Weight Management
Good nutrition is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Eating a healthy diet, along with getting enough exercise and sleep, can help you feel your best and obtain your healthiest weight. If you are a UT Select or UT Care member, you have access to healthy-eating resources to help you reach your goals.
Healthy Eating for a Healthy Weight
A healthy eating plan that helps you manage your weight includes a variety of foods you may not have considered. If “healthy eating” makes you think about the foods you can’t have, try refocusing on all the new foods you can eat.
Fruits and vegetables
Try to eat every color of the rainbow! Give something new a try. Visit your local produce aisle or farmer’s market and pick up something you haven’t eaten before.
Meats, poultry, fish, beans, eggs and nuts
These all provide protein, a necessary part of a healthy diet, as well as other important nutrients. Consider giving a new protein a try; you may be surprised by what you think.
Featured Weight Management Benefits
- Wondr Health
Wondr Health is a 100% digital weight loss program that teaches clinically-proven skills through weekly master classes. The program is available at no cost to all UT SELECT and UT CARE medical plan members 18 yr. and older, including employees, retirees, spouses, and dependents who have not started a class within the last 12 months.
Wondr Health is clinically proven to help you lose weight, sleep better, and stress less. Wondr will teach you simple skills that are based on behavioral science, so you can enjoy your favorite foods and feel better than ever.
Important Dates
- Application Period: June 9-22
- Program start date: July 7
- LifeMart Discounts on Weight-Loss Programs
Find discounts and free trial memberships for established, well-known weight loss programs through our exclusive discount partner, LifeMart.
In addition to weigh-loss programs, access LifeMart Discounts on fitness gear, healthy eating, sleep health, gyms and virtual fitness, and much more.
Sign up today. First-time users should visit discountmember.lifecare.com and use registration code: UTSMC.
Need help with LifeMart discounts?
For fastest service, please directly helpdesk@lifecare.com the LifeMart Help Desk. - Nutrition Counseling
Looking for nutrition counseling or a dietician? Need assistance with eating better on a more structured level? Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas can assist you. For UT SELECT and UT CARE members, a personal health advocate is part of your plan.
Contact a health advocate 24/7 at 866-882-2034 for your health and benefit needs.
- Notice Regarding GLP-1 Drugs
Certain medications (collectively known as GLP-1s) prescribed for weight loss and weight loss management are excluded from your UT prescription drug coverage. Note that coverage for similar medications used to treat diabetes and for other types of weight loss medications remain available.
Effective 12/1/24, Express Scripts mail order pharmacy will temporarily not be accepting new patient prescriptions for GLP-1 due to drug shortages. For new patient orders of GLP-1 medications that have not been filled via mail order, please utilize your in-network retail pharmacy.
Please see the following for detailed information regarding GLP-1 drugs:
Please contact Express Scripts at 800-818-0155 or visit the plan website for assistance identifying covered medications.