2009 Press Releases

Healthy LIFE Super Seminar
Key Facts and Skills for Weight Management

(Livingston, NJ) Saint Barnabas Medical Center is offering a one night HealthyLife Super Seminar for families looking to address weight problems in their children.  Healthy LIFE Super Seminar is a  fun, educational 2 1/2-hour seminar that will teach many basics of healthy weight management, including nutrition information, behavioral skills, and the importance of enjoyable exercise. This seminar is perfect for kids and teens who tend to put on weight more easily than others. It is the most affordable educational option we have available to overweight patients and their families and a great place to start!

Date:  Thursday Evening, September 10, 2009    

Time: 5:30-8:00   Cost: $100/family

Instructor:   Dr. Debra Gill, Psychologist specializing in weight management

Place: Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center (Classroom A and B)

Registration Deadline:  September 2, 2009

Skills and Topics Covered:

• Reducing calories while increasing enjoyment—deprivation-free weight loss
  
  
• Healthy Everyday Foods vs. Not-So-Healthy Sometimes foods
  
  
• Have your cake and TASTE it too! (Slow, savoring, and mindful eating)
  
  
• Size matters!  Tips and tricks for controlling portions
  
  
• What you see is what you want! (or, out of sight, out of mind)
  
  
• Stop! … in the name of Fullness; and asking “Am I really Hungry?”
  
  
• What’s in a label anyway?  (Basics of reading food labels and daily nutrition goals)
  
  
• Asking “Is it worth it”?   Maximizing nutrition and enjoyment for your calories.
  
  
• Activity:  Exercise, “Exerplay” and finding time to MOVE

This Healthy LIFE Super Seminar provides our overweight patients at the Saint Barnabas Pediatric Specialty Center with a foundation of knowledge and skills that we build on with the Healthy LIFE behavioral coaching program.

The Healthy LIFE behavioral coaching program involves 4-8 personalized visits where each participant will see Debra Gill, Ph.D., our weight management expert, as well as one of four pediatric endocrinologists (MD’s). Visits will not carry additional costs above your usual costs for an endocrine doctor visit. However, participants must have attended the Healthy LIFE Super Seminar (held approximately once a month) in order to learn the techniques they will be putting into action during the Healthy LIFE behavioral coaching program.  (The cost of Dr. Gill’s weight management coaching visits is normally $192 per hour, so patients save a lot by participating in this combined of seminar plus coaching.

In the Healthy LIFE behavioral coaching program, participants will develop personal strategies for weight management, set specific and achievable goals, have accountability, receive regular checks of weight, body fat and muscle, practice planning and problem-solving, and receive positive feedback for accomplishments. You will learn more about how the behavioral coaching program works when you attend the Super Seminar.  We look forward to seeing you there. Registration is due by September 2, 2009.  

In addition, families who take the Healthy LIFE Super Seminar will receive $100 off the tuition for our 6-month comprehensive pediatric weight management program, the Healthy LIFE program.  The next Healthy LIFE 6-month program is set to start October 8, 2009.

For more information, please email Dr. Gill (dgill@sbhcs.com) or leave her a message at 973-322-7620. To learn more about Healthy LIFE or the Super Seminar, just link to http://tinyurl.com/superseminar.

Date: August 5, 2009

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