Enhance your expertise and become a weight loss consultant with this course. It will provide lots of information and guide you through how to improve people’s health, wellbeing and weight loss journey.
Develop your understanding, help your clients achieve weight loss results and promote healthy habits.
Course Structure
The duration of this online course is 100 hours. This consists of 8 in-depth lessons:
Lesson 1: Scope and Nature of Weight Loss
- 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 Programmes
- Meal Replacement Products
- Pharmacotherapy
- Surgery for Weight Loss
Lesson 2: Managing Physical Activity
- 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
Lesson 3: Managing the Diet
- 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
Lesson 4: Managing the Psychology
- Eating and Emotions
- The Brain and Weight Management
- Managing the Psychology
- Helping People to Make Changes
- Stages of Change Explained -Pre contemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance, Relapse
Lesson 5: Tools for the Consultant
- Determining Weight Status of Clients
- Administering Weight Checks
- Calculating BMI
- Interpreting BMI
- Setting Targets
- Determining Waist Measurement
- Health Evaluation
- Nutritional Advice
- Running Supermarket Tours
- Food Labels
Lesson 6: Delivering Weight Loss Services
- Individual Consultations
- Features of an Ideal One to One Consultation
- Good Questioning Skills
- Running Group Sessions
- Running Independent 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
Lesson 7: Conducting a Weight Loss Consultation
- The Nest Step
- Target Marketing
- Demand
- Competition
- Location
- PBL Project -A major project
Lesson 8: Establishing a Weight Loss Business
- 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
The aims of this course are:
- Explain the role and qualities of a weight loss consultant.
- Understand contributing factors that cause weight gain and obesity like genetics, lifestyle, medical conditions and life stages.
- Recommend effective nutrition, physical activity and strategies in order to achieve healthy and sustainable weight loss outcomes.
- Assess clients’ weight status using weight and health markers to evaluate and develop a personalised weight management plan.
- Investigate ways to expand a weight loss consultation service. Explain how to brand yourself and start working with new clients.
- Apply psychological and motivational techniques to support clients in achieving long term weight management goals.
- Develop a professional weight loss consultancy service while promoting ethical and evidence based practice’s.
HOW DOES A WARNBOROUGH ONLINE COURSE WORK?
You can start the course whenever it is convenient for you. You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
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