• Medical Assessment
  
• Nutritional Assessment
  
• Support and Follow-up

 

The Medical Assessment

Assessment by one of our highly qualified and experienced doctors will help eliminate a medical cause of weight gain and establish an individual’s healthiness and suitability to enter into this programme. Testing is likely to include assessment of thyroid function and other hormonal factors that impact on metabolic rate and the conversion of food to fat. These factors can include assessment of insulin resistance, adrenal stress hormone balance and sex hormone balance, including oestrogen dominance and testosterone deficiency.

This assessment can also consider hormonal imbalances and nutritional deficiencies, which can impact on metabolic efficiency, digestion and absorption, as well as deficiencies of nutrients, which might contribute to cravings and bingeing.

The Nutritional Assessment

The Nutritional Assessment, in conjunction with the Medical Assessment, helps establish the specific causes of an individual's weight problems.

• We assess nutritional and calorie intake in relation to calorie expenditure.
• We also measure body composition using up to the minute technology in order to establish the balance between body fat, lean tissue and body fluid.
• We also consider the likelihood of addictive eating due to allergies, physiological imbalances, such as dysglycaemia, and underlying psycho-emotional problems which might lead to the over use of certain foods.

Patterns of behaviour can describe sub-conscious efforts to correct nutritional deficiencies and imbalances and the diet is considered in relation to nutritional intake and balance.

Your Personalised Comprehensive Programme

HB's comprehensive weight loss programme is designed to identify the reasons why you have gained weight and ensure you receive the support you require to lose it. An improved dietary plan is constructed to help increase metabolism, improve nutritional status and balance, correct underlying physiological imbalances, and elevate mood in order to reduce comfort eating and reduce cravings. All of this is achieved whilst stimulating losses of fat weight.

The personalised diet is constructed in conjunction with an exercise programme, the combination of which will encourage losses of fat weight, improvements in mood, improved metabolism of fat and an enhanced ability to control weight into the future.

Support, Follow up and Additional Options

Follow up ‘Lifestyle’ Consultations

Most of us benefit by having support when making important lifestyle changes. Regular visits for reassessment of weight and body composition will provide the positive feedback so vital to programme adherence and ultimate success.

These regular sessions can help answer questions and help solve problems and so remove the hurdles, paving the way to success. These sessions also ensure recognition when success is achieved and the all-important ‘pat on the back’.

Optional Components for Additional Assistance

For those who require additional assistance, we can help ensure everything, which is necessary to achieve sustained, comfortable weight loss is in place. This can include:

• The arrangement of personal training or appropriate gym membership
• Practical guidance in the selection of healthy foods with our one to one shopping trips
• Practical guidance in the preparation and cooking of healthy meals and even the arrangement of the delivery of healthy and suitable meals to your door.

Health Problems Arising from Overweight

Weight management is important to your well being not only for how you look and feel about yourself, but because other health problems can arise from overweight. With 60% of the adult population overweight and 20% obese, this country has witnessed a dramatic escalation of weight related health problems in the past 20 years. As a nation this increase in the number who are overweight is associated with increases in the incidence of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis and some cancers. Whilst the health implications are undeniably important it only partially explains the misery experienced by many people who are overweight.

People gain weight and fail to lose weight for specific reasons. For some, it is because of a straight forward imbalance between what they consume and what they ‘burn'. For these people, weight loss can be easily achieved by reducing calorie consumption and/or increasing calorie utilisation. Unfortunately, however, there are people who fail to lose weight comfortably by redressing this imbalance or who find it difficult to either eat less or exercise more. It is this group who are most likely to benefit by following HB Health‘s comprehensive weight loss programme.

Let us remove your excuses,
help you improve your health,
and get into the fabulous shape you deserve.

For more information or a consultation, please contact HB Health