Weight Management

Health Tools   Health Tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.

Health Tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.


Decision Points focus on key medical care decisions that are important to many health problems. Decision Points focus on key medical care decisions that are important to many health problems.
  Obesity: Should I use a diet plan to lose weight?
  Weight management: Should I use over-the-counter diet aids?

Actionsets help people take an active role in managing a health condition. Actionsets are designed to help people take an active role in managing a health condition.
  Fitness: Adding more activity to your life
  Fitness: Staying active
  Fitness: Using a pedometer or step counter
  Fitness: Walking for wellness
  Healthy eating: Changing your eating habits
  Healthy eating: Cutting unhealthy fats from your diet
  Healthy eating: Getting support when changing your eating habits
  Healthy eating: Making healthy choices when you eat out
  Healthy eating: Making healthy choices when you shop
  Healthy eating: Overcoming barriers to change
  Healthy eating: Recognizing your hunger signals
  Healthy eating: Starting a plan for change
  Healthy eating: Staying with your plan
  Positive thinking: Stopping unwanted thoughts
  Weight management: Using positive thinking

Interactive tools help people determine health risks, ideal weight, target heart rate, and more. Interactive tools are designed to help people determine health risks, ideal weight, target heart rate, and more.
  Interactive Tool: How Many Calories Did You Burn?
  Interactive Tool: Is Your Weight Increasing Your Health Risks?

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Author: Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS
Cynthia Tank
Last Updated: March 6, 2008
Medical Review: Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine
Ruth Schneider, MPH, RD - Diet and Nutrition
Rhonda O'Brien, MS, RD, CDE - Diabetes Educator

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Topic Contents
 Overview
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 Are You at a Healthy Weight?
 What Affects Your Weight?
 Getting to a Healthy Weight: Lifestyle Changes
 Healthy Eating
 Healthy Activity
 Other Places To Get Help
 Related Information
 References
 Credits