Weight Management Advice
One You Couch to 5K: Mobile App
The Couch to 5K app has been designed to get you off the couch and running in just 9 weeks. Grab your trainers, download the app and follow the step-by-step instructions.
Download from: play.google.com
Download from: itunes.apple.com
One You Easy Meals: Mobile App
The free Easy Meals app is a great way to eat foods that are healthier for you. You’ll find delicious, easy meal ideas to help get you going if you’re ever short of inspiration.
Download from: play.google.com
Download from: itunes.apple.com
Weight Watchers
Meetings, Online or a little bit of both. We’ve got options and support, whatever your lifestyle.
Website: www.weightwatchers.com
Slimming World
You’ll find delicious recipe and menu ideas at your local group, along with all the help you need to get started and reach your target weight.
Website: www.slimmingworld.co.uk
Change4Life
Have you seen the Change4Life campaign ‘Smart Swap’? It encourages families to make one easy swap to help cut sugar and fat from their everyday snacks, drinks and meals. The focus is on five simple Smart Swaps:
- Sugary drinks to diet, sugar free or no added sugar drinks or to low fat milk or water
- Cheese to reduced fat cheese
- Butter to lower fat butters or spreads
- Sugary cereal to low sugar cereal, for example, plain whole wheat cereal biscuits, plain shredded whole grain or plain porridge
- Whole milk to semi-skimmed; or semi-skimmed to 1% fat or skimmed milk
Find out more - https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/food-facts/sugar
Weight loss programs from MoreLife
Our Family Programme for children, young people and their parents/carers are offered across different areas and venues and are tailored to meet the needs of different ages. The age-specific sessions focus on developing strategies and skills to enable families to sustain healthy behaviours – combining physical activity and games with educational activities and family goal setting.
- 10 x weekly 60-minute group delivered by a CWM Practitioner, including a physical activity element for the children
- Siblings are welcome, with weekly weigh-in for the whole family
- Aim to reduce BMI Z score by 3.25 percentile drop
Our referral Criteria:
- 5-18 years (up to 25yrs if SEND)
- BMI centile ≥ 91st centile
- Resident in Bedford Borough Council, Central Bedfordshire or Milton Keynes or attends school in one of those authorities
To find out more visit - https://www.more-life.co.uk
Health and Nutrition Clinics
Where and When
We run these clinics across our PCN during various days and times, please contact the Medical Centre for more information
What is involved
- Lose weight
- Learn to eat more healthily
- Lower your cholesterol
- Change your lifestyles to prevent diabetes
- These are free 30 minute consultations to support you in achieving your goals
Health Harms
The Health Harms campaign reminds smokers about the physical damage caused by smoking, TV and digital advertising will feature ‘Rotten Roll-up’ and ‘Mutations’ adverts as in previous years to clearly illustrate the harm caused by all forms of smoking - rolls up and bought cigarettes. It will dramatize the immediate harm caused by every single cigarette and make the invisible damage visible.
The campaign will capitalise on seasonal motivation to make healthy changes including stopping smoking.The advertising will encourage smokers to search Smokefree for free and proven support in the form of the Quit Kit, Smokefree app, text and emails.
