Slimming World
You’ll find delicious recipe and menu ideas at your local group, along with all the help you need to get started and reach your target weight.
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Slimming WorldWeight Watchers
Meetings, online or a little bit of both. They’ve got options and support, whatever your lifestyle.
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Weight WatchersMoving Medicine
In the United Kingdom, physical inactivity is the fourth greatest cause of ill health with negative impacts on health, social and economic outcomes for individuals and communities. Moving Medicine provide clinicians and allied health professionals with accessible, evidence based, collaboration with experts, professional bodies and charities representing patients and healthcare professionals in each disease area.
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www.movingmedicine.ac.ukHealthy Lifestyles
Healthy Lifestyles Gloucester have helped many people to improve their health and wellbeing. They provide up to 12 weeks’ worth of personalised support and will work closely with you to help you get more active.
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0800 122 3788
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www.hlsglos.orgGet fit for free
The secret to getting fit for free is to use every opportunity to be active.
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www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/free-fitness-ideas/Am I a Healthy Weight?
The body mass index (BMI) is a measure that uses your height and weight to work out if your weight is healthy.
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NHS: BMI CalculatorGloucestershire Moves
Gloucestershire Moves is aimed at getting everybody more active by integrating physical activity into daily lives.
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www.gloucestershiremoves.orgSustrans
We’re the charity making it easier for people to walk and cycle.
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www.sustrans.org.ukGet Britain Standing
In recent years a variety of major international research has produced compelling evidence that sitting for more than 4 hours each day leads to:
enzymes responsible for burning harmful blood fats shutting down,
reduced calorie burning (Metabolic rate), disrupted blood sugar level, increased insulin and blood pressure levels, and leg muscles can switch off.
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www.getbritainstanding.orgDo you have older parents, family or friends that may be susceptible to falls?
Are you an older person that wants to become more active, fitter, stronger and protect yourself from falls?
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01452 393 605
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www.activegloucestershire.org/events-and-campaigns/fall-proof/Active Gloucestershire
Get your family and friends together and run, walk or cycle as Gloucester is transformed into a giant game.
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www.activegloucestershire.org
Weight management
Page published: 9 May 2023
Last updated: 26 October 2023