CWRU - Designing Your Personal Weight Loss Plan
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Designing Your Personal Weight Loss Plan at Coursera Overview
Duration | 11 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Designing Your Personal Weight Loss Plan at Coursera Highlights
- 50% started a new career after completing these courses.
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Designing Your Personal Weight Loss Plan at Coursera Course details
- 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.
Designing Your Personal Weight Loss Plan at Coursera Curriculum
Week 1
Welcome from Mary Beth Kavanagh, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Determining Your Goal Weight
How and When to Weigh Yourself
Making a Plan for Exercise
Disclaimer
An Introduction to SMART Goals
A Note About Assignments
CWRU Wellness Initiative Participants
Daily Weight Record Worksheet
Measuring Intensity of Exercise
High-Intensity Interval Training
Week 2
Nutrition
Calories and Food Groups
Grocery Shopping and Nutrition Labels
UPDATE: SuperTracker Discontinued
Planning to Grocery Shop
Grocery Shopping When Hungry
Week 3
Strategies for Eating Out
Identifying Support and Self-Monitoring
Tips for Dining Out
Research on Restaurant Meals and Dining with Others
SuperTracker References
Self-Weighing in Weight Management
Week 4
Triggers That Get You Off Track
How Are You Doing So Far?
Healthy Living: Sleep
The Non-Diet Diet
Triggers That Get You Off Track
Week 5
Relapse Prevention
Planning to Stay with Your Plans
Behaviors for Successful Weight Loss
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