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1. Analyze 3-day diet diaries for optimal nutritional wellness.
2. Create a personal weight loss narrative that is empowering.
3. Evaluate different diet options to select the optimal diet for your personal weight loss goal.
4. Assess personal habits and behaviors that lead to weight gain.
5. Plan a personal weight loss action program.
6. Analyze supplements that have shown benefit for weight loss.
7. Theorize the psychology behind weight loss.
8. Implement the 9 Foundations of Healthy Weight Management into your lifestyle.

Challenges of Weight Management

• Causes of weight gain: Diet-binge cycles, stress and overeating
• Common medical causes of weight gain
• Deconstructing cravings: What causes them and how to overcome them
• 80/20 nutrition: How to "treat" yourself without feeling deprived
• How to increase your metabolism naturally
• Stress and its impact on weight management

Food Restrictions Alone Almost Guarantee Diet Failure… There are Nutritional Musts for Success

• Your body's nutritional needs
• Macronutrients: Carbohydrates, proteins and fats
• Micronutrients
• Hydration and its effect on weight loss
• Hormones and their role in weight management

Diet Diaries

• Optimal diets for weight loss and why fad diets don't work
• Analyzing your diet and lifestyle diary
• Habits and behaviors that lead to weight gain
• Why are you eating when you aren't hungry?
• Why are you eating past the point of feeling full?
• Eating, weight, emotions, anxiety, depression can all go hand in hand; break the cycle!

9 Foundations of Healthy Weight Management

• Food preparation: How to make quick and convenient meals
  • Quality nutrition and food choices
• The psychology of eating: Overeating, shame and self-loathing
  • Exercise and motion
  • Sleep and recovery
• Developing successful skills for weight management
  • Restoration and stress management
• Long-term weight loss habits and mindset
• Creating a supportive environment for weight management

Supplements that are Beneficial for Weight Loss and Management

• L-Carnitine
• B12
• Green Tea / Caffeine
• Fish Oil
• CLA
• Chromium
• Adaptogens: Rhodiola, Eleuthero

Your Weight Loss Narrative - Creating a New Story

• Visualizing the ideal weight goal
• Identifying obstacles in your narrative
• Understanding the process of weight loss
  • End your unhealthy relationship with food
  • Learn to like your body image now
• Creating a new weight loss narrative

Develop Your Personal Weight Loss Action Plan

• Reasonable goal-making for weight loss
• Objective and subjective indicators of success

Vanessa Ruiz, ND, RN-BSN, is a naturopathic physician and registered nurse. After experiencing health issues stemming from a burnout as a nurse, she began studying integrative ways to help herself heal. Her interest integrative health led her to becoming a naturopathic physician with a focus on mental health, trauma and complex PTSD. She earned her Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine at Southwest College in Tempe, Arizona.

She has been featured in "A Created Life: A Journey to Empowerment" documentary and "Shoutout Arizona" for her ground-breaking work in mental health. She is a public speaker on the topic of functional medicine and mental health, teaching behavioral health professionals nationally and internationally. In addition to her clinical practice, she is the founder of Nurses for Natural Health, an organization dedicated to empowering and educating Nurses about natural health and burnout recovery. Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Vanessa Ruiz maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with AZ Trauma Institute and Essential Therapy Training. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. Dr. Ruiz serves on the advisory board for Evergreen Certifications. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Vanessa Ruiz has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations.

Certificates of Successful Completion are available for email, download and/or printing from your online account immediately following the successful completion of the post-test/evaluation.

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

Florida Nurses: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

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Other Professions
This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 clock hours of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Disclaimer: **Information obtained in this course should be used within your scope of practice.
**It is your ethical responsibility to report accurate hours to your licensing board.
**All self-study participants must complete and pass (80% or better) a post-test and evaluation prior to receiving a certificate of completion. If you require a copy of the test/evaluation for CE purposes, please print at the time you take the test. Or you may call our customer service department and a copy of your test/evaluation will be emailed to you. Please allow 30-45 days.

• Nurses