Miss E: Asking For Help To Lose Weight
Val Coleman Leeds A1 valcol@live.co.uk 01434 381793 word count 1,942
Case study, number 2 of 3.
Miss E weight loss
Miss E came to see me asking for help to lose weight. Miss E is 27 years old and other than her weight is a fit and healthy young lady. She works full time as a staff nurse in a busy city centre hospital. Miss E is currently single and sharing a flat with her older sister who is also a nurse at the same hospital.
Initial consultation
Having filled in her initial consultation form and establishing that there were no ethical issues that would prevent me from working with Miss E. I began by asking her what she hoped I could help her with. Miss E didn’t appear to me to be obese. …show more content…
I wanted to establish how much weight she realistically thought she should lose. Using her weight and height I calculated her Body Mass Index at 28.30 , this meant that her goal of a one and a half stone (9.53kg) weight loss was realistic and achievable. We chatted for the next thirty minutes, in which time I discovered that Miss E had always had a problem with her weight but her biggest problem was not the loosing of the excess pounds but keeping them off. She was a classic yoyo dieter. I asked her how old she was when she first felt unhappy with her weight. She replied by telling me she could not remember a time when she felt happy with the way she looked. The youngest of four sisters, she explained that her mother and sisters were constantly dieting when she was a child and she grew up thinking it was normal to constantly criticise the way you looked. Food was seen as the enemy but also the source of comfort. There were always cupboards full of biscuits and crisps, but these were forbidden and only there for their father, although in times of stress or
Case study, number 2 of 3.
Miss E weight loss
Miss E came to see me asking for help to lose weight. Miss E is 27 years old and other than her weight is a fit and healthy young lady. She works full time as a staff nurse in a busy city centre hospital. Miss E is currently single and sharing a flat with her older sister who is also a nurse at the same hospital.
Initial consultation
Having filled in her initial consultation form and establishing that there were no ethical issues that would prevent me from working with Miss E. I began by asking her what she hoped I could help her with. Miss E didn’t appear to me to be obese. …show more content…
I wanted to establish how much weight she realistically thought she should lose. Using her weight and height I calculated her Body Mass Index at 28.30 , this meant that her goal of a one and a half stone (9.53kg) weight loss was realistic and achievable. We chatted for the next thirty minutes, in which time I discovered that Miss E had always had a problem with her weight but her biggest problem was not the loosing of the excess pounds but keeping them off. She was a classic yoyo dieter. I asked her how old she was when she first felt unhappy with her weight. She replied by telling me she could not remember a time when she felt happy with the way she looked. The youngest of four sisters, she explained that her mother and sisters were constantly dieting when she was a child and she grew up thinking it was normal to constantly criticise the way you looked. Food was seen as the enemy but also the source of comfort. There were always cupboards full of biscuits and crisps, but these were forbidden and only there for their father, although in times of stress or