If you are overweight, then healthy weight loss is about getting help to change your eating habits and behaviours. And while you may have heard that the best way to lose weight is to count calories, research shows that you should actually focus more on eating a high-quality diet, which in turn helps you eat less.

Our Head Nurse, Debbie, answers the most common questions about medical weight loss, especially around expectations, timescales, and side effects.

Having support from both your friends and family can have a big impact on the success of your weight loss. If you don’t have anyone to support you with your weight loss, these tips can be used to build a support team.

Diet pills cover a wide range of medications or dietary supplements that can support your weight loss. What exactly are diet pills? Do they require a prescription, or can I buy them over the counter? Who can these medical weight loss pills help?

When you live in an overweight body, you often are met with shame and guilt for your size, and often told that you ‘just have to eat less and move more’. At Embla, we know that there are so many factors for increasing weight and it’s much more complex than it’s assumed!

In recent years, words such as ‘mindful eating’ and ‘intuitive eating’ have appeared in social media and the press. This has built up from the backlash against diet and slimming culture’s focus on losing the most weight and food restriction.