Diet and Nutrition are key to any weight loss and management programme. Our aim is to help you understand the principles of nutrition and how you can use these to help you lose weight safely and effectively while fitting in with your lifestyle and food preferences.
Selecting a Diet
One of the most important things in selecting a diet is using one which you can follow and stick to. Whether you decide to use our recommended calorie controlled diet or are currently using another diet they can all be incorporated into the programme.
Food Diary
Using a digital or more traditional method – maintaining a Food Diary is essential to understanding where you can make changes and improvements in your nutrition. We assist in analysing your diary and are here to assist with advice, substitutions and changes.
Supporting Your Diet
We are on hand to help you with your diet whether that is our recommended calorie controlled diet, carb cycling, Weight Watchers , Slimming World, 5:2, Keto etc. We provide resources and personal support to help you reach your goals and stick with your diet.
Supplementation
Afters discussion and assessment or following ongoing assessment if you require supplementation during your weight loss journey recommendations can be made to support your nutrition.
Calculating your BMI and Daily Calorie Requirement
Understanding what your BMI and waist circumference mean for your ongoing health and future health risks can be an important tool in settling goals for your journey.
Understanding your daily calorie requirement ensures that you you can adjust your intake to facilitate weight loss and/or maintenance.
Diabetes UK provide easy to use BMI and Basal Metabolic Rate Calculators (BMR - calories required at rest)
BMI Calculator - https://www.diabetes.co.uk/bmi.html
BMR Calculator - https://www.diabetes.co.uk/bmr-calculator.html
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