AS a Big Thank you to our NHS, Slimming World has launched a FREE virtual service to support NHS members at home during coronavirus pandemic and half price to all other new and existing members who may feel lockdown impacting on their weight!
In response to the need to suspend its 19,000 community groups across the UK and Ireland because of the coronavirus pandemic, Slimming World has launched a new temporary ‘virtual’ weight loss service. The service will enable Slimming World’s members to continue to enjoy – in a virtual environment – the vital weight loss support, but also the friendship and community spirit, they find in their local group each week. The new service also means that Slimming World can continue to offer a service, at a discounted fee to our members and FREE to our NHS heroes!
The new package will include access to a weekly ‘virtual’ group using video conferencing. A Slimming World Consultant will host their group and invite members to join from home to continue to get support to make healthier food choices and find new ways to stay active indoors. The emphasis will be on building and staying in control of healthy new lifestyle habits when it might not be as easy as it is under normal circumstances – helping members find ways to make groceries go a bit further, and easy ways to shop, cook and eat healthily at a time when access to food is changing. Slimming World’s unique formula built on compassion, care and understanding, bringing a welcome bit of light in hard times, will be more important now than ever before. All of this will be combined with ongoing use of social media, and access to Slimming World’s app and member-only website LifelineOnline, which will provide them with all the practical help they need, as well as advice about how to stay physically active and psychologically strong.
Carmen Middleditch, Consultant for the Friday morning group which normally takes place at the Guides HQ in Melksham, says ‘I have been overwhelmed by how my members have adapted to coming together every week through video conferencing and despite a couple of weeks of adapting to new routines, weight losses have been amazing! We also have quite a few NHS workers and being able to offer free membership is a great way to say a huge thank you for all their hard work. She added, nothing rivals the unique support our Slimming World ‘family’ offers and although we may be physically apart, we don’t need to be alone as technology can still bring us together.’
If you would like to know more about how to join, call Carmen on 07828 487 569 or email carmengmiddleditch@hotmail.co.uk
