Weight Management.
Making small, incremental changes to your diet and lifestyle can have a positive impact on your health.
Healthy Eating Advice
Healthy eating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle can be challenging. There is a wide range of (sometimes conflicting) recommendations, research studies and diet plans. To help you we have collated some useful information and website links.
We recommend you to review and reflect on your current diet, and consider small, incremental changes you could make. Making small, simple changes to what and how much you are eating and drinking can really help you lose the pounds. This approach helps you to gradually improve your diet in a way which is sustainable.
If you're overweight, losing weight has many health benefits. It might help reduce the risk of developing health conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. It can have so many more benefits too, such as: improved sleep, improved digestion, increased energy levels.
Eat Well Guide
The Eatwell Guide shows how much of what we eat overall should come from each food group to achieve a healthy, balanced diet. You do not need to achieve this balance with every meal, but try to get the balance right over a day or even a week.
Consider how your diet compares to the Eat Well Guide
Ask yourself:
o Does my day’s diet look like this? Or maybe only certain meals look like this and not my whole day.
o Does my diet have a similar balance of the different types of foods?
o Do I eat too much of a certain type of food?
Once you’ve identified any imbalances consider:
o How could I change my diet?
o What food swaps could I consider?
o How can I make the change fit in to my routine?
"Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success" (Richard Carlson)
NHS Better Health
The NHS Better Health website has information and advice, including:
- Free NHS Weight Loss App
- Weight loss plans
- Healthy eating advice
Patient Info
Patient.info is a website providing a range of health information written and approved by health professionals. Within the healthy eating section you can read articles detailing:
- Benefits of healthy eating
- Understanding food groups
- Healthy eating tips
British Heart Foundation
The British Heart Foundation is a UK based charity and the biggest funder of research into heart and circulatory diseases in Europe. Their website provides useful information about healthy eating to help prevent heart related health problems:
- Top tips for successful weight loss
- Healthy eating toolkit
- Simple food swaps
- Recipe finder
View the Better Health Booklet here.
Diabetes UK
Diabetes UK are a charity trying who campaign for better care, give support in times of need and fund ground-breaking research into new treatments and cures. Their website offers useful information on healthy eating and recommendations which could help you manage your type 2 diabetes and achieve weight loss, or reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes UK also has useful information for people who are pre-diabetic and want to make changes to avoid becoming diabetic in the future:
Local Support
Healthy Worcestershire is a new, free health improvement programme in Worcestershire offering weekly sessions. These sessions are designed to help you be active and healthy, whilst also having fun and meeting new people. Unfortunately, there aren’t currently any sessions running in Droitwich, however, if you are able to travel there are sessions running in local towns.
