An important question for those who, despite trying diet after diet, still struggle with their weight:
What’s the only difference between white knuckling through yet another self-depriving diet that doesn’t work or last…
… and becoming naturally thin, healthy, and energized for many years to come?
I know I’m not the only one. I’ve heard from so many like you…


I almost gave up…..
and then I just got PISSED.
If it was just me, I may have suffered through and watched my health and body continue to degrade…
…but when my friend came to me breaking down about her own struggle with her weight and constantly feeling drained and feeling like there were no options left… well..
It broke my heart.
Then it pissed me off.
And I vowed to crack this riddle despite the mass of confusing and conflicting dieting and health advice coming at us from every direction.
So using my biochemistry and medical background, I started researching… and researching… and experimenting on myself…. and researching more…
I threw out everything I was told.
I started over with the latest studies and research. I ignored all the old rules and old myths that keep being parroted by everyone, even our own doctors.
Honestly I probably went a little crazy on this little project of mine…
But 300 hours of research later:
I was two sizes smaller, stronger than ever, and confident again.
I dug through cognitive behavioral therapy, nutrition science, mindset work, life coaching…. everything I could find, going right to the source and vetting each study one by one to get at what really mattered, and what was misdirecting fluff and flawed conclusions.
In the past, I spent so much time stressing over finding the right meal plan, the right exercise routine, the right food, the right “guru”…
But then…
I realized that it is about food, of course…. but something else extremely important I was missing before… that everyone was missing:
Diets don’t work.
None of them do. They are fundamentally and scientifically flawed.
I was going about the whole thing from the wrong perspective:
I didn’t need another diet, or the “right” food or supplement…
… I needed a lifestyle shift that I could sustain.
And to stop stressing out my body, hormones, emotions, and mind with these artificial dieting cheats and hacks.
Cheats and hacks that had only temporary results and relied way too much on willpower to survive.
That’s not us.
We want a naturally thin and healthy approach that enriches and improves our lives. Right?
We aren’t looking to just get “beach ready in 3 weeks”… we’re looking to be fit, strong, and healthy so we can be showing up in our lives for many years to come full of energy and vitality.
- Keeping up with the kids and grandkids.
- Loving life for decades yet – whether we’re 38 or 67.
- Feeling confident, clear, and ready for anything.
Too much to ask? I don’t think so.
But it wasn’t just me… people like….
- Brandon, at age 42, having tried every diet in the book, and already running 5-7miles 5 times a week, found herself 190 pounds, frustrated, ashamed, tired, and giving up. And dropped 22 pounds, started sleeping better, and was able to get back fully into her passion of backcountry skiing.
- Nancy, at 62, obsessively stuffed herself with carb-laden foods every afternoon to get by, and felt terrible about it every time she did. In 2 weeks she had control again, and by 4 weeks was wanting to exercise again and already found her pants looser.
- Cathy, a dietician, a personal trainer, and a marathoner, thought she ”knew what to do.” But had her blood sugar dropping every couple of hours, and had to eat reflexively just to keep going. She was able shift it entirely and go 7-8 hours between meals, feeling full, with no crashes, better mood, and stopped obsessing about food. Plus, she was sleeping better!
- Katie had two kids and was an emergency nurse. Hungry all the time, up more than 25 pounds, and worrying about keeping up with her kids or getting on the bike… she tried all of the diets with no long term success. Katie dropped 20 pounds and just sent me a link to her new favorite High Intensity Training workout app. I don’t think she’s having trouble keeping up anymore!

My weight has fluctuated 10 to 20 pounds over my ideal weight over my whole adult life. After reaching 18 pounds over, I started the Wholist Weight Management Program. Heather’s scientific food approach (along with her common sense, humor, down-to-earth, and gentle and kind spirit) has opened the door to a healthy and lifelong approach to eating.
This healthier eating has now become my new habit! Overall, I feel so much better; pants are looser, the bloating feeling in my gut is gone, I am finally in control of what I eat, not the other way around, which is a miracle!
For 12 years, since menopause, I have not slept well. I can only attribute my newfound sleepful nights to this program. And I am 12 pounds lighter!
