It doesn’t matter what kind of diet you do, they all end the same way. Yes, you might lose weight in the short-term but dieting or faddy regimes simply aren’t sustainable. The moment you come off the diet or regime, you will put on all the weight you lost, and often more besides. A diet implies something you follow for a short while and then abandon and go back to your former eating patterns. 

It’s not just that diets don’t work; diets actually end up causing you far more harm than good, not just to your physical health, but also to your emotional and mental health.

Anyone who has put themselves through weeks or months of dieting, of restriction, of deprivation, knows how devastating it is when the weight stops falling off and the numbers on the scales start to creep up again.

The effects of diet failure are devastating. Failed dieters often suffer depression, lack of confidence and damaged self-esteem.

Fuelled by the desire to succeed, it becomes all too easy to try one diet and then, when that fails, to launch into another, then another and yet another in the quest to lose weight. Before you realise what’s happening, you’ve become what is known as a yo-yo dieter, with your weight bouncing up and down.

It’s disappointing and demoralising, but yo-yo dieting is far more damaging than that. It is incredibly unhealthy because it distorts your attitude to food and steers you away from a normal eating pattern.

How Nutrition Can Help

Getting good nutritional advice can help steer you away from the cycle of yo-yo dieting into a pattern of eating that becomes a way of life, that not only helps you lose weight but also helps you get back into good health. This way of eating can also help in preventing health issues in the future.

Nutrients

So, as well as making changes with your food, supplementation is beneficial as certain nutrients can be particularly helpful in helping with weight loss. 

These include the B vitamins which help your body use your food for energy rather than storing it as fat. Chromium has been shown to help with blood sugar balance and reduce appetite and cravings. Zinc is also helpful for appetite control and the manufacture of your thyroid hormones which control your metabolism. Magnesium is nature’s tranquiliser and helps with staying insulin sensitive. Other useful nutrients are co-enzyme Q10 which is helpful for energy production and fat burning and amino acids which help with reducing cravings, healthy thyroid function, appetite control and muscle building.

The Glenville Nutrition Clinic

Dr Marilyn Glenville who founded The Glenville Nutrition Clinics has been in clinical practice for over 30 years and knows that you need to be able to trust the nutritional advice you have been given and know that any tests that are being recommended are important to help you lose weight and get healthy.

At The Glenville Nutrition Clinic we have the experience to support you with dietary advice, supplements and nutritional tests that can help you not only lose weight but also improve your general health and wellbeing.

Our aim is to provide help, support and information that can make a real difference to your health.

When you come for a consultation, you will be in the hands of one of Dr Marilyn Glenville’s highly qualified nutritionists.

All of our nutritionists are hand-picked and trained to follow Dr Glenville’s high standards.

If you’re ready to improve your health and lose weight, please do give us a call and we can set up a telephone or Skype consultation for you.

So make the call now, and take your first step towards achieving your goal.

There are many laboratory tests that are extremely useful for weight loss.

These tests can give you invaluable insights into understanding what is going on in your body at the moment and can tell you what vitamin and mineral deficiencies you may have. 

The interpretation of these results lets you know what supplements you need to take and what amounts of specific nutrients are needed in order to help you lose weight and get healthy.

In the clinic we use an exclusive Nutritional Test that checks whether you have any deficiencies or imbalances in 15 different vitamins, mineral and essential fatty acids from one blood sample:

Minerals – calcium, chromium, copper, magnesium, manganese, selenium and zinc
Vitamins – A, C, B12, D, E, folate and beta-carotene
Essential fatty acids – your ratio of omega 6 to 3 fats

We can also test how stressed you are by measuring cortisol with saliva samples which is convenient and accurate, and the sample is collected at home and then posted back to the lab.

Stress may also be affecting your digestive system and we can look at your digestion with a stool sample to check for efficient absorption and digestion of nutrients, levels of beneficial bacteria, candida overgrowth, parasites, inflammation etc. and possible causes of digestive symptoms like bloating, flatulence, IBS etc.

All the tests we use in the clinic are carried out by accredited scientific laboratories in the UK and the USA.

Your nutritionist will interpret the findings of these tests for you and provide you with tailored recommendations based on your results.

Founded by Dr. Marilyn Glenville PhD, the UK’s leading nutritionist and authority on womens health issues. 

Author of 16 internationally best-selling books and former President of The Food and Health Forum at The Royal Society of Medicine.

For more than 30 years, The Glenville Nutrition Clinics have been supporting patients naturally and is the longest established nutrition clinic in the UK today with a particular expertise for women's health.

Once you’ve booked your consultation my reception will call you in the next few days to book your appointment on a date that’s convenient for you.

The prices above are for a consultation with one of Dr Glenville’s highly qualified nutritionists who have been practicing with me for many years and are all personally trained by me.