WHY WAIT PROGRAM

Weight Achievement and Intensive Treatment (Why WAIT) is a 12-week multidisciplinary program for weight and intensive diabetes management designed by the Joslin Diabetes Center for application in real-world clinical practice. The program started in Sepetember 2005... Participants in the Why WAIT program receive dietary evaluation by the program RDs. The evaluation includes review of dietary history and 24-hour dietary recall of typical daily intake, review of adherence to dietary instructions during previous weight management attempts, and evaluation of possible barriers to following the program's structured meal plan... After evaluation of the exercise history and the possible barriers to exercise, an individualized exercise plan is designed by the program exercise physiologists based on each participant's health status and exercise capacity. The intensity level of exercise is set above the minimum required to improve the participant's current exercise capacity, but below a level..