Mandy Pearson and Nutrition consultant Rachel Bartholomew (Dip ION MBANT) run an on-going weight-loss group at Cedar Farm Galleries, in Lancashire one evening a week.
Who will benefit: If you have tried other diets or weight-loss programmes and found that they work for a while, then you go back to old habit patterns this programme is for you. The course takes a fresh approach to weight loss. It combines nutritional with psychological expertise to improve your relationship with food, one bite at a time. The course is open to everyone who wants to change their eating habits for good.
What is Mindful eating: Mindful Eating is a holistic approach to weight loss which takes into account nutritional, psychological, and spiritual principles to help you change your eating habits and maintain your ideal weight for good. It is a way of understanding your own patterns and transforming your mindset to enable you to achieve the results you want and keep them. Many programmes work on a superficial level, without ever exploring the deep-seated unconscious reasons why people eat the way they eat. The Mindful Eating Programme will challenge you to examine your beliefs and programming around food whilst providing you with practical tools, techniques and up to the minute nutritional advice and insight that will allow you to make the changes you need to make to get the results you want.
What will I learn? You will gain understanding of a life-long healthy approach to eating , insight into your own patterns that hold you back and skills and techniques to help you overcome your eating challenges.
Content will include:
- Setting powerful goals and getting motivated
- A personal nutrition plan that is right for you
- Exploring eating habits and replicating the habits of slim people
- Dietary strategies to support ‘fat’ loss – the ‘holy grail’ of weight loss
- Exploring the relationship between stress, overeating and weight gain
- Practical & nutritional strategies to help tackle your stress levels
- Blood sugar & low ‘GI’ – what’s all the hype really about?
- Transforming your beliefs around food and overcoming childhood programming and self-sabotage.
- How to resist cravings and cultural pressure to eat the wrong foods
- How to incorporate essential fats into your diet to support healthy weight loss
- Improving your self-image and confidence
In a Nutshell: Mindful Eating is a weight loss programme that actually works, for good, without calorie counting, weekly public weigh-ins or tape measures. The course will be assessed by just how ‘great’ you feel by the end of it!
What can I expect? Top quality Demonstrations and presentations; Group support & discussion; Practical exercises and tools; Up to the minute information; Training at a conscious and unconscious level to embed new healthy eating patterns.
Location: The programme will take place in the beautiful countryside setting of Cedar Farm Galleries. Cedar Farm is situate just 15 minutes from junction 27 of the M6 in Mawdesley, Lancashire.