If you are a frustrated dieter looking for ways off the diet roller coaster, you will find many sources of help here. If you are a teen concerned about personal issues of weight and dieting, we can put you in touch with lifestyle professionals to help you sort things out.

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Links for detailed descriptions of all of the programs and workshops marketed by HUGS.

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On-Line-Support
HUGS graduates & facilitators providing via the HUGS Support Forum, phone support, and e-mail support.

Members Only
Resources for HUGS Program Graduates including an online forum to share experience and to build confidence in living a healthy diet free lifestyle.

Locations
A world wide listing of the HUGS Facilitator network with contact and program information for each facilitator.

International No Diet Day
A comprehensive resource for learning about International No Diet Day. Inspirational stories, information, and more.

About HUGS:

HUGS is an initiative built on a framework of diet free lifestyles. It is Health focused, centered on Understanding lifestyle behaviors, Group supported, and Self esteem building. HUGS offers programs and workshops for adults and teens based on the publication of three lifestyle books:

*You Count, Calories Don't

*Staying Off the Diet Roller Coaster

*Tailoring Your Tastes

*The Adult Program focuses on health, nourishing eating and activity patterns, and self-acceptance rather than dieting and weight loss.

*The Adult Online Program is the perfect alternative if you want to participate in the Adult Program, but do not have a facilitator in your area. The Online Program delivers the same high quality instruction provided by our facilitators, but is available online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Lessons and participant feedback conveniently arrives in your e-mail box.

*The Taste Training Workshop explores taste, creating an awareness of the interplay of food taste, texture, appearance and how our body responds.

*The Midlife Workshop helps women embrace guilt free self-caring and to consider menopause as a life empowerment opportunity.

*The Teen Program is designed to instill confidence for personal decisions on health, energy and emotional needs.

HUGS International Inc. was started in 1987 by registered dietitian, Linda Omichinski. Searching for a more effective way to assist clients in her private and consulting practice, Linda developed a group counseling format on the empowerment model that emphasized eating for energy, physical activity for fun and self acceptance of genetic size and shape variations. Linda is author of three books: You Count, Calories Don't (1992) a best seller is widely acclaimed as a practical diet free lifestyles guide; Tailoring Your Tastes (1997) a concept cookbook where original recipes are modified gradually to healthier states of fat, fiber, and sugar; Staying Off the Diet Roller Coaster (2000) a support resource for a diet free lifestyle with examples and case histories of changed lives. Linda has developed programs for adults and teens to live a diet free lifestyle, and workshops to embrace midlife changes and taste training. These programs, marketed through HUGS International, are available through a network of licensed facilitators in six countries. HUGS.com serves as a center for information and resources about non dieting and receives thousands of internet visitors each week.