About Lawyers and Professionals Weight Loss Group

Leventhal Weight Loss Incorporated (www.leventhalweightloss.com) is the first in the nation executive weight loss coaching service for attorneys by an attorney.

We use the coaching modality to help attorneys nationwide lose weight. Having a personal executive coach in Mr. Mark Leventhal, Esq. who himself lost over 50 pounds while practicing international trade law in a Washington, D.C. law firm, and who received his coaching training from one of the best coaching schools in the United States, is an extremely powerful and effective way to lose weight. It is analogous to a basketball player-basketball coach situation. The basketball players knows he needs to practice hard and workout diligently so he gets 20 points, 10 rebounds a game. The basketball coach guides him in the right direction, sets forth an action plan, offers suggestions, and lends motivation and support.

Likewise, you may know you need to reduce calories and exercise more. Mr. Leventhal will guide you in the right direction, set forth an action plan, offer suggestions, and lend motivation and support, and inspire so that you will indeed reduce calories, exercise more, and achieve the sustainable results you seek.

The program works like this: We have a meeting -- either over the telephone or in person -- and assess (a) what worked and did not work for you in the past; (b) where you want to go; (c) obstacles which could get in the way; and (d) your strengths and weaknesses. Based upon this information, we set forth a customized and individualized plan tailored to your strengths and particular lifestyle. You start implementing this plan. You keep us posted on your progress, and we monitor, on a daily basis (via telephone calls and e-mail) how you are doing. This daily coaching makes all the difference in the world. For example, say we meet on Monday and devise and action plan for the week. On Wednesday, however, you see that the plan is not going well. We don't wait for the next weekly coaching session to modify the plan. We deal with it immediately. We explore why the plan is not going as anticipated and make changes. Think of it like a basketball team having a plan to win the game, but they are losing 14-2 after the first 2 minutes. They don't wait for halftime, or even the end of the first quarter, to modify the plan. They attempt to make adjustments immediately. So, too, do we.

Each week we have an inspirational and motivational meeting to discuss how things are going overall and how we may improve. We have this meeting when it is convenient for you - even at 2 AM, when you may be driving home from work, or just wrapping up your brief. We will work with you so that you can lose weight while making minimal changes to your hectic lifestyle. You will lose weight even though you have trials coming up, depositions to take, briefs to write, and clients to visit out of town.

Even if you do other programs (such as Weight Watchers), our coaching is extremely beneficial, as it provides the inspiration, motivation, guidance, hints, suggestions, tips, and support between sessions that is critical to one's weight loss efforts. Although Mr. Leventhal lost his weight on Weight Watchers, and made the November/December 2004 edition of Weight Watchers magazine, he realizes how much easier it would have been if he only had a weight loss coach helping him between weekly meetings.

Mr. Leventhal recalls his Weight Watchers leader saying, "You all better listen up and pay attention because once you leave this meeting, I have no control over you." Now, with Leventhal Weight Loss Incorporated, you have Mr. Leventhal -- a coaching expert, weight loss expert and attorney -- helping you out so you actually lose the weight and keep it off permanently.

After losing his weight, Mr. Leventhal worked for Weight Watchers every Sunday for six months in Silver Spring, MD. He saw first-hand how difficult it is for attorneys to lose weight successfully when they merely have a weekly meeting, no customized and individualized program, and no support between sessions. Hence, the idea of Leventhal Weight Loss Incorporated was born.

In addition, our coaching is extremely beneficial even if you have a dietician. We work with clients who have dieticians and these clients find our services to be very valuable. A dietician, for example, may tell you that to lose weight you should eat 1,800 calories a day comprised of X, Y, and Z. As your coach, we will work with you, motivate you, inspire you, and give you hints, tips, suggestions and advice as how to how you can keep to the program set forth by the dietician even though you have briefs due, trials coming up, depositions to take, and clients coming in from out of town. To cite a case in point, one client we are working with had a plan from a dietician instructing her to limit her caloric intake to 1,800 calories a day. She was upset because she had trouble sticking to 1,800 calories a day. After analyzing what really motivates her, we came up with the idea of her trying on old clothes whenever she got hungry. When she did that, and she saw her clothes no longer fit, her appetite was ruined. By utilizing this approach, and coming up with other similar ideas, she was able to stick to the dietician's program.

Leventhal Weight Loss Incorporated does not favor any particular weight loss program. Instead, Leventhal Weight Loss Incorporated works with you to devise a customized and individualized program geared to your strengths and tailored to your specific needs.