Healthy LIFE Super Seminar

Key Facts and Skills for Weight Management

Download the Healthy LIFE Super Seminar Registration form

This fun and educational one-time seminar will teach many basics of healthy weight management, including nutrition information, behavioral skills, and the importance of enjoyable exercise. This seminar is perfect for kids and teens who tend to put on weight more easily than others. It is the most affordable educational option available to families and a great place to start!

Dates:  Tuesday Evening, September 20, 2011  (Classroom C and D-second floor)

Time: 5:30-7:45   Cost: $100/family

Instructor: Dr. Debra Gill, Psychologist specializing in weight management

Place: Barnabas Health Ambulatory Care Center (200 South Orange Ave, Livingston)

Skills and Topics Covered:

• Reducing calories without deprivation and understanding “storage” of excess.
• Healthy Everyday Foods vs. Not-So-Healthy Sometimes foods
• Asking “Is it worth it”? Maximizing nutrition and enjoyment for your calories.
• Size matters!  Tips and tricks for controlling portions.
• Have your cake and TASTE it too! (Slow, savoring, and mindful eating)
• What you see is what you want! (or, out of sight, out of mind)
• Asking “Am I really Hungry?” … what to do with urges to eat if you’re not.
• Activity:  Exercise, “Exerplay” and finding time to MOVE

The Healthy LIFE Super Seminar provides our overweight patients at the Saint Barnabas Pediatric Specialty Center with a foundation of knowledge and skills that we build on with individualized behavioral coaching or the comprehensive Healthy LIFE program.

The individualized behavioral coaching involves personalized visits where each participant will see Debra Gill, Ph.D., our weight management expert. Participants will develop personal strategies for weight management, set specific and achievable goals, have accountability, receive regular checks of weight, and body composition, practice planning and problem-solving, and receive positive feedback for accomplishments. 

Individual coaching can be paid for privately ($49 each 15 minutes), or with your normal endocrine co-pay if it is combined with a brief visit with pediatric endocrinologist.  The Healthy LIFE program runs for about 6 months. People who join Healthy LIFE receive $100 credit so that the Super Seminar becomes free of charge.

Download the Healthy LIFE Super Seminar Registration form

FOR DIRECTIONS

INDIVIDUAL COACHING and counseling for weight management or any issues related to weight, lifestyle change, eating patterns, body image or emotional eating is also available. Please email Dr. Gill directly at dgill@barnabashealth.org.