Aging baby boomers can take advantage of a new resource for this time of transition. A three to four hour workshop called “Celebrating Midlife Madness” offers practical guidance on how to maintain health while embracing this normal progression of life.

The workshop is based on the new chapter in a revised version of the best selling how-to book, You Count, Calories Don' t (first published in 1992), by registered dietitian, Linda Omichinski. The new chapter was inspired through extensive experience with helping people get off the diet roller coaster through a lifestyle program that eliminates the scales and calorie counting. “Midlife weight gain is a big issue with women, “ Linda says. “It made sense to apply our expertise with the tools that enable people to get off the diet roller coaster to the unique challenges of the mid-life transition.”

An additional significant resource to the new workshop is the support newsletter A Friend Indeed: the newsletter for women in the prime of life.

"You Count, Calories Don’t" has enjoyed an international reach through the network of more than 200 lifestyle professionals who use the book as the core material the HUGS nondiet program. Thousands of people seeking a lifestyle without diets from Alaska to New Zealand and from Great Britain to California have benefited from this program.

The HUGS network is inviting interested professionals from related fields such as social workers, nurses, and educators and other dietitians to join the current network for delivery of this new service.

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