• Discover personal barriers or sabotaging behaviors • Identify unhealthy lifestyle patterns with food
• The difference between emotional and physical hunger
• How to set realistic weight and lifestyle goals

Program participants must be 18 years of age or older.

Enrollment requires referral from your primary care physician.

COSTS VARY BASED ON INSURANCE COVERAGE; the program is not currently covered by Medicare or MaineCare.

Call 207-373-6585 for more information.

A six-week educational series focusing on long-term solutions for weight loss. Similar to the full 12-week program, it will focus on emotional, physical, and nutritional issues.

Call 207-373-6585 for more information.

Need help quitting Tobacco Use or maybe just trying to start with cutting down? There are free resources available:

MaineHealth MidCoast Hospital BeFree (Local) Program offers cost free support to help your quit journey. Appointments are available for phone, Zoom, or in-person. Call 207-844-4582 to speak to a Tobacco Treatment Specialist to help develop a personalized plan that works with your lifestyle or ask your Provider to submit a referral and our team will contact you.  

Maine Quitlink (ME State program)  can be reached by calling 1-800-Quit-Now or www.mainequitlink.com  - this is a free program offering phone and text support.

Military Members or Veterans enrolled in VA health care may contact any of the above programs and also:

• https://veterans.smokefree.gov/ 
• Smokefree\VET Text Program: text VET to 47848.
• VA’s free telephone quitline: 1-855-QUIT-VET (1-855-784-8838)
• YouCanQuit2 (Depart of Defense) https://www.ycq2.org/ 

Call for more information or with any questions 207-844-4582.

As part of the Pulmonary Rehab program, Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick offers this quarterly education session to help people manage chronic lung disease (emphysema, chronic bronchitis) and restrictive disease (pulmonary fibrosis) and improve quality of life.

FOR THE NEWLY DIAGNOSED

MaineHealth Mid Coast Hospital offers many informational programs to aid people with Parkinson’s disease and assist in maintaining their quality of life.

To learn more about your diagnosis, the options available and the services we offer, join our Parkinson's expert caregivers at this informative discussion.

MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick, 329 Maine Street, Brunswick, ME 04011

Registration is required.

For more information call 207-373-6585.

A FREE comprehensive four-session program that will explore the common effects women experience during perimenopause and menopause. Topics may include:

• Management of Irregular Bleeding During Perimenopause 
• HRT – Hormone Replacement Therapy 
• Bladder/Pelvic Floor Health 
• Vulvovaginal Health 

For more information call (207) 373-6585.

Join Ruth E. Macy, PT, DPT, of Mid Coast Hospital Rehabilitation, each month for a FREE discussion on topics of concern to every woman including: 

• Bladder Health and Urinary Incontinence
• Bowel Health and Constipation
• Pelvic Floor Muscle Health and Sexual Function

Call for more information 207-373-6585