Operation Transformation Keeping Well Apart

Coccooning, self-isolation, physical distancing, Never before has our collective health depended more on our ability to stay apart. Over the past weeks we've seen huge efforts across the country to do just that in a collective effort to protect ourselves, our loved ones and the most vulnerable in our society.

This way of living is not something that comes naturally to us and, as our time in separation increases, it may become increasingly difficult to keep up our collective efforts,

In Operation Transformation: Keeping Well Apart, the team from Operation Transformation are back to try and help people get through these challenging times.

This is not a weight loss series. It is about providing individuals and families with the tools to sustain our collective effort.

Clinical Psychologist Dr. Eddie Murphy will be offering tips on mental health and our resident GP Dr. Sumi Dunne will be on hand to advise people on their health concerns. Dietician Aoife Hearne will be offering ideas on meal planning, weekly shops and there will be helpful how to cook videos available online. While Karl Henry, the champion of the Ad Break Challenge will be showing people how they can stay fit in their homes. All exercises, resources tips and recipes will be available on line.

At the heart of any series of Operation Transformation is people sharing their lives and experiences and in doing so helping others. In this series we will be following the lives of households who have asked for the support of the Operation Transformation experts.

In studio Kathryn Thomas will be linking to the families at home, we will see how they are getting on and the experts will be there to offer ideas on food, exercise and mental well-being.

This is a special series of Operation Transformation where nobody steps on the scales and nobody has a weekly target. It is about the experts and the participants sharing their knowledge and real-life experience to help others. We have to stay apart to keep well and this brings a unique set of challenges and Operation Transformation with its team of experts will be there to give support to the many people who are want some guidance on how to get through these difficult days.

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