Designing Your Personal Weight Loss Plan, Certificate | Part time online | Coursera | United States
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About

This 5 week Designing Your Personal Weight Loss Plan course offered by Coursera in partnership with Case Western Reserve University will guide learners through the essential steps in planning an individualized weight loss program. 

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Overview

There is no guarantee of weight loss through completing the course; learners will have the framework and essential components for an evidence-based weight loss program. This Designing Your Personal Weight Loss Plan course offered by Coursera in partnership with Case Western Reserve University is intended for healthy adults who do not have any chronic disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, lung disease or any others. In addition, this course does not provide information for people who have food allergies or intolerances.

Key facts

Losing weight and keeping it off requires planning and goal-setting. Crash diets or fad diets are ineffective and can be dangerous. This course provides evidence-based information for planning a weight loss program that is safe and effective in producing a one to two pound loss per week.

This course will help learners establish the following: 

  • A realistic goal weight with a specific plan for rate of weight loss and time frame for achieving goal weight.
  • A realistic goal for the frequency, duration, and intensity of exercise that will enable the learner to achieve and maintain the goal weight.
  • A specific set of strategies for grocery shopping, eating in restaurants, eating at social occasions, and dealing with hunger and emotional eating.
  • A plan for monitoring food intake, exercise and weight loss.
  • A plan for continued evaluation of progress to goals and strategies for adjusting goals for continued weight loss for the next 6 months or longer.
  • A thorough understanding of the difficulty of maintaining weight loss and a plan for maximizing the chances of keeping off the weight lost.

Programme Structure

This course will help learners establish the following: 

  • A realistic goal weight with a specific plan for rate of weight loss and time frame for achieving goal weight.
  • A realistic goal for the frequency, duration, and intensity of exercise that will enable the learner to achieve and maintain the goal weight.
  • A specific set of strategies for grocery shopping, eating in restaurants, eating at social occasions, and dealing with hunger and emotional eating.
  • A plan for monitoring food intake, exercise and weight loss.
  • A plan for continued evaluation of progress to goals and strategies for adjusting goals for continued weight loss for the next 6 months or longer.
  • A thorough understanding of the difficulty of maintaining weight loss and a plan for maximizing the chances of keeping off the weight lost.

Key information

Duration

  • Part-time
    • 1 months
    • 3 hrs/week

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

Language

English

Delivered

Online
  • Self-paced

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

  • Beginner level
  • No previous experience necessary

Tuition Fee

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  • International

    Free
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    Based on the tuition of 0 USD for the full programme during 1 months.
  • National

    Free
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    Based on the tuition of 0 USD for the full programme during 1 months.

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Funding

Coursera provides financial aid to learners who cannot afford the fee. Apply for it by clicking on the Financial Aid link beneath the "Enroll" button on the left. You’ll be prompted to complete an application and will be notified if you are approved.

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