WEIGHT LOSS

If you know you are capable of losing weight but have lost motivation we can discover what you need to improve upon and balance your thinking when it comes to food, drink and exercise. 

Losing weight can either be very simple or a very complicated issue. Most people come to us because they know they can lose weight, but they lose motivation along the way, or have trouble with particular parts of the weightloss programme they are using. Possibly they can lose it but always put it back on again. 

We need to work out what your problem is and what you want us to do for you. People are overweight for a reason. Body weight is determined by the balance of the energy taken in, i.e: what is eaten, in relation to the amount of energy expended. 

Food + Exercise = Body Weight.

When this ratio is out of balance, although the body may initially compensate, the body will either begin to lose weight, or gain weight, depending on that balance.

Other factors can affect this rate, e.g: the size of the ratio, the health of the body, the metabolism and hormones.

Once an excess of weight is gained, more effort is required to shift it than took to gain it. It is a common misconception that all overweight people binge, or are glutenous when it comes to eating. Some people who are overweight eat relatively heathy food but remember it is the relationship of activity to intake that is the issue.

We establish what the problem is and how it occurred and what has been done to try and change it beforehand as well as why they have not yet achieved their goal.

Reasons for being overweight may be:

They have always been overweight.

They may comfort eat.

They may have become less active.

They constantly break their diets.

They are obsessed with thoughts of food.

They may binge on a particular food.

Their old eating habits may once have been OK but no long are suitable.

There may have been a change in lifestyle: job, partner or stress.