BEDFORD BOROUGH, CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE & MILTON KEYNES
BEDFORD BOROUGH, CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE & MILTON KEYNES
MoreLife provide weight management programmes for adults, designed to create long-lasting shifts in behaviour and give clients the tools and support they need to achieve their health goals.
OUR 12 WEEK PROGRAMME
The MoreLife 12-week, group programme offers a psychologically-informed model. Each session lasts for one and a half hours with a 30-minute drop in before or after.
Each week you’ll focus on a different topic. These range from learning about nutrition and portion sizes, to understanding the importance of sleep.
Our practitioners don’t tell people what to do, instead, you will be guided and supported to understand how thoughts, emotions and feelings influence decisions. We’ll help you to develop strategies to make healthier choices, cope with setbacks and manage specific triggers like stress.
Here’s a few examples of the sessions included on the Adult Weight Management 12 week programme:
INFLUENCES AND MINDFUL EATING
Understanding and recognising weight influences
Making informed choices and regulating impulse control
READING LABELS
Gain a better understanding of reading food labels
Understanding/
comparing food labels e.g. portion size, calorie value
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Understand what is meant by activity
Able to identify ways of overcoming barriers/hurdles
EMOTIONAL EATING
Understanding the difference between physical & emotional hunger
Implementing healthier coping mechanisms
ARE YOU ELIGIBLE?
Our programme is FREE for adults who meet the following criteria.
- Be aged 16 or above, and a resident of Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes
- Have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or above
OR - Have a BMI of 27.5+ from a Black African, African-Caribbean or South Asian population
- Have a BMI of 27.5+ and have one or more of the following: Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, Cardio Vascular Disease, Osteoarthritis, Dyslipidaemia, Sleep Apnoea, Non-diabetic hyperglycaemia
Our programmes are evidence-based which means we use the latest research to inform our programme content and our partnership with Leeds Beckett University allows us to access the latest research. This relationship gives us the ability to take feedback from our clients and staff, and use this to drive the research topics creating relevant and reliable research conclusions which we use to continually improve our programmes.
