About this course: This 5 week course will guide learners through the essential steps in planning an individualized weight loss program. There is no guarantee of weight loss through completing the course; learners will have the framework and essential components for an evidence-based weight loss program. This course is intended for healthy adults who do not have any chronic disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, lung disease or any others. In addition, this course does not provide information for people who have food allergies or intolerances. Losing weight and keeping it off requires planning and goal-setting. Crash diets or fad diets are ineffective and can be dangerous. This course provides evidence-based information for planning a weight loss program that is safe and effective in producing a one to two pound loss per week. This course will help learners establish the following: 1. A realistic goal weight with a specific plan for rate of weight loss and time frame for achieving goal weight. 2. A realistic goal for the frequency, duration, and intensity of exercise that will enable the learner to achieve and maintain the goal weight. 3. A specific set of strategies for grocery shopping, eating in restaurants, eating at social occasions, and dealing with hunger and emotional eating. 4. A plan for monitoring food intake, exercise and weight loss. 5. A plan for continued evaluation of progress to goals and strategies for adjusting goals for continued weight loss for the next 6 months or longer. 6. A thorough understanding of the difficulty of maintaining weight loss and a plan for maximizing the chances of keeping off the weight lost.
Who is this class for: The example learner for this course is interested in improving their diet and is open to adopting new behaviors around cooking, grocery shopping, eating, and exercise. The learner should be over the age of 18 and should be in good health without any chronic diseases (such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, or food allergies.) Prior knowledge of nutrition principles for a healthy diet would be useful to the learner but is not required. Learners are required to seek approval from their primary care physician before starting the course.
Taught by: Mary Beth Kavanagh, Senior Instructor and Director of Bachelors/Masters Education
Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University
| Level | Beginner |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Leyendo: Disclaimer
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Introduce Yourself
- Leyendo: An Introduction to SMART Goals
- Leyendo: A Note About Assignments
- Leyendo: CWRU Wellness Initiative Participants
- Video: Determining Your Goal Weight
- Video: How and When to Weigh Yourself
- Leyendo: Daily Weight Record Worksheet
- Video: Making a Plan for Exercise
- Leyendo: Measuring Intensity of Exercise
- Leyendo: High-Intensity Interval Training
- Leyendo: UPDATE: SuperTracker Discontinued
- Video: Calories and Food Groups
- Video: Grocery Shopping and Nutrition Labels
- Leyendo: Planning to Grocery Shop
- Leyendo: Grocery Shopping When Hungry
- Leyendo: Tips for Dining Out
- Leyendo: Research on Restaurant Meals and Dining with Others
- Leyendo: SuperTracker References
- Video: Identifying Support and Self-Monitoring
- Leyendo: Self-Weighing in Weight Management
- Leyendo: Healthy Living: Sleep
- Leyendo: The Non-Diet Diet
- Video: How Are You Doing So Far?
- Leyendo: Behaviors for Successful Weight Loss
- Video: Planning to Stay with Your Plans
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| Earn a shareable Course Certificate | Available |
The course is well tailored for the purpose. Really inspiring presentation.
assignment is very difficult to submit.sometimes it will take lot of time.but this course is really help full to maintain weight in healthy way
This course is very well designed for beginners. The basics have been taught very well. Designing is the first vital step towards weight loss and i think that is covered very well in here.
AG
Presented ideas are good and reasonable. Recommended weight loss strategies are achievable and can be combined with anybody's everyday life. The instructor is great.Two issues: - you need to pay to complete it;- a lot of personal weight loss tracking is based on SuperTracker website, which is totally great one, but it will be discontinued on June 30, 2018.