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Weight management for clients

Use the Clients Weight Management tab to plan a client's weight goal based on caloric intake and expenditure. After opening or adding a client, complete the following steps:

  1. Click .
    • The current date and the unit of measure appear in the Measured weights area.
    • The date appears in the Date field.
  2. Type the client's current weight in the Weight field.
    • Click to remove the date and weight from the Measured weights area.
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In order to calculate caloric expenditure the client's weight must be entered in the Weight field.

  1. Complete the Caloric intake area.

a. Click Diet or Menu.

b. Select a diet or menu from the list.

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These selections are from the client's diet or menu and populate the caloric intake with the Daily kilocalories amount for that diet or menu. The Daily kilocalories field can be manually overwritten.

  1. Complete the Caloric expenditure area.

a. The Nutrient goal kilocalories field contains information from the client's Nutrient Goal tab.

b. Select an Exercise set from the list.

c. Nutritionist Pro calculates the Daily kilocalories based on the sum of the Nutrient goal kilocalories and Kcal expenditure from the selected Exercise set. Selecting an Exercise set is optional.

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The Daily kilocalories field can be manually overwritten.

  1. Complete the Weight projection area.

a. Type the client's Initial weight and the corresponding date.

b. Type the client's Target weight.

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Nutritionist Pro calculates the Target date and Estimated change fields.

  1. Click to save the information in the Clients editor, including the client's exercise sets.
    • Select File/Save As to save the file under a new name.