12 New Year New You • Health, Fitness & Nutrition Find your light-bulb moment


The route to your stomach isn’t through your mouth, it’s through your mind. To lose weight and keep it off you have to go beyond just a restriction of food and increase of movement. The LighterLife Total Plan provides a unique solution for weight loss: a combination of a very-low-calorie diet (VLCD) and cognitive behavioural therapy. The result of this is fast, effective and healthy weight loss as well as a new outlook on food, weight and life


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hat does changing your mind have to do with changing your body? Ask anyone why people overeat and you responses such as boredom,


stress, loneliness, happiness and unhappiness. Now ask the same person the best way to lose weight and they’ll undoubtedly say things like go to the gym, diet, or in extreme cases have bariatric surgery. Put those lists side by side and the problem


becomes clear: the reasons we overeat are so often linked to our emotions and yet the so-called solutions we employ to lose weight mostly relate to the physical. Exploring why we reach for food when it’s


not really what we need is crucial for successful long-term weight loss. Our minds are hugely powerful, affecting how we feel, act and behave. By learning how to be more aware of the control you have over the way you perceive your world, you can master your power to change any aspect of your life, including your relationship with food. Because if it wasn’t you who chose to eat, then who did?


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CBT is a highly structured treatment, with mutually set goals between the counsellor and client. Where traditional therapy can go on for years, CBT is delivered within short time frames


Mind and body LighterLife provides a unique behaviour- change programme that


combines elements


of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with a very-low-calorie diet (VLCD). The group offers this holistic plan nationwide with its specially trained weight-management counsellors. CBT is a highly structured treatment, with


mutually set goals between the counsellor and client. Where traditional therapy can go on for years, what’s so accessible about CBT is that it’s usually delivered within short time frames — typically a few months — and can often bring about quick results in just an hour- long session each week. It provides you with a toolkit to acknowledge and ultimately chal- lenge unhelpful attitudes and feelings, helping you to pause for a moment to change your thinking and reduce your reliance on compul- sive behaviours — such as that ‘I’ve got to have it now’ thought. Since 2004, the National Institute for Health


and Care Excellence (NICE) has been putting CBT at the forefront of combined therapies and it’s now used across the NHS to treat addiction, depression and other health-related issues. Unfortunately,


the NHS offers little that's


proven help to those people who are battling their weight. Dr Matt Capehorn, who runs the Rotherham


Institute for Obesity, a specialist centre for people with weight problems, explains: “CBT is an ideal tool to use in weight management. It’s particularly useful in addressing the under- lying emotional causes for overeating. There’s also evidence that combining CBT with a VLCD increases weight loss.” For almost 30 years LighterLife’s been a


leading light in the world of obesity research and treatment, demonstrating the effective- ness of this two-tiered approach in small, supportive groups, and one of its latest innova- tions has been to make this available through its group telephone meetings.


The power of LighterLife’s CBT groups Each week clients spend an hour looking at their eating behaviour, with expert help from their LighterLife counsellor and specially developed group modules. The group work is a unique and precious opportunity to explore different ideas, including: • Changing your mind — challenging old habits and building new ones • Stressed


is desserts spelled backwards — reducing the unhelpful stuff in your life


• When food is love — or not • Juggling life — getting the balance right • Comfort eating — what does it really mean? • Handling lies — when ‘just one won’t matter’ really does matter


I was unhappy and overeating but nobody ever asked me why. LighterLife did, and as a result I’ve nearly halved my size. For me it’s the best way to lose weight because it changes your mindset. One year on I truly feel LighterLife has saved my life


Sarah lost 8st 8lb


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