What is a healthy weight? Multiple factors impact our body weight and size, yet as healthcare providers, we often focus more on the scale readout rather than the behaviors that influence our patients’ weight and health. This module discusses the psychological and physical issues facing those with obesity, along with the impact of chronic dieting and weight bias on health. It also provides tools, such as tips on motivational interviewing, non-diet health goal setting, for the provider to use in clinical practice, and briefly reviews traditional weight management guidelines.

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Goal and Learning Outcomes

The goal of this course is to equip healthcare providers with tools and techniques to promote healthy behaviors centered on dietary choices, physical activity, and mindful eating practices for people of all sizes. After taking this course, you should be able to:

Recognize the causes and effects of overweight and obesity in the U.S.
Describe the psychological and physical impacts of chronic dieting and weight bias.
Identify and analyze factors that influence behavioral change.
Restate at least 3 components of a non-diet approach.
Identify at least 3 interventions that specifically focus on health, food choices, and physical activity with your patients or clients.
Review traditional weight-loss options, including diets, medication, and surgery used in weight management programs.

Course Authors

Julie Stefanski

MEd, RDN, CSSD, LDN, CDE

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In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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