~ ROBERT'S STORY ~

Hey all together,
My name is Robert. I’m a 17 year old, German boy and I had a real fat problem. I was obese till I came to the obesity-rehabilitation-center INSULA in Berchtesgaden (Germany). That’s a clinic for obese adolescents and young adults. They usually have an overweight of 50 percent or a BMI of >30 and they can be 12-30 years old. In eight months I lost over 35 kilogram’s (77 pounds) and now I’m a normal weight boy. But how I managed that? Let me tell you more about the therapy in the INSULA.
 

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Here we have special education in nutrition and a lot of sports. We have individual training for our muscles and specially walking in the mountains in the alps. But compared with our sport program, we have a lot of other sport activities, e.g. mountain biking, swimming, rafting, climbing, skiing, ice skating, sweating in the sauna, aerobic, baseball, volleyball, of course football and then we have an absolutely interesting –Highlight: this is our web-bikers internet training program. I must tell you I like it. Please imagine you, riding with a bike comfortable from home, incidentally you can see interesting bike tours in Germany and abroad and at the same time you can be surfing in the internet, check your e-mails, chat with friends and so on and the main point was weight loss or?? Yeah that’s web-bikers, with this bike you can cycle from Athens to Delphi (Greece), Denmark, Norway, San Francisco, highways through California, all over Berchtesgaden and many more tours. Yes, with web-biking you lose weight, absolutely great. Maybe you think yes of course, but how? That’s a simple thing, all what you need is the electronic bike, the web-bike from www.daum-electronic.de and a computer with internet connection. You start the bike riding video tour and open the web-page www.web-bikers.de and start the program. Through the internet connection it’s possible that everybody, if they have a web-bike, can ride together with you. And if you like it, then you can chat with the other web-bikers. I must tell you it’s a very funny and easy way to lose weight. Look at me I, have managed my goal. But why I tell you that???
Because of the longterm-obesity-rehabilitation in the Insula. It is the only obesity-rehabilitation-centre in Europe, which offers the patient a steady long-term success for 2 to 9 months. In average the patients lose about 20-30kg (44-66 lb.) in 6 months. Well I can show myself, I was an obese teen, as many, many thousand other people around the world are obese, with rising numbers specially in children and adolescents. And here, at the Insula-Program, the steady long-term success of loosing weight. I can see my obese friends here, they have a lot of problems, not only social and psychological problems, mainly medical problems as high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, impairment of fat metabolism, beginning arterios¬clerosis, sleep apnea syndrome (beginning with extreme snoring), respiration problems and so on. Here in the Insula they can “heal” the damages at young obese persons mainly through weight loss if it is done in time. The financial expenses of obesity are 70 billion Euro in Germany and $ 159 billion in the USA. The American’s must pay much more money for weight loss therapy than the Germans. Sometimes we have here patients from America (Mexico, San Francisco), Italy, Greece, Switzerland and so on. They lose a lot of weight here and are mostly satisfied with the therapy. They don’t have to starve to lose weight, in opposite, we get ca. 1500 to 1800 kcal each day and I can assure you that we don’t have to starve! We get fruits and vegetables, whole wheat products, pasta, soups so that we have a daily intake of 55% carbohydrates, 15% protein and 30% fat and I become full with our food.
We all are interested in new patients from new countries.  And please be sure, that we all can speak English and if not you can see it as an exchange in a foreign country. You can see a new land with new people, landscapes and new culture.

We are pleased for you to visit or maybe as a new patient. All right? I hope we can see you.  If you have questions, email me at  
Goodbye yours Robert