Managing appropriate levels of exercise and diet for your child is one of the hardest tasks a parent can face. At Growing Lean, we are dedicated to helping guide you through this difficult process. We ourselves are first and foremost parents who understand the challenge of helping our children make good life choices. We are also pediatricians, mental health professionals, nutritionists, and trainers who are dedicated to promoting a healthier lifestyle for American children and teens.
Through our experience and research, we believe that helping children and teens lose weight and develop better lifestyle choices requires a holistic approach that helps make exercise and proper diet a lifelong pattern for your child. Growing Lean therefore offers nutritional and behavioral counseling, a home-delivered food program, and exercise to develop overall physical, nutritional, and emotional fitness.
Our nutritional and behavioral counseling begins with the Growing Lean twelve-week program. Group motivational sessions, individual meetings with counselors, and bi-weekly exercise classes help children begin losing weight while educating parents and children on
making exercise and proper diet a part of a child’s life. We will be offering the twelve-week program at the Central Lake YMCA in Vernon Hills, Illinois beginning on June 9, 2008.
We also offer
additional services that can tailor a nutritional and behavioral education program to a particular family’s specific needs. These services include individual therapy sessions, home visits by a registered dietician, and online nutritional counseling.
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Growing Lean food program can benefit both families with overweight children and those with busy lives who need a convenient, healthy meal solution for their kids. We deliver fresh, tasty meals to your home twice per week to provide three meals and a snack per day for your child. For overweight children or teens, these meals control their caloric intake while satisfying their nutritional needs and helping develop healthier tastes. For the busy family, these meals provide a healthier alternative to fast foods or store-bought convenience items.
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Growing Lean exercise classes and personal training to create a welcoming, supportive environment for overweight children to begin developing healthier physical lifestyle patterns. Our exercise classes help an overweight child enhance his or her fitness while developing the physical skills, endurance and self-confidence to participate in other physical activities. The classes are both sports-based and skills-based to appeal to different tastes. Personal training sessions can be tailored even more closely to individual needs. Our classes are offered in several locations in the Chicago area. Personal training is also available in several health facilities in the Chicago area, as well as in your home.