– Adora M, WholeYou Weight Wellness™ client

12 Weeks to a Weight Wellness™ Lifestyle
without Hunger or Diets
And more importantly – designed to help you sleep better, have greater focus for your family, life, and work, and reclaim your health. Healthy change you can sustain without the craziness.
Wholist has truly changed my whole mindset about food and health – and I can’t recommend it enough. It saddens me to think of all the years I spent trying to diet, lose weight, and be healthier with all the WRONG information and not a shred of evidence to explain why I was torturing my body and mind.
Mainstream advice for weight loss only sets us up to fail and then blame ourselves! The SCIENCE behind Dr. H’s methods is truly revolutionary and so much easier to adapt into a “lifestyle change” than any diet I’ve ever tried.
I’ve lost more weight, more easily, than I ever have before and I don’t feel deprived or that I’m longing for off-limits foods. While losing weight was my primary goal, I so appreciate the chance to work on changing the way I think about so many things in my life. I can’t thank Dr. H enough for how her program has affected my waistline and my overall physical and mental health.”
BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

Wholist has helped me re-evaluate my relationship with food… not just what I eat, but when I eat and why I eat. I have learned why my body needs the foods it does when it needs them, and how to use food as fuel rather than entertainment or false enjoyment. I love to eat, and I love to cook. That hasn’t changed, but now I have the tools to do so in a way that benefits my long term heath and well being.
The education, coaching and guidance is direct, yet without a single shred of shaming or guilt. The WHOLIST health program is designed to help recalibrate what we know about healthy lifestyle choices.
In this new year I wanted to gift myself with a completely different framework of thinking that would aid me in shedding more than just body weight!
After only 10 days I cannot believe the difference in my eating patterns (never hungry), my sleep habits (yay to a full nights’ sleep), and how much more focused I am with my work responsibilities.
Yes, my waistline is benefitting from this program, but the big surprise I did not imagine when I started, was how much my brain would improve.
No lie– it’s all connected and Dr. Heather’s daily messages and weekly coaching makes it easy to stay on track with better choices and revised thinking about those choices!
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AFTER

By Joining this 12 Week Coaching Program, I’m also Giving You
My 7 Weight Wellness™ Enhancers
to Make the Process Easier and Support You as You Live Your Life Beyond the 12 Weeks
All 7 Weight Wellness™ Enhancers, Yours Free For Joining Weight Wellness
Now, these Weight Wellness™ Enhancers alone are valued at $1,999 alone.
And I’m going to give them to you over the course of your 12 week coaching program in bite-size pieces. Transformative guidance, science-based knowledge, and tons of resources and cheatsheets you’ll want to have with you every day.
Along with quick, motivating texts that keep you going.
Now other people would just sell you this on it’s own.
But I know that is doing you a disservice. What I am going to do is give you this for free.
Because I can give you all this information and it would only be a part of the puzzle, but it will be missing the critical thing that will get you all the results I’ve been talking about.
That’s why these are ENHANCERS..
The real power of the Weight Wellness™ program is the one-on-one coaching with your Certified WholeYou Weight Wellness™ coach.
The coaches are what drive the results.
They guide you through every step of the process of shifting your lifestyle bit by bit until you are ready to sustain these challenges without that constant daily fight and struggle..
It’s that fight with yourself, started all over again every single morning, that is the biggest problem.
If you can’t fix that, none of this other stuff will matter.

What it Looks Like
Working with Your Personal Coach
We give you your own, personal WholeYou coach who meets with you weekly one-on-one, supports you, helps hold you accountable, and guides you through the program for maximum success, step by step.
Your coach is the backbone of this program’s success.
How hard has it been to follow through on those diet plans and health changes in the past doing them on your own?
Creating a lifestyle is a process…
That is why this program is a 12 week progression.
And it is a process, not a set of rules.
Because it’s not just eating the right foods. It’s not just learning the when to eat and why.
It’s the process of creating this lifestyle… of shifting your mindsets, resolving your cravings and sugar addictions, of installing new habits until they are automatic… of creating new thought processes that stop those self-defeating thoughts that are holding you back… and turning them into ones that propel you forward.
This is a lifestyle. Not a diet. Not a set of rules and restrictions.
