Improving Health and Wellness

Weight Wellness

A highly personalized and interactive program designed to help individuals with weight issues understand how foods affect their metabolism, what emotional triggers prompt poor eating habits and how these patterns can be changed. This course provides participants with tips, tools and techniques they can use to become their idea size and improve their overall physical, mental and spiritual health.
Participants will:

• Get in touch with the body's signals and keep a record of eating habits, physical activity levels, challenges and achievements.
• Complete a Dietary Needs Assessment to determine appropriate foods.
• Learn about the Glycemic Index of foods.
• Receive Low Glycemic Recipes.
• Participate in visualizations focusing on Motivation, Self-Esteem and Changing Eating Patterns.
• Become aware of negative “self-talk” and be introduced to "EFT for Fat Loss".
• Receive group support.
• Have access to ongoing in-person or telephone coaching.

Six-week program (one and one-half hour sessions)

Four-hour workshop introduces participants to eating patterns based on Glycemic Indexing and healthy, whole foods, the process of EFT and a guided imagery session.

One and one-half hour session introduces participants to healthy eating habits based on the Glycemic Index.

Food: Am I Really What I Eat?

Participants will learn how to think critically about food choices, read labels and evaluate foods.
Topics covered also include:

Metabolic Profiling – a means of assessing foods that are most appropriate for an individual’s metabolism. Not what friends say, not what some "expert" says, not what may be read in a magazine -- rather, a diet that is precisely tailored and customized for THAT person’s metabolism. High protein, high fat, low carb? Vegetarian? Low fat, low protein, high complex carbs?

Glycemic Index (GI) – a ranking of carbohydrate-containing foods, based on the food's effect on blood sugar compared with a standard reference food's effect. High-glycemic foods (i.e., rapidly absorbed carbohydrates such as white bread, soft drinks, snacks, etc.) result in a rapid rise in blood sugar followed by an insulin spike and drop in blood sugar. This results in hunger and a tendency to eat more often, which may lead to increased calorie intake, obesity and health issues.

Benefits:

• Increased understanding of how food quality is a key factor in human biochemistry
• Increased understanding that all carbohydrate foods are not created the same and can behave very differently in our bodies.
• Knowledge that can lead to weight loss, reduced body fat and reduction in risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
• Reduction in hunger and more balanced body energy

(Format: one, two or three-hour programs)

Eating for Energy … The Fuel That Keeps you Going

The program teaches participants how to select food that will sharpen the mind, modify moods and increase energy. In the process they will be able to overcome the daily “energy slumps”, thus becoming more effective and productive in their jobs.
Participants will be able to:

• Gain an understanding of the ways that foods affect body chemistry and energy levels
• Increase their knowledge of healthy substitutes for some of the common addictive items such as sugar and caffeine
• Discover new ways to combat fatigue and tiredness

(Format: one-hour program)

Break Free From Your Cravings

Do you feel like foods have control over you? Do you binge on low quality foods? Do you eat for reasons other than hunger? Food is often used to "tranquilize" anxiety caused by unresolved emotional issues. Until one's underlying anger, fear, guilt, trauma, etc. are dissipated, the eating disorder will remain. EFT can target and relieve those underlying feelings that drive the urgent food cravings, compulsive overeating, and other sabotaging behaviors.
(Format: two-hour program)