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Weight Loss Help That Is Tailored To You

Do you know how much weight that you need to lose? When you start on a diet you set a target in mind and a timescale to reach it in.  The target may be to lose a certain amount of weight of to fit in a particular dress size and the timescale may by the time you go on holiday or a year from now.

Factors In Losing Weight

Many diets start off with a set amount of calories per week and this doesn’t change throughout the diet.  If you have tried these diets before and they haven’t worked it can be very demoralising and stop you dieting full stop. “I’ve tried every diet under the sun and nothing seems to work” is a statement that we have heard from people who want to make a change and have come to us for help. Why is this the case?

Every Dieter Is Different

If the diet that you are on isn’t working, or suddenly stops working, what is going on? After all, if you reduce calories and exercise more, the weight should fall off, right? We’ve even said similar in this blog so it must be true.

Yes, it should, but every dieter and diet is different. That’s why we have a team of experts at Weight Medics to guide all our weight loss customers.  On our various plans we offer:

• An expert doctor to manage your programme
• A monthly full Body Composition Analysis which tells you your Basal Metabolic Rate, in other words how many calories your body burns each day so the doctor can work out what your daily calorie intake should be to enable steady, sustainable weight loss
• The doctor will advise you on what to change within your eating plan to achieve the right daily food intake
• You’ll also learn your body fat percentage, your Fat Free Mass, the amount of visceral fat that you have and your metabolic age, i.e. whether you have the metabolism of a younger or older person than your current age
• Based on your Basal Metabolic rate, the doctor will advise what you can add to each meal to make up your Personal Food Plan
• As your weight comes down and your general level of fitness improves, your Basal Metabolic Rate should increase, so the doctor can add more food to your daily intake while still maintaining weight loss!

Personal Encouragement To Lose Weight

With our help and guidance and your effort, targets and timescales won’t seem so far away after all!

Where do you find the time?!

Where do you find the time? Get up, run round, get ready for work, commute in, get to work, get work done, battle through the traffic on the way home, get home, do chores, catch up on friends and family, sit down for a minute, next thing it’s bedtime and the evening has gone. Or get up, get the kids up, get everyone organised, sort out the school run, work or home during the day and so on and so on and so on. It’s exhausting just thinking about it never mind doing it!

Where’s The Time For Exercise?

If you haven’t got time to fit your lifestyle around exercise and healthy eating then you can try to fit exercise and healthy eating around your lifestyle.

• If you use public transport, get off one stop early and walk the extra distance
• If you drive to work and parking is available, park further away from the office
• Go for a walk at lunchtime
• Use the stairs instead of lifts and escalators
• Prepare snacks in advance and carry them with you
• Make double when cooking and freeze half

Finding Time For Food

Do you have time to make menu plans, write out ingredients lists, shop for food and make it all?  Not to mention finding time to actually sit down and eat it! We often hear from people who have come to us for help that they don’t have the time to stick to a diet and that often it is hard to eat healthily and exercise.

A Diet For Busy People

We listened to our clients and came up with a new plan – The Platinum Plan.  It includes:

• Doctor approved, calorie counted, portion controlled real food delivered to your home or office
• The food is cooked fresh, then sealed into special containers without artificial preservatives.
• Meals can be stored at ambient temperature and, when you are ready to eat, just pop the food in a pan or a microwave, add the extras that the doctor has suggested and you’re ready to eat
• There’s a huge choice of meals in your monthly hamper which includes 28 breakfasts, 28 lunches, 28 dinners and 28 snacks.

Making Diets Easier

Life is busy, and so are you! If you think that our plan would help you, you can make an appointment with one of our experts who will give you advice on the best weight loss plan to help you meet your goals.

Lose Weight For Your Holiday

It seems as if we have barely got Christmas out of the way yet here we are already preparing for the holidays. It’s closer than you think!

Lose weight sensibly

A sensible, sustainable weight loss is 2-3 lbs per week. Starting your healthy eating and exercise plan now will give you the best chance of getting in tip-top shape before your summer holiday and keeping it long after the tan fades!

You might be tempted to leave it a while longer and then try a crash diet. It might get you into those great holiday clothes but trust us – you won’t be in them long, and why put yourself through that for no long-term reward?

Plan a healthy future

Losing weight for a holiday is a great goal – whatever works to motivate you. Keep your long-term goal in mind too, and you can carry that summer body all the way through the year!

Losing Weight for your Wedding

Weight Medic’s Daphne Rowan at the Richmond Brides show – The Weight Medics weight loss plans can help you lose weight in time for your wedding.

If you’d like our free report on losing weight please call us on 0207 7305 7171

Where can you find help to lose weight healthily?

Happy Valentine's Day from us all at Weight Medics!

A very happy St Valentine’s Day to you!  Have a fun day, even if at times it looks as if temptation in the form of chocolate is everywhere If you are looking for help in losing weight make a date with our weight-loss doctors; they love to help people wanting to lose weight!

