Helping you live well
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Weight Management
Our most recent lifestyle programme, where participants lost on average 6.2 kg each!
Welcome!
By adopting a real food diet, lower in carbohydrates many of our Torridge PCN patients have managed to lose weight and to reduce their blood sugars, blood pressure and cholesterol.
Since 2018 Dr. Ruth Tapsell, a GP at Hartland Surgery has been promoting a real food, low carbohydrate diet for patients with problems like type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity at Hartland Surgery and across Torridge PCN (Bideford, Northam, the Wooda, Torrington and Castle Gardens Surgeries).
This lifestyle approach was inspired by Dr David Unwin, a GP from Southport, who has had some amazing results, helping his patients to lose weight and improve or reverse their Type 2 Diabetes. His patients have remained slimmer and healthier than they have been for decades, with the added benefits of stopping many (or all) of their medications as well as enjoying other benefits including more energy, better mood and concentration, less joint pains etc. We’ve had some really exciting results of our own since then, with several patients achieving similar success. We want to see more of you succeed!
If you have any questions after attending a Programme or watching our Webinar, please contact your surgery via Accurx, asking them to send a message to the Wellbeing Team.
Please note, we endeavour to reply to all questions within 2 weeks.
Wishing you all the very best.
Dr. Ruth Tapsell GP BSc 1998, MBBS (London) 2001, MRCP (UK) 2005, MRCGP 2009, GMC 6031178
Sophie Potts Health and Wellbeing Coach
IMPORTANT:
If you’re on medication for diabetes or blood pressure it’s a good idea to chat to your Surgery’s Clinical Pharmacist or Diabetes Nurse early on, as you may be able to start reducing these quite quickly. You can send your surgery an Accurx message requesting a call back from the Clinical Pharmacists. Our pharmacists are well experienced in the low carb, real food approach and know how to support you to manage your medications safely when making these lifestyle changes.
We always advise making small, sustainable changes as this is safest and gives you the most likelihood of success.
Before you may also want to record your “baseline” weight and waist measurements to monitor progress, or even take a ‘before’ photo.
Below is a link to our Youtube channel, which provides webinars of the key elements in our 12-week programme:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL24JHIMU9BvSo52AMZFtJmc6L7Bdd9DYa
Please follow the programme for 6 - 12 weeks. If you need further support, please contact your surgery to request a referral to the Health and Wellbeing Team.