21^st Global Obesity Meeting

Weight Management

Weight management is a process which involves adopting long-term lifestyle modifications to maintain a healthy body weight. Methods of weight management include eating a healthy diet and increasing physical activity levels.

Obesity management includes lifestyle changes, surgery or medications and the main treatment for obesity consists of dieting and physical exercise. Diet programs can produce weight loss over a short period of time, but maintaining this weight loss is difficult and often requires a permanent lifestyle change which includes exercise and a low calorie diet. Weight management involves many ways to track weight over time and set ideal body weights for different individuals depending on their age, sex and height.