Healthy Weight Healthy You

We all need to maintain a healthy weight to stay fit, active and healthy. Regular daily activity and exercise is an essential ingredient to this, whether you are overweight or underweight.

However in today's world healthy eating and being active sometimes feels impossible to achieve.

With ever increasing amounts of ultra processed food readily available. Fatigue from overwork. Stress from trying to meet our busy schedules. Financial demands along with rising food prices. Eating disorders and other health conditions. It's no wonder that managing our weight is not easy.

By the time you realise you have piled on a few extra lbs OR your weight has dropped below one which would be considered healthy.

Being at an unhealthy weight places strains on the body and if left unchecked will eventually lead to health problems, some of which are serious.

Even those who have reached a healthy weight through lifestyle changes, dieting, weight loss surgery or weight loss medication will undoubtedly need support to maintain it.

There is no magic answer but with support, simple achievable goal setting, hard work and determination there is hope.

The “Healthy Weight Healthy You” project aims to help YOU Take Back Your Power and manage your weight by building a supportive community with sign posting to relevant health and community services, and free fitness and well being activities.

When trying to maintain a healthy weight changes to your lifestyle are key. 

We will provide a range of FREE fitness and well being activities to help increase movement, mobility, self confidence and reduce anxiety and stress.

The sessions will be a mixture of in person and online events ensuring they are accessible to everyone. The sessions will cover a range of different levels, abilities and activities enabling residents to find out which type of activity and exercise they enjoy most and find the most beneficial to their weight management journey.  

For those who are underweight and those losing weight prevention of muscle loss and rebuilding of muscle mass is essential and advice and exercises to support this will also be provided.

For those wishing to lose weight we will fund payment of a membership and 6 week subscription to the Beckton Slimming World Group. This support group meets weekly every Monday. When you have reached your desired weight you become a lifetime member and can attend for free.

We will further support by raising awareness of Eating Disorders with signposting for self referral to the NHS East London Disorders Eating Service. Helping to raise awareness for both residents and Beckton Health Care Professionals; currently the referral rate of Newham Residents to the service is the lowest of all of the London Boroughs it supports.

The project and activities will be delivered by a range of people who have varied lived experience of being underweight, struggling with weight gain, weight loss, weight maintenance and eating disorders.

We hope you like our project idea and will be able to vote for us.