Location: Jack E. Kirksey Rec Center, 15000 Hubbard, Livonia, MI

Description: When you hear the term “healthy eating”, what comes to mind? Foods that you need to avoid? “Good” foods to add to your diet? Eating healthy is not as straightforward as “eat this and not that.” We all have different food preferences, physical needs, emotional needs, food budgets, and schedules. There is no one way to eat healthy! In this 100 Days of Health series, Registered Dietitian & Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Mary Balog, will discuss healthy eating from a holistic lens & provide suggestions for how to find your own version of healthy eating. Join us for the kick-off session, where Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor introduces what healthy eating is not. She will highlight examples of fad diets and popular health messaging, and how they impact our health, our relationship to food, and our relationship to our bodies.

Register Here - Create an account on the Livonia CivicRec website to register.

NOTE: This series will run as a 6-week virtual workshop later this year. If you’d like to get on the waitlist, please sign up here.

Location: Jack E. Kirksey Rec Center, 15000 Hubbard, Livonia, MI

Description: Healthy eating is more complicated than following a list of foods to eat and foods to avoid. In this session, Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Mary Balog, will review the many dimensions of healthy eating. Participants will have a chance to reflect on their beliefs around health and healthy eating, and will begin exploring what an individualized, sustainable, and health-promoting eating pattern could feel like physically, emotionally, and even socially.

Register Here - Create an account on the Livonia CivicRec website to register.

NOTE: This series will run as a 6-week virtual workshop later this year. If you’d like to get on the waitlist, please sign up here.

Location: Jack E. Kirksey Rec Center, 15000 Hubbard, Livonia, MI

Description: There are many conflicting messages around meal timing, hunger, and healthy eating. In this session, Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Mary Balog, will introduce four types of hunger that describe various motivations for eating, and how honoring these types of hunger can support our whole wellbeing. Participants will receive information and suggestions for how to begin eating based on their different types of hunger, physical cues, emotional needs, social life, and schedule.

Register Here - Create an account on the Livonia CivicRec website to register.

NOTE: This series will run as a 6-week virtual workshop later this year. If you’d like to get on the waitlist, please sign up here.

Location: Jack E. Kirksey Rec Center, 15000 Hubbard, Livonia, MI

Description: Choosing what to eat is impacted by a number of factors, including what we see and hear in the media, what we have time for, what we are craving, what is most affordable, and so on. But how do we know what’s healthy for us? In this session, Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Mary Balog, will share specific examples for how to make food choices that support well being based on individual food preferences, physical needs, emotional needs, personal values, and time or budget constraints.

Register Here - Create an account on the Livonia CivicRec website to register.

NOTE: This series will run as a 6-week virtual workshop later this year. If you’d like to get on the waitlist, please sign up here.

Location: Jack E. Kirksey Rec Center, 15000 Hubbard, Livonia, MI

Description: Deciding how much to eat can sometimes be a frustrating, unsatisfying, or confusing experience. In this session, Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, will introduce a variety of ways to evaluate how much to eat. Participants will learn how to begin exploring what “enough” food might feel like for them, based on dietary guidelines, fullness cues, and sense of satisfaction.

Register Here - Create an account on the Livonia CivicRec website to register.

NOTE: This series will run as a 6-week virtual workshop later this year. If you’d like to get on the waitlist, please sign up here.

Location: Jack E. Kirksey Rec Center, 15000 Hubbard, Livonia, MI

Description: Health & wellness go beyond our food choices. In this final session, Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Mary Balog, will round out the series by discussing how our relationship to food can impact our relationship to our body, to movement, and to each other. She will introduce topics related to body image, exercise, and social health. Participants will receive suggestions for how to assess other dimensions of wellness to enrich their holistic wellbeing.

Register Here - Create an account on the Livonia CivicRec website to register.

NOTE: This series will run as a 6-week virtual workshop later this year. If you’d like to get on the waitlist, please sign up here.