Founded in 1983, Jenny Craig, Inc. is one of the largest weight management service companies in the world. The Company offers a comprehensive weight management program that helps clients learn how to eat the foods they want, increase their energy level through simple activity, and build more balance into their lives for optimal weight loss and well-being.
The Jenny Craig Program has been designed by an expert Medical Advisory Panel and a team of Registered Dietitians, whose recommendations are based on the latest nutrition, weight management and disease prevention research. Jenny offers clients a realistic way to achieve and maintain their desired weight.
To begin the Jenny Craig program and obtain membership you will want to visit a representative at a Jenny Craig centre or call for an over-the-phone consultation.
There is a different program level to suit all weight loss needs.
The goal of the Jenny Craig Program is to help clients acquire:
A Healthy Relationship with Food
Along with balanced food choices and portion control, the program emphasizes the importance of tuning into physical/emotional eating cues and the pleasure of eating via Jenny menus and online journal.
An Active Lifestyle
The exercise component of the program was developed in consultation with the world-renowned Cooper Institute and encourages clients to gradually increase activity through a combination of natural, planned and playful physical activities. Jenny Craig offers walking audiocassettes, a fitness video series, and other tools that encourage clients to engage in a variety of cardiorespiratory, resistance and stretching activities. Maintenance materials also address important variables such as lack of time, ongoing motivation and changing body image.
A Balanced Approach to Living
As weight issues are, in part, a reflection of a life "out of balance," the program emphasizes cognitive and problem-solving strategies to support clients in managing their stress and emotions.
A Customized Plan For Every Individual’s Needs
Jenny Craig focuses on promoting long-term health habits by providing a low-fat diet that is high in fruits, vegetables, whole-grains, and lean protein. While many diets ask participants to avoid a lot of the foods they like to eat, Jenny allows those foods in moderation. There has been a lot of attention lately on low-carb diets, but Jenny has continued to emphasize the importance of counting calories, balancing food choices and eating in moderation for successful, on-going weight loss.
To support the needs of each client’s weight loss goals, Jenny Craig tailors the program to meet each client’s lifestyle. They receive a customized menu based on the foods that they enjoy eating on a regular basis. Whether they are looking for a menu that includes pasta, cake and other "carbs," or a higher protein option that features nuts, lowfat dairy, and lean protein, there is a menu that meets their preferences. The Jenny Craig Program is designed in a way that you can meet your weight loss goal and go on to maintain it for life.
Food Components
It is advised that at first you order the food from the Jenny Craig Menu. Jenny Craig offers a wide variety of delicious and nutritious breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack items. Because they're so easy to prepare in either a microwave or traditional oven, Jenny's Cuisine can fit into even the busiest lifestyles.
Jenny Craig Menus model the three key factors for healthy eating: balance, variety and moderation. Jenny's Cuisine entrées and snacks featured on the menus have been conveniently packaged into single portions.
All Jenny Craig Menus are:
Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, offering 100% balance, variety, and moderation
Low in fat and cholesterol, and high in fiber
Chosen to meet your weight loss goals, with calorie levels ranging from 1,200 to 2,300 calories per day
By following the Jenny Craig Menus, you'll be practicing habits like portion control that are essential for healthy weight loss and successful weight management. As your comfort level grows, you'll begin planning your own menus. The ultimate goal of the program is to transition you from Jenny Craig Menus to planning your own menus, so that you can learn to shop, cook and socialize with foods.
On-Going Maintenance
At Jenny Craig the goal is to help you learn not only how to lose weight, but how to effectively maintain your weight loss for long-term success. The maintenance component of the program helps transition you from Jenny's Cuisine to planning your own menus. There are also various tools and consultations to aid you in long-term weight management success.
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