Help with Weight Loss
Being a healthy weight is important for a healthy life. Leicestershire Nutrition and Dietetic Service can support you in making decisions around weight loss and provide you with up to date, accurate information. Losing weight is about making changes to your lifestyle, what you eat, and what physical activity you do. Remember that small lifestyle changes can add up to make a big difference.
Benefits of weight loss
Losing weight and staying a healthy weight will reduce the risk of other diseases and improve overall health and wellbeing. Losing a moderate amount of weight (about 5-10%) has great health benefits such as lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, reduced breathlessness, and reduced joint pains. Many of us have an ideal weight we would like to be, but small graduate steps to a moderate weight loss are a good starting point.
This page contains useful information sheets to support adults who are thinking about or trying to lose weight.
Dietary advice for helping lose weight on a vegetarian diet.
A guide to getting the best out of being active.
Keeping a food diary to help with weight
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Keeping a food and activity diary to help weight loss.
Advise to help you lose weight when eating an Asian diet.
Advise to help you lose weight.
Advise on losing weight by making healthy food choices, increasing activity levels, and changing behaviour