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A lifestyle change, not a forever diet: one service user’s experience of accessing a local health trainer service

Scurr, C.; Visram, S.

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Authors

C. Scurr

S. Visram



Abstract

Carol Scurr accessed her local health trainer service in Newcastle-upon-Tyne between 2009 and 2011. Here, Carol and Shelina Visram, from Durham University, tell us how she learnt to manage her weight with the help of Choose 2 Lose, a group set up by health trainers in the east end of Newcastle. This group has recently been redesigned and relaunched in the west end of the city and is currently led by the HealthWORKS physical activity team, with health trainer support. My issues with food started from a young age. I’ve lived in Newcastle my whole life, but my mum grew up in Ireland as one of six children. Food was scarce and they would steal from the nearby farmer’s field just so they could live. As a result, the whole family is food obsessed. Even though we didn’t have much money and I was dressed in hand-me-down clothes, we ate like kings and queens. The cupboards were always full and as long as the family were well fed, my mum was happy. She loved to feed people and I’m the same. People always say, “Oh, you’re never short of a meal …

Citation

Scurr, C., & Visram, S. (2013). A lifestyle change, not a forever diet: one service user’s experience of accessing a local health trainer service. Perspectives in Public Health, 133(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913913490851

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jul 1, 2013
Deposit Date May 15, 2013
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Perspectives in Public Health
Print ISSN 1757-9139
Electronic ISSN 1757-9147
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Volume 133
Issue 4
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913913490851

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Scurr, C. and Visram, S. (2013) 'A lifestyle change, not a forever diet : one service user’s experience of accessing a local health trainer service.', Perspectives in public health., 133 (4). p. 196. Copyright © Royal Society for Public Health 2013. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.




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