Lifestyle Weight Management
Comprehensive online training course including step-by-step video PowerPoint lectures and non-proctored online exam.
Just $127
Earn this respected credential: Lifestyle and Weight Management Specialist
Lifestyle coaching and weight management services are big business. You will quickly increase your job and career opportunities when you become a Lifestyle and Weight Management Specialist.
Accelerated and comprehensive online training course
After you earn this credential, you will enjoy an exciting and rewarding career helping people live a healthy and happy life!
Through our step-by-step professional lifestyle and weight management training program, you will take control of your fitness career, and help your clients achieve their weight loss or weight management goals using the latest proven strategies.
You will also learn about stress and its relationship to weight management. Stress has become a major influential factor in many of your client’s well-being and overall health. Stress can lead to a many challenges including weight gain, higher cholesterol, and compromised immune function.
In many cases, your clients will greatly benefit from both personal training and lifestyle and weight management coaching. If an individual has more experience with exercise and lacks strategy or motivation for proper weight management, they may be a candidate for more weight management coaching, rather than fitness training, yet both can be offered.
With our lifestyle and weight management program, you will learn proven strategies to reduce and manage stress, and promote a healthy, active lifestyle. You’ll also learn to teach lifestyle management programs to a wide range of clients.
What’s Missing with traditional fitness training programs and diets?
Medical science now understands the important role of diet in optimal health and disease prevention. Yet something is missing.
Obesity, overeating, pain because of body image, emotional challenges with food, digestive ailments, fatigue and nutrition-linked metabolic disorders are with us more than ever. Clearly, our collective approach to nutritional health and happiness isn’t working. It’s time for a new way of seeing things. As a Lifestyle & Weight Management Specialist, you bridge the gap and make a difference.
Your Course Outline
Session 1: Healthy Eating
Session 2: Assessing your Client
Session 3: Setting Goals and Rewards
Session 4: Identifying Obstacles, Barriers and Benefits
Session 5: Tackling Triggers
Session 6: Eating Out
Session 7: Self Talk and Reflection
Session 8: Healthy Shopping Strategies
Session 9: Recruiting Support
Session 10: Re-Assessing Your Client
Session 11: Getting Back on Track
Session 12: Cooking up a Healthy Diet
Session 13: Dietary Supplements and Fad Diets
Session 14: Balancing Calories and Physical Activity
Session 15: Controlling Weight
Session 16: Managing Time and Stress
Session 17: Staying Motivated
Session 18: Eating in a Changing World
Session 19: Planning Ahead
Session 20: Celebrating Success
You will be given the tools to SUPPORT, GIVE FEEDBACK, CARE, UNDERSTAND, GUIDE and PROVIDE OPTIONS for your client’s Lifestyle & Weight Management SUCCESS!
I became a NESTA Lifestyle & Weight Management Specialist because I wanted high-level skills and new career options.
Lifestyle & Weight Management Specialist Details
Continuing Education Units: NESTA 1.5 CEUs, ISSA 10 CEUs, 1.5 Spencer Institute
Recertification Requirements: None. Certificate does not expire
Prerequisites: None
Learning Format: Online format of materials including video PowerPoint lectures and non-proctored online exam. Internet access is required. Content is provided in an online format which is accessed through an online secure website.
Once your register, you will be directed to create your student account. You may begin your studies immediately after registering, or log in to your student account later to start your studies. You can test when you are ready.
You may take up to one year to complete the program, and review the materials as often as you like. You will immediately know the results after you take your test. Most students finish within 1 – 2 weeks.
The only technology you will need is an Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash video player. Both of these are installed on 98% of all computers.
If needed, they are FREE: Get Adobe Reader or Get Adobe Flash player
Additional Resource (OPTIONAL)
As an additional resource, we recommend “Healthy Eating Every Day”, by Ruth Ann Carpenter and Carrie E. Finley (Authors). This can be purchased at any online bookstore.
Please note that “Healthy Eating Every Day” IS NOT A REQUIRED TEXTBOOK for this course. This is only a recommendation for those who would like an additional resource on the subject matter. Only the course materials included below are required and covered in the exam.
Exam Requirement: Passing a 100 multiple choice, non-proctored online exam with 80% or higher. Two attempts at the exam are given. Results are known immediately.
Retest Fee: $95 retest fee applies if the passing requirement is not met at the end of the second exam attempt.
Completion Time: Approximately 20 hours of study (complete within one year of purchase)
Earn the title of “Lifestyle & Weight Management Specialist”
