1. HEALTHY HABITS FOR LIFE
A Common Sense Approach
to Healthy Living- Grades 4/5
Leader Guide for Healthy Habits for Life
Thank you for choosing Healthy Habits for Life: Your 6 Week Guide to Food and Fitness. This Leader Guide is designed as a series of slides. Teaching tips and activity ideas for each week are listed on the “Notes” section of the title slide for each week. Each slide was taken directly from the text of the book. Participants will find it easy to understand the lecture by following in their books.
The slides are divided into: an introduction
a presentation for each of the six weeks
a summary
You may down load them for free from this web site, save them on your hard drive and add to them or change them to suit your individual needs.
General Guidelines
The classes are designed to be taught in 6 one hour sessions but experience has shown that there is a lot of information to cover and the classes may be better taught dividing them slightly differently than the book is divided. Week Two (Eat Well) can really take two weeks to teach and Weeks 5 & 6 (Shop Smart and Fit It In) can both be covered in one session. There is enough material that the entire program could be extended to 8-10 weeks.
It is very important at the beginning of the program to set some ground rules. The nature of the material lends itself to much class discussion. Participants should be made aware of the amount of material to be covered in one short hour and the need to be respectful of the time. It may be necessary to meet separately with particularly outspoken persons out side of class time to address personal issues. Ideally, each participant would have a one hour consultation before the beginning of the program to help them through some of the personal information in Week Two and becoming familiar with their goals, concerns, etc.
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. Healthy Habits for Life: Your 6 Week Guide to Food and Fitness
Eat Well for the Health of It
6 Food and Activity Journals
Food Facts Booklet
Menu Planner Worksheet Master
Quick 2 Fix Recipe Brochure

5. 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

6. 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

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

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

9. 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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

16. 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

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

18. Evaluate Your Eating Habits
Food and Activity Journal

19. 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

20. MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIVISION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH LITERACY
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