Weight Loss Therapy

Behavioural Weight Loss Therapy,9 Harley Street, London with Dr Khandee Ahnaimugan MBChB MMed: Medical Doctor and Author of “Slim and Healthy without Dieting”

People often find it difficult to believe that a weight loss programme that enables people to eat out, travel, enjoy life and still lose weight is even possible. Their healthy scepticism is challenged by the fact that while women over 40 often struggle to lose weight on standard diets, this programme has a 90% success rate.

This programme is designed for women aged between 40-70 years. The average age of Dr. K’s clients is 53.

Women use this programme to lose weight to improve their health, increase their confidence, improve their mood, feel more attractive and more energetic. Some women have noticed reductions in blood pressure and fewer joint problems after this programme. But the most obvious signs of progress are clothes fitting better, improvements in self-image and compliments from others.

Dr. K is a General-Medical-Council- registered medical doctor. He trained at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. His practice is based in London’s prestigious Harley Street. Dr. K is also the author of the bestselling book “Slim and Healthy without Dieting – The Weight Loss Solution for Women over 40”. He is the only medical doctor offering this particular behavioural weight loss approach in London.

80% of diets fail because they are a short term solution for a long term problem. You can lose weight on a diet, but if your underlying habits are the same, you won’t keep the weight off. The only way to lose weight and keep it off is to change your underlying habits.

You will learn why this programme despite its high price is the best method for changing your underlying habits.Once you change your underlying habits, you become the kind of person who can manage their weight naturally, with no need for diets or ever worrying about your weight again.

Most women over 40 will know that as they get older, it becomes harder and harder to lose weight, even with diets that had previously worked when they were younger. This is because as people age, their metabolisms slow. And because of reduced muscle mass, women lose weight slower than men anyway. Most diets are not designed with the needs of women over 40 in mind and hence use methods that are destined to fail again and again. Dr. K’s programme addresses the needs of this much neglected group.

The Dr. K programme is based on over 50 years of behavioural research. In fact, the UK NICE Guidelines state that a behaviour change component should be part of every weight loss programme (although this advice has not been followed by the majority of weight loss programmes).

Nevertheless, there is ample evidence to show that you can make changes to your behaviour that will allow you to eat less and yet not feel deprived. The easier your weight loss programme is, the more likely you will stick to it.

The programme is made up of weekly individual consultations delivered personally by Dr. K.

Most women are amazed that aside from the weekly consultations, they require no more than a few minutes a day to complete this programme. They don’t need to overhaul their eating or their fridge. And most of all they don’t need to suffer or deprive themselves and they can go out and enjoy themselves even while losing weight.

There are 3 keys to weight loss. The first two, you are probably familiar with:

1. You need to change your diet and
2. You need to increase your physical activity.

But the third component which is crucial (and is the reason why most weight loss attempts end in failure) is that you have to make these new behaviours part of your lifestyle. This is the foundation of behavioural weight loss therapy.

Have you noticed that when you try to lose weight it sometimes feels like you’re fighting against yourself to make changes? This is because you’re trying to change your life without changing your habits. Once habits are entrenched, it’s harder to introduce new behaviours. The average diet attempts to enforce a totally different way of doing things on top of your pre-existing habits. This is why sticking to the latest fad diet is such hard going and why it feels so good to come off it.

In contrast, with behavioural weight loss therapy, we are focussed on changing your habits so that maintaining your weight becomes natural.

How do you change your habits?

Behavioural therapy is how you change your habits to create a new lifestyle. The simplest way of describing how to create a habit is by repetition. The more you practice a certain behaviour, the more likely it will become habitual.

And we use behavioural weight loss therapy to maximise the chances of making the new behaviours a habit.

This is done using a specific process, which includes some or all of the following parts:

1. Keeping a food diary.
People who write down what they eat, lose more weight than people who don’t. Writing down what you are eating increases awareness of all the different food decisions you make during the day. Equally important and valuable is having someone review the food diary and uncover patterns in your eating.


2. Modifying your Environment.
It’s often said that if you remove food from your vicinity, then you don’t need to rely on willpower (self-control) to resist temptation.
If you are surrounded by food at work or at home, it will make it much harder to make positive changes. Part of behavioural therapy includes making changes to your environment. This is an underappreciated way of reducing the amount you eat. Some clients need only make a few changes to their eating environment to lose significant amounts of weight.


3. Introducing behaviours that mean you can eat less without feeling deprived
There is a lot of research that shows there are many different ways of cutting down what you eat without affecting your overall satisfaction.


4. Problem Solving
In any normal busy life, different situations will arise that will challenge your progress. You need to be able to respond to them. Most people respond to “bad days” by giving up on their weight loss programme. With weight loss therapy, you learn ways of responding positively to setbacks and learning ways to avoid similar situations in the future.


5. Support- getting the support of a weight loss doctor or therapist, means that you can have someone to keep you accountable week to week. Most people when trying to lose weight, have times when they feel doubts. Having someone objective and qualified to help you through these times is crucial.


6. Reinforcement of changes
The ongoing relationship between the weight loss therapist and the client means that changes get reinforced. They new behaviours therefore become habits. Something that is an important part of behavioural weight loss therapy is ensuring that every change that is made is one that the client feels they can stick with for the rest of their life.


7. Maintaining the Weight Loss
It’s crucial to create a plan that makes it easy to stick with these new habits forever. This is where diets fail. They focus on weight loss, but not how to keep the weight off. That is why a maintenance plan is vital.

What is the Dr. K Weight Loss Therapy Programme?

This weight loss programme is based around 45 minute sessions on a weekly basis. In these sessions, our intent is to introduce healthy sustainable behaviours into your lifestyle.

Dr. K is a medical doctor, weight loss expert and author of the bestselling book “Slim and Healthy without Dieting”.

He also writes for the Huffington Post about weight loss and weight loss therapy.

His practice is based in Harley Street, London. He focuses on helping women over 40 lose weight without dieting. His behavioural approach is ideal for food lovers because it allows you to eat out, travel, enjoy life and still lose weight. And because we are focussed on changing behaviours, it means you can lose weight for the long term.

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