If you are serious about losing weight and improving your health, then you will need to make some changes to your usual eating habits and physical activity levels. But rather than simply focusing on what weight you want to get to, we are encouraging you to think about: 

• What concerns you most about your weight and lifestyle
• What things have stopped you from being a healthier weight, and
• What changes you can make to address them.

These could be to with your eating or activity habits or how you think, feel (and react) about food and your weight.

Before you can make changes you need to have a clear picture of what you are doing now and want to achieve – and also work through any potential pitfalls. The following sections will guide you through that.