With the New Year comes a national obsession with trying to get rid of those ‘extra pounds’, we all put on over the Festive Perios, as quickly as possible. It sees thousands of us signing up to gyms, weight loss groups and websites and sales of supplements, promising instant weight loss, soar. In the rush to drop weight however many of us forget that it’s not all about losing weight and let the rest of our health slide.
A new ‘healthy lifestyle’ website hopes to counter this trend by offering a member’s site with a difference…
MyVitality.com ‘can’ certainly help you lose weight, but it is so much more than that and is a must for those whose New Year’s resolution isn’t just to drop a few pounds, but to give their general health and wellbeing a boost.
MyVitality is effectively a nutritionist, life coach, beauty therapist and chef all in one. When you sign up to the site you fill in a health questionnaire that asks about your lifestyle and symptoms. It follows this up by asking what your health aims are over the coming months; it’s ok if you just want to lose weight, but what about wanting to get a better night’s sleep, clearing up your skin, beating that bloated belly or having more energy when you come home from work?
Deigned by health experts, the system then creates a 24 page profile created specifically for you. This is no common profile shared by hundreds of people, because the experts behind the site understand that someone who wants to lose fat, but also has issues with energy is going to need a totally different diet plan to someone who wants to get fitter for sport, but struggles with stress.
The profile that is created tells you what your nutritional priorities should be, which foods to eat and what supplements could help you achieve your goals. Alongside these dieting tips the site also helps with ‘lifestyle actions’, whether that’s getting more sleep, deep breathing exercises or getting a better sleeping regime.
Alongside this the site also has a huge resource database to help you achieve your goals and suggests recipes that can help, provides information on herbs, spices, supplements and herbal teas, has a ‘daily action log’ and a ‘hunger scale’ to print off, and even sends you emails to steer you in the right direction.
“There are a huge number of sites out there designed to help with weight loss, numerous other sites to give advice on specific health conditions, and yet more to help with food intolerances. What we wanted to create was something that pulled all of these together and took all the hard work and time out of spending hours sifting through conflicting books and websites to try and find advice and help you need. We believe we’ve done just that with MyVitality,” says Drew Fobbester, director of MyVitality.
To get a full My Vitality assessment and profile report costs just £19.95. You then have the option to become a member of the site for £3.95 a month, which allows you to change your health goals as you progress throughout the year.
