Why it is not sold as a package
A package priced before anyone has examined you is a sales process, not a clinical one. The assessment routinely changes the plan — an untreated thyroid, a blood sugar in the pre-diabetic range, a prescribed medicine that causes weight gain in its own right — and none of those can be known in advance.
So nothing here is prepaid and nothing is bundled. You pay for the assessment, then for the reviews you attend. If the assessment finds something that needs treating first, that is what happens, and it is often the whole answer.
What gets measured, and why not just the scale
A bathroom scale cannot tell fat from muscle from water. Someone who loses muscle and water reads as a success on it, and someone who gains muscle while losing fat reads as a failure. Both readings are wrong, and both send people back to whatever they were doing before.
Body composition analysis separates the three and estimates the visceral fat around the organs, which is the measure that matters most for health. Waist circumference is recorded alongside it, because it tracks that risk more closely than weight does — particularly in South Asian bodies, where the standard thresholds understate it.
That baseline is taken at the start precisely so that six months later somebody can tell you which one actually changed.
How long it takes, honestly
Longer than the advertising in this market suggests, and the honest answer is that nobody can set the period in advance. It depends on what the assessment finds, on whether a medical driver has to be treated first, and on what you can hold rather than what you can manage for a fortnight.
What can be said is the shape: reviews are monthly, the picture becomes readable across three to six months, and maintenance continues after that. A clinic quoting you a date and a figure at the first phone call has not assessed you and is quoting neither.
When the programme is not the right answer
During pregnancy and while breastfeeding, active weight treatment waits. Nutrition support is fine and often welcome; the rest waits.
Where an untreated endocrine condition is found, that is treated first — and in a number of people it is the entire explanation, which is a better outcome than a programme.
Where there is a history of an eating disorder, this is not the right service and we will help you find specialist-led care instead.
And if what is troubling you is a shape rather than your weight or your health, inch loss and contouring are different treatments with different aims. They do not do what this does, and this does not do what they do.
Wondering why the weight is there in the first place? Our page on pcos and weight covers the hormonal and metabolic reasons behind it — this page is about what the treatment involves.
Frequently asked
Is the weight programme sold as a package?
No. Nothing is prepaid and nothing is bundled. You pay for the assessment, then for the reviews you attend, and you can stop at any point. A package priced before anyone has examined you is a sales process rather than a clinical one.
How often are the reviews?
Monthly, with repeat measurements each time. The plan is adjusted at each review rather than handed over once — the commonest reason a plan stops working is that nobody changed it when it stopped working.
What does the first assessment cover?
History and examination, height, weight, waist and blood pressure, and blood work where indicated — thyroid, blood sugar, the PCOS panel where the history points that way, lipids and liver function. Plus a body composition analysis to record where you are starting from.
Why do you measure body composition rather than just weight?
Because a scale cannot tell fat from muscle from water. Without a baseline recorded at the start, nobody can tell you months later which one you actually changed — and that difference decides whether the plan was working.
How long does the programme take?
Nobody can set that in advance honestly, and a clinic that quotes you a period at the first phone call has not assessed you. What can be said is the shape: monthly reviews, a readable picture across three to six months, and maintenance continuing after that.
Results are different for each person, and no honest programme sets a figure or a date in advance. This page is educational and does not replace an in-person consultation. Checked by our clinical team, last updated 21 August 2026. Medical disclaimer