Outline:
- Welcome Sarah & Sarah’s experience working with Jenn
- How Sarah’s balancing going back to work with her health goals
- Talking about our health/weight loss goals: Jenn didn’t share with roommates in college, Sarah did share with her current roommate
- Doing this alone is hard & a study about having support on this journey
- Talking to the wellness ally:
- Has anyone share their health goals with you? Initial responses matter.
- It can be confronting for the ally
- Let the person on the health path drive the conversation
- Grace & compassion – in meals, social plans, etc.
- Make plans that don’t have food as the focus, experiences and activities instead or in addition
- Choose restaurants with healthful options
- For dessert…offer once.
- Compliments & how to notice results
- Avoid being the subtle saboteur
- Be indifferent to the details
- When we feel others around us need to focus on their health
- How to be silently supportive
- Let your example be the invitation
- Be balanced, your extreme doesn’t compensate for their decisions
- When you’re on the wellness journey
- Enlist the support of a coach
- Find wellness and activity friends
- Choose carefully who you share this with and tell them what to do to support you
- A final note to the ally, what kind of friend do you want to be?
Quotes:
“Compliment the energy…or the clothes…instead of the weight loss.” – Jenn Trepeck
“Be indifferent to the details and supportive of the effort, energy and commitment.” – Jenn Trepeck
“Let your example be the invitation.” – Jenn Trepeck
Links:
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Take the free Weight Loss Profile, Jenn will send you a Menu Plan