Refer native households to GOALS (Getting Our Energetic Lifestyle Began)

GOALS is a free, enjoyable and wholesome life-style 10-week programme. It’s designed for households with kids in main and secondary faculty who’re eager to extend their motion and be taught extra about lifelong wholesome habits.

The programme helps households, who’ve considerations about their baby’s weight, to work in the direction of making optimistic life-style modifications. The subsequent block of the programme is launching the week of Monday 6 October inside East Kilbride, Hamilton, Wishaw and Cumbernauld.

Classes are run after faculty hours and final about an hour. They are group based mostly and embrace some enjoyable bodily exercise alongside some sensible recommendation that may make a optimistic distinction to well being and wellbeing, together with:

• Managing display screen time
• Understanding portion sizes
• Reading meals labels
• Healthy snacking habits
• Budget pleasant hints and ideas for wholesome consuming

Referrals for youngsters/younger folks might be made by finishing this GOALS Referral Form.docx and emailing LWMS@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk​.

Find out extra on our dedicated FirstPort page.

Kerry McLeod, Children and Young Persons Dietetic Team Lead – NHS Lanarkshire Heathy Lifestyle and Weight Management Service, stated: “We are delighted to re-launch this programme and be concerned inside communities to help native households.

“GOALS contains useful data to cowl day-to-day challenges that many households may very well be coping with, for instance, the way to handle display screen time, maintaining a healthy diet meals and snacks while nonetheless being on a price range, what do meals labels imply and getting the precise portion dimension.

“We provide professional steering in a protected and enjoyable surroundings; it’s additionally a chance for households to ask any questions they’ve and get help and recommendation from one another too.

“Most importantly, the programme is about making small, realistic changes that can have a big impact on family health and wellbeing over time.”

For data on location, venue and instances:​

South Lanarkshire

East Kilbride
Dollan Aqua Centre
Wednesdays from 8 October, 4pm

Hamilton
Fairhill – Lifestyles
Thursdays from 9 October, 4pm

Sign up form here.

North Lanarkshire

Wishaw
Wishaw Sports Centre
Wednesdays from 8 October, 4pm

Cumbernauld
Broadwood Leisure Centre
Tuesdays from 7 October, 4pm

Sign up form here.