Food & Activity Buddies (FAB)

What Does Our Service Do?

FAB weight management services are for anyone who needs support to achieve a healthy weight. The FAB team run fun and interactive six week courses to help you identify and overcome your food and exercise barriers and make a positive lifestyle change.

Each two hour session contains an interactive nutrition workshop and exercise session. FAB Nutritionists will help you to understand various food topics and our FAB Exercise Mentors will support you to become more physically active. All exercise sessions are tailored to your ability, so everyone can take part.

We monitor your weight as well as your lifestyle changes. There will be a six week check up after your course and we will find out how you are doing. If the barriers have re-surfaced we can help you set new goals to get you back on track.

How Does Our Service Work?

A key feature of the weight management service is the wealth of experience the instructors and nutritionist’s have and their ability to build rapport and trust with individuals, groups and organisations.

When working with FAB all members of the community can expect to receive a friendly, respectful, helpful, confidential, efficient and effective services.

The team is made up of a mixture of full time, part time & bank physical activity mentors, and nutritionists

Targets include:

2000 people attending weight management sessions per year.
Increased percentage of participants achieving physically active guidelines by being physically active for at least 150 minutes per week
Increased percentage of participants eating a well balanced diet measured through self report tools
Increased number of women being active and learning to participate in sport
Improved weight maintenance and / or BMI reduction amongst participants

FAB weight management sessions are delivered in the following: