Lifestyle Skills Training
- Understanding your resting metabolic rate calorie calculation: Determining how much food your body requires
- Refrigerator and pantry round-up: An assessment of what is currently in your kitchen compared to your nutrition and weight management goals
- Meal Planning: Not a diet, but a meal-by-meal and snack-by-snack selection of choices designed to meet your goals
- Food Journaling:
◦ Fosters mindful eating
◦ Research has shown just by carefully observing an event, you can change the outcome - Mindful Eating Skills: Creates awareness of the hundreds of food choices we have each day and develops strategies to embrace the foods we love and minimize empty calories
- Supermarket Safari: Your shopping list, your food store, your goals…but with the guidance to make choices consistent with your nutrition and weight management goals
- Restaurant and dining-out skills:
◦ Restaurants are like minefields…if you can avoid the danger zones, you can make it home safely
◦ Develops the skills to identify foods consistent with your goals, avoid invisible calorie-laden traps, order what you need with skill
◦ Manage blowback from dining partners with savvy and confidence - Seminars, Lunch-and-Learns, Nutritional Skills Workshops