Choose2Change/Cuidabetes

If you have prediabetes or other risk factors for type 2 diabetes, it’s time to take charge of your health. Participating in the Choose2Change lifestyle change program can help you make lasting changes to prevent type 2 diabetes.  Remember, lifestyle is everything – healthy attitude, healthy life!

With the Choose2Change program you get:

• A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) approved curriculum
• The skills you need to lose weight, be more physically active, and manage stress
• A trained lifestyle coach to guide and encourage you
• Support from other participants with the same goals as you
• A year-long program with weekly meetings for the first 6 months, then once or twice a month for the second 6 months

The lifestyle changes you make in the Choose2Change program will help you prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.  You may have prediabetes and be at risk for type 2 diabetes if you:

• Are 45 years of age or older
• Are overweight
• Have a family history of type 2 diabetes
• Are physically active fewer than 3 times per week
• Ever had diabetes while pregnant (gestational diabetes) or gave birth to a baby that weighed more than nine pounds.

Make a change – START TODAY!

If you think you may be at risk for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes:

• Click on the brochure below and take it to a health care provider
  • Click here to see our program’s brochure
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• Ask to be tested for prediabetes. The health care provider may do a simple blood test.
• Ask the health care provider to fill out the Recommendation Form on the brochure.
• Take the completed form to:
  Providence Little Company of Mary Wellness and Activity Center
  470 N. Hawaiian Ave.
  Wilmington, CA 90744

If you don’t have a health care provider, for more information or to sign up for a course (available in-person and via Zoom), please call us at 310-514-5483 or communityhealth@providence.org. Click here to learn more about our other free, health education programs.