Ongoing Support With Your Weight Management Journey
Weight Management
It's no secret that diet plays an important role in weight management. Whether you're looking to gain, lose or maintain weight, your dietary choices will influence your ability to achieve this. Diet can either hinder or accelerate your progress. Receiving the correct dietary advice can be difficult. We acknowledge there is so much conflicting information out there, it can be difficult to establish what is advisable for your goals.
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The fundamental principle of weight management boils down to one simple equation. Intake vs Expenditure, most commonly referred to as "calories in vs calories out"
Weight Loss
Expend more calories than you consume and your weight will decrease
Weight Maintenance
Match calorie input to calorie output and weight maintenance is achieved
Weight Gain
Consume more calories than you expend and your weight will increase
But is it as simple as that?
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Yes and No. Whilst it's true that changes in body weight are a direct result of this simple equation, the type, and rate, of change in weight, is heavily influenced by the composition of your diet and daily lifestyle habits. Specific attention to nutrient intake should take place when making changes to your weight. The composition of your diet significantly influences these changes in weight, specifically the type of weight lost, gained, or maintained.
Issues with Popular Diets
Often referred to as FAD diets, these popular diet plans attempt to accomplish weight management through an aggressive calorie deficit, usually prompting unhealthy dietary practices. There are several reasons why these diets are not suitable for your goals long term.
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Nutrient Deficiencies
This can lead to a range of poor health conditions. These include bone disease, anaemia, metabolic abnormalities, hormone deficiencies and heart irregularities to name a few.
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Increased Health Complications
FAD diets increase the risk of malnutrition, vitamin, and mineral deficiencies. This can impair your quality of life and general well-being. FAD diets have been shown to negatively impact both physical and mental health.
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Unhealthy Body Composition
FAD diets can induce unfavourable changes to body composition. This can hinder your ability to maintain weight, with research showing increased difficulty of weight management long term.
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Not Sustainable Long Term
FAD diets are popular for short-term changes in weight. They typically promise rapid weight loss through crash dieting and often hide under false scientific claims. This increases the likelihood of yo-yo dieting, which is associated with several poor health outcomes.
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Reduced Quality of Life
FAD diets reduce overall quality of life. Often a result of reduced energy levels, mood fluctuations and increased irritability, uncomfortable cravings and hunger pain, muscle weakness, feeling lightheaded and dizzy, risk of nutrient deficiency and higher risk of heart disease.
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Unhealthy Relationship with Food
Severely restricting your diet for the sole focus of weight management increases the risk of developing a disordered relationship with food. FAD diets have been linked to an increased risk of yo-yo dieting and disordered eating practices.
The issue with FAD diets is the lack of sustainability. These diets become popular by promising rapid weight loss through crash dieting. They lack nutritional balance with no consideration to standard dietary recommendations, meaning they are ineffective long-term and increase the risk of various nutrient deficiencies.
Weight Management with K'Cal
Here at K'Cal Dietetics, we do things differently. We help individuals achieve their weight management goals using a sustainable, nutritionally adequate approach. We adapt our plans to ensure key nutritional requirements are met whilst prompting long-term sustainability, the two essential components to a weight management program.
We offer 2 types of structured programmes to choose from, both of which are tailored specifically to your personal requirements.
Macro-Based Program
Supports weight management by allocating macronutrient targets to help achieve your goals. This plan is catered to those who prefer flexibility with dietary choices.
Meal-Based Program
Supports weight management by allocating a set meal plan to help you achieve your goals. This plan is preferred by those who want structure with dietary choices.
We ensure all plans provided fit in with your current lifestyle demands and daily routines. Throughout your weight management journey, your assigned dietitian will monitor your progress with regular check-ins to keep you on track.
How does it work?
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INITIAL CONSULTATION
Discuss your goals with your assigned dietitian
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SELECT TYPE OF PROGRAM
Identify the best program for your individual needs
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COMPLETE FOOD DIARY
Provide an account of current dietary habits to get started
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YOUR JOURNEY BEGINS
Ongoing advice and support for as long as you need