Employee Wellness

The Food Coach wants to help as many people as possible make positive health, nutrition and lifestyle changes. Employee groups and coworkers can work well together to support each other and push each other to change. The Food Coach works with corporate groups on a range of topics to help improve employee wellness.

All programs are delivered with extensive knowledge, lots of experience, as much participant interaction as time allows and enough controversy to heat things up and get people thinking about what they hadn’t thought about before.

Corporate clients who have used The Food Coach’s services for employee wellness, and health sessions include:

• The Liberty Group (Air Miles)
• Health Systems Group
• Cambridge Group of Clubs
• Barrick Gold Corporation
• Mercer?Aird and Berlis LLP
• Deeth Williams Wall LLP
• Aylesworth LLP
• First National Financial
• Blakes
• Canada Lands Company
• Davies Ward Phillips and Vineberg LLP
• McCarthy Tetrault LLP
• Bereskin & Parr LLP
• Planning Alliance
• Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
• RBS – The Royal Bank of Scotland
• Arrow Hedge Partners Inc.
• Miller Thomson Lawyers
• CIBC
• Limestone District Board of Education
• Loblaws

Here is an overview of employee wellness and group programs:

THE FOOD COACH ‘LUNCH N LEARNS’
These are one-hour seminars designed to allow room for questions to be asked throughout. Each is packed with information, and the common feedback is that the participants wished that the session had been longer. Seminars include an attractive visual presentation and outline notes. Topics cover:

1. Food, Health and Immunity
How to Use Food As Primary Prevention Against Cold, Flu and Other Illnesses

2. Food, Immunity and the Holidays
Getting Ready For the Celebrations With Food As Your Prevention Against Colds, Flus and Other Illnesses

(Please note that Food, Immunity and the Holidays is the same presentation as Food, Health and Immunity except that it has a focus on the holidays).

3. Optimal Nutrition for the Beautiful Mind
Eating for Maximum Concentration, Stability of Mood, Memory & Prevention of Alzheimer’s and Other Degenerative Conditions

4. The Ins and Outs of Supplementation
An Overview of 7 Primary Supplements with Time Allotted to Address Your Specific Concerns

5. High Energy: How to Get it and Keep It, Even at 4:00 in the Afternoon
10 Nutritional and Lifestyle Practices to Help You Pump Up the Vitality

6. Maximize Nutrition – Minimize Stress
Food and Supplements to Help You Thrive in Stressful Times

7. Dieting Doesn’t Work Long-term, so What Do You Do Instead?
Nutrition to Get You to Your Ideal Weight and to Keep You There

8. Jumping Off the Diet Treadmill
12 Things You Need to Know to Lose Weight and Keep it Off for a Lifetime

9. Being Healthy in Our Toxic World
7 Steps to Detoxification

10. Navigating the Grocery Store
A Practical Guide for Mindful Shopping and Healthy Eating

Client Feedback on the ‘Lunch N Learns’:
“I have received tons of positive feedback. The staff loved it, and are all going home to throw out everything in their pantries and start fresh….LOL. I love how much conversation comes out of a really informative session like today.” Miller Thomson

“The lunch & learn was fantastic! Tzabia was bombarded with question after question but she got to everything.” Blakes

“Tzabia was extremely knowledgeable, and gave a great presentation. She was able to answer all questions, and was very “credible”. The audience knew that she ‘knew her stuff’. I would definitely have her back for another Lunch & Learn.”?Blakes

“Everything was very well done and easy to incorporate into daily life. Would have liked more time, more info. It was too good to end!”?Arrow Hedge

“I just wanted to say thank you for coming to Canada Lands Company today and presenting your Healthy Holidays lunch and learn. I have been receiving such positive feedback this afternoon, the information you provided was very insightful and different from what people expected to hear.”?Canada Lands Company

“The seminar was great and well received. Tzabia is a passionate and knowledgeable presenter and clicked nicely with our people. We appreciated that her approach goes beyond the mainstream nutrition information/approach. Thank you for making this happen!”?Planning Alliance

THE FOOD COACH TASTING SESSIONS
These sessions go beyond the lecture format to offer a learn-and-taste experience. The Food Coach provides an in-office, hands-on discussion about the chosen topic followed by a demonstration of a recipe. The participants ask questions, taste the dish, receive a copy of the recipe and a beautifully created outline.

Food ingredients are prepped off-site so that the hour is spent concentrated on the participants needs. A sink is needed for basic preparation and clean up. The Food Coach is on-site for 2 hours, allowing 30 minutes for set-up and 30 minutes for clean up.
Recipes are subject to change depending on the season and availability.

Whole grains
Quinoa Sesame Salad or Job’s Tears Salad
An overview of all of the types of whole grains, details about their ‘genetics’, their nutritional value, how you can use them, how they are cooked and the issues that they can help you address.

Beans and Legumes
Black Bean and Red Pepper Ful or Spicy Spaghetti Squash with Black Beans
The role that beans play in a healthy diet, the different types, how can they be used and prepared, their nutritional value, and getting creative with beans.

