The Pounds Off Teleseminar Programs grew out of a need for an easily accessible, realistically priced weight loss support group that incorporated nutritional information and guided visualization. It’s a win-win that can serve the weight loss needs of everyone in the world.
In the years between 1998 and 2008 Suzy Prudden built the largest Creative Visualization Relaxation (CVR) Center specializing in Weight Loss in Los Angeles. In 2001 her sister, Joan Meijer, former President of the National Emergency Care Advisory Counsel and co-author of four of Suzy Prudden’s books including "Suzy Prudden's Itty Bitty Weight Loss Book" joined her in managing the business. The program was high end, expensive and it worked. We enjoyed a success of over 60%. To put that in perspective, most weight loss and diet programs (including diet pills) are 2% successful, Weight Watchers is 10% and stomach stapling is 30%.
During those years Joan was vaguely troubled by the exclusivity of our program in the face of how big a problem obesity was becoming. The problem was that CVR wasn’t covered by insurance. Suzy and Joan often talked about finding a way to broaden the availability of what we knew, but the solution was elusive and we were busy. Over those ten years our business spread to three centers, we had ten employees and we didn’t have time to think about the percent of people who called us who didn’t come in because the price was prohibitive or who didn’t bother to call us because they assumed the price would be prohibitive.
In 2008, when the recession hit, high end weight loss became a luxury. Suzy closed her weight loss centers and started in a different direction developing a new modality called hypno-coaching. Just when we weren’t paying attention to the problem of weight loss, Joan began to experience a new idea taking shape. In a matter of weeks her Pounds Off Programs emerged as a Business-in-a-box (or in this case, a binder).
As it turned out Suzy and Joan were teaching a coaching class at the time. “What would you think about weight loss classes that use the material that you’re learning here and in my CVR classes?” we asked one afternoon. The response was amazing. It felt as if we had opened the door to a possibility no one had ever considered before and that the members of the class were relieved to have the structure of that little binder to lean on while they built their practices.
My students began using the program and the success stories began to come in. The student’s clients lost 30, 40, 50 pounds, experienced no cravings and enjoyed lifestyle changes in exactly the same way as my high end clients had lost weight but at much lower cost.
“My clients don’t want to come to class,” a Practitioner reported - understandable in an area as far flung as Los Angeles. “Why not do the classes on the phone?” Joan suggested. And so the Pounds Off Programs Teleseminars was born. The Teleseminars solved the problem of how to service people in areas not yet covered by Practitioners. Another plus was the fact that we could record the teleseminars, post them on the web and people all around the would could listen at their convenience. It was a win-win for everyone.
Thus began our quest to reach every corner of the world with a revolutionary weight loss program which has a proven track record of success at a reasonable cost.
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What is really nice about the videos is that there's someone telling you what to do. It's kind of like watching TV, you plug in and turn off your mind. He tells you, do push ups, you do them you don't have to think about it. Workouts on my own are usually lackadaisical, I take longer and longer breaks or just decide it's time to hit the shower. Here he just lays it out, and no individual exercise is more than maybe 2 minutes, so you're always changing it up.
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