Further Information & Hand Outs
Weight Management
Further Information & Hand Outs
Weight Loss Programmes
The NHS Weight Loss Plan aims to promote safe and sustainable weight loss by helping you to create a weight loss target, plan meals, establish healthier eating habits and become more physically active. The plan is broken-down into 12 weeks and is accessible via an app.
Handouts
The following hand outs are available to download or print.
Balanced Eating Food Fact Sheets from the British Dietetic Association
- Healthy Eating Factsheet
- Carbohydrates Factsheet
- Fruit and Vegetables Factsheet
- Fat Factsheet
- Calcium Factsheet
- Fluid Factsheet
- Portion Sizes Factsheet
- Eat Well, Spend Less Factsheet
- Food Labelling Factsheet
Healthy Living
- Readiness Ruler- Tool to gauge motivation and readiness to make changes
- For advice on how to eat a more healthy diet
- For helpful tips and advice on becoming more active
- Healthy living resources for Somerset-based patients
- Eat better booklet, with practical tips to make small changes to achieve a healthy balanced diet from the British Heart Foundation
- Resources from the British Heart Foundation to support healthy eating
The Dieting Cycle, Dieting Myths, Fad Diets
- Cycle of Dieting- Graphical image of The Dieting Cycle
- The Healthy Eating cycle
- Information on Fad Diets from British Dietetic Association
- Further information on dieting myths from the British Heart Foundation
Emotion and Habit Triggered Eating
- Managing Emotional Eating at Home- Information and guidance around managing emotional eating, particularly whilst socially distancing as a result of COVID-19
- Hunger and Fullness Worksheet- Tool to help you to tune into your natural hunger and fullness signals
- Record of hunger and triggers to eating – Tool to monitor different types of hunger and help you establish trends in your eating habits
- An evidence-based daily program to address eating habits and emotional eating
Well-being Resources
- Offers a wide range of treatments for adults 18 years of age and over who are registered with a GP surgery in the Somerset area
- Offers a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal to make contact
- Free online self-help program incorporates cognitive behaviour therapy for depression
- A free, 8 week mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) programme
Weight Loss Surgery
Books you may find useful
- End Emotional Eating by Jennifer Taitz
- Overcoming Weight Problems by Jeremy Gaunlett-Gilbert & Clare Grace
- Weight Loss for Food Lovers by George Blair-West
- Overcoming Body Image Problems by David Veale, Rob Wilson & Alex Clarke
- The Self-Esteem Workbook by Glenn Schiraldi
- The Joy of Half a Cookie by Jean Kristellar & Alisa Bowman
- Well Nourished by Andrea Leiberstein, RD
- Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat by Dr Michelle May
- Mindful Eating: Free Yourself from Overeating by Jan Chozen Bays
- The Emotional First Aid Kit: A Practical Guide to Life After Bariatric Surgery by Cynthia Alexander
- Living with Bariatric Surgery: Managing your Mind and Your Weight by Dr Denise Ratcliffe