Healthy Lifestyle Keynotes by Mindful Eating Expert, Dr. Michelle May
Eat Mindfully, Live Vibrantly
Audience: This keynote presentation is perfect for corporate and association audiences, wellness or women's conferences, and spouse programs. Continuing education credits available.
Description: To live vibrantly, we must fuel our bodies mindfully - yet most diets are restrictive and unsustainable leaving us feeling guilty and disappointed. This interactive, entertaining keynote delves much deeper than the obvious advice to "eat less, exercise more." Using humor, personal anecdotes, and uncommon insight, Michelle shows you how to make healthy lifestyle changes that nourish your body and fuel the fulfilling life you deserve.
Your audience will learn:
- How to break the Eat-Repent-Repeat cycle
- Simple, yet powerful strategies for knowing when, what and how much to eat
- How to recognize and cope effectively with triggers for mindless and emotional eating
- How to balance eating for nourishment with eating for enjoyment - without deprivation or guilt
Fueling a Vibrant, Healthy Workforce (or Community)
Audience: This keynote presentation is perfect for corporate wellness programs, food industry, health care professionals, and policy makers. Continuing education credits available.
Description: Organizations interested in tackling obesity and promoting healthier lifestyles need engaging, positive, and practical strategies to effect behavior change. To stem the impact of obesity, it is critical to move beyond advice-giving and address the core issues that affect diet and exercise choices. This presentation explores innovative approaches to help individuals develop mindful eating patterns that don't result in weight cycling. This interactive, entertaining keynote is punctuated by real life, practical examples illustrating how to implement the strategies in a variety of settings (customized to the audience). Dr. May delivers this crucial and timely message with passion, energy and insight that leave a lasting impression.
Your audience will learn:
- The bio-psycho-social drivers of eating important for the development of effective messages and programs
- Six crucial decision points that impact the way people manage their weight
- Why mindful eating is a powerful and universal solution to the complex problem of obesity
- Specific strategies to encourage sustainable healthy eating habits and active lifestyles
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat
Audience: This keynote presentation is ideal for the food, beverage, and restaurant industries.
Description: After decades of a difficult love-hate relationship with food, consumers crave a positive, rational approach to eating. Unconventional strategies that promote mindful eating and fearless enjoyment of food offer a powerful and universal solution to the complex issues contributing to obesity and unhealthy lifestyles. This interactive, eye-opening keynote deconstructs the Eating Cycle and explores the bio-psycho-social drivers of each decision point. Dr. Michelle May is not only an award-winning author and mindful eating expert, she is an industry-insider. With her family immersed in the restaurant business for the last 25 years and a professional chef-husband, she offers uncommon (and unconventional) insights.
Your audience will learn:
- The bio-psycho-social drivers of eating important for the development of products and consumer messages
- How to effectively engage consumers to make sustainable healthy lifestyle choices
- Strategies for communicating messages that promote mindful eating and fearless enjoyment of food
A Family Centered Approach to Lifelong Healthy Habits
Audience: This keynote presentation is perfect for policy makers, educators, health care professionals, and parents. Continuing education credits available.
Description: The alarming trend of unhealthy dietary habits and sedentary lifestyles puts families at significant health risk. In this interactive, entertaining keynote, Michelle shares specific strategies for encouraging families to incorporate healthy behaviors throughout their lives.
Your audience will learn:
- How to guide families to take charge of their lifestyle choices
- How to effectively engage parents and children in a healthy, active, balanced life
- Strategies for communicating positive lifestyle messages that result in meaningful, sustainable behavior change