Services
Penelope M. Klatell, PhD, RN, ACC is available for:
- Speaking
- Articles/guest posts
- Interviews
- Seminars
- Group Coaching
Possible Interview/Post/Presentation Topics
- What is social dieting?
- How can I diet In public?
- How are eating habits formed?
- What can you do not to go totally crazy with buffets, banquets, and events?
- What can I eat in fast food places, hockey rinks, movie theaters, and sports banquets?
- How can I stick to my diet at Grandma’s and Aunt Louise’s without them getting on my case?
- What can I eat in airports and hotels that that won’t zap my energy and blow my diet?
- What do I eat to avoid my 3PM slump?
- How do I handle conference room food?
- Seven Secrets for Dieting in Public
- Seven Tips for Eating Well While Traveling
- Home for the Holidays — Without Excess Pounds
- Banquets, Buffets, Parties: All You Can Eat . . . but Under Control
- Eating and Traveling: More than Animal Crackers and Blue Potato Chips
- Controlling your Weight While Feeding Your Kids: How to Avoid Eating your Dinner and Cleaning their Plates, too
- Food Choices at Fast Food Joints and Other Places Your Kids’ Travel Sports Teams Eat
- Creating Healthy Eating Habits that Fit Your Lifestyle
- Conscious Control of Conference Room (or Workplace) Food
- Family Food Events and Dilemmas
- Eat Out, Eat Well
Group Coaching
Life Odyssey offers group coaching programs designed to help each group participant develop a personalized eating strategy — and a toolbox of skills, practices, and habits – for weight loss and management.
The focus of the group can be any topic or combination of topics listed above. Groups are put together by the participants and are led by Dr. Klatell. Coaching sessions can be from 2 to 5 sessions in length depending upon the topic. Each meeting is for 75 to 90 minutes, with the regular day and time set by group preference.
Groups can be conducted by teleconference/webinar, or, in person in New York City, Westchester, or southern Connecticut.
Life Odyssey’s philosophy is that there are many components to weight loss: food, physiology, behavior, habit patterns, cultural influences, activity patterns, and emotions. An eating plan that works for one person may not work for another. It’s important to ignore the fad diet of the moment and to avoid the elimination of whole categories of foods – especially the ones you love – just because they are on someone else’s forbidden list. To have long lasting success it is necessary to have a plan that suits your lifestyle and avoids deprivation – one that allows you to eat out, entertain, eat in all kinds of places (airports, conference rooms, buffets, dinner parties, weddings, sporting events), and know how to make the best food choice wherever you are.
Dr. Klatell’s approach blends the science and art of weight management along with a very healthy dose of caring, support, and accountability. With time, practice, willingness to make small changes, and a commitment to your self-defined goals, it is possible to create new healthy habits to help you successfully manage your weight.
Penny Klatell, PhD, RN, is a nurse, nutritional health counselor, health and wellness coach, author, and former college professor. Penny’s intent is to couple her professional experience and her belief in “you are what you eat” with her passion for delicious, healthy, and happy eating -- and then to share that information with you.
