A journalist at Bella magazine is working on a feature on how wanting to lose weight often isn't a big enough motivator to achieve weight loss goals, and that other things like a desire to get healthier or fitter can be more sustainable and help to create weight loss as a side effect. She'd like tips from nutritionists and personal trainers about this. Keep your responses to 3-4 sentences max!

Bella magazine seeking views from nutritionists and PTs

"Changing behaviours and creating health goals not only promotes weight loss but provides a greater chance of keeping it off.  Exercise is not an efficient weight loss tool - you have to run approx 11 miles to burn off a Mars bar! Better to focus on what eating better will bring you, visualise the new you and learn how to retrain your thinking to understand and manage cravings and triggers."

The Mindful Eating Clinic, run by Lori Weber, supports people to improve their relationship with food by improving disordered eating patterns, managing weight through behavioural change, not dieting and to building nutritional health. Following her own eating disorder journey, Lori retrained to coach others 'find a happy life with food'. 80% of diets don't work in the long term and the only way forward to lasting weight management is to learn a mindful natural approach to eating behaviour and attitude to food. Lori's clients learn to ditch restrictive dieting once and for all, to let go of guilt around foods and to eat a balanced and healthy diet. Overeating disorders are treated through cognitive therapeutic coaching and nutritional rehabilitation to break destructive behaviours and reset the body's natural processes. These changes improve both psychological and physical health to achieve a healthy weight without restriction or obsession around eating. Food Freedom!

The Mindful Eating Clinic

Lori Weber

"Successful weight management is understanding your biology is working against you - your body wants to conserve, so adding rather than focusing on removing foods is key. Adding plant sources, such nuts, seeds, peas, beans and grains keeps you fuller for longer and reduce the sugar cravings."

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The Natural Alternative Health & Wellbeing Ltd

Anjanette Fraser

Rather than focusing on what you need to eliminate if you're looking to lose weight, instead focus on what you can add in. More lean foods, more colourful vegetables, more activity during the day, more exercise and the weight is likely to fall off naturally as you leave less space for the diet and lifestyle habits that can sabotage this.

May Simpkin is a UK-based Masters qualified nutritionist with a down-to-earth approach when it comes to healthy eating. As a mother of 3 grown up children, she understands the practicalities and challenges of daily life and puts delicious healthy, nutritionally balanced meals at the heart of daily life. She believes in eating real food and cooking from scratch to create simple meals that are nutritious, colourful and flavoursome. She is passionate about empowering confidence, with the right tools and knowledge to ensure vitality, energy and lifelong health.

Bella magazine seeking views from nutritionists and PTs

3 responses from the Newspage community

Lori Weber

Owner at The Mindful Eating Clinic

Anjanette Fraser

Nutrition Director, Academic Researcher, Podcast Host (Bitesize Nutrition) at The Natural Alternative Health & Wellbeing Ltd

May Simpkin

Nutritionist at May Simpkin Nutrition