The three main ways we support participants to build healthy habits:
1. Coaching: All participants receive continuous private coaching and peer group support. Our health coaches respond to participant queries very quickly, and are available from Monday to Friday, 8am-6pm. Group sizes are formed of 10-14 people in a similar demographic to them (balanced number of male and female participants, similar age ranges). The group members support each other throughout the first 12 weeks of the programme by messaging each other in a group forum. This is continually monitored by the health coach, who intervenes if necessary.
2. Self-monitoring: The initial 200 participants receive a set of wireless weighing scales and a wearable activity tracker, which can be used to track changes in weight, steps and sleep within the app. After these places were filled, new participants received the recipe book and nutritional handbook and have full access to the app and health coach support. All participants have access to recipes, food diaries and learning articles within the app and can enter their weight and steps manually.
3. Education: Daily structured education articles focus on nutrition, exercise, sleep, positive thinking and stress management for the first 12-weeks and weekly educational articles are provided for the final 12-weeks. The daily articles are QISMET-accredited to provide diabetes structured education.