'WEIGHT MATTERS' SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS
Weight Matters so make a ‘small change and see a BIG difference’:
What do I need to think about ?
- Checking where you are and what have become lifestyle habits.
What you do you eat and drink?
How active are you?
- Changing what you choose to eat.
What do you buy at the shops?
How do you cook your food?
Is it a Healthy Balance of Nutritious Food ?
Are the portion sizes not too large?
- Changing your physical activity levels
Do you walk everyday ?
Are there other ways to be active on your own?
Is there a group to keep you going?
- Changing your thoughts and behaviours which stop you sticking to eating well and being active.
Do you have away of resisting external triggers?
Do you have a substitute plan / way of thinking?
Ready to Change on your own?
1. ‘Weight Matters’ R plan
Use the R plan with the support of the DOH Healthy Weight Healthy Lives Booklet
6 progressive brief interventions focussing on changing eating and activity habits
(Your Weight Your Health: How to take control booklet pdf and the R Plan pdf)
2. Weight Management – A Self Help Guide Workbook
This is a 12 step programme to work through at your own pace.
The booklet covers:-
- Understanding the benefits and difficulties of making changes
- Know what you want to achieve & planning your goals
- Exploring current eating habits, the importance of keeping to a regular eating pattern and portion sizes
- Reviewing your current activity habits
- Keeping motivated
- Explore shopping choices, cooking and who controls your food choices.
- Why we eat and what triggers us to eat
- How to overcome a lapse.
There are 2 ways of working though this guide;
i ) Going through the work book on your own (Click here)
ii ) With ‘Step by Step’ support
This is based upon the above programme but is supported by regular email or telephone Contact Mary Williamson on WeightMatters@cornwall.nhs.uk
Need extra information download Your Weight your health pdf (click here)
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