Patient Holiday Food and Exercise Programs
‘Twas the night before the holiday season and all through the house, indigestion, weight gain and fatigue? Not this holiday season. Help your patients take control of their health this holiday season while helping them enjoy healthy versions of their favorite holiday treats, and exercise away the stress of the holidays from the comfort of their home!
Just because it’s the holiday season does not mean that your patients have to lose all the progress they’ve made throughout the year.
That’s why BodySite has two great holiday-themed programs for your patients this year: the Healthy Holidays 25-Day Meal Plan and the 12 Days of Holiday Stretching program.
Healthy Holidays
Holidays are full of fun, seasonal foods, and activities. But your patients are also in for weeks of over-indulgence, fatigue, bloating and more. That’s where the 25-day Healthy Holidays plan comes in.
The Healthy Holidays plan is jam-packed with helpful information to help your patients curb the holiday craziness that creeps up on you. You know, the endless stream of cookies, alcohol and the exhaustion of holiday shopping.
It provides healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner recipe ideas every day as well as motivation and other information, so on the days where you’re obligated to eat out or headed to a holiday party, you can follow a healthy eating plan to maintain a baseline level of wellbeing throughout the winter months.
In other words, this isn’t a boring or limited meal plan. If one day patients can only eat a healthy breakfast and lunch and then head to an amazing holiday dinner, it’s no problem. This plan also doesn’t eliminate sweets or alcohol, but gives tips and information on moderation and tracking to keep patients from falling off track.
All of the enjoyment without the “bah humbug” feeling afterwards. Give your patients the gift of wellness this year. The Healthy Holidays program features exercises, healthy recipe ideas, holiday tips and Christmas cheer. It is a perfect gift for all your patients.
Get access to BodySite’s Holiday Drink Recipe Guide to share with patients before Christmas.
12 Days of Holiday Stretching
It’s a little difficult to tell all patients to put “go to the gym” on their holiday to-do list this month. Some might comply, but for others, it will be a struggle. Instead, give them all the tools they need for a successful, and stress free fitness routine from the comfort of their home.
The 12 Days of Holiday Stretching program goes through various stretching exercises that will target different or multiple areas while providing information on the importance of stretching and how to safely, correctly, and effectively stretch, and is done with an adorable holiday theme.
Regularly stretching can help to improve range of motion and lessen the risk of injury along with many other benefits due to increased flexibility. Some of these other benefits include:
- Improving performance in physical activities
- Helping joints move through their full range of motion
- Increase muscle blood flow
- Enable muscles to work most effectively
- Improve ability to do daily activities
Stretching allows the muscles to build and maintain flexibility, strength, and health, and we need that flexibility to accomplish full range of motion in the joints. Without stretching, the muscles may shorten and tighten. This causes the muscles to weaken and not able to extend all the way, which increases the risk of strains, muscle damage, and joint pain when the muscles are called upon for activity.
Remote Patient Care With No Days Off
Your office may be closed for the holidays but with a remote patient care platform like BodySite, you can give your patients all the tools they need to thrive while they’re home for the holidays using the Healthy Holidays 25-Day Meal Plan,12 Days of Holiday Stretching program or any of our other turn-key patient care plans. If you already have an account, go to Plans > Available Plans & Templates to locate these 2 programs.
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