1. HEALTHY HABITS FOR LIFE A Common Sense Approach to Healthy Living Week One

2. Gradual Permanent Lifestyle Changes will lead to:  Life long eating and activity habits  Higher energy levels  Decreased health risks  Long term weight control and maintenance

3. Overview  Start Fresh: Taking Steps to a Healthier You  Eat Well : A Healthy Approach to Eating  Move It: A Healthy Approach to Fitness  Plan It: Putting it all Together for Healthy Eating  Shop Smart: Grocery Shopping for a Healthier You  Fit It In: Healthy Eating on the Run

4. Start Fresh: Taking Steps to a Healthier You  The Truth About Diets  Learn to Love and Accept Yourself  Make Peace with Food  Take Control of Emotional Eating  Evaluate Your Eating Habits

5. The Truth About Diets  Diets are unhealthy  Diets lead to weight gain  The cost of dieting is high  Looking good involves more than dieting  The dieting cycle can be broken

6. A Word About Fad Diets: The authors rely on our lack of knowledge of the science of weight management to sell their books.

7.  Promise of quick, easy weight loss  The challenge is achieving permanent, not temporary weight loss A Word About Fad Diets:

8. A Word About Fad Diets: Weight Management that Works  Slow weight loss (1-2 pounds/week)  Balanced eating plan  Regular physical activity  Skill building for life  Credible author/ peer reviews

9. Learn to Love & Accept Yourself Your genetic makeup is what makes you unique

10. Learn to Love & Accept Yourself: Accept Your Individuality  Look your best now  Put the scales away  Beauty comes in many sizes  Deflate your saboteurs  Project a confident you  Be your own best friend

11. Making Time for Me Remember, only when you take care of yourself can you truly take care of others. You need to be well- fed, well-rested, well-supported and in good physical shape.

12. Make Peace with Food: Begin Eating Intuitively  Legalize all foods  Listen to your hunger –The hunger scale  Stop when you are full

13. Take Control of Emotional Eating: Eating is one of the most emotionally charged experiences we have in our lives.

14. Take Control of Emotional Eating: Searching for Comfort with Food The Triggers:  Love  Anger  Boredom  Anxiety

15. Take Control of Emotional Eating: Coping  Do you feel hunger?  If yes, then eat.  If no, what are you feeling?  What are your options other than eating?  Nurture yourself

16. Taking Control of Emotional Eating: Your Plan  Coping with your feelings  Nurturing yourself  You deserve a break!

17. Evaluate Your Eating Habits Food and Activity Journal

18. The Plan: Week One  Begin to nurture yourself  Legalize all foods  Eat when you are hungry  Stop when you are full  Complete the Food and Activity Journal for the week