Healthy Lifestyle Keynotes by Obesity 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.
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 anectodotes, and uncommon insight, Michelle shows you how to make healthy lifesyle changes that nourish your body and fuel the fulfilling life you deserve.
Your audience will learn:
- Simple, yet powerful strategies for knowing when, what and how much to eat
- How to break the Eat-Repent-Repeat cycle
- How to recognize and cope effectively with triggers for overeating
- How to balance eating for health with eating for pleasure - 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.
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
A Family Centered Approach to Healthy Lifestyles
Audience: This keynote presentation is perfect for policy makers, educators, health care professionals, and parents.
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