Maintaining a healthy weight is important for your overall health as it helps lower your risk of heart disease, stroke and certain cancers. Small, realistic changes to your diet can have an important positive effect. And doing a little more exercise can help too.
Reduce the risk
Maintaining a healthy weight is important for your overall health – it can help reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke and certain cancers
Steady weight loss
Research has shown that those people who lose weight slowly and steadily e.g. 1-2 pounds a week, are much more likely to keep it off
How can we help you?
There are a number of ways in which we can support you
The chances of successfully losing weight and changing unhealthy habits forever are increased with us working alongside you. One You East Sussex has a range of free services available beginning with our Health Coaches who have the specialist knowledge and experience to advise and guide you each step of the way, changing bad habits and showing you how to lose weight for good.
Our weight management programme
Our 10 week adult weight management service is specifically aimed to help men and women with a (1) BMI (Body Mass Index) of 30 or over or (2) a BMI of 25 or above with a medical condition, to lose weight.
If you are not sure what your Current BMI is use our BMI checker here
These 10 week, community based programmes are designed to reflect the different needs of men and women, promoting healthy eating and an increase in physical activity to facilitate weight loss.
Not sure what your current BMI is? Use our BMI Checker to find out…
I’ve tried losing weight before
Each weekly session delivers a 60 minute hands-on workshop, focusing on making healthy sustainable lifestyle changes. These include our famous “Store Tour” and “Cook and Eat” sessions, which have proven to be a big hit with our previous clients.
This is followed by 30 minutes of fun and engaging physical activity sessions, from heart pumping dance aerobics to body sculpting core stability!
Love the footie?
Calling all men!
Do you want to lose weight? Do you love football? Why don’t you join Man V Fat and do both, with groups of like-minded men.
MAN v FAT Football is a new and exciting fun way to lose weight through playing football. A 14-week league with eight teams of 10, playing 30 minute games each week.
Points are awarded for amount of weight lost plus additional points are awarded for winning games! Over the course of the league there is continued support for all players with access to a MAN v FAT weight loss coach weekly and 24/7 online support.
With 95% of players losing weight why wouldn’t you want to join?
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STEPS TO MANAGING YOUR WEIGHT
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Don’t skip breakfast
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Eat Regular Meals
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Lots of fruit and vegetables
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Get more active
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Cut down on alcohol
How can you help yourself?
Here is some of our favourite online advice and support.
For advice for supporting your children, try Change4Life’s Top Tips for Kids advice by clicking here.
For advice on getting active, visit our Move More page.
Download these free apps!
Download the Easy Meals app
Recording what, when and why you eat can help you understand a lot about your eating patterns and areas for change. Try keeping a diary for two weeks and see if you can identify healthy changes you could make. Information on keeping a food diary can be found here.
You’ll also find hundreds of delicious, easy meal ideas in this free app.
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Download the Change4Life Be Food Smart app
The Be Food Smart app will help you see how much sugar, saturated fat and salt is really inside your food and drink.
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Download the Active 10 app
A brisk 10 minute walk every day can make a difference to your health. Download the free Active 10 app to measure what you’re doing – and how you can do more.
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Download the Couch to 5K app
Couch to 5k has been designed to get you off the sofa and running in just 9 weeks. Grab your trainers and follow the step-by-step instructions in this free app.
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OUR DETAILS
Phone number: 01323 404600
Email: hello@oneyoueastsussex.org.uk
Address: Suite 8, Faraday House, 1 Faraday Close,Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN22 9BH
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