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How to help myself be a healthy weight

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Websites

Try our home based exercise routines

One You - This website is full of ideas for getting more active, eating healthier and more. A good place to start is to take the How Are You quiz to find out your health score and get advice on small lifestyle changes that can make you healthier.

Live Well - Advice, tips and tools to help you make the best choices about your health and wellbeing

Apps

One You - free apps from One You including apps with meals ideas and how to get more active.

Active 10 add more regular bursts of brisk walking to your daily routine with activity tracking, encouragement and achievable milestones.

Change4Life Food Scanner App - bring food labels to life and find out what's really in your food!

Couch to 5k is a really great way to start you off into running. It really is possible to go from sitting in the sofa to running 5k in 9 weeks.

My fitness pal is an app which can easily help you to track your daily calorie intake by scanning most of the foods you at, or adding existing common foods.

The NHS calorie checker tool online is a useful tool to help you track you calorie intake for the day.

Change4Life Food Scanner App - bring food labels to life and find out what's really in your food, contains the salt and sugar levels for most common foods.

If you have fitness tracker your associated app may have calorie counting function too.

Nutra check app; allows you to do weekly weigh ins and track your weight