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Shrinking Yourself Workshop

 

This workshop is designed to fill the gap in the current medical support for obese patients. The prescribed treatment is a healthy lifestyle by combining 'the eatwell plate' and reguar exercise which focuses on making changes for life instead of dieting and the subsequent yo-yo of weight loss and gain. Of course we all know that if we eat less and move more we will lose our excess weight ... so why is it failing to deliver the expected results with certain patients? 

 

Current practise for our local Health Board is to refer obese patients to the Lifestyle Management programme.

The programme is run by Betsi Cadwalader University Health Board and the National Exercise Referral Scheme. The programme is delivered by an Exercise Professional, Physiotherapist and Dietician.

The Lifestyle Management Programme consists of a 32 week structured programme for participants who have a BMI of 35 or more who have osteoarthritis in their hips or knees. The programme has been designed to support and deliver a weight management and exercise programme to encourage weight loss through increasing activity levels and healthy eating.

 

The main focus of the NHS programme is the body with very little understanding of the how important the mind is in weight loss and lifestyle changes. Although the current practise includes re-educating patients in nutrition and healthy food choices, it does not take into account the mental health and extra suport requirements that some obese patients need in order to make those healthy choices. This is because the NHS does not yet validate food addiction as a mental health condition. The truth is that food and the act of eating can be used in the same way as drugs and alcohol for the same multitude of reasons - stress, depression, to get a buzz, to deal with feelings, anxiety, to celebrate. The feeling that the addict gets when he indulges in his addiction of choice is the same and it is this pleasurable moment (however short lived) that becomes addictive.  

 
Lesson 1

 

Discovery 

  • course overview - addictive food & addictive eating behaviours

  • rules - negativity and confidentiality

  • What is stopping you losing weight - mental health barriers to a healthy lifestyle

  • what is food addiction and compulsive overeating 

  • how our thoughts keep us fat - an introduction to affirmation work

  • Adrenal fatigue and stress 

  • an introduction to 'shrinking yourself'

  • Homework - new thoughts to work on

                            - what are our personal negative beliefs 

 

Lesson 2
 
Understanding & Recovering Part 1

 

  • Round up of homework - what are our personal negative beliefs and what affirmations will help

Working through 'shrinking yourself'

  • getting started

  • emotional eating - conquering the feeling phobia

  • food as a tranquilizer - Waking up from the food trance

  • self doubt and how to challenge them

How to use affirmations in your daily life

It is incredibly frustrating  being a food addict (or emotional overeater or whatever you want to call someone who deals with life by stuffing their face) and not having access to the same level of support as someone who's drug of choice is alcohol instead of chocolate. My answer to that is to create this workshop to supplement the health re-education that is available.

 

I hope it can help anyone suffering with the same issues as me to stay on that path of healthy choices for life.

x Munch 

Lesson 3

 

Understanding & Recovering Part 2
 

  • powerlessness and frustration - defeating defeatism

  • fat = safety v creating real safety

  • rebelling through eating - dealing with anger like a grown up

  • food to fill an emptiness - fill your self up

conclusions - where we go from here 

a new daily structure

 

 

 

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