The programme will include modules such as:
- The essential principals of a balanced, healthy diet
- Deciphering the macronutrient maze
- How the Glycaemic Index (GI) helps you lose weight
- Detective skills in food product labelling and supermarket ranges
- How to eat out regularly AND still lose weight
- Recipe adaptation for quick, easy and healthier meals
- Investing in physical activity
- Fun with functional foods - tasting session
- Meal planning and healthier choices
Monthly Evening Sessions
Examples of topics include:
- Why insulin resistance in important
- Is my thyroid function normal?
- Anti-obesity medication - the old and the new
- Daytime sleepiness - obstructive sleep apnoea and obesity
- Behavioral and motivational approaches to obesity management
- The role of hormones in ovesity
- New peptides as an aid to weight loss
- Quick, simple adn appealing meals - the low fat way
- Cooking the low glycaemic way - the know how
- Low glycaemic, tasty breakfast options
- Snacking - do's and don'ts
- Bariatric sugery - gastric banding/ bypass and other techniques
- The plastic surgeon's role
SmartWeight™ encourages healthier eating habits and produces an individually tailored nutrition and lifestyle prescription.