Weight Management

Struggling to manage your weight?

How can we help?

How's me are a team of experts from a variety of professional backgrounds who can give you confidential online information and support.  Whether you have a quick question or need to resolve complex issues howsme has the answers you need.  We look forward to hearing from you.

Why is weight a problem?

Weight management is a major problem for many people. There are several reasons for this but fundamentally it depends upon each person’s relationship with food and their eating habits. You can change your relationship with food and your eating habits the team at How's me are here to help, just explain how food makes you feel?

People gain weight when they consume more calories than they convert into energy to carry out daily physical activities.  Every movement that is carried out throughout the day will burn some calories. The experts at Howsme can create you an individual plan to help you increase the amount of calories that you burn throughout the day.

Modern technology has meant that there is less need for as much physical activity during the day whether we are at home or at work.  (I remember it taking my grandma two days to do her washing!).  Modern civilization is supported by a wealth of labour and time saving devices which are often powered by another source of energy rather than been manually operated.  Ready meals are available at a reasonable price and they take little time or energy to prepare.  Although very convenient these meals can, however, have a high calorific and fat content. If these meals are substituted with a healthier one results can be remarkable. Ask the team at How's me how to manage this change.

There are many misconceptions about food and our needs. Some of these can be linked to experiences as a child.  Food is often used as a reward at a time that we are already feeling good or excited and so becomes liked to that feeling.  For example, coming home from school and going to the sweet shop, visiting grandparents and having cake or sweets, birthday parties and most other celebrations usually involve food. As adults we reward ourselves by going out for a meal or getting a takeaway.  As well as viewing food as a reward many of us view exercise as not only a chore but also a punishment! Ask the team at How's me how to change your relationship with food.

Food can play a huge role within the family, encouraging us to sit together, communicate and spend time sharing and valuing each other while establishing family relationships.

As human beings we are programmed to eat to survive; however in modern day society for many of us food is so readily available that we no longer only eat when we are hungry.  We can turn to food for comfort and for a mood altering experience though these experiences are only short term and are interlinked with feelings of guilt and lack of control. Anyone that has a poor relationship with food and feels that their eating habits are out of control can often identify with the desires and compulsions of an addict. Unlike many addicts who can avoid mixing with other users in an attempt to control their addiction, food issues are difficult to avoid as food dominates such a large part of our day. Anyone can change their food addicition and emtional eating. Ask the team at How's me, they are here to help. 

The media and advertising also play an important role in our relationship with food.  Food advertising will suggest that some foods can help solve a physical problem and foods are advertised as sexy food with images of attractive successful people. Hows 'me can provide the facts, ask your question and get the correct information.

Sometimes we forget just how long it has taken us to put the weight on, some times over years but we hope and expect to lose the weight in weeks and months. Because this is unrealistic and usually unachievable we quickly fail and feel unhappy and dissatisfied. This reinforces all of our negative thoughts and insecurities about not being in control of our weight and not being able to do much about it.  We then find something to blame for the diet not working and hop onto another diet in an attempt to find some inspiration, motivation, new hope and an instant remedy. Stop feeling unhappy and ask Hows 'me how to become motivated.

Taking all these issues into account it is understandable why so many individuals, couples and families have problems with weight management.

Lets start managing your weight and feel more positive about yourself.

Successful weight management requires a unique approach. This has to be different for all of us because it has to take into account our individual likes and dislikes, how much time we have to shop, prepare and eat our food, what we enjoy and what will satisfy us and how many calories we will burn off during our day.

It is crucial that we find the correct support that can help us set achievable, realistic goals. As we start to reach our goals we will feel a sense of achievement. The positive feelings from this will encourage us to continue and hopefully be honest with ourselves. Instead of thinking I am doing well ‘I will treat my self to a muffin’, we need to find other satisfying ways of treating and rewarding ourselves. Weight management is also about people changing habitual behaviour and distracting themselves from food as they find other ways of enjoying themselves.

The key to success is taking the first step of acknowledging that a change needs to take place in our lifestyle because if we keep living the way we are living we will keep gaining weight.  By examining exactly what changes need to be made we can start to bring about significant changes and maintain those changes.

The experts at How's me understand the complexities of these issues, if you have any concerns about your relationship with food or how to improve your weight management please ask.

Or if you prefer for £34.99 How's me will create a personalised plan to help you to achieve your life style changes.

Updated: 28th September 2009