Nursing Management: Obesity

The nurse is developing a weight loss plan for a young adult patient who is morbidly obese. Which of the following statements by the nurse is most likely to help the patient in losing weight on the planned calorie-reduced diet?

A. It will be necessary to change lifestyle habits permanently to maintain weight loss.

B. You will decrease your risk for future health problems such as diabetes by losing weight now.

C. Most of the weight that you lose during the first weeks of dieting is water weight rather than fat.

D. You are likely to start to notice changes in how you feel with just a few weeks of diet and exercise.

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