Make a Difference...

Become a Licensed Am I Hungry?® Facilitator 

...want to really make a difference in the lives of your patients or clients struggling with food and weight management issues

...desire more joy and fulfillment from your career or need to renew your passion for your work

...are interested in expanding your offerings by providing a unique, desperately needed and highly sought after service to your community

...wish to earn great money doing what you love - helping people become healthier and happier!

The Am I Hungry? Facilitator Training was everything I had hoped for. We were given all the tools and the training to be successful Am I Hungry? Facilitators. It left me feeling motivated, empowered and confident that I could make a difference and teach what has helped me so much. Michelle and the others were wonderful and they thought of EVERYTHING we might need.   - Monique Moore, M.S.

Want to know more about how these workshops can benefit you and your patients or clients?

Request a complimentary Am I Hungry? Workshop Overview Set 
Your set includes two valuable resources:
* Why Diets Don't Work - a live presentation by Dr. May on CD (45 minutes) AND
* Stop Dieting, Start Living - video clips from live Am I Hungry? Workshops on DVD (30 minutes).
If you are a health professional interested in non-diet weight management, order your set FREE - we'll even pay shipping and handling.
Email Training with questions or to be added to our mailing list.

What you can expect from Am I Hungry?® Facilitator Training

• Intensive training to become an effective, motivating workshop Facilitator.
• Innovative, practical weight management techniques that you can share with your patients and clients immediately.
• Fun, exciting and interactive accelerated learning techniques. This is NOT your traditional, boring continuing education - be prepared to play at 100%!
• Full immersion in the Am I Hungry?® program.
• Continuing Education credits available.*
• Great materials: Am I Hungry?® Facilitator's Guide, Am I Hungry?® DVD set, Am I Hungry?® powerpoint slide sets for all eight workshops, business forms, marketing materials and wholesale discounts on participant materials.
• Access to our private Facilitator and Participant web portal at http://www.amihungry.net/.
• Unparalleled personal and professional growth to take you to a whole new level.

* Continuing Education Credits:
- This program has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration for 16 CPEUs.
- This activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 19 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. 
- This continuing nursing education activity was approved for 18 contact hours by the Arizona Nurses' Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.
- Am I Hungry? is recognized by the American Council on Exercise as a Continuing Education Specialist.This program has been approved for 2.40 ACE CECs.

Don't just take it from us! Read what past participants in our Facilitator Training said about it:

The Am I Hungry? facilitator training "sealed the deal" for me. Any questions I had about this approach were completely erased. It prepares facilitators completely and confidently to take this message of eating and living to the public. The materials are comprehensive and excellent. I know that I will be using this information for the rest of my career as a Family Physician and for the rest of my life personally. I (and hopefully all of my patients and participants to come) will never diet again! 
- Lori Hurst, M.D.

Thanks from the bottom of my heart for making this evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral teaching available to me so I can share it with others!   - Jill Rife, F.N.P.

A+++++++    Michelle possesses a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the field of weight management. Her spirit and enthusiasm are contagious. Not only did I learn a lot about myself, I learned invaluable skills in facilitation. I was pleased to find that we have access to professional quality resources that are customizable. Offering Am I Hungry? classes will be a breeze!  I would highly recommend the Facilitator Training to anyone interested in helping others reach their highest potential.    -Liz Blackgoat, RN, LMT

Both personally and professionally I will leave enlightened and inspired. Michelle is truly a mentor, someone I identified with on a professional and personal level. She is an inspiring and effective trainer. I just can't say enough how I am grateful for this experience!   - Paige Gutheil, D.O.

This Training gave me the tools to effectively help me and my clients normalize their relationships with food. I am so excited to begin putting these concepts to use with myself, my family and the community I serve.  Thanks!   - Beth Ann Beamer, R.N., B.S.N.

Amazing workshop - exceeded my expectations. Very well organized and facilitated. The Training Manual and other materials provided an amazing amount of detail and options - very thorough and easy to use!  Great energy throughout.   - Jonna Reynolds, Certified Wellcoach 

I was amazed at how much material we covered is such a short time. Be prepared to come and be immersed. That doesn't mean we didn't have fun - we did! Michelle and her staff know how to put a workshop together that is both informative and meaningful. I now feel well prepared to share the Am I Hungry? process with as many folks as I can.   - Mike Ford, Alaskans In Charge

