Support sessions

Recently there's been a couple of posts about information sessions and the lack of same until December, as well as who such sessions are open to.

For anyone not eligible to attend these sessions as well as anyone else that may be interested, the Provincial Eating Disorders Prevention & Recovery Program offers evening and Saturday workshops in October/November such as Why Diets Don't Work, Body Image, Coping with the Holidays, Families and Friends (support for those with eating disorders), and others on emotional eating, etc.

These are located at the Women's Health Clinic in Winnipeg and are open for men to attend. http://www.womenshealthclinic.org/eatingdisorders

Also if you  need nutritional help - speak to your family doctor. You can be referred to a dietician. The WRHA runs workshops on cholesterol and nutrition.

As well you can get support from Overeaters Anonymous - they are in the phonebook and online and have meetings on almost every day of the week. These are people struggling with food addictions and included everyone from bulimics to the obese. They understand what its like to have an eating disorder from personal experience.

I have mentioned it before but for anyone that had missed my previous thread, I also recommend Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes http://www.drsharma.ca/ You can read backdated blog posts as they are archived.

Lots of great suggestions Mike!

Thanks Karen. I edited my original post as actually the workshops are part of the Provincial Eating Disorders Program which is run out of the Women's Health Clinic on Graham Avenue. I also linked the web addresses.

Hopefully MBHealth will adopt a community based program like Alberta's Weight Wise in the future. This is open to anyone in the province and as I am in the bariatric program in Edmonton, I have also taken most of the workshops.

It not just meant for bariatric patients though, there were 'overweight' people, 'normal weight' people, as well as a gentleman with diabetes who were all attending for the excellent information Weight Wise provides.

GREAT INFO MIKE.  I WISH THERE WAS A WAY TO PIN POSTS TO THE TOP OR FRONT PAGE OF THE FORUM SO THE INFO STAYS UPFRONT AND EASY TO ACCESS.  WOULD ALSO BE GREAT FOR THE MEET AND GREET POSTS.  THANKS FOR POSTING MIKE.