Motivational Interviewing for Eating Behaviour Change

The HFI Eating Behaviour Motivator workshop will ensure trainers have influence over clients’ eating behaviour adherence and therefore weight management success.

“Success is not about trainer or client knowledge. It's about motivational psychology and whether the trainer has an effect on clients’ eating behaviour”.

Who is this for?

This is an advanced personal training skills workshop for trainers who are REPs level 3 or higher. Participants must also have completed the HFI Exercise Motivator workshop.

HFI Course Category / Level

Motivational Psychology

Advanced Personal Training Skills

Personal Training Sales Skills

Course format    2-day workshop (no additional assessment).

Price: £250.00

Personal trainers are exercise specialists and empowering clients to maintain exercise changes are difficult enough. Helping people to make changes to their eating behaviour is so complex that most trainers just use an advice giving approach. At best trainers adopt an “encouraging” or a “what feels right” approach to weight control motivation. Your clients’ eating can be the factor preventing clients from gaining the benefits they want from their exercise regime. You might have a great exercise programme, they might attend session like clockwork but exercise can only have a limited effect. So the real answer to client weight loss success is eating behaviour. You can become empowered in this very difficult area which the fitness industry seems to be ignoring.

HFI Eating Behaviour Motivator will:

 - provide that missing link to success for your weight management and aesthetic clients 

- give you the effective alternative to simply giving clients dietary advice

 - give you understanding of the unique psychology of overweight clients

- take a drastically different approach to ensure clients' permanent weight loss

Course Content

• Pre-weight loss screening and referral process clients for eating disorders

• Pre-weight loss screening and referral process for clients with emotional problems

• Pre-weight screening and referral of clients with diseases requiring medical referral

• Pre-treatment assessment

• Current cognitive and behavioural analysis

• Outline of the Anti-diet permanent weight loss system

• Counselling to develop appropriate weight loss motivation

• Counselling to develop motivation to alter the clients approach to weight loss

• Teaching clients self-analysis of eating behaviour

• Cognitive and behavioural aspects of eating behaviour

• Identifying physical hunger and emotional eating

• Overcoming cravings

• Over-coming slips and preventing relapse

• Combating self-defeating thoughts and behaviours

• Follow-ups - process evaluation and re-motivation

 So, if you are ready to make a difference to the subtle skills make a difference to your weight loss clients  and increase your business profitability....