Making lifestyle changes can feel easier when you’re not doing it alone.

The Eat Real Food Patient Support Group is a welcoming community of people who want to improve their health through real food and sustainable lifestyle changes.

This is a patient-led group, facilitated by Millie Barnes, a Public Health Collaboration Ambassador and Health Coach, who brings both professional knowledge and personal experience of improving health through lifestyle change.

What the Group Offers

The group provides a space to:

• Share ideas, experiences, and practical tips
• Learn from others on a similar health journey
• Build confidence in making lifestyle changes
• Stay motivated and supported
• Make small, manageable changes over time

Many people find that community support makes healthy changes easier to maintain.

The sessions are relaxed, informal, and supportive, and everyone is encouraged to take part in whatever way feels comfortable.

Who Is It For?

The group is open to anyone interested in improving their health through lifestyle changes, including people who:

• Want to lose weight to improve health
• Have prediabetes or diabetes
• Want to improve blood pressure or metabolic health
• Are looking for peer support and encouragement

This is a patient-for-patient group, where everyone is learning together.

When and Where

Weekly sessions: Thursdays (currently via Zoom)

Face-to-face sessions:
Aspen Centre meeting room (2nd floor), 6:00pm–8:00pm

2026 dates:

• 8 January
• 12 February
• 12 March
• 16 April
• 14 May
• 11 June
• 23 July

A Community Approach to Health

Improving health happens one step at a time, one meal at a time.
The group focuses on building healthier habits gradually, learning together, and supporting each other through challenges and successes.

Even long-standing members say they continue to learn something new each time they attend.

Interested in joining?

To find out more or join a session, please email:
aspen.diabetes@nhs.net

You’ll be warmly welcomed.