Weight management
Our nutrition & weight management service
A bespoke service where you receive one to one support with weight loss and healthy eating at a time and pace to suit you. Our service is run from our brand new clinic with plenty of free parking!
Why use our service:
Our nutrition and weight management service is run by our pharmacist, Liz Matheson, who also has a Level 4 NVQ in Nutrition and Weight Management; with access to specialist software we can analyse food diaries to examine fat/carbohydrate/protein consumed as well as a breakdown of vitamin and mineral content in the diet to identify any potential deficiencies; medication changes needed as a result of any weight loss can also be dealt with through liaison with GP surgeries through the pharmacy; option to have HbA1c measured every month which is a measure of blood glucose control and diabetes risk.
What you can expect:
Clients will come in for an initial consultation and then decide with our adviser how frequently to return depending on your individual circumstances.
An initial consultation costs just £25 and includes assessment of food diaries, baseline measurements (weight, height, BMI and waist circumference), health and lifestyle questionnaire analysis, and recommendations to follow until the next appointment (time line to be agreed between adviser and client reflecting individual circumstances and preferences).
There is the option to also have blood pressure, blood glucose and blood cholesterol checked for a further £15 if required.
Subsequent appointment frequency is controlled by the client when further measurements are taken and discussion takes place to allow the client to feedback on their experience so far and to adjust recommendations to follow before the next appointment.
Results:
This is a new service for our clinic, but we have already had clients achieving their goals.
One client who has tried many other diets has already lost 7 pounds over her first 3 appointments and is very happy with the service so far.
Another client has lost sufficient weight to no longer be considered pre-diabetic and is now no longer needing to use the service.
Our consultant:
Our consultant, Liz Matheson, is a pharmacist with more than 20 years experience in community pharmacy; she has had a keen interest in nutrition for many years having struggled with her own weight in the past; she studied a Level 4 NVQ during the Covid-19 pandemic in order to be able to offer this type of advice to customers as well as offering medication-based solutions to health problems.