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Jean Spoar Awarded National Board Certification

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Jean Spoar AABC Certification

Jean Spoar BScN RN CDE CBC

Jean Spoar a Registered Nurse from Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada has been awarded National Board Certification by the American Association of Bariatric Counselors (AABC). After completing a specialized training and education program she was credentialed as a Board Certified Bariatric Counselor (CBC) in March of 2017.

Ms. Spoar serves as a Diabetes Nurse Educator and is an integral member of the Diabetes & Obesity Education Program for Novo Nordisk Canada. Her responsibilities at Novo Nordisk include supporting family care health providers with current best practices in the care and treatment of diabetes and obesity.

Ms. Spoar completed her nursing education and training at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. Her commitment to lifelong learning is evidenced by her recent completion of the AABC Certification and Credentialing Program and by her current enrollment in the Masters in Nursing Executive Leadership program at Daemen College, in Amherst, New York.

AABC Board Certified Bariatric Professionals are already licensed/certified health and education professionals. Their international fellowship includes medical doctors, professional educators, mental health professionals, nurses, nutritionists and other related disciplines that engage in research, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of obesities and related disorders.

Board Certification and Credentialing Standards

The American Association of Bariatric Counseling is an official US Federal not-for-profit, professional fellowship association dedicated to the advancement of bariatric science education and to the enhancement of obesity care and treatment. Founded in 2005, AABC is the world’s largest association exclusively representing professional multi-disciplinary bariatric counselors. Board Certification by AABC affirms that their credentialed fellows are licensed/registered/certified health or education professionals that have completed a specialized academic program in Bariatric Science and must continue their specialized education and training to maintain their Board Certification.

For more information, please contact Stephen Phillips, Public Policy Officer for AABC.

Email: stephen.phillips@aabc-certification.org
Website: www.aabc-certification.org

Mindful Eating Satiety Index

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Mindful Eating Satiety Index

Best Practices in Bariatric Counseling

Mindful Eating: The Satiety Index

Mindful eating is the buzz in the weight-loss community.  It is spirited in the mindfulness and meditation of Zen and other forms of Buddhism. Mindful eating is defined as a very a conscious  manner of eating with focus on all the gustatory savory sensations of food, the motives for eating as well as how you feel after eating.

  • It offers freedom from the food police and the diet/calorie and forbidden food mentality
  • It asks only that you respect and listen to the intuitive voice of your body
  • Honor the wisdom of that voice and it will set you free from Detecto and deliver your body to its natural shape and size.

Anecdote:

While discussing the merits of mindful eating during group counseling, a bariatric counselor frequently used the phrase “listen to your body.” A patient quipped “Me and my body haven’t talked in years.”

This anecdote led to the development of the AABC Mindful Eating Satiety Index, a fast, easy and personal way to learn to listen to your body and quantify your hunger and satiety.    Try it with your population.

VIEW MINDFUL EATING SATIETY INDEX VIDEO

Download pdf to make copies of The Satiety Index for your population.

 Mindful-Eating PDF Link

Mindful Eating Works Best When It Doesn’t Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96JSHieiicQ&t=137s

American Association of Bariatric Counseling
www.aabc-certification.org

BARIATRIC SCIENCE- A SCIENCE WHO’S TIME HAS COME