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Your Best Health: Adult Weight Management

What you’ll learn about

Making changes, especiall​y when it comes to health and weight, isn’t easy. It’s normal that you may be ready to make some changes and not ready for others. There are many reasons you may or may not be ready to make a change. Maybe there are too many other priorities in your life right now, or maybe you just need a break from making changes for a while. When you’re ready come back and start the next section.

Before you start each new change, ask yourself these questions:

  • With everything else going on in my life, is this a good time to start this?
  • Is this something that’s important to me?
  • Am I confident that this is something I’ll do?

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll learn in each section:

Your best health
Am I ready?
Eating well for weight and health
Move everyday
Sleep well
Medicines
Bariatric surgery

Use the information in this learning module to help you move forward in your journey to manage your weight. Once you’ve finished going through all the sections, you’ll find a final section that has a list of resources that might help you. Talk to your healthcare provider about your goals and your progress or challenges along the way.​​​​​​