Ima's Two-month Check
 She's been on her own for four weeks
The IHP program was designed with a specific time-frame in mind. The first three sessions are each two-weeks apart. The fourth and fifth sessions are each four weeks apart, and the sixth session is 12 weeks after that.
The reason for the incremental increase in length between sessions is so that participants can gain confidence in working toward their health goals while still under their Wellness Consultant's guidance.
Ima is meeting with her Wellness Consultant this month after four weeks on her own. She feels like she did pretty well working toward her goals, but she is glad she has another meeting before being left on her own.
Ima's biggest challenge is food. She's is very busy with work, family, and exercising that she doesn't have a lot of time to cook and she's been finding herself picking up to-go dinners on the way home more than she should. She also confides to her Wellness Consultant that transitioning her family to healthier foods has created a mutiny of sorts at her house.
Wellness Consultant on Nutrition
Cooking in bulk is a good way to ward off the to-go dinners. Ima's Wellness Consultant suggested that one night a week or on the weekend, Ima cooks enough extra for a couple meals and freezes it. There's even a website dedicated to people just like Ima: http://www.once-a-month-cookingworld.com/.
Her Wellness Consultant also suggested that if to-go or restaurant dining is necessary, it's not the end of the world, it's just important to make healthy choices. If eating salad, get the dressing on the side. Ask for a side of vegetables/fruit instead of potatoes, pasta, or bread.
About that mutiny, continue to buy and eat healthy food at home. Being a good role model for your family is the first step. Also, view the USDA's videocast on our site about being a Nutritional Gatekeeper.
Ima will have another four weeks to try out the suggestions before her Three-month Review. She schedules her next session and leaves with renewed hope.
IHP Participant Comments
- Great information on exercising smarter.
- This is a great program. Thanks.
- Heidi is so nice and personable. I just love going to my IHP sessions.
- Very nice benefit, great support, good motivational tool.
- These sessions with Brook has been extremely helpful in getting me motivated and setting new goals. He is great at giving me new goals and ideas for making small but valuable changes in my eating and exercising habits. I really like meeting with him; he has definitely helped motivate my desire for weight loss and adding more diverse exercise.
- Thank you again for this additional help from WIN and UA for offering this valuable program to the employees to achieve a healthy life style. In only two months, I feel I am well on my way to achieving my goals and I look forward to continued help and feedback in my remaining sessions.
- I look forward to see if information given to me will help me reach my goal.
- I think this is a very valuable program and really want to see it continue.
- Thank you and UAA for bringing this to us.
- I appreciated Heidi's positive and non-judgmental attitude, even in the face of my less than stellar effort. This is very helpful when one is trying to get 'back on track' in a fitness and nutrition routine. THANKS!
- I found the IHP Initial session to be very informative and comprehensive. I feel I received information and an overall health plan that is very tailored to my lifestyle and life circumstances, which makes the plan easy and realistic to me.
- I really enjoyed my first IHP meeting. Afterwards I feel positive and empowered about my goals and choices and have a great feeling that I am on the right track.
|
WIN for Alaska, Inc.