Weight Management Strategies

#1 - Prevalence and Medical Conditions Associated with Obesity

I. Prevalence of obesity in the U.S.

a. Number of obese individuals
b. Number of obese children
c. Percent increase in obese individuals and future expectations

II. Dealing with obesity

a. Causes of obesity in the U.S.
b. Health risks of being obese
c. Cost of treatment
d. Preventative treatment—in our future?

III. Diseases and medical conditions associated with obesity

a. Discuss diseases and medical conditions
b. Define metabolic syndrome

1. Relation to treatment of obesity

c. Importance of reducing weight to treatment diseases/medical conditions

IV. Potential barriers and personal biases to being overweight/obese

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the current prevalence of overweight and obesity.
2. Define the scope of obesity in terms of health risks and costs for treating obesity.
3. Identify diseases or medical conditions associated with obesity and describe the importance of reducing weight in those with these conditions.
4. Define Metabolic Syndrome and its relation to the treatment of obesity.
5. Recognize personal biases and potential barriers to being overweight and obese.
   

#2 - Clinical Management of Obesity

I. Clinical assessment of obesity

a. Assessing a patient with obesity

II. Tools used to screen patients with obesity

a. How to use tools
b. What tools indicate about the patient
c. Results that indicate obesity

III. Treating obesity with a multi-disciplinary team

a. Benefits of using multi-disciplinary team
b. Success rates/statistics

IV. Disordered eating and binge disorders

a. Define disordered eating and binge disorders
b. Signs of disordered eating patterns

1. Identifying a person with an eating disorder

c. Complications associated with behaviors
d. Treatment options

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the clinical assessment of obesity.
2. List the tools to be used when screening of the obese population.
3. Explain the importance of using the multi-disciplinary team approach in obese patients.
4. Identify the signs of disordered eating and binge disorders and understand the complications associated with these disorders and how they are treated.
   

#3 - Physical Activity and Weight Management

I. Definition of activities of daily living (ADL’s).

II. Definition of physical activity.

III. Definition of exercise.

IV. Exercise Prescription for obese population for weight loss.

a. Frequency
b. Intensity
c. Time
d. Type

V. Exercise Prescription for obese population for weight maintenance.

a. Frequency
b. Intensity
c. Time
d. Type

VI. Special considerations for obese population.

a. Orthopedic issues
b. Mobility issues

VII. Case studies

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the differences between activities of daily living, physical activity, and exercise.
2. Identify the roles of physical activity and exercise in weight loss, weight maintenance, and preventing weight regain.
3. Describe an exercise prescription for weight loss.
4. Identify special considerations in developing an exercise prescription for the obese population.
   

#4 - Treatment options: Bariatric Surgery and Pharmacotherapy

I. Types of weight loss procedures

a. Restrictive
b. Malabsorptive
c. Combination restrictive/malabsorptive

II. Criteria for weight loss surgery

a. BMI
b. Co-morbidities
c. Contraindications
d. Screening
e. Desired and undesired behaviors for those having surgical intervention

III. Nutritional Guidelines

a. Pre-Bariatric surgery
b. Post-Bariatric surgery
c. Supplementation
d. Vitamin/mineral deficiencies

IV. Pharmacotherapy

a. Current medications used for weight loss

1. Prescription
2. Over-the-counter medications

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. List the main types of weight loss procedures.
2. Define criteria for those considering weight loss surgery.
3. List the risks/contraindications involved with weight loss surgery.
4. Describe the importance of nutritional status pre and post Bariatric surgery.
5. Identify current medications used in weight loss.
   

#5 - Healthy Lifestyle Choices for Weight Management

I. A look at the behaviors leading to weight management.

II. Healthy lifestyle choices – beyond simply telling a patient what to do.

III. The science – and art – of helping patients with health lifestyle choices.

IV. The stages of change – understanding readiness to make changes.

V. The processes of change – understanding how to help make changes.

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the relationship between lifestyle choices and weight management.
2. Demonstrate the association between importance and confidence in health behavior change.
3. Identify the stages of change as applied to weight management behaviors.
4. List the processes of change and the appropriate use of each.

#6 - Current Trends in “Dieting”

I. Diet trends introduction

a. Define “diet”
b. Differences between “dieting” and healthy eating
c. Reasons “diets” are so popular

II. Dieting and the media

a. Terms the media uses that places attention on fad diets and trends
b. How to “read between the lines”

III. Dieting and obesity

a. Safe “diet” options or meal plans for obese patients
b. Examples of meals plan and meal programs that are safe and available for obese patients
c. Common fad diets to avoid

IV. Popular diet trends

a. List popular diet trends
b. Differences and similarities among the diet trends

V. Counseling on diet fads

a. Importance of acknowledging the different diet fads
b. Counseling patients on diet trends

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Identify media terms for garnering attention to diet trends and fads.
2. Identify those meal plans that could safely be used in the obese population.
3. Explain the differences among some of the most popular diet trends.
4. Describe the importance of acknowledging the many different fads and identify how to counsel on these trends.
   

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