Eating Healthier: Making the Change Workshop

A person’s diet can have an incredible impact on emotional and physical well-being.  Making lifestyle changes, such as eating healthy, can be challenging; however, there are many science-backed, practical and simple strategies that have been found to help make it easier and more rewarding.

The Making the Change programme is not about a fad diet.   It instead helps you to stick to the lifestyle diet of your choice.  You’ll learn practical and science-backed strategies that can help make it easier (and more enjoyable) for you to make sustainable changes to your diet.

The workshop presenter, Lynda-Maree Bavin, PhD, is passionate about helping others apply practical and science-backed techniques to make long-term changes to behaviours that impact their physical health and emotional well-being. Lynda-Maree has a Masters and a PhD in psychology (with a focus on health psychology and entertainment-education), has presented at international conferences, and is an executive committee member of the Australasian Society of Behavioural Health and Medicine.

During the half-day kick-starter workshop, you will:

• Learn strategies that can help make it easier to start and stick to healthy eating
• Identify your personal drivers and triggers of unhealthy eating, overeating, or unplanned snacking
• Be guided through creating an implementation plan that appeals to you and that will help you overcome your personal challenges
• Learn how healthy eating improves physical health and emotional well-being
• Discover how your journey to eating healthier can be an enjoyable adventure
• Receive a guidebook that will help you identify your personal motivations, challenges and triggers, and that you can use to develop your personal implementation plan
• And because weight loss or weight maintenance is a common reason for wanting to eat healthier or reduce overeating, the workshop also includes a section about the influences on weight and body composition (there are some obvious and some less obvious factors that can influence body composition and contribute to weight gain).
• There will be a short refreshment break during the workshop.

In the 12 weeks following the workshop, you will:

• Have access to a private facebook group where you can share your journey and give and receive support from others who have also attended a Making the Change workshop.  
• Receive short, daily motivational/reminder emails to support you in making the change to eating healthier.

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If you have any questions about the workshop or program, please email info@wellbeing-insights.com

Testimonials

The following reviews are from attendees of the Making the Change Kickstarter programme and anonymous feedback from students who have taken Dr Lynda-Maree’s classes at the University of Auckland on eating and exercise psychology, nutrition psychology, obesity and weight management, psychology of play, substance use psychology, influences on health behaviours, health behaviour change strategies, scientific research methods, stress management, physician-patient communication, and behavioural psychology.

“The Kickstarter workshop included heaps of strategies that were easy to understand and has helped me change my eating. I learned heaps!  Highly recommend.”  

“Lynda’s lectures motivated me to eat better and start exercising.  It was great to get a personal benefit from the lectures.  I’ll keep using the techniques. Thanks Lynda!”

“Lynda is very knowledgeable, approachable and helpful. Her explanations helped to make the content easy to understand. She helped me to think outside the box and use different approaches. Lynda made the learning experience really great!”

“Are lectures allowed to be this interesting?”

“I love how I could use what I learned to help me become healthier.  The content was very practical!  I’ve also used Lynda’s strategies taught in the lecture to help my sister stop eating so much junk food.”

“Lynda was very approachable and the information she presented was very up to date. She was also very knowledgeable of her topics.”

“I really enjoyed the workshop. It had lots of good information. I did the workshop to help me lose weight. Have lost 2 kg in 2 weeks so far. Really happy with that. The emails have been good for keeping me motivated and helps remind me of things from the workshop.”

“She made the topics really interesting.”

“Lynda is a wonderful lecturer. Very approachable and I enjoyed her use of edu-entertainment to deliver lectures. She is clear and knows what she’s talking about.”

“Fantastic!  I’ve started using exergames 🙂 “

“I really enjoyed these set of lectures. It was easy to follow the lecturer and the content was interesting!”

“I’ve found the programme motivational. The workshop is jam packed with lots of ways to not be so tempted by junk food and to get up and do some exercise. I found it useful to put together my own action plan. It has made it easier to eat healthier and do more exercise. The guidebook given in the workshop was good.”

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