What happens in your body when you lose weight? Learn how your body uses energy and adapts to the change whenever you lose weight. We will also discuss realistic expectations for weight loss and explore evidence-based strategies to create a negative energy balance, which will allow you to optimize your weight, and manage weight loss, for long-term health.

October 15, 2021 Empower Idaho presents: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing with Kyle Davis, PhD Webinar Objectives: • Understand definition of motivational interviewing • Understand factors associated with behavior change • Understand how common communication styles in healthcare affect behavior change About the Presenter: Kyle Davis (he/him), PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in clinical health psychology and behavioral sleep medicine, including cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. He has specialized training in mood and sleep disorders, chronic pain, weight management, and in primary care mental health integration. Dr. Davis earned his Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Oklahoma State University and his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Davis currently practices at St. Luke's Clinic: Lifestyle Medicine in Meridian where he provides individual and group treatments for insomnia and teaches Lifestyle Medicine participants skills to change thought and behavioral patterns to live healthier lives.

Unfortunately, many people experience negative associations with physical activity that stem from past unpleasant experiences. In this class, participants will learn how and why humans can learn to enjoy physical activity as well as strategies to make their practice of physical activity more enjoyable.

Learn to understand the difference between emotional eating and physical hunger, how emotional eating develops, how to identify your triggers for emotional eating, and strategies to change unhelpful eating patterns. This class is taught by psychologist Kyle Davis.