Transformations: The Napa Valley Weight and Lifestyle Management Program ™

Program Overview

Transformations™ offers you an extraordinary level of support for your long-term weight management. Along the way, you’ll discover the benefits of optimal health and optimal living.

You’ll work with a caring and supportive group of professionals led by Heather M. Peña, M.D. and Jim Peters, M.D. – two innovative preventive health physicians who integrate modern medicine with complementary approaches to wellness.

Recreate & Enjoy
Evaluate & Plan
Learn & Enhance
Experience & Practice

Recreate & Enjoy
You will enjoy the personalized approach of Transformations that includes these special features:

• Comfortable, private rooms located in the scenic Napa Valley, approximately 70 miles north of San Francisco
• Medical supervision for weight loss and lifestyle management
• Nutrition planning with a dietitian
• Cooking classes and recipes from our dietitian and chef
• Daily group recreation including country walks, gym and water exercise, and yoga
• Stress management and behavioral change sessions including relaxation therapy and massage

Evaluate & Plan
Your Transformations experience begins with a comprehensive, medical diagnostic evaluation that includes:

• Medical history and physical exam with our physician
• Treadmill stress test
• Calculation of personalized training heart rate
• Thyroid, lipid, blood sugar and insulin tests
• Weight and BMI assessments
• Nutrition analysis
• Fitness assessment
• Behavioral profile

In individual consultations with your Transformations team, you will create a highly personalized weight loss plan customized to your unique needs and goals. Together, we’ll take into account your medical, social, spiritual, emotional and physical needs to create a personalized plan. Because it is designed especially for you, your plan will help you achieve life changing, sustainable results.

Learn & Enhance
You will learn all about your body so you can increase your healthfulness while you lose weight.

• Lower your cholesterol and triglycerides
• Modulate your blood sugar and insulin levels
• Understand your own glycemic index and load
• Create an eating plan and menu
• Prepare new recipes that give you the best nutrition at the lowest calories
• Make lifelong changes in your shopping and eating habits
• Get more physically fit using aerobics, strength training, water exercise and proper rest

Experience & Practice
The skills and strategies you experience and practice during your stay here will help you develop a lifestyle to support a healthy long-term weight and maximize your vitality.

When you go home, you’ll take with you a personalized exercise plan, recipes, nutritional software and other products to help you continue using what you’ve learned. The move home is carefully planned so you can sustain the benefits of the Transformations program when you’re back to your normal routine.