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Many parents find meal times difficult and often describe their children as fussy eaters. See our latest blog from AppleTree which discusses this issue and has some helpful tips for parents to set meal time rules. https://www.appletreeconsultancy.com/…/ happier-healthy-fami… 🍎

Dr Laura has written a piece on tier 3 weight management in UK on behalf of the British Dietetic Association for the Health Awareness campaign around #WeightManagement and type 2 diabetes. Working with @MediaplanetUK with a pull out in today's https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/ newspaper. Kicks off from 9am today with more information and articles available at www.healthawareness.co.uk/weight-manageme nt. 🍎

It's been a very busy week and I'm glad to have made it to Friday. This week been in the North West of Scotland, Inverness, Dundee, Edinburgh, Midlothian and Aberdeen. Pictures here show Dr Laura & Thomas from www.appletreeconsultancy.com at our final focus group around the 12 week online adult weight management programme for www.nhsinform.scot. We were in Dalkeith and had a good turn out with insightful discussions. Now getting down to analyse the data. Have a good weekend, I am looking forward to watching tennis from the French Open. 🍎 🥎

We have now had 3 focus groups around developing a 12 week online weight management programme for www.nhsinform.scot Some of the points coming through. People really want to see videos from people with lived experience talking through how they have managed change and overcome barriers. No one wants videos from experts ! All want some interaction from the programme to help with motivation and positive reinforcement to keep going. Last 2 groups next week in Dundee and Midlothian. Work commissioned by the British Dietetic Association 🍎

I was very honored to be asked by the British Dietetic Association to present a case study on the first day of #ECO2019 during the The European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians - EFAD teaching session. I discussed a case study from my previous work at NHS Tayside and the Paediatric Overweight Service Tayside - POST team. ECO is a major international conference on #obesity and this year was held in the Glasgow venue the Scottish Event Campus. The photos from the event have just been released and here are a couple of photos of me presenting and asking questions. Dr Laura Stewart 🍎

Had a good training day on Thursday with dietitians from NHS Lanarkshire on behavioural change tools in childhood obesity. Next course for dietitians, nutritionist and others working with children & young people is in the Sofitel London Gatwick on Thursday 7th & Friday 8th November 2019. Places are filing up. For more details go to https://www.appletreeconsultancy.com/trai ning/training and scroll down. To book email drlaura@appletreeconsultancy.com 🍎

Dr Laura is looking forward to working with How it felt today on the Body Image Positivity workshops at Dundee Rep Theatre . This is a very worthwhile event during Mental Health Awareness Week. 🍎

Really pleased to say we had a lot of good conversations last night at the poster session at #ECO2019 on the Learn Well Approach set in the community of the East End of Dundee to develop a local child healthy weight action plan. Here is the full published article - https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/arti… /pii/S0033350618303275… All work done as a partnership with Dundee City Council NHS Tayside Paediatric Overweight Service Tayside - POST and many others 🍎 Picture shows two of the authors - Dr Laura and Jenny Gillespie https://www.facebook.com/jenny.gillespie. 946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQK4vj1Lz lg&t=102s I really liked this video that Jenny Gillespie showed yesterday as part of her great talk on complex issues in managing child healthy weight. #ECO2019 🍎🍎 https://www.facebook.com/jenny.gillespie. 946

Had a good night at the Crowne Plaza Glasgow and just getting ready to go over to the Scottish Event Campus for the first event of #ECO2019 Looking forward to the session and hope my presentation goes well. 🍎

77% of people who answered our survey on what topics would help them with weight management said portions. Here is our blog discussing portion sizes and how they have increased over recent decades and a few helpful tips. Hope you enjoy and please share with other. https://www.appletreeconsultancy.com/blog /portions-and-you 🍎

A huge thank you to everyone who answered our questionnaire on what you would like a 12 week online programme to look like. 336 people answered the questions and the team at Appletree is working through all the answers. There is a lot to look at and we have a team of 4 people working on this. We thought we would share the answers to the first question on what were the topics people wanted to know about - portions top of that list. This work was commissioned via @BritishDieteticAssociation for NHS Inform 🍎

We want to share our new blog which has a look at relationships with food and explores a couple techniques to dealing with 'comfort' eating. 🍎

Our online survey closes on Sunday and we need more men! 🧔 Please take 5 minutes to answer the survey on what an online weight management programme should look like. 🍎 https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/3LG8C8N< br>

Appletree has been commissioned, via the British Dietetic Association, by NHS Health Scotland to write a 12 week online weight management programme. We are looking for your views on what this should contain and look like. Please take 4/5 mins to answers our questionnaire - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/3LG8C8N. See our attached blog for more discussion on this project. Thank you for your time. 🍎

AppleTree working with https://www.facebook.com/Spice-Harmony-14 06754719470870/ on the nutrient content of their products. Been having fun calculating the contents of some pretty fine and spicy chutney. 🍎🍅🍑🍏🌶🍇🍏🥭 😁www.appletreeconsultancy.com

Really pleased to share our first blog in our series called Making your calories work for you. Hope you enjoy it and please share the link. 🍎https://www.appletreeconsultancy.com/ …/making-your-calories…