Green Mountain at Fox Run

Specialties

Despite what you may believe about your ability to lose weight from past diets, the truth is, it takes tremendous effort to fight your body’s nature and restrict yourself from food or to exercise just for the sake of burning calories. Diets are simply not sustainable.

At Green Mountain, we help you find your healthy weight by learning how to eat what you want in a way that makes you feel well, move your body for pleasure and well-​being, begin to change negative body image, and manage other stress that may send you to food when you’re not hungry. Our program helps you overcome the attitudes and behaviors that get in your way, including struggles with emotional and binge eating.

History

Established in 1973.

In 1973, Thelma Wayler took over an empty dorm at Vermont’s Green Mountain College to found the country’s first and only residential weight loss program exclusively for women. A visionary, Thelma knew diets didn’t work almost forty years before the idea became accepted as it is today.

Today, Green Mountain operates out of a former ski and corporate retreat on a hill overlooking Okemo Mountain and the Okemo Valley Golf Course. Set on 26 wooded acres, the retreat is a low-​key, relaxing retreat with informal classrooms, well-​equipped physical activity rooms, a spacious dining room, and a comfortable living room.

Themla helped women lose weight by providing a powerful experience of eating well, movement and positive thinking — the basis of our current Integrated Health Model. Most importantly, she fostered the freedom to make choices based on what we want, not on what we feel we «should.»

Meet the Business Owner

Alan W.

Business Owner

As an insightful professional, compassionate listener and executive director of Green Mountain at Fox Run, Alan, PhD, has devoted his life’s work to helping women free themselves of the tyranny of dieting, food obsessions and poor self-​esteem. Starting as a tennis instructor when Green Mountain was in its infancy almost 30 years ago through to his present position, Alan has been a part of Green Mountain. He has not only observed the changing nature of women’s lives during that time, but has contributed his unique perspective to encourage women to take charge of their health, establish realistic goals and strive for them in a supportive way.