An Introduction to Jenny Craig

Growing to more than 600 centers worldwide, since 1983 Jenny Craig has been a respected leader in the weight loss and diet industry. Jenny Craig provides its thousands of female and male customers with the ability to take on their weight struggles and overcome them.

The Jenny Craig approach is built on three principles: food, body and mind. For food, Jenny Craig teaches its customers how to rely on portion control, healthy food choices and moderation as keys to successfully losing weight. For body, Jenny Craig espouses the benefits of regular exercise and living a fit and active lifestyle. For the mind, positive thinking and support are shown to be the final elements that can help you achieve your weight loss goals.

At the center of the Jenny Craig program are its pre-packaged, portion-controlled meals. By providing customers with food, they can focus on the body and mind elements of the program, rather than feeling frenzied to make and prepare healthful meals. And while there are many meal delivery diets out there, Jenny Craig stands out from the crowd by also having each customer meet with their trained counselors who work to keep customers on track, motivated and educated about maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Once you've chosen to join Jenny Craig, you'll have an intimate meeting with the counselor and you'll leave with a custom eating and fitness plan. You can either opt to follow the Jenny Craig program in-person, where you'll visit a center, have face-to-face consultations, collect food orders and weigh-in; or you can use Jenny Direct, which ships the food to your home and offers the same counselor support via phone.

The Jenny Craig Diet

Before beginning any new diet, people always want to know, "What can I eat?" With Jenny Craig, you'll find it's quite a bit! The food comes in pre-portioned, calorie-controlled packages, so all you've to do is heat and eat. This method is convenient because you can take the shelf-stable meals with you on the road, to the office or keep them at home.

Dieters typically consume about 1,300 calories each day, and the diet is about 60% carbohydrates, 20% protein and 20% fat. You'll eat three meals and two snacks each day while following Jenny Craig.

Some of the Jenny Craig food customers enjoy include turkey burgers, Swedish meatballs, szechwan pork, chicken parmesan, blueberry pancakes, tortellini soup, crustless pumpkin pie, chocolate chip cookies or white cheddar popcorn.

Some meals are frozen and others are shelf-stable, regardless, you will have to supplement with your own fresh fruits and vegetables.

Whether you have particular tastes or unique dietary needs, Jenny Craig does allow customizations, as well as meals that suit a vegetarian or diabetic diet.

Jenny Craig Fitness

Your Jenny Craig counselor will work closely with you to provide a custom fitness plan that will introduce more activity into your day-to-day life.

You'll find three categories of activity on your Jenny Craig fitness plan: Normal activities like chores, shopping or yard work; Planned activities like yoga or aerobics classes; Fun activities like dancing or playing a sport.

Gradually, just like with your diet, you'll learn how to make regular exercise a part of your schedule and find that it doesn't always have to be an hour on a treadmill, but really any activity you enjoy that gets your body moving.

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