This is a lifestyle. A lifestyle you craft with your coach…Specifically designed for your life, your health, your preferences and tastes, your own challenges and mindsets that kept tripping you up in the past.
We specifically choose our coaches with particular qualifications….
- They are practicing healthcare practitioners – such as doctors, nurses, dietitians
- They have the right qualities that make a really good and effective coach – like the ability to hold the space for you in your real life to make your own decisions, and then hold you accountable, kindly but firmly. And the ability to allow open honest dialogue about deep nested relationship and body issues.
- They need to be completely available for you – not just during the individual coaching sessions, but for all those questions and challenging moments in between. Be entirely focused on you during each coaching session – whether a rant or to share something personal that needs to never go outside that coach-client relationship.
- They need to have direct experience in the kinds of challenges you face every day
- They need to be immersed in our Weight Wellness™ approach and have gone through it themselves. So they have a depth of experience to help you through any challenge and situation.
- They need to understand the psychological aspects of what you are trying to accomplish, not just the mechanical ones. So they can guide you through even those deep, messy problems that are more emotional, motivation-based, and even unconscious.
Every single one of our coaches meet all of these high expectations to become a WholeYou Weight Wellness™ Coach.
Your coach there by your side every step of the way for every question, every challenge, every dip and every success, and keeping you on track to your 12 week goal, while preparing you to sustain these results throughout your life.
All this and I’ll also be giving you the full 7 Weight Wellness™ Enhancers delivered to you in bite size pieces to your phone with quick daily podcasts with me…. along with helpful tips, guides, and motivation.
Plus lifetime access to all of the Weight Wellness™ Enhancers in our online portal…
And our growing library of recipes and resources.
Plus… I know, how can there be more??….
Plus…. you have the option to work with an additional mindset coach – either a hypnotherapist, Brene Brown trained life coach, or meditation coach – who will help you powerfully transform your mindset to impact all areas of your life… all by choosing the Mindset program.
Questions others like you have asked before
saying “YES!” to life-long Weight Wellness:
So who is perfect for and gets the most out of WholeYou Weight Wellness?
So here’s the qualities of people who have been able to follow through and get results from this program:
- You’re the kind of person who shows up for your appointments and commitments. Once a week is all you need, and maybe another one every 3 weeks if you choose the Mindset program. Just connect to your coach through our telehealth platform, just like Facetiming.
- You’re open to discovering something new that will shatter some old myths, and will actually make things easier and more enjoyable so you aren’t counting down the days until it’s over.
- You want to eat healthy, delicious real food you choose, not tasteless manufactured “diet” food or a limited, approved food list.
- You see how your weight and eating habits are affecting everything in your life – how you feel, how you look, your confidence, your energy, even your sleep.
- You want to take things one step at a time. In fact, you prefer it to being overloaded and overwhelmed right out of the gate and crashing hard.
- You love the idea of having someone you can reach out to anytime for help, questions, advice, or just a little motivation.
- You’re crazy busy, and need to be “fully on” throughout your day, whether at that important presentation or showing up fully for your kiddoes.
- You’ve had enough of yo-yoing and never getting anywhere with your diets or healthy habits or mad amounts of excercise.

The knowledge and empowerment to take control over my health and eating choices has been remarkable. The science behind the info provided by Dr. Hammerstedt is easy to comprehend and is never offered with judgement or in a patronizing way.
There is so much more info and “touch” in this program than I ever imagined when I signed up to participate.
I was worried that I couldn’t fully use all of it because of my busy life ( true for all, right?) But the real kicker here, is that because she integrates all the available technology, it actually makes it easy to use. I can tap into it whenever it fits my schedule and needs.
Feeling weak and want to grab sugary/salty snacks? Listen to her message about WHY your body is doing that and make a better choice.
Too rushed to hear a full podcast when you first wake up? Save it for your drive to work.
I recommend this program to anyone who feels ready to make “grown up” choices for their well being.
– WholeYou Weight Wellness™ client
Now you have two options… you can continue as you have been with diet after diet…
Or you can create a shift in your life that lasts a lifetime by creating the naturally thin, healthy, and energized Weight Wellness™ lifestyle with the help of our certified coaches.
