Welcome to AVA for Weight Loss
Congratulations on taking the first step toward healthier eating … and a healthier you! We’re excited to be part of your journey and looking forward to making positive changes together.
Here’s how your AVA plan works: we’ll be checking in with you regularly by text based on your questions and meal photos. We’ll send helpful tips, ask questions about how you’re feeling and track your progress along the way. Of course, we’re always available to answer questions, so don’t be shy -- just ask away! That’s what we’re here for.
Best Practices:
Tracking What You Eat and Drink
Keeping your food journal up to date is going to be an important part of sticking to your plan, spotting trends and opportunities to develop healthier habits. For your program, we recommend reporting in 3-5 times a day.
You can also check out tips for getting best results when texting photos to AVA here.
Weight Monitoring
We'll be checking in with you weekly to track your weight. Of course, you’re welcome to monitor your weight more frequently if you’d like, but it’s definitely not necessary. While checking daily weights can sometimes be informative, it can also be frustrating, because there are many day-to-day shifts in fluid and other factors for slight ups-and-downs that don’t accurately reflect your body fat, lean mass and true weight loss.
A few tips for weighing-in:
- Choose a reliable scale and stick with the same one for consistency.
- Check your weight in the morning, preferably after you’ve gone to the bathroom, at approximately the same time each week, not wearing clothing.
Progress is more than weight loss.
There are other ways of measuring your weight loss progress beyond the number on the scale, such as energy level, clothes feeling looser, less aches & pains.
We will be checking in with you about these changes, but anytime you notice a shift in these areas or others, please share - we can track each win and change.
So … ready to get started? Check out our Top 10 Weight Loss Tips and you’ll be ready to go!