Workplace Wellness
Happy Ways to Healthy Bodies Seminar Series
This 6 week seminar series is designed to help people recognize and shape healthy lifestyle habits. Weekly lunch-hour or after-work sessions include helpful handouts and discussions to reinforce positive habits. Group support increases motivation and results!
Each seminar will include:
- Progress appraisal
- Session topic presentation and discussion
- Fitbreak: workplace wellness stretches to increase
energy and decrease stress
- Resources, handouts, behavior modification
strategies, tracking sheets for activity and food
- Question and answer period
- Group support and networking
Session Topics:
Getting Started:
- What is a healthy body composition? How is this
assessed?
- Body Mass Index (BMI) explained and done
- Discussion of other self-assessment tools
- Energy 1 – 2 – 3 : a simple, healthy start to better eating
Changing Habits:
- How habits are shaped and changed
- Assessment of personal habits that affect body
composition and health
- Techniques to change lifestyle habits for the better
- Commitment to small, effective changes you can make
Nutrition Basics:
- Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating (handout
with explanation)
- Reading labels: the 30% fat rule; what does
‘light’ mean, anyway?…
- Counting calories: is it necessary?
- Tips and tricks for reducing overeating: the portion
solution
- The thermal effect of a meal: why skipping meals doesn’t make sense
The Role of Physical Activity:
- Turn on your metabolic furnace
- Calories in – calories out: the metabolic
balance
- Ways to include more healthy activity in your
lifestyle
- Commit to be more fit!
Body Image:
- How comfortable are you with your shape?
- How realistic are your expectations for change?
- Framing your body composition in a healthy light
Where to from Here?
- Maintaining your healthier habits
- Support solutions: family, buddies, organizations,
medical community
- Nutrition, fitness and health resources
- Discussion, graduation, evaluation of program