Certificate in Weight Loss Management and Nutrition Online Course

What you will do in this Weight Loss Management and Consultant Course:

• Explain factors that affect weight in a body.
• Determine the scope and nature of the weight loss industry in your region.
• Explain the role of physical activity in weight loss and provide practical advice and resources for you to use as a weight loss consultant.
• Explain the role of dietary change in weight loss and provide practical advice and resources for you to use as a weight loss consultant.
• Explain a variety of ways that psychology can be applied to the control of weight.
• Determine weight status of clients
• Select and implement and manage the use of different techniques to control weight in clients
• Identify a viable weight loss service, and those things that must be done to optimize the chance of ongoing success.
• Adapt dietary resources based on needs of an individual or a particular group.
• Planning to start a weight management group
• Develop a weight management service as a business

• Develop an understanding of modern day causes of obesity and recognise its significance to health.
• Evaluate the weight status and body composition of an individual.
• Explain a range of weight reducing diets and to evaluate how ‘healthy’ different diets are in terms of nutrient balance and consider how practical the diets are to follow
• Explain the relationship between nutrition and obesity.
• Determine appropriate actions to manage eating habits in individuals and in demographic groups for prevention of obesity.
• Determine appropriate treatments for treatment of obesity.
• Compare different techniques for modifying eating behaviour in order to control obesity.
• Analyse the calorie intake of an individual and recommend changes in order to manage obesity
• Describe a range of medical conditions and treatments that can affect obesity, and explain appropriate dietary management responses to those conditions.
• Evaluate the obesity problem of an individual and determine a recommended course of action within a limited time frame; and using available information and resources gathered within that time frame.

PART I: WEIGHT LOSS CONSULTANT

1. Scope and Nature of Weight Loss

• • Obesity Defined
  • Genetics
  • Diet
  • Exercise
  • Life Events
  • Adolescence
  • Pregnancy
  • Menopause
  • Middle Age
  • Stopping Smoking
  • Weight gain linked to Medication
  • Weight gain following Injury or Illness
  • Scope and Nature of Weight Loss Industry
  • Health Programs
  • Meal Replacement Products
  • Pharmacotherapy
  • Surgery for Weight Loss

2. Managing Physical Activity

• • Role of Physical Activity in Energy Balance
  • Role of Physical Activity Raising Metabolic Rate
  • Bone Mass Maintenance
  • Physical Activity and Mental Health
  • Specific Aspects of Exercise When Overweight
  • Tips to get started with Exercise
  • Types of Exercise and Effectiveness for Weight Loss
  • Cardiovascular Activity
  • Optimum Target Heart Rate for Fat Burning
  • Resistance Activities
  • Exercise Progression
  • Recommending Exercise

3. Managing the Diet

• • Teaching Portion Control
  • Beginning to Address Portion Control
  • Energy Density
  • Fats and Energy Density
  • Sources of Fats
  • Tips to Reduce Fat
  • Practical Tips Based on Daily Meal Plan
  • Sugar and Weight Reducing
  • General Weight Loss Tips
  • Using Food Diaries
  • Nutrition Resources and Lesson Planning

4. Managing the Psychology

• • Eating and Emotions
  • The Brain and Weight Management
  • Managing the Psychology
  • Helping People to Make Changes
  • Stages og Change Explained -Pre contemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance, Relapse

5. Tools for the Consultant

• • Determining Weight Status of Clients
  • Administering Weight Checks
  • Calculating BMI
  • Interpreting BMI
  • Setting Targets
  • Determining Waiste Measurement
  • Health Evaluation
  • Nutritional Advice
  • Running Supermarket Tours
  • Food Labels

6. Delivering Weight Loss Services

• • Individual Consultations
  • Features of an Ideal One to One Consultation
  • Good Questioning Skills
  • Running Group Sessions
  • Running Independant Weight Management Group Sessions
  • Joining an Established Weight Management Business
  • Potential Barriers to Weight Loss
  • Social Issues and Pressure
  • Time Constraints
  • Lifestyle
  • Physical Limitations
  • Psychological Limitations
  • Age
  • Hormonal Issues

