Manage My Weight; Eat Healthy

With a wide range of online tools and information, you can better manage every aspect of health and wellness for you and your family with programs for UT System employees, retirees and their dependents. Start by visiting the Living Well Health Manager powered by WebMD resources to better understand the resources and tools available for you to manage your weight; and eat healthy.

Your Eat Right plan starts with a customized approach to match your unique circumstances and health improvement goals. Planning meals? It’s no problem, thanks to the Meal Planner tool to help you build daily menus or enter your own food choices. Either way, Meal Planner does the math by graphing your daily calories and food servings then comparing them to what’s recommended for you. And you can create grocery lists from your menus, too. See below details on how to access the Living Well Health Manager powered by WebMD resources :

1. Simply go to www.webmdhealth.com/ut
2. Log onto or register
3. Enjoy the benefits

FREE Weight Management Program

Sometimes a little extra support is all it takes to stay on track with weight loss goals. The UT SELECT Weight Management Program provides just that. When our members decide to make positive lifestyle changes by managing their weight, we’re ready with resources to help make the journey successful! Read more about this free program available to all UT SELECT members (PDF).

University of Texas System-Wide Physical Activity Challenge

Will you accept the challenge? Just exercise 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for 6 weeks. To help you complete this challenge and make it easy to track your progress, all UT System Institutions have partnered with the Texas Round Up to celebrate our 2nd Annual UT System Physical Activity Challenge. The institution with the greatest participation based on headcount will be awarded the coveted “Traveling Trophy”!

2nd Annual UT System Physical Activity Challenge starts on January 1st 2009 and ends on April 18th 2009.

See details for upcoming challenge: www.livingwell.utsystem.edu/challenge09.htm.

View last year's 2008 UT System Ultimate Challenge program results and award ceremony photos.

e-Learning

Fitness Over Forty, a series of video presentations targeting the increasing "over Forty” population, addresses health and fitness issues that are specific to men and women ages 25 to 54 and older. Dr. David Di Paolo, radiologist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler and nationally-certified fitness trainer, hosts the series featuring UT Health Science Center medical professionals who inform viewers about the benefits of a healthy diet and active lifestyle. Just go to http://www.uthct.edu/fitnessoverforty/archive.asp, and search for a topic that you are interested in.