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Understanding your weight anatomical chart/poster
Understanding Your Weight Anatomical Chart
This chart is designed to be a visual tool that facilitates patient and health profession discussion about what to do about excess weight. In addition to explaining the why of weight gain, it provides tangible and unintimidating next steps, helping patient compliance and adherence to a weight reduction program. This visual chart discusses:
* Energy balance determines body weight.
* Factors that affect energy balance: energy intake (calories consumed) and energy expenditure (calories burned).
* Provides detail on a key factor in burning calories - metabolism - which accounts for approximately 60 75% of energy expenditure.
* Key steps on how to lose excess weight, including goal setting, making small changes and discussion other options with a physician if lifestyle changes are not sufficient
* Ways to improve diet and increase physical activity, such as recognizing eating behavior/patterns and looking for ways to be active throughout the day.