The choice is yours…
WholeYou Weight Wellness
Starts on Monday!- Black Friday sale of over 60% off – $2599 $999
- Or pay in three installments of $399
- Weekly video coaching calls with your Weight Wellness™ coach throughout the 12 weeks of the program. Plus a followup coaching call at 6 months and 12 months after your program ends.
- Daily podcast delivering bite-sized education and support throughout the program.
- SMS text support each day to deliver the program podcasts, documents, and support on a daily basis that better fits your daily life.
- Daily monitoring of your food log by your coach through the YouAte app, where you can also chat with your coach for extra support and questions.
- Lifetime access to the full online program, with all podcasts, resources, and texts available whenever you need it. PLUS areas for frequently asked questions, forums for discussing the program with the community, recipes, and more.
- PDF worksheets and references to help you throughout the program
- A private telehealth portal for working with your coach securely and privately
- Get everything in the Weight Wellness™ program listed above…. PLUS a mindset coach of your choosing focusing on life coaching, hypnosis, or meditation. Select the Premium Mindset Program option instead…
WholeYou Weight Wellness
Premium Mindset Program- Black Friday sale of over 60% off – $3599 $1,499
- Or pay in three installments of $599
- Weekly video coaching calls with your Weight Wellness™ coach throughout the 12 weeks of the program. Plus a followup coaching call at 6 months and 12 months after your program ends.
- Daily podcast delivering bite-sized education and support throughout the program.
- SMS text support each day to deliver the program podcasts, documents, and support on a daily basis that better fits your daily life.
- Daily monitoring of your food log by your coach through the YouAte app, where you can also chat with your coach for extra support and questions.
- Lifetime access to the full online program, with all podcasts, resources, and texts available whenever you need it. PLUS areas for frequently asked questions, forums for discussing the program with the community, recipes, and more.
- PDF worksheets and references to help you throughout the program
- A private telehealth portal for working with your coach securely and privately
- PLUS – Get a mindset coach of your choosing focusing on life coaching, hypnotherapy, or meditation You’ll receive 4 sessions with your mindset coach to help amplify your success in your weight, health, and life
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get the content of the weight wellness program?
You will get a text to your mobile device every morning with a link to the day’s weight science/mindset podcast as well as a document. At midday, you will get a support text and a quick daily assignment. In the evening, you will get a text with a success tip.
Additionally, you will have access to a client portal on the website that will have all of this information available for you, if and when you need it.
How do the coaching sessions work?
You can schedule your weekly appointments through this website or through a link your coach will send you.
You will join your coach on Wholist’s telehealth virtual clinic as a video visit, which is basically like a Facetime or Skype/Zoom call.
It is easy to do and can be done on your phone (through our app) or web browser, designed to be as flexible and easy for you as possible because we know your life is busy.
This clinic also allows your coach to take notes and share documents, as well as track your activity and your weight.
What is the difference between the standard weight wellness program and the premium weight wellness program?
With the premium program you get access to all of the standard weight wellness program benefits, with an additional coach focused ONLY on mindset work.
You still get all of the standard program, texts/podcasts/documents and your personal weight coach, but you also get to choose a coach that will work with you on LIFE’s issues that are getting in the way of making healthy choices toward food and work and family and more.
After you purchase, you will be able to choose a suite of sessions with a Brene Brown-trained physician life coach, a physician meditation guide, or a clinical hypnotherapist.
Dr Hammerstedt believes EVERYONE should have a support guide/therapist like this, especially around a life transformation as big as this. Why? Because this process brings up deep issues for most people that need to be worked through…. and we all know the weight isn’t just about food.
See the Our Team section for who our coaches are. In the standard stellar weight wellness program, you have one of the weight wellness coaches just for you; in the premium program, you will have a weight coach and an additional mindset coach.
Am I going to succeed in losing weight?
That is up to you!
Our content has been crafted after over 300 hours of research and learning about weight science, nutrition, medical literature, and cognitive behavioral therapy/mindset work.
Our weight coaches are here for you for support, accountability and tips, and our premium mindset coaches are here for expertise around mindfulness, motivation and life’s big issues that affect your food choices.
