Testimonials

Asthma Foundation volunteer uses her noodle to lose weight.

Pat, who now wrestles with a floatation noodle at least once a week at aqua-aerobics, exclaimed this week, "I feel like I used to feel before I got married!" It is worth noting that this is forty years ago.

Since starting the Optimal Health - Dietary and Lifestyle Phone Support Program in January, Pat has lost 7kg and 10cm from her waist. Having achieved her aim of losing 6-8Kg for an operation, her next goal is to weigh less than 80Kg by the end of August - only 3Kg to go! Her program Dietitian Natalie says that more impressive are the lifelong changes that Pat has made to her eating and physical activity.

"Just this week, Pat remarked about how proud she was of going to a buffet restaurant and feeling satisfied with a single plate of food, plenty of vegetables, and no seconds! Once, she couldn't imagine enjoying such a meal without feeling hungry after. She doesn't feel any pressure to fit in with what everyone else is doing, preferring to set the example, sharing the secrets to her success with me, her family and workmates."

"Pat is never short of questions; she reads widely and seeks help from Health Professionals when she feels she needs to. She breaks things down into smaller, more achievable steps, and persists. She has really embraced the programs philosophy of making small changes, which make a big difference."

The Optimal Health - Dietary and Lifestyle Phone Support Program welcomes referrals for eligible patients from practices in the Logan and Beudesert area. Delivery of this 12 month program is over the phone and at no cost to participants. They also receive a manual, brochures, tape measure, pedometer and resistance band, and calorie counter, so they have a range of tools to get started with lifestyle change.

Why not contact us, to find out how you can start referring?

For more information please contact Natalie Cross or Jana Husak on Tel: 07 3290 3733 or email ncross@sphn.org.au or jhusak@sphn.org.au