It’s a known fact that carrying excess weight can have negative impacts on your health, increasing risk of serious health issues such as Alzheimer’s, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, strokes, and even cancer. Being overweight can also have a negative effect on your wellbeing, length and quality of life.
A study published in 2020 showed that there were 876,000 hospital admissions in the previous year where obesity was listed as a contributing factor.
At Dr Finlays, we know it can be overwhelming when thinking about starting to lose weight or making changes to your lifestyle to maintain a healthy weight. It can sometimes seem like a big mountain to climb, and changing the habits of a lifetime can be tough. We have all been there and we are here to help.
There are lots of causes for being overweight and everyone’s bodies are different, meaning different strategies will work for different people when trying to attain and then maintain a healthy weight. Sometimes weight management can be as simple as cutting back on alcohol, walking part of the way to work and switching up healthier food choices like replacing chocolate with fruit – but for lots of us there can be other factors involved, and sometimes they are hard to identify on our own. Mental health, menopause, medications and more can all have an impact on our weight, and thus what we need to do to manage it.
That’s why we use an integrated, lifestyle-based approach to reduce health risks and aim for sustainable lifestyle changes – looking at the full picture of your health, including contributing factors such as stress, diet, sleep, movement and mood to understand how best to help you. We’ll create personal, bespoke and manageable nutrition and lifestyle plan, and can offer medication to aid weight loss where needed.
We also offer support in righting the adverse effects of excess weight, including high blood pressure and diabetes reversal.
Starting the journey to manage your weight can be daunting, but our experienced team of doctors and psychologists are on hand to guide you every step of the way. Our clinics and consultations are safe, non-judgemental spaces. We’ve even got home visits and conveniently located clinics in the City Centre to enable you to engage during your working day.
To arrange a consultation, get in touch via our website or by giving the team a call on 0121 3961323.