Lose Weight and Keep it Off

  • Harvard Health Online Course
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The proven advice in this essential course can help you lose weight safely—without gimmick diets. Even more important, Harvard’s nutrition experts explain how to keep the weight you lose from coming back.

  • Online; Self-Paced

$29.95

Certificate

Two Weeks, 2-6 Hours/Week

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Overview

Our easy-to-follow, encouraging course offers evidence-based strategies to help you lose weight—and avoid gaining it back. The weight-loss tactics within our lessons will guide you in customizing your own healthy weight-loss plan—one that works for you, and without calorie-counting, starving, and deprivation. You’ll find a virtual toolbox for losing weight in a healthy way, from meal-plan strategies to lifestyle changes to overall improved dietary habits.  

You’ll also discover the dangers of carrying extra weight… along with the countless benefits of losing weight. You’ll learn how to make better choices… how to change eating behaviors… where to find support… and how to maintain motivation.




Learning Objectives

  • Eating Strategies
  • Weight-Loss Help
  • Healthy Diet Basics
  • Eating Behaviors and Lifestyle Changes
  • Strategies for Keeping Weight Off

Syllabus

About Our Course
Challenges of Weight Loss
Medical Complications of Excess Weight
Benefits of Weight Loss

Why Weight Matters
Food Factors
Nutrition

Defining Habits
Better Choices
Organization
Meal Planning

What You Can Do
Strategies to Change Eating Behaviors
Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Finding Support
Diet Plans
Medications, Surgery, and Devices

Key Takeaways
Summary

Program Topics