Comprehensive Weight Loss For Teens is a transition from Mackie Shilstone’s online resource for parents of overweight or obese children from 8-12 years of age (Body Plan For Kids), and it is an appendage to his successful Comprehensive Weight Loss For Adults. Current research on overweight and obese children indicates that while 8-12 years of age is an ideal time for parents to gain effective control of their child’s weight problem, 13-18 years of age is a time of last resort—before the child effectively becomes an adult and somewhat out of parental control.

For those parents of overweight teens, Mackie offers this three-month multidisciplinary program, Comprehensive Weight Loss For Teens, which includes medical evaluation, resting metabolic rate determination, nutrition consult, psychological consult, and specialized exercise training, based on initial physiological testing and emphasizing Mackie Shilstone’s Teen Pro Circuit. This unique isokinetic exercise routine uses rubber tubing to create a muscle endurance program that reduces stress to young, overweight joints, increases the loss of body fat, and improves cardio respiratory fitness. This regimen helps teems build a feeling of self-confidence and the discipline to take charge of their overweight condition--with the appropriate guidance from the program and their family--a Team Mackie winning effort.

Using his Comprehensive Weight Loss For Adults (as featured in the USA Today Weight Loss Challenge and the Discovery Health Series New Orleans Health Cops) as a prototype model of success, Mackie has a proven system to bring about effective weight loss in teens with a goal of keeping the weight off in the transition to adulthood.

Program features include:

• Medical evaluation
• Metabolic evaluation (resting metabolic rate, cardiopulmonary stress test)
• Body composition evaluation
• Nutritional consultation and follow-up (four sessions)
• Psychological consult(initial and as needed)
• Exercise training (individual or small group)