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Promotes a much healthier & motivated workforce

As an employer, providing a weight loss management programme in the workplace could be hugely significant. By staff losing weight, the outcome of less staff being absent, staff being more productive and workers having a reduced sickness rate, can all be achieved. If customer service is a large part of your business, losing weight tends to significantly increase the happiness as well as the health of individuals, therefore enhancing the business’s reputation.

Many workplaces have already made considerable improvements by increasing the accessibility of healthy foods in canteens but not many actually provide a weight loss management service for their staff. It would seem there could be a large need for this, resulting in various considerable improved aspects of the business and for the business as a whole. Through providing this sort of service the effects may also rub off onto other family members.

It has been shown that individuals with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of >35 experience health related work limitations. A longer time is needed to complete tasks and there is a reduced ability to perform physical job demands. Obese employees (which tends to be around 1 in 4 men and 1 in 4 women in the UK) were absent for 14 more days in a year than normal weight employees. If an employer provides his/her staff with a weight loss management programme by a trained consultant, all of these issues can be addressed and significantly improved. The employer/company will also be seen to be helping the NHS with the huge burden that obesity has become and be known for being aware of their staff health concerns. The employer to employee relationship will also be enhanced as the staff appreciate that their employer is taking action to help them also helping to increase the member of staff’s enthusiasm to work hard and do well for the company. The programme provided by Diet Direction could also be employed as a team building activity which many companies are now asked to arrange.

Diet Direction is a weight loss management consultancy business which offers consultations at a private/one to one basis or in different sized groups. This option works well due to some individuals preferring the private setting with the consultant’s attention paid solely to them while others reap rewards from a competitive but friendly environment, with a support group of friends, colleagues and family members alongside them. A programme consisting of 5 or 10 weeks is offered.

Depending on what you feel would work best for the size and type of your business, different arrangements can be made to suit. This could be large conferences to enhance awareness to weight and health related issues where staff can then go on to adapt lifestyles, trying to lose weight on their own, or they can choose to start a 5 or 10 week programme with other workers, friends or family in their own time. There is also the option of the business financially allowing Diet Direction to come in and provide the weight loss management service to their staff once a week, resulting in the above improvements to the productivity of the workforce and reputation of being aware of their staff health concerns. Offer your staff a weight loss management programme at work.

The innovative 10 week programme that Diet Direction provides, involves guidance and support throughout, where thereafter, weigh in sessions are available for further weight loss and/or weight maintenance. For company based consultations, the 10 week programme involves these various different elements.

• A weekly weigh in (all sized groups)
• Weekly measurement instructions (all sized groups)
• Body analysis (body fat %, muscle %, water %, BMI, BMR) (one to one to small groups only) Figures can only be used as a guide so body analysis can be missed out by request.
• Guidelines to a healthy personal weight (all sized groups)
• Food diary comments monitored and emailed/discussed (one to one, 2 people and small groups)
• General weight loss tips (all sized groups)
• Quality nutritional advice (all sized groups)
• Certificates for the weight loss winner of the week with the largest percentage body loss (all sized groups only, not one to one)
• A weekly challenge focussing on different aspects of the weight loss management process (all sized groups)

The idea of weekly challenges allows clients to adapt their lifestyle step by step instead of being offered a weight loss management programme where information is given all at once and can overwhelm the client. Concentrating on a different aspect each week can also help maintain motivation and prevent weight regain. Be an innovative business in Aberdeenhire!

If you feel this opportunity would greatly benefit your staff, please get in contact for further details.

Be an employer who promotes a much healthier and motivated workforce!