Promoting the management of weight reduction

Many people try to lose weight. Health providers who try to help these people often feel frustrated, as do the patients, because long-term success is rarely experienced, especially for those patients whose weight is a serious medical problem. A new approach is offered in which the client assumes responsibility for weight loss, and the role of the health provider is to help the client become an increasingly independent manager of his or her own weight reduction. An instrument is offered that guides the clients through the planning, conducting, and assessing of their own actions.