Weight Management Support

Research shows that carrying extra body fat, especially around your heart, lungs and liver, can affect your health. We are here to help you take positive, manageable steps toward feeling healthier.

• breathlessness
• increased sweating
• snoring
• difficulty doing physical activity
• often feeling very tired
• joint and back pain
• low confidence and self-esteem
• feeling isolated
• psychological problems associated with being obese can also affect your relationships with family and friends, and can lead to depression

Having extra body fat can also increase your risk of developing many potentially serious health conditions, including:

• type 2 diabetes
• high blood pressure
• high cholesterol and narrowing of the arteries (atherosclerosis)
• coronary heart disease and stroke
• asthma
• cancer such as bowel cancer, breast cancer and womb cancer
• gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), where stomach acid leaks out of the stomach and into the gullet
• gallstones
• reduced fertility
• osteoarthritis, a condition involving pain and stiffness in your joints
• sleep apnoea
• liver and kidney disease
• pregnancy complications
• reduced life expectancy by an average of 3 to 10 years

Dealing with excess weight gain on your own can be challenging and confusing, in Buckinghamshire there are different services that can support you to achieve and maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle.

• National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP)
• Better Health - Healthy families
• NHS food scanner