The facilitator training was "complete." Michelle, you left no topic untouched and ample time for questions and clarifications. The participants who came from various backgrounds made the training even more satisfying and interesting. Being able to practice the skills we will be teaching firsthand was a spectacular demonstration of the power of the messages of the Am I Hungry?® Program. I left the training energized to start this new venture and felt more than adequately prepared to run my first workshop. The post-workshop support has been outstanding. What a great group of people to have met and trained with.  Many thanks.   - Ramona Seidel, MD 

Wonderful training. The Am I Hungry?® staff works together beautifully and are very approachable. Course content excellent and informative. My participants have remarked several times how well the program is written and put together. What satisfaction when you see progress being made!    - Kim Vitellaro

"I know what I should be eating, but I just don't do it." This is a quote from many of my nutrition clients. I finally began to really understand that the gap between knowledge of nutrition and application was behavior. The Am I Hungry?® Facilitator Training program gave me exactly what I was searching for: a complete step by step process to aid my clients in nutrition and weight loss focusing on what is really important, and the only answer to health and longevity - changing our mind set.   - Laurel Puszert, B.S. Nutrition

This program and the training were completely transforming for me.   - Reva Kaufman 

Impressively well-organized. Michelle is genuine, polished, spontaneous- an excellent communicator!   - Mary Delduca, M.D.

As a health professional who has also had gastric bypass surgery, I quickly realized that they didn't staple my brain! The Am I Hungry? principles apply well to bariatric surgery patients and help them better use their tools and strengths to ensure optimal health.   - Janine Kyrillos, M.D.

The Am I Hungry?® Facilitator Training was an incredibly rewarding experience, both personally and professionally. This intensive three day workshop opened my mind to my own issues with food and it taught me to use my "instincts" when dealing with those issues. Am I Hungry?® is an intriguing and fascinating yet unique approach to weight management.   - Jane Kelley, Manager of Health Education, CIGNA Medical Group 

Beyond my expectations. Michelle is a terrific instructor and the materials are more thorough and well put together than I could have hoped for. I feel well prepared to start a group as soon as I return home.   - Gillian Hood-Gabrielson, M.S., Certified Wellcoach

Obesity is the new epidemic in this country, and as a family physician, I see all the complications - hypertension, diabetes, and premature arthritis and joint pain. The response to my first workshop was tremendous.   - Patrick Flyte, MD 

Jammed packed three days full of information and activities. I'm going home with a full brain, happy heart and awakened muscles!   - Sue Valenzuela, R.N.

Why should you consider this weight management approach?
Isn't it obvious? The Emperor Has No Clothes!

Weight management is complex, involving genetic, metabolic, physiological, cultural, social, and behavioral factors. On the surface, the solution appears to be straightforward - decrease the number of calories consumed, and increase the number of calories used, and weight loss will result. However, while more is known now than ever before about it's molecular, genetic, and biologic determinants, the incidence of overweight and obesity has continued to rise.

This burgeoning problem has been correlated with a host of factors, among them, readily available calorically dense foods, increase in portion sizes, decrease in physical activity, and increase in sedentary lifestyles, among others. Undoubtedly these are all important contributors, but the unprecedented attention to them so far has had little appreciable affect on this epidemic.

In fact, our society has become obsessed with weight and dieting. Nearly one half of U.S. women and more than one third of men report that they are trying to lose weight at any given moment in time. Many people are desperate to lose weight, making them easy targets for a billion-dollar diet industry.

The striking reality is that diets are not very effective in the long run anyway. Accurate statistics are very hard to come by but it is widely quoted that 90-95% of dieters regain their lost weight. Whatever the true numbers, if dieting was truly effective, the problem would have been solved with the first one.

In fact, many dieters experience a gradual increase in their weight over time. In essence, this is a microcosm of what we are seeing on a societal level. It is time to consider the possibility that the therapeutic interventions may have unwittingly contributed to the problem.

It is time to move away from promoting ineffective dieting and instead teach our patients and clients to use their instinctive ability to feed themselves an appropriate amount of food. This innate skill, coupled with accurate, non-diet nutrition and fitness information and skills, can help them finally break out of the weight gain-diet-weight gain cycle.

What Else You Can Do to Help Your Patients and Clients

• Share our website www.AmIHungry.com for great weight management information and resources.
• Download or reprint free weight management articles for yourself and your patients or clients.
• Invite Dr. May to inspire and educate your group or organization about her award-winning non-diet approach to weight mangement.
• Participate in one of our group workshops or arrange one for your group: Am I Hungry?® Workshops.
• Become a trained and licensed Am I Hungry?® Facilitator. Send an email to Training for more information or to add your name to our mailing list.
• Learn more. Receive a complimentary Workshop Overview DVD and Am I Hungry? CD by Michelle May, M.D. Request yours now!
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