Health Club Cooks Hill

The Forum is Celebrating Healthy Weight Week!

Last updated 3 months ago

This week The Forum is celebrating Healthy Weight Week, an initiative of the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA). As a health club in Cooks Hill we find that many people do not properly understand what having a ‘healthy’ weight means. We explain that it’s about taking an individual assessment of the lifestyle and genetic factors that make up your size and shape and then figuring out what is the best weight that you can be.

Australia’s Healthy Weight Week spreads the message that achieving a healthy weight is a life-long commitment to having a healthy lifestyle, including eating healthy foods and keeping physically active in a way that you can maintain and enjoy. This year the DAA are using this initiative to target 18-25 year old women, urging them to take on healthy eating and lifestyle habits one change at a time. A Newspoll survey recently found that 44% of young women are hoping to lose weight in New Year and 76% want to be more active.

Accredited Practising Dietitian, Professor Collins has called on these young women to rise to the challenge and ‘pledge’ to make one change to their eating habits. Her top diet ‘pledges’ for a healthy 2012 include:

Keep a food diary. This will help pinpoint any problem areas
Ditch fad dieting. Quick-fix fad diets have a start and an end date.
Switch to healthier drinks. Water and low-fat milk are the best choices. Swap sweetened drinks such as soft drink, flavoured coffee and juice, for water.
Shrink portion sizes. Doing this at every meal will lower kilojoule intake. Using a plate 25% smaller, means eating 25% less food.
Eat fruit and vegetables. Eat one more piece of fruit and one more serve of vegetables each day, and try new varieties.
Moderate alcohol intake. If you drink, avoid binging and have no more than two standard drinks a day. And try to have at least two alcohol –free days each week.

If you have made a commitment to being healthier in the New Year then you can join a Health Club in Cooks Hill. The Forum Sports and Aquatic Centre can help you figure out your healthy weight, and work with you to achieve it. Our activities include rock climbing, swimming lessons and personal training sessions, to find out more call (02) 4040 9588.