This week I travelled to Leicester with my daughter Libby to meet a group of nurses at a central hospital.
These nurses want help with their weight. I am more than happy to help them! Weight loss of course comes about through healthy eating and with that healthy eating comes really good nutrition, and with that comes a whole host of added benefits. I’m really looking forward to this journey with these lovely nurses!
I asked them all of their experiences with food and lifestyle and I told them before I started, although of course they were all individuals, their stories were likely to be exactly the same. They were very sceptical about this. I explained I’ve been helping people lose weight for four years and of course that meant I had quite a bit of experience.
As each nurse began to tell their story they very quickly realised that their issues were exactly the same, slightly different circumstances but the issues were incredibly similar, in fact they are in my experience the same problems shared by most overweight people.
Each one of those nurses believed they were incredibly busy, each one of those nurses had a very small cookery repertoire, none of those nurses knew what healthy eating really meant, all of those nurses had takeaways, all of those nurses snacked a lot, most of them also shopped multiple times a week. Does this sound familiar?
As I said this is exactly what I expected. The first thing we are going to have to do here is get some organisation into their lives planning the weeks properly and then making a meal plan. Without this organisation in your life nothing is possible.
Once we’ve got this in place the rest is pretty easy. It’s then teaching them some quick easy healthy recipes for breakfast lunch and dinner.
After this it’s just about meeting up regularly discussing the issues as they arise and putting strategies in place, for the little lapses. The nurses big issue is the same issue for the rest of the UK... these snacks.
I’m pretty confident we are going to have a very positive impact on the lives of these nurses. Their issues are shared by millions of overweight people in this country, the remedy I will put in place is exactly the same system we have been using successfully for four years.
We are filming our journey with the nurses and will be putting the clips and films out across social media. I think it’s gonna make for some very interesting watching!
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