Weight Management Flashcards
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A 52-year-old client loses 15 pounds but plateaus for six weeks despite unchanged adherence. What is the most appropriate first counseling response?
Answer: Reassess energy needs and adjust intake or activity for the new lower body weight
Weight loss lowers energy requirements, so plans must be recalibrated to the client's new TDEE before assuming nonadherence.
Which medication class, now widely used for chronic weight management, works by mimicking an incretin hormone that slows gastric emptying and reduces appetite?
Answer: GLP-1 receptor agonists
GLP-1 receptor agonists such as semaglutide reduce appetite and slow gastric emptying, producing significant weight loss.
A client with a BMI of 24 insists on losing 20 more pounds and shows rigid food rules and intense fear of gaining. What is the counselor's priority?
Answer: Screen for an eating disorder and refer appropriately
Normal-weight clients with rigid rules and weight fear warrant eating disorder screening before any weight loss support.
During menopause, which physiological shift most directly contributes to increased abdominal fat deposition in female clients?
Answer: Declining estrogen levels
Falling estrogen shifts fat storage toward the visceral abdominal region and modestly lowers energy expenditure.
A shift worker struggles with weight gain linked to eating late at night and sleeping five hours. Which mechanism best explains the sleep-weight connection?
Answer: Short sleep raises ghrelin and lowers leptin, increasing hunger
Sleep restriction elevates ghrelin and suppresses leptin, driving increased hunger and preference for energy-dense foods.
Which resistance training benefit is most relevant to counteracting the metabolic slowdown that accompanies caloric restriction?
Answer: Preservation of lean muscle mass
Resistance training preserves metabolically active lean mass, limiting the drop in resting energy expenditure during dieting.
A client using a food diary consistently under-reports intake by about 30%, a pattern documented in research. How should a counselor best address this?
Answer: Normalize under-reporting and add objective aids like measuring tools or photos
Under-reporting is a well-documented universal bias, best handled non-judgmentally with portion tools and photo logging.