Practical, evidence-based advice on diet and nutrition, with blood tests arranged where they would be useful.
Unhurried care from a GMC-registered GP
6am to 10pm, seven days a week
Prescriptions, sick notes and referral letters included
Your NHS records in the room, with your consent
Care led personally by Dr Khan
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General practice sees the consequences of diet more than almost any other specialty. This appointment covers practical, evidence-based changes rather than fad prescriptions.
What you actually eat on a normal week, including the parts you would rather not mention. Nothing useful comes from a sanitised version.
Thyroid disease, iron deficiency and insulin resistance all affect weight, energy and appetite. Worth excluding before concluding it is willpower.
Plans fail because they are too ambitious. Two changes you will still be doing in three months beat ten you abandon in three weeks.
A three-day record written as you go is worth more than any recall. Include the weekend, include the drinks, include the things eaten standing up. Nobody is marking it.
People underestimate intake substantially and unintentionally — that is a well-documented finding rather than a character flaw — and advice built on an inaccurate picture will not work.
Who cooks, what the budget is, whether you work shifts, how much is eaten out or at a desk, who else you feed. A plan that ignores those is a plan that lasts a fortnight.
Expect alcohol asked in units, and expect drinks to be counted — liquid calories are the single most commonly overlooked part of any diet, and juice, syrupy coffees and alcohol add up faster than food does.
HbA1c, lipids, liver function, ferritin, vitamin D, B12, thyroid function and coeliac screening where it fits.
That last one matters: coeliac disease presents as bloating, fatigue and iron deficiency far more often than as anything dramatic, and it must be tested while you are still eating gluten.
Say so. Eating disorders occur across the whole weight range, and weight-focused advice can make things considerably worse. We will help you reach the right service rather than proceed.
This is a GP consultation, not a dietitian appointment. For complex clinical nutrition — coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, eating disorders, tube feeding — you need a registered dietitian, and we will refer you.
If weight is the main concern, the weight management programme may be a better fit.
Specific and small rather than comprehensive. Three changes made consistently beat twelve attempted for a fortnight, and that is the whole of the evidence on behaviour change compressed into a sentence.
A meaningful share of rapid weight loss is lean tissue rather than fat — whether the loss comes from diet, from surgery or from a GLP-1. Adequate protein and twice-weekly resistance work is what keeps it off the wrong tissue, and it is the part most often left out.
Waist circumference, monthly. It moves before weight does, it responds to exercise even when weight does not, and keeping your waist under half your height is a better target than any BMI figure. See why.
Weigh at most weekly, same day, same conditions. Daily weighing measures mostly water.
This is a GP consultation about diet and metabolic health. It is not a dietitian appointment, and the distinction is worth understanding before booking.
Where a registered dietitian is the right professional and we will refer rather than advise:
Eating disorders need specialist services, not a nutrition consultation. If your relationship with food or your body is causing distress, or you are restricting, bingeing or purging, we will help you access the right care — and we will not provide weight-focused advice that could make things worse. That applies regardless of your weight, since eating disorders occur across the whole range.
What we will not do: endorse very low calorie diets without supervision, recommend supplements without a reason to, or arrange broad food intolerance testing. IgG food intolerance panels in particular are not clinically validated, produce false positives, and lead to unnecessary restriction — we would not sell you one.
No, and the distinction matters. This is a GP consultation about diet and metabolic health — practical, evidence-based, and grounded in blood results.
A registered dietitian is the right professional for coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, complex allergy, kidney or liver disease requiring modification, tube feeding, and the low-FODMAP diet for IBS — which is genuinely difficult to do correctly unsupervised and is not meant to be permanent. We refer.
The one you will still be doing in a year. That is not a dodge — head-to-head trials of low-carb, Mediterranean, low-fat and intermittent fasting show remarkably similar average results, and adherence predicts outcome far better than the approach does.
So the useful question is not which diet is best but which one fits your life, your budget and your cooking.
No, and we will not arrange it. IgG food intolerance panels are not clinically validated, they produce positives for foods you eat regularly and tolerate perfectly well, and they lead to unnecessary restriction — occasionally to genuinely poor nutrition.
What is worth testing is coeliac disease, which is a real, common and testable condition. And genuine food allergy, which is diagnosed on history plus specific IgE or skin prick testing, not on a panel.
Only where a deficiency is measured or the risk is well established. Worth taking: vitamin D through the autumn and winter, which applies to essentially everyone in the UK; folic acid before and during early pregnancy; and B12 if you are vegan.
Beyond that, most supplements produce expensive urine. We would rather measure than guess.
Where clinically appropriate — see weight management. But read what nobody puts in the advert first, particularly the part about weight returning when you stop and the muscle you lose without deliberate effort.
The other thing worth doing first is checking there is no reversible cause — thyroid disease, PCOS, or a medication that causes weight gain.
That is worth investigating rather than trying harder. An underactive thyroid, PCOS, Cushing's rarely, and a long list of ordinary medications — some antidepressants and antipsychotics, steroids, insulin, certain beta blockers — all cause weight gain directly.
Sleep matters too: short or fragmented sleep measurably worsens appetite regulation and insulin sensitivity, and untreated sleep apnoea makes weight loss considerably harder.
Worth raising if any of this fits: preoccupation with food or weight that crowds out other things, restricting then bingeing, guilt or compensating after eating, or avoiding meals with others.
Eating disorders occur at every body size — including in people considered overweight, who are frequently missed for that reason. We will help you reach the right service, and we will not give weight-focused advice that could make things worse.
A few things that take up more attention than they deserve: eating late at night matters far less than total intake; "detoxes" and cleanses do nothing your liver and kidneys were not already doing; superfoods are a marketing category; and meal timing matters much less than what and how much.
The boring answers — more vegetables, more protein, less liquid sugar, more movement, better sleep — remain the ones with evidence behind them.
Clinically reviewed by Dr Mohammad Zubair Khan, GMC 7563469
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August 23, 2026
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