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Maintenance · without the shame

Losing the weight was the start. We help you keep it.

KIO is a community, a coaching practice and a quiet rebellion against quick-fix culture — built for the people who've already done the hard work and want it to last.

Founder

Mel Harris

Twenty-one years of keeping her own fifteen-stone weight loss in place. That's the foundation everything at KIO sits on — not a single transformation moment, but two decades of ordinary days.

Mel built KIO because the public conversation about weight loss almost always ends at the wrong place. Surgery, injections, even sheer determination — they're the start of the story, not the end of it. The real work is the years that follow.

There's no shortcut to maintenance. But there is a method, a community, and someone who's already walked the route.

If you've found yourself somewhere between proud of what you've achieved and quietly worried about what comes next, you're exactly who this is for.

The Method

Four pillars, on repeat, for life.

A simple framework for the parts of weight maintenance that the surgery, the prescription, or the original plan never went near.

01

Understand

Get honest about what causes the slips so you can spot the next one coming.

02

Protect

Build everyday routines that hold up on bad weeks, holidays and Tuesdays alike.

03

Uphold

Turn the work from a project into a quietly normal part of life.

04

Belong

Stay accountable in a community of people who've actually lived this.

What we offer

Choose the support that fits.

From a free community to one-to-one partnership — there's a level of involvement for wherever you are.

Community

The KIO Membership

Monthly accountability sessions, coaching rooms and a private community where the only rule is honesty. Four tiers, free to start.

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1:1 coaching

Sessions with Mel

Private coaching calls when you need to talk to someone who's actually been there. Bring whatever is going on — that's what these are for.

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Self-paced

Courses & programmes

Step-by-step courses for post-surgery and post-GLP-1 living. Work through them at your own pace; revisit whenever you need.

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Listen

Keep It Off podcast

Honest conversations about the bits nobody puts on a leaflet. New episodes regularly; the whole back catalogue is free.

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Membership

Find your people.

Pick the tier that fits today; move up whenever it makes sense. Sign-up will open here once the platform is wired in.

New You
Free starting point
Protect
Group coaching + library
Uphold
All of Protect + live calls
Partnership
1:1 with Mel · apply