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Lifestyle change – coaching for weight management
Lifestyle change coaching programme helps you find permanent, health-promoting lifestyles. It combines psychology and the impact of sleep, activity, and psychological resources to foster a flexible relationship with food and lasting weight loss.
Who is the Lifestyle change coaching programme suitable for?
- The Lifestyle change coaching programme offers a comprehensive approach to lasting well-being.
- The coaching programme lasts 16 weeks and includes weekly themes and exercises published in the OmaMehiläinen app. The coaching programme helps you implement suitable changes step by step.
- The coach monitors progress and provides remote support throughout the coaching programme. The price of the coaching programme is 99.90 €.
Lifestyle change – a coaching programme for lasting changes
This 16-week coaching programme helps you understand the factors affecting your weight, eating, and eating behaviour. With the help of the coaching programme, you will practice and find meaningful changes that fit your daily life, based on research evidence, supporting lasting behavioural change. Through learning and insight, lasting changes are made possible, which can be applied according to your life situation and, for example, job description, taking into account your own resources, health, and other individual factors.
Information about lifestyle coaching
The coaching programme lasts 16 weeks and includes weekly themes and exercises published in the OmaMehiläinen app. The coaching programme helps you implement suitable changes step by step.
With the weekly changing themes of the coaching programme, you will gain:
- A better understanding of the multidimensionality of weight management.
- Tools for building a flexible relationship with food.
- Permanent, health-promoting lifestyle changes.
- Support and individual guidance from coaches.
The coach monitors progress and provides remote support throughout the coaching programme. The price of the coaching programme is 99.90 €.
How the lifestyle change progresses
The coaching programme combines the psychology of behavioural change, examines the impact of sleep, physical activity, and psychological resources on changing lifestyles, and helps in making permanent, slightly better choices regarding nutrition and other lifestyle factors. The coaches are there to support and help, and if necessary, to identify more individual support needs.
Stages of the coaching programme:
- Start and goal setting: At the beginning of the coaching programme, personal goals are defined, and the content of the coaching programme is introduced.
- Acquiring knowledge: You will receive information about factors affecting weight management, eating behaviour, sleep, activity, and psychological resources.
- Practical exercises: You will learn to apply new knowledge to your daily life and make small but lasting changes.
- Individual support: Coaches will support you throughout the coaching programme and help identify individual support needs.
- Consolidating lasting changes: At the end of the coaching programme, the focus is on how to maintain the achieved changes in the long term.
How to buy the Lifestyle change coaching programme
To buy the Lifestyle change nutrition coaching programme, leave your contact information on the form.
Occupational health customers. If you are using Mehiläinen’s services as an occupational health care customer, please check with your employer whether the coaching programme is included in your occupational health agreement. More information about the digital coaching programmes for occupational health customers.
Content of the coaching programme
Remote support. The coaching includes the remote support of your well-being coach (messages). The price of the coaching does not include any meetings that may be separately arranged as video appointments. If you feel that you need additional support during the coaching and would like to have an even more in-depth discussion with your own well-being coach in the form of a video appointment, we will charge you separately for the video appointment.
Video appointment price. Prices for a video appointment with a well-being coach: 55.30 € (15 min), 82.95 € (30 min) and 110.60 € (45 min). The coaching programme and video appointments are not reimbursable by Kela.
Payment. The coaching can also be paid using ePassi. If you want to use ePassi as a means of payment, please let your coach know during the first telephone call.
What happens after submitting the form?
- Contacting. A coach will contact you by phone to determine your personal goals and to start the programme.
- Invoice. Once the programme has started, we will send you an invoice (EUR 99.90/well-being programme.
- Application. Download the OmaMehiläinen app onto your phone or tablet computer from an app store. You can also use the OmaMehiläinen online service at https://oma.mehilainen.fi
- Introduction and pre-coaching survey. The programme will begin with an introduction and a pre-coaching survey in OmaMehiläinen.
After the coaching programme
The primary goal of the coaching programme is a permanent lifestyle change towards a healthier direction, taking into account a flexible relationship with food, and finding changes that feel meaningful to oneself. The secondary goal of the coaching programme is permanent weight loss, which often comes through the first goal. Positive changes in health can also occur regardless of weight. Even a small (5-10%), permanent weight loss is significantly more beneficial than rapid weight loss by means that cannot be maintained for years and decades.
After the coaching programme, you will have the tools and understanding to continue independently towards better well-being. If necessary, you can seek appointments with other Mehiläinen specialists, such as a dietitian or psychologist, to deepen what you have learned or to receive additional support.
Do you want to learn more? You can contact our customer service every day around the clock by calling 010 414 00 (local network rate/mobile charge). We also serve you through the customer service of OmaMehiläinen Digital Clinic.
Frequently asked questions about lifestyle change
Lifestyle change means a comprehensive and permanent change in lifestyles that promote health and well-being. It can include changes in eating habits, exercise, sleep quality, and stress management.
Lifestyle change focuses more broadly on well-being and health-promoting choices, while weight loss is often a consequence of lifestyle change. Lifestyle change aims for permanent habits that support health regardless of weight.
Many factors influence weight management and eating behaviour, such as genetics, psychological factors, socioeconomic status, and environment. Self-discipline is only one part of the whole, and broader understanding and support are often needed to make lasting changes.
Sleep is a key part of well-being and has a great impact on hormone function, energy levels, and mood. Sufficient and quality sleep supports better dietary choices, helps with stress management, and promotes physical activity, which is important in lifestyle change.
A flexible relationship with food means the ability to eat intuitively and enjoyably without strict rules or guilt. It includes listening to the body's hunger and satiety signals and the ability to enjoy all foods in moderation.
