CREATING YOUR WEIGHT LOSS PLAN
CREATING YOUR WEIGHT LOSS PLANTRANSCRIPTTo lose weight, work with your healthcare provider to come up with a plan that is rightfor you. Your plan will include burning more calories with physical activity and eatingless calories by making healthy food choices.You can get physical activity by exercising or increasing your activity during the day.Start slowly when starting an exercise program. Eventually, you will want to do 150minutes, or 2.5 hours, of moderate activity each week.Your plan to lose weight will also cut down on the amount of calories you eat bymaking healthy food choices. Less calories in means less calories to burn. The bestchoices are foods low in calories but high in nutrients, giving your body all it needs tostay healthy.Monitor your progress by keeping a food and exercise diary, or track it in an app.Tracking your activity and the food you eat can help keep you on track and willbecome part of your daily routine. Logging how much you walk, and everything youeat, can really help to make you think before you eat that extra cookie or skip yourexercise.“It’s very easy if I don’t track it to eat more than I should, or go ‘well, you know,that piece of candy at work that’s not a problem, but three of them are theproblem.’ And if I’m tracking it, it really shows up.”Bring any logs with you to your healthcare appointments. Work with your healthcareprovider to create a plan. Following your plan will help you get on the right path tolosing weight.20% gradient meshhealthclipshealthclipshealthclipshealthclips4% gradient meshThis program is for informational purposes only. Publisher disclaims all guarantees regarding the accuracy, completeness, orsuitability of this video for medical decision making. For all health related issues please contact your healthcare provider.hc_gn_10204_98_en_t00002.pdf healthclips© Milner-Fenwick, Inc.5% gradient mesh
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