Manage Your Weight

Managing your weight is about taking control of your health. By taking action and making healthier choices, you improve your self esteem, reduce your stress level, improve your ability to concentrate and perform, and decrease your risk for chronic disease.

These health benefits will not go unnoticed by others. By working towards and achieving your Weight Wise goals, you inspire your family and friends to make their own healthy choices. And that is the goal of Capital Health's Weight Wise initiative: to develop role models for healthy weights – for healthy lives.

No matter which food plan or diet you choose, Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating provides the basic steps to eating balanced meals, which helps to ward off diseases and illnesses linked to diet and weight management.

To support your Weight Wise lifestyle change, the following resources and tools give you the information you need to achieve your weight management goals. Topics include information on Body Mass Index (BMI), waist circumference and obesity, managing your weight through nutrition and physical activity, and information on programs and services through Capital Health's Weight Wise initiative aimed to help you achieve your weight management goals.