What better time to hold a graduation than June? If your 8 or 12 week weight loss class ends now, be sure to hold a graduation ceremony. And if it ends at any other time of the year, hold a graduation ceremony!

GraduationsIt can be as simple as a few words from the commencement speaker (you) and some graduation decorations. You can add healthy snacks to munch on and simple diplomas made from a photocopied certificate rolled and tied with a ribbon. What joyous pomp and circumstance!Graduation has the same root word as gradually. Remind clients that small steps add up to big health improvements. Just as we did not go right from kindergarten to high school graduation, we need not try to jump right to 100% ideal eating. Every small change is like completing another grade on the way to graduation.