Weight Management and Mindful Eating
What exactly do your overweight employees cost you annually? Here are some stats from Phit America to try on for size:
- $580 billion: The Robert Wood Foundation predicts that annual economic productivity loss due to obesity could hit this staggering amount by 2030 unless the current situation changes.
- $190 billion: That’s the amount of annual added medical costs that stem from obesity-related problems. It’s nearly 21 percent of total U.S. health care costs.
- 105 percent: According to a study conducted by the Brookings Institute, this is the increased amount that obese Americans pay for prescription drugs compared to individuals who aren’t obese.
- $3.4 billion: Cars are burning around 938 million gallons of gasoline per year more than they would if Americans weighed what they did in 1960. So if your workforce is on the road, they are hurting your bottom line.
- $164 billion: The Society of Actuaries estimates that U.S. employers are losing this amount in productivity each year due to obesity-related issues with employees.
- $6.4 billion: Every year, this amount is estimated to be lost due to employee absenteeism related to obesity.
Enter Mindfulness Eating
With mindful eating, we teach your employees how to pay attention to every detail about all the food they eat – and most importantly – savor every bite. They also pay attention to how different foods affect their bodies, and then determine whether to eat the food or decide that a few minutes on the tongue is not worth the consequences that food brings.
Our program
Our once-a-week eight-week sessions, 50 minutes each, will teach your employees the skills they need to choose the foods that help them thrive and build the resilience to turn down – and often turn off – the obnoxious inner voice that clouds cloud their minds.
At Pathway to Mindfulness, our Mindful Eating program differs from other programs because we understand that for many people with weight issues, they might have to go on a structured eating plan. We don’t subscribe to any one diet; all we ask is that they choose one that is healthy.
And the beauty of eating more mindfully — whether you are on a diet or simply eating to nourish — is that you will change the way you eat. Forever. You will learn how to look at food without judgment and criticism. And any weight you lose will be permanent.
Your employees will be healthier and happier.