Information for Healthcare and Corporate Wellness Professionals

TEAM4Balance is a free Internet tool (NutriMirror) with an award winning book (Balanced Days, Balanced Lives). Together they close the empowerment gap, making it both possible and practical to self-manage the process of balancing calories and nutrients for lifelong weight control and nutritional balance.

Below are PDFs and links that provide detailed information about NutriMirror and Balanced Days, Balanced Lives -- how and why they are of great importance to you and the people you serve.

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Understanding TEAM4Balance™

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Using NutriMirror for Improved Health and Fitness

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TEAM4Balance™ Wellness Program

Guidance for BEST RESULTS

Welcome to the TEAM! Congratulations on taking this step to a healthier you.

Lifelong balance is a universal health goal. When we control calorie balance we manage a healthy body weight. When we control nutritional balance we practice disease prevention and enjoy better health.

You now have the tool (NutriMirror) and the resource (Balanced Days, Balanced Lives) you’ve needed to personally manage the balancing process. As a TEAM member it has — finally — become both practical and easy for you to control balance on a daily, lifelong basis.

Here, we’ve boiled down guidance for applying the TEAM4Balance Wellness Program in two basic steps. We begin with the end in mind, setting you up for BEST RESULTS:

STEP 1: Adopt the winning mindsets and strategies in Balanced Days, Balanced Lives.

Since launching NutriMirror in 2008, thousands of people have created personalized Health Reflection® reports to assess their balance status. Many also participate in the NutriMirror Journal Room, an open forum where members share social support and advice through the journey.

We collected the most consistent mindsets and strategies of members who have mastered the balancing process and are enjoying long term success. These pearls of wisdom are presented in the book as the Eight Guiding Truths for Lifelong Weight Control and Nutritional Balance.

This unique book was recently recognized as the Health and Fitness BEST BOOK of the YEAR, by Kirkus Discoveries. What separates Balanced Days, Balanced Lives from any other book you’ve read on the subject of weight loss and nutrition, is how actionable it is in your personal life. It is all about life-changing actions you can actually measure and control out of personal experience — right now.

Seriously reflect upon the common sense wisdom in each of these Eight Guiding Truths. It is of particular importance that you approach balance as a lifelong journey (Truth #1), and find pleasure in choices which bring you to balance (Truth #2).

Research proves that mentally preparing for change, and understanding possible barriers to this change, improves your chances of success and reduces frustration during the process. Adopt the Eight Guiding Truths at the outset of your journey and you will be successful at balancing for lifelong weight control and better health.

STEP 2: Make small changes over time.

Take a moment to view the short NutriMirror DEMONSTRATION Video (coming soon). This shows the log-assess-modify behavior loop that TEAM members perform on a regular basis. Once familiar with the system, users can complete this balancing process in less than ten minutes a day.

Many people attempt a healthy lifestyle by making dramatic changes overnight. Inevitably, they end up circling back to old behaviors, feelings of failure, and frustration. Most often, a slower and consistent approach to weight loss and behavior change produces BEST RESULTS (Truth #3).

To begin, join the free NutriMirror website, start logging your current diet and get an assessment of your starting point. From the interactive Health Reflection® reports, you will be able to identify where you need to focus first – with easy to interpret red and green scores.

You will see the foods driving your calorie & nutritional imbalances. Over time, make small changes to the way you eat and exercise through this advanced self-monitoring tool. You will be amazed at how much closer to balance very simple modifications will move you.

Soon you’ll be a TEAM player: Thinking, Eating, And Moving for balance.

Team4Balance™, NutriMirror®, and Balanced Days, Balanced Lives are brands of PrePak Products, Inc. PrePak Products has been in business more than 25 years as a primary source for clinic-to-home exercise devices and related products for health professionals specializing in physical rehabilitation.

TEAM4Balance was developed by writer and software developer Michael Ray, the son of PrePak Products’ current CEO, Jim Ray. (Jim is the brother of PrePak Products founder Judy Ray Johnston.)

In 2005 Jim was diagnosed with hypertension (blood pressure readings of 210/110). As a life or death matter, he was told by his doctor, “Lose weight by maintaining a calorie balance of 1500; and keep your sodium to less than one teaspoon a day.”

The need for measurement led Jim and his wife Pamela to search the Internet for answers. They found the website MyPyramid.gov, and discovered the huge USDA database containing the measured information Jim needed to manage his calorie balance and sodium level (plus other key nutrients in the diet).

However, the government website was not as user friendly as Jim needed it to be. He recognized that measuring to maintain calorie and nutritional balance, for him, had to become a daily fact of life. He needed a system that—in just a few minutes each day—would allow him to control this balancing process.

They recruited Michael to the task. The result of Michael’s work is the NutriMirror® website, which Jim has used to effectively control both his body weight and nutritional balances since 2006. In 2008 NutriMirror was made freely available to all Internet connected adults. In 2009 a public Journal Room was opened so that the growing thousands of users could support one another in their common pursuit of balance.

Through observation of the NutriMirror Journal Room, it was noted that not all users had the same experience as Jim. For him, change was instant. After more than 30 years as a yo-yo dieter, he had discovered that all he ever needed was the measured information that put him in control of his choices. Many NutriMirror users who followed shared this experience — but unfortunately some others did not.

Everyone who came to NutriMirror, it seemed, wanted change. But not everyone was yet prepared to make change.

So, in 2010, PrePak published a book to help new and struggling NutriMirror users better prepare themselves to overcome life challenges. Balanced Days, Balanced Lives tells the personal stories of real people who share the mindsets, strategies, and tips successful NutriMirror users apply to master the process of change in pursuit of balance. Recently, it was recognized as Health and Fitness BEST BOOK of the YEAR by prestigious national book reviewer Kirkus Discoveries.

Together, the transformative NutriMirror tool and its companion book Balanced Days, Balanced Lives form the basis of the TEAM4Balance™ Wellness Program.

A TEAM4Balance exists whenever two people — or a nation of people — come together in pursuit of weight control and better health through balanced living — and now with NutriMirror and Balanced Days, Balanced Lives, they are fully empowered for lifelong success.

Team4Balance™, NutriMirror®, and Balanced Days, Balanced Lives are brands of PrePak Products, Inc. PrePak Products has been in business more than 25 years as a primary source for clinic-to-home exercise devices and related products for health professionals specializing in physical rehabilitation.

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