Learn how to eat healthier, move more, and lose weight with the YMCA's Weight Loss Program. No gimmicks, no restrictive approaches — just the tools you need to achieve your wellness goals.

This program will provide strategies to incorporate nutrition and physical activity into your lifestyle, keep you motivated, and address the obstacles and pitfalls that make losing weight, and keeping it off, a challenge. You'll meet weekly with a small group for one hour in a classroom. This supportive network will help when the going gets tough and celebrate success along the way.

Details:

  1. 12 weeks with 1 session a week
  2. For adults 18 years or older
  3. FREE for YMCA members

Find a Class Near You

To see a map of all our branches, visit our locations page.

Bronx

Castle Hill YMCA

For more information, contact Erika Hernandez at ehernandez@ymcanyc.org.

Brooklyn

Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA

For more information, contact William Robinson-Locke at wlocke@ymcanyc.org.    
 

Coney Island YMCA

For more information, contact Kevin Foster at kfoster@ymcanyc.org.    
 

Park Slope Armory YMCA

  • April 29-July 15, 2024
  • Mondays 5-6pm 
  • Location: Park Slope Armory Yoga Studio 

For more information, contact Devonte Johnson at djohnson@ymcanyc.org.

Manhattan

Chinatown YMCA

  • Wednesdays, 4:30 PM — starting January 29

For more information, contact Patricia Rivera at privera@ymcanyc.org.

 

Harlem YMCA

 

For more information, contact Tyrique Wade at twade@ymcanyc.org.
 

McBurney YMCA

For more information, contact James Dolle at jdolle@ymcanyc.org.
 

Vanderbilt YMCA

For more information, contact Adam Gruberger at agruberger@ymcanyc.org.
 

West Side YMCA

For more information, contact the West Side YMCA team at wsyhealthylifestyles@ymcanyc.org.

Queens

Cross Island YMCA

For more information, contact Justin Lim at jlim@ymcanyc.org.
 

Flushing YMCA

For more information, contact Christopher Kui at ckui@ymcanyc.org.
 

Jamaica YMCA

For more information, contact Janet Martinez at mjanet@ymcanyc.org.
 

Ridgewood YMCA

For more information, contact Kiara Ross at kross@ymcanyc.org.
 

Long Island City YMCA

For more information, contact Heidy Lopez at hlopez@ymcanyc.org.

Rockaway YMCA

  • Tuesdays, 1 PM — starting January 28
  • Saturdays, 3:30 PM — starting February 1

For more information, contact Ann Fosteris at afosteris@ymcanyc.org.

Staten Island

Broadway YMCA

  • Tuesdays, 10:00 AM — starting January 7
  • Wednesdays, 6:30 PM — starting January 8

For more information, contact Liza Horner at lhorner@ymcanyc.org.
 

South Shore YMCA

  • Tuesdays, 11 AM — starting January 14

For more information, contact Valerie Krause at vkrause@ymcanyc.org.

Why the Y Weight Loss Program?

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  1. It's Empowering.
    We give you the tools to design weight loss goals that will work for you.
     
  2. It's Supportive.
    We harness the power of the group to support, encourage, learn, and solve problems.
     
  3. It's Personal.
    We help you define what success looks like.

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