HEALTH & BEAUTY The Xpress Way to a Lighter Life
The secret to a successful weight loss plan is not just looking at what you’re putting in your mouth, but why you are.
That’s the philosophy behind LighterLife’s new Xpress Slimming Club which runs free weekly classes in Rotherham and Barnsley. As the first slimming club to launch in 50 years, LighterLife believes that in order to shed the pounds you first need to shed old thoughts about dieting and weight loss which have not helped in the past.
It’s no longer just about carbs this, calories that. Instead, LighterLife combines body and mind to look at your relationship with food, believing that overcoming any emotional issues is the biggest step towards reaching your target weight. Will you really find the answer to your problems at the bottom of a bag of crisps or bottle of wine? At LighterLife’s free and friendly slimming groups, the class mentors can help find the root cause of any bad habits you may have such as overeating or using food as a comfort blanket. Using cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT,
mentors can help you retrain your mind to think differently about food, providing you with the toolkit for long-term change. We can all have bad days and
end up off-plan, but mentors aren’t there to make members feel guilty if they do have a blip – ‘that’s life’ is their motto. Just as long as a bad day doesn’t become a bad month. As a nation surrounded by food, it’s no surprise that obesity levels are on the rise with 65 percent of British adults now classed as overweight or obese. But despite expanding waistbands, many of us are larger than we realise and collectively kid ourselves about what a healthy weight and BMI looks like. Failing to understand the importance of reducing obesity could leave us open to serious health conditions such as heart disease, stroke and sleep apnoea. You’re 80 percent more likely to develop type-2 diabetes if your BMI is over 30 and now obesity has rivalled smoking as
the main cause of cancer. Then there are the psychological issues relating to being overweight such as low self-esteem and depression which often lead to more emotional eating.
Before After
The best way to combat this is said to be a reduced calorie diet plus exercise and LighterLife could help you overhaul your lifestyle with their meal replacement products. Their balanced food packs are packed with nutrients and vitamins and include breakfast options like porridge or pancakes, noodles or soup for lunch and dinnertime favourites like spag bol or shepherd’s pie. Averaging around 800 calories
a day, you could lose up to a stone a month on their Total Diet Replacement plan like Rotherham member, Louise.
I’VE DONE IT AND SO CAN YOU…
Louise, 39, from Chapeltown set herself a target to lose almost 8 stone before her 40th birthday.
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“I’ve struggled with my weight for years and tried every diet or slimming club going but I’ve always found them boring and given up without success. I love food too much and so found it hard planning healthy meals when left to my own devices. I needed someone to tell me exactly WHAT I could eat. I chose LighterLife because I saw how well my sister did using it to lose weight for her IVF journey. I was having chest pains and general aches and wanted to fit into a size 12 ballgown for a family cruise to celebrate my 40th. I work shifts so the Total Diet Replacement plan is so easy for me as I can take all four meal packs with me and whip them up in no time as you just add water. Since starting LighterLife in March at almost 19 stone, I’ve lost almost four and a half stone so hopefully I should just reach my target weight of 11 stone by October. I already feel a lot better in myself, my skin has improved and everyone tells me I look younger too which is a bonus.”
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