Maintenance

Goal for Client Intervention:

Assist to set and meet daily goals.

Intervention Options:

ADVISE:

• Compliment decision and accomplishment of healthy eating.
  Making healthy food choices is a great achievement.
  It takes planning and perseverance. 
• Emphasize benefits.
  Emphasizing vegetables and fruit each day could decrease your risk for some cancers by 20%.

ASSIST:

• Encourage rewarding self.
  What have you done to reward yourself for eating so well?
• Encourage identification of what is working and existing barriers.
  What parts of your plan are working well? What is still a barrier?
  How could you plan to get around it?
• Promote self-confidence.
  You are making good progress. You should be pleased with yourself.
• Normalize relapse as part of the process – relapse is a learning experience.
  Everyone has times when they feel they should or shouldn’t have eaten something. Concentrating on choosing nutritious foods in the right amounts most of the time is doing well.

Resource Options (Click to order):

Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide
Is for people 2 years and over.  Detailed recommendations for the number of servings from each of the four food groups are based on age and gender.

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Body Weight and Health...What is the Link?

Smart Size Your Food

Learn to Make Wise Food Choices - Wherever You Go!

Using the Nutrition Facts Table: % Daily Value- Download this quick guide to label reading and the % Daily Value (%DV) to help you compare food products adn make healthier choices and try out some of the % DV interactive tools. 

Interactive Resources on Health Canada’s Website:

Canada's Food Guide  “Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide” is available for download on Health Canada’s website.

Take the Guided Tour - Flash version  – The “Guided Tour” is an interactive walk through the various sections of the new Canada’s Food Guide that will help you understand how much and what types of foods you need, as well as the benefits of eating well and being active. 

My Food Guide – is an interactive tool that will help you personalize the information found in Canada’s Food Guide when you enter your age, sex, physical activity level and your  favourite choices from each food group.

Interactive Resources on the Dietitians of Canada Website:  

One Day @ a Time – takes  you through 9 daily scenarios that you may experience as you maintain a healthy and active lifestyle?

EATracker - another interactive tool which provides personalized feedback on the calories, fat and fibre in your food choices.

Let's Make a Meal – lets you build a one-day menu as you choose various menu items for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. The “Food Guide Calculator” helps you quickly and easily see if you are Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide.

Healthy Eating is in Store for You™ (HESY) – visit this web site to learn how food labels can help you make healthier food choices.

Virtual Shopping Tour – Virtual Shopping Tour is an on-line grocery store to learn how to use the nutrition information on the label of packaged foods to make healthy food choices.

Other Resources on the Dietitians of Canada Website:

 
Plan Well - Get tips for a well-stocked pantry, cooking large batch meals, using leftovers adn healthy convenience foods, and packing nutritious lunches for the while family.

Shop Smart - Use interactive resoruces and download fact sheets to help you understand food labels to make healthy choices foryour family.

Future Intervention:

ASK:

• Are you choosing nutritious foods in the right amounts most of the time?

Click on Maintenance (or whatever stage they are at) below for examples of what the health professional might say to clients. These are suggestions to stimulate your thinking about what you want to say to that particular client.