Healthy Habits 4 Life Programme
Healthy Habits 4 Life Programme
This is a FREE programme for families in Cumbria targeted at promoting a healthy weight and lifestyle.
Families will be offered 1:1 support on a range of areas including:
- Nutrition
- Active Lifestyles
- Healthy habits
- Wellbeing
A Public Health Practitioner will meet with you at a time and place to suit you and your family, this could be in your own home, at school or by video and will work with you over a number of weeks.
If you would like to know more or want your child to be included please make an appointment in the E-School Nurse clinic by ringing 01228 603973.
Session 1 is all about 'healthy lifestyles' the aims are:
- To become familiar with the Healthy Habits for Life Advisors
- To understand the activity book and structure of the sessions
- To understand the benefits of making lifestyle changes for their family
- To consider having a baseline measurement of height and weight
- To think about family routines
- To start a food and activity diary for the review at the next session
Resources to support the session
You and your Family
Hydration
Sleep
Daily Steps
NHS Support Apps
Useful Links
Session 2 is all about 'eating well' the aims are:
- Review and action planning.
- To Review the 'food diary'.
- To discuss any potential barriers to changes.
- To gain a full understanding of the 'Eatwell Guide' and how to use this.
- To create an action plan with an identified area of change
Resources to support the session
How to build a healthy meal
The Eatwell Guide
Healthy breakfast
Healthy lunch boxes
Healthy snacks
The hunfer scale
Recipies
Useful Links
Session 3 is all about 'finding the balance' the aims are:
- To explain 'energy in v energy out'
- To understand portion size for young people
- To introduce the 80/20 and meal maths approach
- To discuss healthy swaps and understanding food labels (looking at the food scanner)
- Looking at labels
- To introduce meal planning for a week
Resources to support the session
A Guide to portion size
Meal Maths
The 80/20 aproach
Meal planning
Mix and match meal plan for under £40
Restrictive eating
Useful Links
Session 4 is all about 'being active' and the aims are:
- To understand why physical activity is important for health.
- To take part in physical activity that they enjoy or consider a new activity
- Think about screen time
- To think out about family activities
- To provide ideas on activities both locally and online
- To become familiar with what can count as physical activity, and targets for amount of time spent in physicalactivity for different ages.
Resources to support the session
Active play ideas
Be active and have fun
Encouraging physical activity
Family activties and website links
Knowing more about physical activtiy
Useful Links
Session 5 is all about 'family habits' the aims are:
- Consider family mealtimes and create some family mealtime rules.
- To look at cooking skills in the family and introduce strategies to make the healthy option the, easier option, getting kids involved in the kitchen and trying new foods, recipe adaptations/swaps and batch cooking/recipe recycling.
- Introduce habit stacking.
- Consider how to adapt recipes to make them healthier.
- Learn some strategies to help when eating out or having take-away at home (such as using fake-away recipes
Resources to support the session
Family mealtimes
Kids in the kitchen
Reward ideas
Habit stacking
Fakeaways
Healthier takeaway choices
Cost of homemade takeaways 'fakeaways'
Recipie adaptations/swaps
Healthier takeaway choices
Batch cooking/recipie recyling
Recipie ideas: websites and links
Useful Links
Session 6 is all about 'habits for life' the aims are:
- For parents and child to see the lifestyle changes and how they can continue with this healthy lifestyle.
- Height and Weight Measurement offered.
- Talk about how emotions influence food choices.
- Ask about bedtime routine, sleep (quantity and quality) and rest patterns and discuss how tiredness and lethargy may affect meal and snack choices.
- Identify any issues with self-esteem and confidence for child and other family members, Introduce mindfulness eating.
- Planning for the future (arrange catch up sessions and pass on contact details for PH 5-19 Service)
Resources to support the session
Mindful Eating Leaflet (PDF 196K)
Emotional Eating leaflet (PDF 196K)
Building Self Esteem leaflet (PDF 196K)
Make a mindful glitter Jar (PDF 145K)
Mindful eating activity (PDF 138K)
Useful links
