Duke Diet & Fitness Center’s four-week intensive program gives you the opportunity and time to begin forming new strategies and habits for life, and to start seeing the health benefits. It helps you become comfortable with the practical lifestyle changes you'll continue at home.

Throughout the program, you'll meet one on one with staff members and attend lectures and workshops to learn about each of the essential components of weight and health management.

The program includes:

• Medical evaluation, including laboratory tests
• Fitness evaluation
• Individual consultations with behavioral health, fitness, lifestyle coaching, and nutrition staff
• Weekly check-ins with professional staff
• Lectures on topics in nutrition, fitness, behavioral health/lifestyle coaching, and other health issues
• Small group workshops, group therapy, and discussions
• Three nourishing and healthy meals and a snack each day
• Cooking demonstrations, a restaurant experience, and a grocery store tour
• Daily fitness classes and access to our fitness facilities, including treadmills, stationary bicycles, virtual reality bicycles and steppers, rowing machines, stair climbing machines, elliptical trainers, weight circuit and free weights, Pilates equipment, and a large indoor lap pool
• A complimentary personal training session
• Additional services such as continued massage therapy, personal fitness training, a smoking cessation program, ongoing individual counseling, and lifestyle coaching are available for an additional fee

All programs for new participants begin on Monday mornings at 7:30 a.m. (The facility opens at 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Our hours of operation on Saturday and Sunday are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.)

Learn More

For more information or to speak to an admissions coordinator, call 1-800-235-3853 or use our online contact form.

Locations

This service is available at:

• Duke Diet and Fitness Center
  501 Douglas Street, Durham, NC 27705