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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