Dr Carly Anna Hughes is a GP and a trained bariatric physician working in the Fakenham weight management service (FWMS). She was a member of the NICE CG 189 Obesity guidance group. She set up FWMS which was awarded the National Obesity Forum Best Practice award and the Association for the Study of Obesity Best Practice award. She was a co-founded of the Norfolk Obesity Network. She is an honorary lecturer at the University of East Anglia Medical School, and a researcher with the MRC epidemiology unit at Cambridge. She has published over 20 articles, and lectures nationally and internationally on Obesity related topics. She is a World Obesity Federation SCOPE National Fellow.