But this is your work, and it does require work and commitment, not just consumption of ideas. When clients put in the work actively in an engaged fashion, they absolutely succeed- 8-10% body weight down at 12 weeks, sleeping better, more organized, satisfied with their food, and feeling confident.
Do you prescribe medicine?
No. While some of the coaches are physicians, they are not prescribing medicines or practicing medicine. They are functioning as coaches only.
What does a health coach do?
A health coach can be defined as helping patients gain the knowledge, skills, tools, and confidence to become active participants so that they can reach their self-identified health goals.
Health and wellness coaches help clients make positive and lasting changes to their health. The coach guides clients through the process of creating a vision for their health and well-being, developing a healthy mindset and healthy habits, and encouraging them every step of the way until they accomplish their goals.
Health coaches may provide advice and support for the choices and decisions you make but will not be giving you specific instructions beyond their scope.
What am I paying for?
The path to a life transformation.
The content of the weight wellness program was created by Dr Hammerstedt, an emergency medicine physician with expertise in lifestyle medicine and culinary medicine, a mom, an athlete, an educator and a scientist.
She pooled together over 300 hours of focused research on weight, nutrition and food with 20 years of experiences, education and personal/professional development to create this unique step-wise approach to your new thinner, organized, better-rested, more confident WholeYou.
Because of this work, you get to ignore the noise, trust the path, focus on you, work with personalized coaches, eat real food, and create yourself a new lifestyle.
How much time is this going to take me? I’m so busy I don’t know if I can do it.
The podcasts are about 10-20 minutes each, and you can listen to them on your phone, on the go, while you are doing the dishes, driving to work or chasing after kids.
The documents that support the podcasts can be read on your phone or accessed on your website client portal.
Your video coaching visits are 30 minutes per week. You should expect to spend about one hour per week planning and organizing around time management, food preparation, and meal planning.
I love to cook and love food, are you going to tell me I can’t eat?
LOL no! We love food as much as you do!
We are going to learn together how to love it even more, because it will still taste great and keep you satisfied – but you’ll know it is working for you and your goals, not against you.
What diet are you going to put me on?
We aren’t going on a diet! Diets don’t work, we all know that, but no one wants to admit it.
What we are going to do is eat real whole food, not products, that tastes good, at times that research supports the improvement of your metabolic digestion and weight loss.
Do you make meal plans for me?
Lifestyle medicine and psychology research clearly demonstrates that sustainable behavioral change only happens with active engagement, not by passive consumption.
If we just told you what to eat and when, of course you would lose weight, but what happens when the program is over? Same thing that happened every time you’ve tried to lose weight, it would come right back.
So we are taking the reality of your life and figuring out together how to make meaningful change even when it is hard.
That means how to plan, how to shop, what to buy, where to buy it, when to cook it, how to store it, what you don’t like, how to incorporate kids/spouse/work, how to talk yourself through the hard times, how to create patterns of choices, how to eat at restaurants, how to travel, how to bounce back after less than ideal choices, what to do when you forget, how to choose the best of bad options, etc etc etc.
What else would I need to buy?
We strongly recommend a fitbit Aria2 wireless scale, as this will integrate directly into your client chart in our virtual clinic. We also would recommend a fitbit activity tracker, if you are apt to wear it, as it will also integrate.
There will be a food journal app, the free version is just fine, but the premium one is better, but the cost is nominal. Otherwise, you will only be purchasing your own food.
What is the goal of the weight wellness program?
Wholist’s main mission is to help you curate your health future in the context of your life.
You know your life, your obstacles, your work, your family, your schedule.
We have curated the literature and science and information and tips, as well as your coaches, to empower you to make sustainable lifestyle and lifetime changes that work for specifically for you.
If your goal is to lose weight, you will lose weight. If your goal is to make healthier food choices (physically healthy, emotionally healthy), you will do it. If you want be less dependent (addicted) to food, you will do it. If you don’t know what you want or need, we will help you determine and meet your goals.
Our philosophy is that YOU are valuable, your life is the only one you have, your body is the only one you have, and that you deserve the most up to date, evidence based nutrition and lifestyle information to make your life and body the best they can be.
How long is the weight wellness program?
Your program will start on the Monday after you sign up, and will be ongoing for 12 weeks, with the option to continue if you desire.