Description
Title: Motivating Patients for Healthy Weight Loss
Speaker: Dr. Mary Choi
In this presentation Dr. Choi talks to us about the The Obesity Epidemic and how the The Caloric Deception is showing us the need to look outside of this narrow thinking of managing weight loss. Dr. Choi brings together metabolism – Hormones, Food, Stress, Microbiome, Genetics, Psychology and how all of this contributes to weight, hunger, appetite and our food choices and satiety. And the Mind and Willpower to outline how insights into decision making, habit change and food psychology can support our patients with sustainable behaviour change. Dr Chois also shares her Top Secret – Tool Box of: blood tests, case management, clinical questions and motivational interviewing, clinical pearls for weight loss and behaviour change.
Learning objectives:
- To understand the obesity epidemic and it’s clinical implications
- Understanding the caloric deception.
- To understand the biochemical actors in the metabolism of weight loss., energy assimilation, energy storage, appetite and satiety.
- To understand how to motivate and create behavior change and support patients with weight loss.
- Clinical cases and applications
