Resurrection Offers Weight Loss Program

Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars on weight-loss programs and products. Many are on a search for a quick fix, unwilling to consider permanent changes in their lifestyle as the answer. As an answer to the obesity epidemic, Resurrection Lutheran Church is offering a new faith-based weight-loss plan, called "First Place 4 Health."

Supported and endorsed by registered dietitians and physicians, this proven program follows a 12-week curriculum with weekly support groups. The program is centered on achieving balance in four essential areas of their lives: emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical. First Place 4 Health encourages participants to adopt practical disciplines in all four areas. These include regular attendance and fellowship (emotional); prayer, Scripture reading and Bible study (spiritual); Scripture memory and keeping a food record (mental); and eating well and exercising (physical). First Place 4 Health helps participants learn how to be victorious over past eating patterns and how to commit their minds and ultimately, their bodies to God.

The First Place 4 Health program has delivered faith-based health and weight management instruction and support to small groups meeting in churches since 1981, with over a half-million successful members.

An orientation meeting will take place at Resurrection on Monday, January 12, 2009, at 7:15 p.m. The first official meeting will be held on Monday, January 26, 2009, at 7:15 p.m. Meetings will last approximately 1-1/4 hr. For further information, contact Linda Wardley at 516.877.0308 or email her at ljwardley410@yahoo.com

Resurrection is a multi-site Christian community of faith. All are invited to worship at 5:30 PM on Saturdays and at 8:30 and 11 AM Sunday mornings, with Christian Education at 9:45 AM at the 420 Stewart Avenue location in Garden City. For more information, please visit www.resgc.org.