Weight Loss Vacation

Day 1 Sunday

ARRIVE POLAND

Welcome to Poland! Our Tour Director will meet you at the airport and transfer to the luxury private clinic Pod Tężniami in the health resort of Ciechocinek. Unwind after check-in. In the afternoon, meet your leading specialist Doctor for an initial medical examination. In the evening enjoy the Welcome Reception to get to know your vacation companions.

Day 2 Monday, Day 14 Saturday

Weight Loss Program

Dietary Treatment

Low-calorie diet, used as part of weight-loss holidays, is balanced in terms of supply with all the necessary nutrients and based on the recommendations of a diet with low glycemic index.

• Rich in vegetables and high quality protein products.
• Carbohydrates used are limited to products containing large amounts of dietary fiber, characterized by a slower absorbency of glucose.
• Animal fats, containing large amounts of cholesterol, are replaced as far as possible, with vegetable fats and marine fish fats that are rich in beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D.

There are served three main meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and two snacks (2nd breakfast, afternoon snack) during the day. One can choose from 2-3 pre-set menus. They are delicious and beautifully presented and served. Energy intake is 1200 kcal for women and 1400 kcal for men, so that the expected weight loss of 1-2 kg per week, will have no following yo-yo effect. You will be well prepared to lead a healthy diet and continue losing weight after returning home. All that thanks to everyday educational classes, dietary consultations and ready to follow menu-sets for 2 weeks, which you will receive when leaving,

Treatment Program

To increase your physical activity and improve the overall physical efficiency the program offers very attractive combination of treatments and exercises letting you lose weight with pleasure and a smile on your face:

• Aqua Aerobics - Aerobics in a thermal pool
• Nordic Walking at the Graduating Towers
• Gym sessions
• Cardio exercises to the latino/salsa music
• Exercises to improve your figure: "flat abdomen, firm fundament"
• Fat Burning classes

There are served three main meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and two snacks (2nd breakfast, afternoon snack) during the day. One can choose from 2-3 pre-set menus. They are delicious and beautifully presented and served. Energy intake is 1200 kcal for women and 1400 kcal for men, so that the expected weight loss of 1-2 kg per week, will have no following yo-yo effect. You will be well prepared to lead a healthy diet and continue losing weight after returning home. All that thanks to everyday educational classes, dietary consultations and ready to follow menu-sets for 2 weeks, which you will receive when leaving,

Aesthetic Treatments

How important is a firm skin, without cellulite, knows every person struggling with being overweight. For this purpose, there are offered additional treatments at promotional prices:

Body shaping treatments

Vip-Line (electronic type of fitness during which the muscles stimulated locally, consume energy to the surrounding tissue, burning fat) Tri-Active (with vacuum massage, laser stimulation, cryotherapy)

Skin firming treatments and anti-cellulite

• Guam (using algae and sea mud with essential oils)
• Compresses of green coffee
• Peloids compresses and wraps. Peloids are organic humus masses formed over thousands of years by natural processes. The properties of peloids are also used in treating rheumatism and gynaecological problems.
• Body firming peeling.

Nutritional education, Psychotherapy, Visage

Nutritional education

In order to maintain the results that you will achieve during the Weight Loss Holidays, you need to continue living a healthy lifestyle. Help in achieving this will be a series of lectures on reasons, causes and complications of obesity, the possibility of dietary treatment, including discussions of diets recommended by the Food and Nutrition Institute and the Polish Society for the Study of Obesity, along with practising stacking menus.

Psychotherapy

It is obvious that the mere knowledge of a healthy lifestyle is not enough to make a change in dietary habits and increase your physical activity. What is needed is proper motivation, the ability to persevere in its order to cope with temptations. To achieve this, great help will be series of group and individual meetings with a psychotherapist. You can also take advantage of additional therapy after the end of the holidays.

Visage

Every person, regardless of the body type has strengths that should be highlighted and some deficiencies that can be suppressed. Through the right makeup, the choice of colors, the way you dress and move can effectively enhance your own appearance. To achieve this, a help will be series of group and individual classes with make-up artist.

Additional tests and examinations

Weight Loss Holidays offer additional tests and examinations:

• Metabolism (lipids, glucose in blood serum)
• Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH)
• The presence of any inflammation, Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), which according to recent studies may be responsible for the tendency to be overweight and lead to the development of metabolic syndrome
• Liver and other organs ultrasound examination
• Body composition (Bioelectrical Impedance Test) and its changes during the process of weight loss.
• Body weight and blood pressure.

Weight Loss Holidays offer individual dietary consultations and if necessary consultations of diabetes, cardiac, and rheumatological carried out by specialist doctors in the field.

Psychotherapy

It is obvious that the mere knowledge of a healthy lifestyle is not enough to make a change in dietary habits and increase your physical activity. What is needed is proper motivation, the ability to persevere in its order to cope with temptations. To achieve this, great help will be series of group and individual meetings with a psychotherapist. You can also take advantage of additional therapy after the end of the holidays.

Visage

Every person, regardless of the body type has strengths that should be highlighted and some deficiencies that can be suppressed. Through the right makeup, the choice of colors, the way you dress and move can effectively enhance your own appearance. To achieve this, a help will be series of group and individual classes with make-up artist.

Results

Patients who participated in the previous Weight Loss Holidays achieved the following results

• The average weight loss was 7.7lbs/3.5kg (up to 16.5lbs/7.5kg), and what is important mainly related to fat loss on average of 5.95lbs/2.7kg (up to 11lbs/5kg) and only a slight loss of muscle tissue, an average of 0.04lbs/0.02kg (up to 2.20lbs/1kg)
• The average decrease in total blood cholesterol was 34.1mg/dL, with a significant decrease in "bad" LDL cholesterol by 25.6mg/dL and a small decrease "good" cholesterol by 4.1mg/dL.
• Clearly decreased triglyceride levels by an average of 39 mg/dL and blood glucose by an average of 8mg/dL.

Day 15 Sunday

DEPART POLAND

After breakfast transfer from Ciechocinek Health Resort to Warsaw Airport. Say goodbye to Poland as your memorable vacation draws to a close.