We offer two Basic and one Intensive Coaching Package, depending on your budget and level of need.  Either package you choose, be ready for a lot of attention!

Our goals are to help you:

• Increase your nutritional knowledge so you want to make better food choices
• Increase your level of activity
• Strengthen your self-esteem and body image
• Encourage your self-expression
• Gain internal control of your eating behavior and choices
• Strive for a minimum of three 1/2 hour exercise sessions/week
• Make consistently healthier choices in all areas of your life, leading to a lifelong weight management mentality
• Never again say the words, "I can't. I'm on a diet"

We will chart and reward your success in these areas, and enjoy working with you to achieve these goals.

Here's your Buddies Team: Doctor, Coach, and Self-Appointed Cheerleader :

YOUR DOCTOR:

Dr. Catherine B. Polera
Dual Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine
Masters in Public Health

After reviewing your first 2 weeks of journal pages, your self-assessments, your medical history, and conferring with your Coach about your first sessions, Dr. Catherine Polera, will schedule a phone session with you to give you personal information and create a plan to meet your health and weight goals. She'll take into consideration any diet/activity restrictions you may have from your primary physician for medical conditions, and the expert dietary guidelines of the AHA and ADA.

Together, Dr. Polera and your Coach will review your nutrition and self-awareness assessments to better understand you. This will direct us to respond to your particular needs so we don’t waste your time informing you about things you already know and practice.

What is Dr. Polera’s role after the initial 2 week assessment and call?

Dr. Polera will continue to monitor your progress after her phone call with you, but information will be passed along through your Coach.  Dr. Polera will always be available to you to answer your questions by email, doc@buddiesunlimited.com, regarding medical concerns and weight loss – such as quitting smoking, menopause, post-partum, diabetes, food allergies, and high cholesterol to name a few common concerns.

Why does this board-certified doctor want to spend so much of her time analyzing my lifestyle and talking to me on the phone? I know she earns more in one quick hour of work as a director of a New York hospital emergency department than in her total fee at Buddies Unlimited.

We thought you might wonder about that. Click here for "A Letter from Dr. Polera" for her answer and bio.

YOUR COACH:

Your Coach promises to:

• Hold you accountable
• Set daily and weekly goals with you
• Help you discover and transform your emotional eating patterns
• Help you identify trigger foods and situations
• Motivate & support you
• Follow up on Dr. Polera’s recommendations
• Offer nutritional counseling so you will make better food choices
• Help you learn to eat only when you are truly hungry
• Help you identify enjoyable activities - and push you to do them!
• Encourage you to increase you heart rate through exercise at least three times/week
• Help you learn from your mistakes
• Chart your progress
• Celebrate & reward your successes
• Have fun together

Emphasis on Motivation, Self-Esteem, Goal-Setting, and Accountability

You receive:

• Either 4 half-hour phone sessions each month (1/week), or 8 half-hour phone sessions each month (2/week), depending on your level of need (and enthusiasm!)
• Unlimited email exchanges
• Personalized Rewards

Coach:

Jennifer Young
-  Buddies Unlimited President & Head Coach
-  A motivational specialist experienced in life skills, goal-setting, self-esteem & body image enhancement

Click here for Bio on Jennifer Young.

Emphasis on Behavioral Change, Goal-Setting, and Nutritional Counseling

You receive:

• 4 forty-five minute phone sessions each month (1/week)
• 1 "accountability call" each month from Jennifer Young for additional support
• Email exchanges
• Personalized Rewards

Coach:

Shayna Bronsky, Psy.D
-  Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in Health Psychology and Behavior Change
-  Masters in Exercise Physiology and Applied Pscychology

Click here for bio on Shayna Bronsky, Psy.D.

YOUR SELF-APPOINTED CHEERLEADER

Around week 4, your coach will ask you to identify a positive thinker in your life - a friend, relative, neighbor, co-worker - someone who agrees to help inspire you towards your health & weight loss goals. Ultimately, someone who can join you in an activity once or twice a week – whether walking, bowling, swimming, gardening, golfing, home repair jobs, or becoming the neighborhood mystery duo by leaving rocks painted with happy faces on doorsteps - anything that doesn’t revolve around food.

Adding a Cheerleader to the team helps you begin to restructure your life to include one more person you can talk to, who will join you in your new active lifestyle, and continue to inspire you when you no longer need us at Buddies Unlimited.

Your cheerleader will receive a welcome letter and rewards from Buddies Unlimited when you reach your  goals. Go team!

Want to know more?  Call us for a FREE CONSULTATION,  866-267-2777.

Don't forget to check out frequently asked questions about our program