7. Conducting a Weight Loss Consultation

• • The Next Step
  • Target Marketing
  • Demand
  • Competition
  • Location
  • PBL Project

8. Establishing a Weight Loss Business

• • Starting a New Business
  • Personality and Lifestyle
  • Affordability
  • Industry Knowledge and Experience
  • Starting a Business versus Buying a Franchise
  • Business Plans
  • The Planning Process
  • Marketing
  • The Marketing Plan Promotion, Advertising, Networking
  • Summary of a Successful Business

PART II: WEIGHT LOSS NUTRITION

1. Understanding Obesity

• • What is obesity
  • ‘Types’ of Obesity … Hyperplasia or Hypertrophy of Fats Cells
  • Dietary Trends and the Incidence of Obesity
  • Factors Influencing Food Intake and Habits
  • Physiological factors which determine food intake
  • Environmental and behavioural factors which determine food intake:
  • Causes of Obesity (Genetics, Lifestyle, Exercise, Eating habits, Water intake, Changing metabolism through life, Medical conditions and disease, Psychology)
  • Health Risks of Obesity
  • Understanding Weight
  • Body composition
  • Evaluation Techniques
  • Body Mass Index (BMI)

2. Nutrition Basics

• • Why we need food
  • Nutrient Reference Value (NRV)
  • Understanding Digestion and Absorption
  • How we process food
  • Basic Roles of Major Digestive Organs
  • Food Composition (Carbohydrates, Protens, Fats, etc)
  • Fibre
  • Need for Fluids
  • The Glycaemic Index (GI)
  • Calculating Energy Requirements
  • Basal Metabolic Rate
  • Food Pyramid and Recommended Daily Intake (RDI)
  • What is the recommended intake of nutrients?
  • New food pyramid and normal eating patterns
  • Childhood Obesity

3. Diets -Fads, Fiction and Fact

• • A Review of Popular Approaches to Weight Loss and Control
  • Vegetarian Diets
  • Starvation
  • Very Low Calorie and Liquid Diets
  • Commercial Low Calorie Meal Substitutes
  • Commercial Low Calorie Meal Substitutes
  • Blood type diet
  • Food combining
  • Detox Diets
  • Low carbohydrate diets
  • Low Glycaemic index diet (low GI)
  • Sweeteners
  • Low fat diets
  • Fat Substitutes
  • Fat burning diets
  • Supplements
  • Guidelines for Childhood Weight Loss

4. Preventing Obesity

• • Metabolism … Keeping the Metabolic Rate Stable
  • Making the best food choices
  • Nutritional Education
  • Teaching Healthy Eating Habits to Children
  • Health Initiatives Targeting Obesity
  • Public Health Information
  • Legislative controls

5. Treating Obesity

• • Methods that Work
  • Assessment of Clients or Patients
  • Modifying Behaviour
  • Prescribing Diets
  • Life Coach and Personal Trainer
  • Weight Loss Hypnosis
  • Self-help Groups
  • Health Clubs, Health Farms and Holiday Retreats
  • A Holistic Approach
  • Supplements

6. Modifying Eating Behaviour

• • Key Stages in Behaviour Changes
  • Cultural food patterns
  • How to Make Lifelong Changes
  • Assess Current Diet (patterns and nutritional value)
  • Plan for Change
  • Seek Motivation and Support from Others
  • Improving Health Through Food
  • Diseases Linked to Obesity
  • Changing Unhealthy Habits

7. Restricting Calorie Intake

• • Understanding Energy and Metabolism
  • Metabolism
  • Energy Metabolism
  • Age (Growth and Aging) and Metabolism
  • Activity and Metabolism
  • Calorie Restricted Diets

8. Medical Conditions: Hormones, Drugs, Eating Disorders

• • Nutrition During Disease
  • Childhood Diabetes
  • Link between Medication and Diet
  • Drugs and Hormones Prescribed for Weight Management
  • Diet Pills
  • Thyroid hormone
  • Somatropin (Growth Hormone
  • Weight Loss Surgery
  • Lipoplasty (Liposuction)
  • Abdominoplasty (Tummy tuck)
  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • Bulimia Nervosa

9. Planning a Diet

• • A major Problem Based Learning Project