Are thinking about losing weight? We can help!
Our services are designed to help you achieve a healthier body weight and to make long-term changes to your lifestyle. This includes both diet and physical activity. Through personal support and education, patients have the greatest chance of succeeding with long term lifestyle change and weight loss.
Patients will complete an initial three month programme and are supported through a monthly group session to support longer term success.
Elements of the Service
- Supporting patients to set goals
- Designing personal eating plans
- Providing advice on physical activity and referral/signposting to other lifestyle programmes such as Exercise on Referral, walking groups etc
- Long term monitoring and follow up support over 12 months
Activities
Being overweight or obese can lead to many health problems such as high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, stroke, arthritis and certain types of cancers. The Phoenix weight management service aims to help as many people as possible to become more aware of the benefits of maintaining a healthy weight and to be able to achieve this.
Weight management involves helping a person understand about the foods they eat in order to make healthy choices. It is not about following a prescribed diet or crash dieting. The importance of regular physical activity is also crucial to losing and maintaining weight. By helping people set targets towards eating healthy foods, modifying portion size and being physically active, weight loss can be successful.
Advisors and Staff
All the advisors and staff trained to help people with weight management will provide encouragement and support during regular one-to-one appointments or group sessions. Phoenix weight management service provides training for primary care staff, such as practice nurses, to be able to deliver evidence-based weight management intervention to their own patients.
Clinics
There are currently sessions operating in the following areas:
- Lincoln
- Skegness
- Boston
- Gainsborough
- Grantham
- Louth
- Sutton Bridge
Most of these clinics are open on week days with some evening sessions available.
How to access the Service
Either by referral from a health care professional or you can refer yourself to Beech House. All those who are referred or interested will need to attend an initial information and enrolment session.
Contact with the service is through your GP and/or Practice Nurse IF you meet the following criteria:
- Aged 18+, and
- Have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 and above (or BMI above 28 when co-morbidities exist), and
- You are motivated to make healthy lifestyle changes
Waiting Times for The Service
These are dependent on the local area and group timetable. If a patient is referred and has just missed the opportunity to attend an enrolment date there may be a wait of four to eight weeks.