We have clinics available in Harley Street, Victoria, Richmond, Broadstairs, Reading and Bury St Edmunds all waiting to help you.

Whatever you are doing today, whether you love the day or not, we hope that you have a great one!

Keeping an Exercise Journal to lose weight

This weight loss and healthy living is a right palaver isn’t it? Calorie counting, portion control, exercising for a certain amount of time every week. It was much easier before you started all this malarkey and now you’re expected to keep a weight loss and exercise journal too!  Why?

Meeting Your Weight Loss Goals

One reason for keeping a weight loss and exercise journal is of course to track your food and exercise, but that’s just a small part of it. If you gain weight or reach a plateau the journal can help you work out what happened. It’s also a great motivational tool. If you are having a bad day you can look through your journal and see how far you have come. When you have a great week for weight loss you can track your eating habits and exercise plan and build on it.

How to lose weight sensibly

Your journal is a great  record of your efforts. Read through it and congratulate yourself – look at what you did! That’s where the “love your effort” comes in. You’ve worked hard – celebrate it!

Do Crash Diets work?

If you want a healthy weight loss plan with sustainable and maintainable weight loss then run as far away as you can from crash diets.

Slows Down Your Metabolism

Crash Diets cause your body to use up the water & carb stores in your muscles and liver, you will lose weight and fast.  So quick weight loss of water and muscle. But, muscle burns more calories than fat so you’ll be slowing down your metabolism. When you start to eat normally again, the extra calories will not be burnt off as quickly due to the slower metabolism and will be stored in your body as fat.

Denies You Nutrients

Crash Diets can deny your body of many of the essential proteins, carbs,fats, nutrients and vitamins that your body needs to function and which provides energy. Your body needs a balanced diet; if you are cutting out a whole food group then what are you denying your body in terms of  nutrients?

Healthy steps to lose weight

• Aim to lose 1-2 lbs per week
• Change your diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables; at least five a day.
• Reduce fat and sugars
• Eat wholegrain foods
• Keep well hydrated
• Regular exercise

Long-term Sustainable Weight Loss

Changing your habits over a long period of time and losing weight in a controlled and regulated manner will lead to success. Love the steps that lead to your long-term goal!

Is your diet plan the last resort?

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

We all start a new diet or weight loss plan with the best of intentions.

• “It’s going to work this time”
• “I can do this”
• “It’s not worked before, but this time will be different”

Life gets in the way. Extra snacks sneak in, one or two meals are swapped out, two or three trips to the gym are missed and the diet may slip by the wayside. We promise we’ll go back to the diet, or try this next wonder or crash diet which will definitely work this time. And so the cycle starts again.

How can you lose weight?

Find a diet that works for you. If you love a particular kind of food, and your diet makes no provision for it then there won’t be a lot of love for the diet. You’ll get bored.  You’ll not want to stick to a diet maintenance plan if it doesn’t allow for treats or the food that you like.

Finding a weight loss plan that works

Make sure that your weight loss plan is targeted to you, both in tastes and in calorie intake.  Have someone available to tweak your diet if it’s not working and to give you advice, help and encouragement in losing weight. You might think it’s hard to love a diet, but with the help of experienced weight loss professionals you can!

Make enjoyable life changes.

Losing weight is such an enormous change in your life. It means changing a lot of your lifestyle. It’s important to make lifestyle changes that you enjoy, otherwise you may be miserable with the changes that are meant to bring you long term happiness, and that’s not good!

Loving your food

Look at the food that you love and try to incorporate it into your new weight loss plan. Enjoy a curry on a Friday night? Use Indian spices in a dry rub for meats and chicken and leave out the creamy sauces. Substitute stir-fries if you enjoy a Chinese and look for different ways to enjoy fish and chips.   See what kind of food you can have in your new weight loss plan and enjoy it. You’re more likely to stick to a diet that you love!

Loving your Exercise

Yes, we know. This is a hard one, especially if you don’t enjoy exercise. Look for ways to have fun. Train with a friend, use exercise videos or games, do fun classes, try something different. Treat yourself to funky new workout gear – whatever gets you moving!

Loving Your Lost Pounds

Celebrate every.single.pound that you have lost. You know how hard you had to work to lose it, so take pride in that achievement!

Would you like to win a prize?

Hopefully yesterday you took part in the first day of our “14 Days of Love” competition. If you haven’t then don’t worry!

Today we have another chance for you to win one of our gorgeous love candles. Entry is simple too!

Just go to our Facebook page and click “like”. Then leave us a comment under the “What’s your funniest ever weight loss story?” With, you’ve guessed it, your funniest ever weight loss story in 30 words or less.:)

The winner will then receive one of the very nice love candles – and we’ll do our best to get it to you in time for Valentine’s Day! Can’t wait to hear what you all come up with!