It's Time to Restart Your Lifestyle
Away from daily worries, you have the ultimate opportunity to improve your lifestyle. Under the Mediterranean sun you’ll find the inspiration you need to reach your health goals with the guidance of health professionals. The hospitality of the Cretan villagers, the walks in beautiful natural surroundings and tasty home-cooked meals will encourage you to persevere. You will have the chance to reconnect with nature and enjoy the benefits it offers. Health Retreat Crete offers a great way to escape the stresses of everyday life, enabling you to return home feeling refreshed, energized and healthy.
Weight Loss
If your goal is to lose excess weight in a healthy and responsible way, then this is the right place for you. You will learn possitive lifestyle changes that you can stick with. Health Retreat Crete is a long-term intervention. Health Retreat Crete is especially suitable for persons who can work from any place, can take off a Sabbatical or are normally at home. You will continue your daily tasks while in Crete and simultaneously we will work on improving your lifestyle, without interrupting your work. Your daily program at Health Retreat Crete will be tailor made, similar to your home situation.
Cooking classes
You will come along grocery shopping with your nutritionist/therapist. In the store you will learn to read ingredient labels and learn to make better choices regarding your food shopping. At our home in Crete, you will prepare the food together with us. You will learn how to make meals from scratch that are delicious, healthy and satiating. You will learn new habits that will become sustainable and healthy behavior.
Personalised exercises
Most weight loss retreats offer strenuous exercise programs such as in military boot camps. These exercises are often unrealistically strenuous and can easily cause damage. At Health Retreat Crete you will do exercises that suit your physique: walking, swimming, yoga and/or Pilates. You will learn and maintain new physical exercise habits.
Consults with Health Professionals
Thirty percent of overweight people have a medical reason for being overweight. Lifestyle intervention is the first step in fighting overweight, but defenitely not the last. Your health is the most precious to us. You will receive monthly health check ups including a visit at an endocrinologist and blood tests. You will have therapeutic one-on-one sessions with the nutricionist at least every other day. Your health program will be tailor made to your medical needs.
Why Health Retreat Crete
At Health Retreat Crete we are not looking at selling you a wellness holiday. Our goal is that you participate in our long term lifestyle improving intervention.
- Experience: Your therapist has gone through the weight loss and lifestyle changing progress herself
- Medical check-ups: Your health will be monitored at a regalarly base
- Relaxing and fun too: Your retreat will be on the beautiful island of Crete in Greece, Europe. We will spend a lot of time together, also on sightseeing trips on the island.
- Tailor-made: Your health, comfort, success and overall well being is our priority. A lifestyle intervention is not one that fits for all. Together we will find what works for you, so you'll have the optimal benefit of your Health Retreat in Crete.
What You Receive
You will have the chance to change your lifestyle for once and for all. You will lose overweight steadily. We will do it in a way that is sustainable. Fast weight loss is not our goal. Weight loss that stays off is our goal.
- Sustainable weightloss: You will learn why you have overweight and how to lose overweight for once and for all.
- Transportation: Pick up form HER airport and return are included, as well as trips to medical offices.
- Simple accommodation is included, accommodation for couples or family are also a possibility
- Fun & Relaxation: in your tailor-made daily program we will allow for plenty of relaxation and fun time. Together with fellow guests we will explore the beautiful island of Crete.
How will you benefit from it
At Health Retreat Crete we are not looking at selling you an expensive wellness holiday. Our goal is that you participate in our long term lifestyle improving intervention.
- Weight loss: You will lose overweight steadily.
- Reverse Diabetes Type 2: Through diet changes and weight loss, you may be able to reach and hold normal blood sugar levels without medication.
- Cooking classes: You will learn to make meals from scratch that are healthy, delicious and satiating. A skill that will stay with you for life.
- Exercise: Together we will find the exercise that is fun to you and easy to stick to.
- Life experience: You will get to know the beautiful island of Crete. Also you have the possibility to explore more of Greece in a relatively cheap way. You can visit the stunning and famous Santorini and Athens, that are only a few hours away.
- Fun and relaxing: the beautiful island of Crete is known for its great hospitality and endless possibilities for unforgettable holidays. We will spend time together and go on some great sightseeing trips.
What You pay for it
The lifestyle intervention at Health Retreat Crete has a minimal length of one month. Changing habits costs time. The longer you participate in the intervention, the more chance you will have to succeed in changing your lifestyle for once and for all.
- The minimum stay is 1 month and costs 3000 euros per month. If you compare us with other health retreats, you will notice that it is difficult to find out how expensive such a wellness holiday actually is. Often only very luxurious and expensive retreats are offered. Health Retreat Crete is unique in this: we handle an all-in price and is way cheaper than other wellness retreats. Your accommodation is modest, clean and adequate.
- Transportation: Pick up form HER airport and return are included, as well as trips to medical offices.
- Simple accommodation is included, accommodation for couples or family are also a possibility
- Fun & Relaxation: in your tailor-made daily program we will allow for plenty of relaxation and fun time. Together with fellow guests we will explore the beautiful island of Crete.
- All Inclusive: All food and bevarages are included. The food and beverages are the choice of Health Retreat Crete, in good consultation with yourself and according to international health guidelines.
