Have you all had a good Christmas and New Year? Are you all ready to start the new year in good shape with all those new year’s resolutions firmly in place? No? Well maybe you’re feeling a bit over stuffed, tired, weary of all those festivities and need a little help in starting the new year feeling fresh and energised!

If you’ve over indulged this Christmas and have decided to loose some weight and get active, you may be interested in the new Amanda Pierce Weight Loss Clinic. This medically supervised 16 week programme is designed to help you change your eating habits for life and lead a healthy active life. It’s not a quick fix or another ‘fad’ diet, it’s about teaching you how to stick to healthy eating with support for encouraging change and strategies to help you cope with applying those changes to your busy everyday life.

This weight loss clinic is designed to give you the best of both worlds. We offer individual consultations where we will take a medical history, talk to you about your current eating habits, what makes you over eat, emotional triggers for eating and which is the best eating plan to suit you and your lifestyle. Medication may be prescribed for those that need it. Alongside this personalised medical approach, you will attend weekly group sessions for regular support, motivation and tips for success in a friendly environment where you will encourage each other and learn how to really change your life and achieve permanent weight loss.

Most of us who want to loose weight have tried numerous diets. We are attracted to ‘fad’ diets as they offer a quick solution and make promises that deep down we know will never work. We all know someone who has lost a phenomenal amount of weight on a food replacement diet, Atkins or cabbage diet with a very restrictive calorie intake, and maybe they have even kept the weight off and this just keeps us hoping that we will do the same too!

How to loose weight is not rocket science. We know what we should do. If we eat less calories than we burn up in energy, we will loose weight. If we add to that eating a balanced diet including 5 portions of fruit and veg and take regular exercise then we should be on a winner. But it’s not that simple is it? We live in a world of fast food, take outs, jobs, kids, family life, chocolate, watching TV, sat at the computer, driving from A to B and to have the time, the motivation and the will power to take regular exercise and eat a balanced diet seems daunting and depressing! Maybe that’s why we are attracted to fad diets that offer rapid weight loss so that at least we can see a quick difference for all the effort it’s going to take! We know we should go for the sensible eating, but can we be bothered when all we are going to see is a weight loss of 1 – 2 pounds a week?

Well the answer is YES YES YES!! Of course we should go for the sensible eating and regular exercise! You knew that already didn’t you? And why should we go for that?

• Eating a balanced diet including 5 portions of fruit and veg is healthy for you now and healthy for your future
• Taking regular exercise is good for you and will increase your energy levels, tone your body and make you feel good!
• Following a healthy eating plan will lead to steady weight loss that is permanent, realistic and achievable

So how are we going to do all that and stick to it? If we already know what we should be eating, how much exercise we should be doing and why we should be doing it, why aren’t we all looking slim, fit and gorgeous?

Well this is the tricky bit. This is why you need professional help and support to find a permanent healthy solution to successful weight loss. Most of us have abused our bodies by over eating, indulging in high fat, high salt unhealthy foods. Most of us don’t know how to recognise true hunger any more. We eat too fast, eat until we’re stuffed, and eat because it’s a habit. We need to re-learn how to eat, how to treat our food and how to treat our bodies. It’s not easy but it is possible and if you come along to my weight loss clinic, I will show you how and guide you along the way and help you find a new slim, fit, healthy you!