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Michelle May, MD
Keynote Fee : $5,001 - $10,000 plus expenses Fee Note Travels From: AZ |
Topics
- Obesity
- Eating Disorders
- Wellness / Life Balance
- Nutrition / Fitness
- Women's Health
- Lifestyle
- Heart/Stroke Disease
Events
- Heart Health Events
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Eat Mindfully, Live VibrantlyTo live vibrantly, we must fuel our bodies mindfully - yet most diets are restrictive and unsustainable leaving us feeling guilty and disappointed. This interactive, entertaining keynote delves much deeper than the obvious advice to "eat less, exercise more." Using humor, personal anectodotes, and uncommon insight, Michelle shows you how to make healthy lifesyle changes that nourish your body and fuel the fulfilling life you deserve.
Your audience will learn:
* Simple, yet powerful strategies for knowing when, what and how much to eat
* How to break the Eat-Repent-Repeat cycle
* How to recognize and cope effectively with triggers for overeating
* How to balance eating for health with eating for pleasure - without deprivation or guilt
Organizations and individuals interested in promoting healthier lifestyles need engaging, positive, and practical strategies to effect behavior change. To stem the impact of obesity, it is critical to move beyond advice-giving and address the core issues that affect diet and exercise choices. This presentation explores innovative approaches to help individuals develop mindful eating patterns that don't result in weight cycling. This interactive, entertaining keynote is punctuated by real life, practical examples illustrating how to implement the strategies in a variety of settings (customized to the audience). Dr. May delivers this crucial and timely message with passion, energy and insight that leave a lasting impression.
Your audience will learn:
* The bio-psycho-social drivers of eating important for the development of effective messages and programs
* Six crucial decision points that impact the way people manage their weight
* Why mindful eating is a powerful and universal solution to the complex problem of obesity
* Specific strategies to encourage sustainable healthy eating habits and active lifestyles
The alarming trend of unhealthy dietary habits and sedentary lifestyles puts families at significant health risk. In this interactive, entertaining keynote, Michelle shares specific strategies for encouraging families to incorporate healthy behaviors throughout their lives.
Your audience will learn:
* How to guide families to take charge of their lifestyle choices
* How to effectively engage parents and children in a healthy, active, balanced life
* Strategies for communicating positive lifestyle messages that result in meaningful, sustainable behavior change
Enjoy a healthful cooking demo and tasting with Dr. May and her husband, professional Chef Owen. This duo demonstrates the perfect combination of nutritious and delicious. Perfect for health fairs, exhibit halls, and expos - sure to draw a crowd! Customized recipe booklets are also available.
Michelle is also available for:· Workshops
· Corporate Wellness and Weight Management Programs
· Retreat and Spa Programs
· Mindful Eating Experientials
· Healthful Cooking Demos with Professional Chef Owen May
Speaker Information
Michelle May, M.D., a physician and recovered yo-yo dieter, empowers individuals to take charge of their life and manage their weight without deprivation and guilt. She delivers her crucial and timely message with passion, energy, humor and insight that transforms the way people view weight management.
Her interest in the weight management field stems from her own personal struggle with food and weight. After years of chronic dieting and negative body image, she resolved her own weight issues by developing a healthy relationship with her body and the food and activity that nurture it. Her primary goal has been to share what she has learned with others using a compassionate and constructive approach.
Michelle is the Founder and President of the proven Am I Hungry? Workshops that guide participants to eat instinctively again, live a more active lifestyle and balance eating for enjoyment with eating for health. Am I Hungry? received the Excellence in Patient Education Innovation Award and is available through corporate wellness programs, medical offices, hospitals, fitness centers and insurance companies. She has trained and Licensed Am I Hungry? Facilitators from Alaska to Florida. As a physician, speaker, writer, workshop facilitator and consultant, Dr. May has shared her powerful and innovative approach to weight management with thousands of workshop participants, health care professionals and organizations across the country.
Michelle is the award winning author of Am I Hungry? What to Do When Diets Don't Work. Am I Hungry? won three Glyph Awards for Best Health Book, Best Self-Help/Psychology Book and Best Book by a New Publisher. "Am I Hungry?" is also used as the basis for the American Academy of Family Physicians' national health and fitness campaign, Americans in Motion. Michelle also co-authored H is for Healthy - Weight Management for Kids (SWAK Pak, 2005) to encourage healthy attitudes and behaviors in young children.
She was featured in the Discovery Health Channel special, Adult Obesity: Reversing the Trend sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control. She has also appeared as a guest for numerous television and radio programs on health-related topics including Oprah and Friends Radio with Mehmet Oz, M.D. and writes regularly for several publications. Her personal story appears in Chicken Soup for the Dieter's Soul. As an expert in the cognitive-behavioral approach to weight management, she also advises corporations and organizations on issues of health, nutrition and obesity.
Michelle is a Board Certified Family Physician with 14 years of clinical experience. She received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Arizona State University and her Medical Degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She completed a three-year Family Medicine Residency at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona where she served as Chief Resident.
She is well respected by her physician colleagues who elected her to serve as President of the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians. She was the Chairperson for the Subcommittee on Women of the 93,000-member American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and has been elected to serve in the AAFP Congress of Delegates, the policy forming body of the organization for eight years. She currently serves on the AAFP Commission on the Health of the Public and the Americans in Motion Advisory Panel. She is chair of the AAFP Women's Health and Physician Wellness Conference.
Michelle practices what she preaches in order to balance her personal and professional life while maintaining her own optimal health. She cherishes her relationships with her two children, regularly enjoys hiking and recently became a certified yoga instructor. She and her husband, Owen, a professional chef, share a passion for gourmet and healthful cooking, recipe development, wine tasting and traveling.
Chef Owen's demonstrations complement his wife's programs. He is a professional spa chef at a major resort in Phoenix, Arizona and believes that food should nourish the body, mind and soul. Owen shares simple culinary techniques and secrets for making nutritious food delicious food. His mouth-watering recipes are featured in Stop Dieting, Start Living.
Testimonials
"Your presentation affected me deeply, personally and professionally. You are a real pioneer and creative thinker and will have a real impact on this obesity epidemic. You have inspired me today in a very significant way!"
- California Academy of Family Physicians
"Very practical information. Dynamic speaker! Gave a lot of great examples I can apply to my practice immediately."
- Child, and Adolescent Medicine Conference
"Off the chart fantastic!"
- Obesity and Diabetes Conference
"Dr. May is real and warm. She makes you feel connected to her and cared about."
- Arizona Small Business Association
"Thank you! I think your program is just what America needs!"
- Banner Health
"Thank you for taking the time to chat with the attendees after your lecture. You were definitely a hit!"
- Antidote Education Company
"The best lecture in 27 years!!!"
- American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians
"One of three general session favorites, Michelle May, MD presented a well-received lecture on pediatric obesity."
- California Academy of Family Physicians
"Your talk was mentioned by a number of the participants as the best presentation over the two day conference."
- New Mexico Academy of Family Physicians
"Your talk was rated excellent consistently by registrants for content and delivery and listed as one of the strong points of our conference."
- Alaska Academy of Family Physicians