Sensational Salads
Grapefruit, Arugula, Avocado Salad or a Winter Greens Salad
A look at the value of eating raw foods, the nutritional value of vegetables and fruits, innovative ways to create salads (and a tool you can use to do that), what should be included in salads, what issues they can help you address, and simple techniques to get yourself to eat more of them.

Sea Veggies
Arame, Shittake Mushroom Pasta Salad or California Nori Rolls
What are the different vegetables found in the sea, how do we use and prepare them, what is their nutrient content, what issues can they help you address, and how to get creative with sea vegetables.

The Spice is Right
Cucumber with Cilantro, Ginger, and Rice Wine Vinegar, Citrus or Apple with Honey and Rosemary, Cinnamon Gourmet Trail Mix
Treat yourself to the aromatic sensations of 12 unique and fantastically healthy spices. Includes a discussion about the unique flavour qualities, food affinities, and health benefits of each one. Then taste three simple recipes that give you the opportunity to think of these spices in a new way.

FOOD COACH IN-HOUSE DAYS
The in-house days are an opportunity for your employees to have private consultations in the convenience of your office location. The Food Coach is on-site for either 4 or 8 hours, with 20 or 30 minute private sessions booked throughout the day. This offers your employees the following:

• Knowledge on how to improve their diet that is personalized for their needs.
• Foods and supplements specific to their health concerns.
• The most important first steps that will make the biggest difference in their well-being.
• A private space in which they can ask questions addressing their lifestyle and challenges.
• An employee benefit of being able to address their nutrition while at the workplace, which can improve their performance and job satisfaction.

This service is an excellent complement to the group seminars. Including both in your programming ensures that your employees get both important information that everyone needs to know about nutrition, and personalized support for their individual needs.

“I thought the amount of information Tzabia provided in 30 minutes was amazing. I am looking at the timing of when I eat, as well as many of the things I eat, differently.”

“I think it will make me feel better physically/mentally overall. I already notice that I am not as physically exhausted as I was a few weeks ago.”

“Thank you for the great advice! It has really given me something that I can work with and my family can support me with in terms of meal planning. I was always worried that I’d have to buy separate meals for myself, and special foods. It’s good to know that’s not the case.”

“I got answers to all the questions I had. It was straight to the point.”

“It hasn’t been too long but I have been feeling less fatigued and wake-up a little easier in the mornings. Other systems in my body seem to be reacting well to the change as well.”

“It isn’t that I wasn’t eating healthy but I could be eating better which is what Tzabia explained to me and that will improve my health.”

“I just wanted to say thanks for the opportunity. It was great to get some guidance. I live alone and pretty much only eat what I can take out of my fridge and just cut up or eat right away. I really appreciated Tzabia’s approach to guiding us. She made excellent suggestions that made sense and she made her suggestions in a positive way. Thanks Tzabia!”

GROUP WEIGHT LOSS
Sustainable weight loss requires more than just a diet or exercise plan. It calls for a deeper understanding of successful behavioural change, the psychology of eating, the science of fat-burning nutrition and the physiology that keeps people from losing weight.

It also requires the expert guidance of someone who has the compassion and insight to understand the challenges that overeaters face. At the same time, people need unconditionally supportive, firm coaching to step into a powerful perspective that they can succeed where they have failed many times before.

I have specialized in sustainable weight loss for many years and coached hundreds of people around this issue, both one-on-one and in groups.

My workbook was originally designed for employee wellness groups and has recorded unparalleled success in that 50% of polled participants had maintained their weight loss for at least one year (in an industry that averages 5%).

Each participant receives a beautiful workbook and a starter package. The Food Coach is in-house once per week.

“After only 9 weeks on this program my energy level is higher than its been in years; I no longer have hot flashes or night sweats; I have lost lbs and inches and I have regained my ability to focus at work. This is not just a weight loss program, it’s an all around good health program packed with information, guidance and tips on living a healthy lifestyle without feeling you are depriving yourself of anything. I am excited to see how my life will be in 6 months and years down the road, now that I have the energy to do all the things I want to do.”?P. B., Litigation Law Clerk

“I was fortunate to attend Tzabia’s six-week course. After battling my weight repeatedly up and down the scale for the last 20 years, Tzabia has given me to tools to achieve a healthy body weight. Most importantly, she has taught me how to keep the weight off permanently, in a way that is realistic and can accommodate slip-ups. Tzabia has a wealth of knowledge, which she conveys in an interactive and engaging way. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to permanently achieve their goals and learn how to eat in a healthy manner.”?L.C., Lawyer

“I was feeling hopeless about being unable to lose weight. I noticed a number of co-workers had successfully shed weight and, when I asked how, they told me about Tzabia’s program. I was so impressed, I signed up. I know there’s no magic bullet for weight loss; however, as I followed the program and lost weight in the midsection, it felt like magic. It’s a healthy and balanced eating regime and I’m confident I can sustain it. For the first time in a long time, I feel hopeful around achieving a healthy weight — with the added bonus of improving my self-image”.?L. S., Marketing Communications Specialist