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Struggling With Your Weight : 3 steps to lifelong success for you or a loved one

Struggling With Your Weight : 3 steps to lifelong success for you or a loved one. Meghan Enriquez Stacy Goldsholl. Who knows someone who has struggled with their weight? Who knows someone who has tried many different ways of trying to lose weight, and was unable to maintain that weight loss?

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Struggling With Your Weight : 3 steps to lifelong success for you or a loved one

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  1. Struggling With Your Weight: 3 steps to lifelong success for you or a loved one Meghan Enriquez Stacy Goldsholl

  2. Who knows someone who has struggled with their weight? • Who knows someone who has tried many different ways of trying to lose weight, and was unable to maintain that weight loss? Our goal is to help you set-up a sustainable lifelong exercise routine

  3. Who are we?

  4. Who are you?

  5. Today we will… • Review the benefits of a structured exercise program • Discuss barriers to exercise • Identify steps for success • Develop an action plan

  6. What is Exercise? • What do you think of when you hear the word “exercise”? • Exercise is plannedand structured movement that is done to help improve health and fitness.

  7. How much Exercise? • 250 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic exercise each week • 10 minutes at a time is fine!

  8. What is Moderate Intensity Exercise? • Moderate activity feels somewhat hard. Here are clues that your exercise intensity is at a moderate level: • Your breathing quickens, but you're not out of breath. • You develop a light sweat after about 10 minutes of activity. • You can carry on a conversation, but you can't sing.

  9. What counts as moderate intensity? • Brisk walking • Bicycling • Tennis • Swimming • Aerobics classes • Pushing a lawn mower

  10. Benefits of Exercise • Physical benefits • Emotional/Mental Benefits

  11. Barriers and Challenges Why is it so tough to include exercise into your day? • Weather • Time • Don’t feel like it/tired • What else?

  12. Expectations • You’re not always going to feel like exercising • What will motivate you? • Take it slow and build up • Set specific and realistic goals • A little is better than nothing – everything counts!

  13. The ACHIEVE Trial • 18 month trial at 10 PRPs in Maryland • Weight loss through exercise and diet • Exercise: • 3 days/week for 50 min/class Over 18 months, average weight loss was 7 lbs!

  14. What we learned from ACHIEVE • Planning and consistency • Activity was intentional = moderate intensity aerobic activity • Set the bar high!

  15. Look on the bright side! • Change your expectations • If you wait until you feel like doing it, you’ll never do it • Plan ahead – know what you’re going to do • Expect barriers and have a backup plan • Make it social • Celebrate what you did do

  16. What is Your plan?

  17. Pedometers • A device that counts the number of steps you take • Worn on your hip or lower back • Put it on in the morning, take it off before bed • Goal = 10,000 steps/day

  18. If you know anyone living with serious mental illness who would like to receive more information about our future studies, please see us before you leave.

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