84 HealtH Matters
HealtH & well-beinG
programme from Hse assistant National
Director anna-Marie lanigan and the
National Director for Primary Care Brian
Murphy. I also received support from my
colleagues in the National Communications
Unit, Fiachra O’Ceilleachair and audrey
lambourn.
eDDie’s gOals fOr OperatiOn
transfOrmatiOn were:
• Understanding the psychological factors
to promote success – eddie identified
how our thinking, feelings, and actions
can often be barriers to our success. He
used psychological tools with Operation
transformation leaders and placed
psychological resources on the website
to help groups and individuals change
unhelpful beliefs.
• Promoting enduring change – Eddie
placed on www.rte.ie/ot challenging
resources to help people change from
the five participants. each day of an eight where they are to where they want to go
week period was mapped out for each using powerful psychological strategies.
individual in terms of a detailed diet and
“You can still access all
exercise routine and all of this information
of the recipes, workouts
here are twO useful resOurces
was available on the dedicated website. tO help yOu if yOu want tO make
Most people are familiar with the phrase
and psychology resources
changes tO yOur eating haBits…
'Healthy Body, Healthy Mind' but I often find
it beneficial to focus first on the mind. so I
at www.rte.ie/ot. the
mindlEss Eating
sometimes refer to a 'Healthy Mind,
workouts are stored as
Healthy Body'. • Do you eat your breakfast while standing?
I put a lot of hard work, time and
video files so you can
• Do you have your lunch in the car or by
commitment into the programme this year the computer?
and I was very happy to be a part of it.
watch and follow the
• Do you have your dinner in front of
People see a one-hour programme and
exercise plans for free.”
the tV?
often just a few minutes of interaction • Do you eat because you are upset?
between the participants (leaders) and
the experts – sometimes confrontational If you answered yes to these questions,
or emotional! But on a weekly basis, You can still access all of the recipes, you are guilty of Mindless eating and it
we provided hours of encouragement, workouts and psychology resources at leads to over eating and ensures that you
expertise and input into supporting the www.rte.ie/ot. the workouts are stored as are making unhealthy choices about how
leaders and working with them to help them video files so you can watch and follow the much, how fast and what foods you eat.
achieve their goals. exercise plans for free. It was great to hear Mindless eating means you are not in
even though the programme takes place that more than 10,000 members of the control.
over eight weeks, the leaders are making public participated by following the diet and Mindful eating, on the other hand, puts
changes that will continue on in their lives; exercise plans devised for the programme. you in control and gives you choices so
it’s a continuous process. One of my at the time of going to print, the Operation that you choose a healthier journey. When
colleagues pointed out that “this transformation website had more than you choose to engage in Mindful eating,
programme allows more people to have three million hits; more than 13,000 people you will choose food that brings you further
access to psychology resources than had signed up to the programme and along your healthier journey. You will choose
could be achieved on an individual basis shared a weight loss of 1,128 tonnes. Mindful Portions. the challenge of Mindful
over the whole of your career.” a humbling I am very grateful for the support eating is to slow down, look, feel, smell,
thought indeed. I received for my participation in the chew, and concentrate on the taste of the
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