Healthy Weight For Life
Supporting your joint health
What is Healthy Weight For Life?
Our joint health program called Healthy Weight For Life is offered to members with hospital cover who meet the criteria to help reduce pain, while increasing strength and mobility. This program is suitable for members who are looking to improve:
- joints & mobility through muscle strengthening
- stiffness through gentle exercise
- pain management – a crucial skillset to help you sustain a better quality of life
Program criteria
This program is offered to members with hospital cover and who have:
- a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 28, and
- a diagnosis of osteoarthritis, and
- Your GP approves and completes an approval form
The waiting period to receive this program is 2 months of continuous cover. Your premiums need to be up to date before you can claim this program.
Contact us to check your eligibility.
Phases of the program
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Get started with some meal replacement options such as KicStart Shakes and KicStart Soups for breakfast and lunch so that you can get on the right nutrition path without having to get handy in the kitchen for each meal. You can add some suggested sides such as berries and salads. For dinner, you’ll need to head to the kitchen to prep some healthy, filling food from the meal plan – meat and three veg is an option, so most people should adapt nicely. |
Build up to 30 minutes per day of gentle daily activity like walking, swimming or cycling by the end of this phase. |
| Food | Exercise |
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| Add planned lunch and snacks to your daily intake. | Increase time to at least 30 minutes per day and intensity (if possible) to continue weight loss. |
| Food | Exercise |
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| All meals are planned. Supplement shakes and soups are no longer eaten. | Sustain exercise so that it can continue when the program finishes. Participants can use a steps tracker to keep on top of their 10,000 steps. |
More Information
Our Healthy Weight for Life program provider is Prima Health Solutions.
The cost of this program is covered under all Peoplecare hospital covers. There is no out of pocket cost to participate in this program.
The waiting period to receive this program is 2 months of continuous cover. Your premiums need to be up to date before you can claim this program.
All your treatment information is kept completely confidential by the Healthy Weight for Life provider, Prima Health Solutions. We won’t have access to any personal health information you give them, but if you’d like to read our Privacy Policy to make sure, click here.
