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.

Monthly education sessions to help graduates continue living an improved lifestyle and to maintain weight loss.

For more information, please call 207-373-6585.

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.

MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Social Hub at Parkview 

Please visit our new Lifestyle Medicine Social Hub at Parkview to get some work done, hang out, wait for an appointment, or enjoy our activities when available:

• Wellness Library
• Healthy Cooking Demonstrations
• Art of Wellness Demonstrations
• Lifestyle and Wellness Movies
• Social Games
• Mindful coloring and Puzzles

For more information or to volunteer, please call 207-373-6585.

MaineHealth Food Pantry Brunswick provides healthy food at no cost to patients and community members.

Our goal is to be an extra source for healthy foods for you and your family. Food is shared in a safe space set up like a small grocery store.

• Hours: Monday & Wednesday 10 am - 2 pm, and by appointment
• Call 207-373-4513 or email midcoastchi@mainehealth.org to schedule an appointment

Additional opportunities available through the MaineHealth Food Pantry Brunswick:

• Food Is Medicine
• Living Well with Chronic Illness
• Cooking Matters

MaineHealth Food Pantry Brunswick, 329 Main Street, Brunswick, ME 04011

For more information please call 207-373-4513 or email midcoastchi@mainehealth.org to schedule an appointment.

A free, 7-session series focusing on methods to cultivate and preserve nature’s bounty, including planning and preparing your garden, dehydrating food and canning vegetables.

Facilitated by Sheryl McWilliams.

• Planning for the Future: Garden design, breaking the ground, till vs. no-till, etc.
• All Things Seeds: Selection, sourcing, starting and preservation
• Will It Grow? Planting, weeding and nurturing
• Growing the Soil: How to produce healthy, nutrient-dense plants
• Gathering the Bounty: Harvesting your produce
• What to Do with a Bumper Crop: Food storage and preservation
• Putting the Garden to Bed for the Winter

Registration is required for each individual session.

A 7-session series focusing on methods to cultivate and preserve nature’s bounty, including planning and preparing your garden, dehydrating food and canning vegetables.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEOwiyL6hb4aXEaaIA4yq5EygI9Kk_wbi 

What is Lifestyle Medicine?

Lifestyle Medicine is a medical specialty that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to prevent and treat chronic conditions. These conditions include, but are not limited to, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.

Grounded in evidence-based practice, lifestyle medicine takes a whole-person, prescriptive approach that expands the scope of preventive care by addressing the root causes of illness through sustainable behavior change. Its foundation rests on six core pillars: whole-food, plant-predominant diet, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances, and positive social connections.

• Optimal nutrition - focus on eating more plant predominant whole foods
• Physical activity - engage in regular and consistent physical activity
• Stress management - develop healthy coping skills
• Restorative sleep - allow for 7-9 hours of quality sleep every night
• Connectedness - foster and support relationships that bring meaning and purpose to life
• Avoid risky substances - avoid consumption or exposure to harmful substances

MaineHealth Lifestyle Medicine Brunswick offers numerous opportunities in many of these six pillars. 

We welcome you to explore our currently offered classes and events on this site! 

Please call 207-373-6585 with questions or for more information. If you don't see something you're looking for, just ask!