Certificate in Weight Loss Management and Nutrition Online Course
100% Online Study
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Any Device, Any Time
Self Paced Study
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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- The Next Step
- Target Marketing
- Demand
- Competition
- Location
- PBL Project
8. Establishing a Weight Loss Business
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- A major Problem Based Learning Project
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We have mini self assessment tests so that you can be the judge of how well you understand the material and then a set task where you will undertake some form of practical exercise. But best of all is the one-on-one expert tutor feedback you get with each task you submit.
Online study can by difficult but our tutors are there to help you every step of the way.
First and foremost our courses are 100% online courses BUT they are still very practical! You will learn many practical skills, do some research, field trips and much more.
All learning is best done by doing, so our online courses are designed to give you the foundation knowledge you need and to get you out there and doing whatever it is that you love.
This sets our students up for success.
- 100% Online
- Practical
- Certificate issued on completion
- 1-on-1 tutor support
- Flexible payment options
- Self paced study
Getting where you want to go with your studies and/or career, involves much more than just reading or watching a video. Knowing how to learn, how to research and find out new information, how to judge if the source of information is any good and how to find out what is happening in your industry and creating a network are vitally important! Our courses will help you do all that.
We have mini self assessment tests so that you can be the judge of how well you understand the material and then a set task where you will undertake some form of practical exercise. But best of all is the one-on-one expert tutor feedback you get with each task you submit.
Online study can by difficult but our tutors are there to help you every step of the way.