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• Aim for a Healthy Weight

  These web pages provide information and tools to help you reach and maintain a healthy weight.  Includes resources for health care professionals to assist in assessing and treating overweight and obese patients.

  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

• Calorie Connect

  Registration Required

  This online wellness service helps you track your food and exercise habits and provides you with personalized food consumption information, exercise data, and analytical charts and tables to help you make positive choices about your physical health and well being.

  Calorie Connect

• CalorieKing

  Cost Associated

  Registration Required

  This website is a comprehensive guide to weight management that helps you track your diet and change your habits.  In addition to its database of 70,000 foods, CalorieKing offers a food and exercise diary, practical help and tips, step-by-step guidance, interactive goal setting, and motivation and support from the CalorieKing community.  A program for physicians is also available.

  CalorieKing

• ChooseMyPlate.gov

  ChooseMyPlate.gov from the USDA illustrates the five food groups that are the building blocks for a healthy diet and provides tools for diet/calorie tracking and information on weight management, physical activity, and healthy eating. Some materials available in Spanish.

  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• Daily Burn

  Registration Required

  This resource helps you by providing nutritional tracking tools and fitness plans to help you reach your weight goals.

  Daily Burn

• Kids 'N Fitness

  Cost Associated

  Registration Required

  This in-person weight management program educates overweight children and their parents about nutrition and physical activity through interactive sessions.

  Children's Hospital Los Angeles

• Lose It!

  Registration Required

  Lose It! is a smart phone app that helps you set goals and achieve them through tracking your daily calories, habits, and exercise.

  FitNow, Inc.

• Make Your Calories Count

  This interactive learning program helps you plan a healthful diet using nutrition labels while managing calorie intake.

  U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

• MOVE!

  This national weight management program is designed to help veterans lose weight, keep it off, and improve their health.  The materials available on this website can also be used to help non-VA patients manage their weight. En español

  U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA)

• MyPlate

  Registration Required

  This online calorie counter and food journal allows you to set your weight loss goals, track your daily caloric intake, and log your fitness activities.

  Livestrong

• MyPlate D

  Registration Required

  This online tracking tool will help you manage your diabetes by tracking your nutritional intake and monitoring your blood glucose and insulin usage.  It also provides nutritionist-approved diabetic recipes and support from other members.

  Livestrong

• Trim Kids

  Cost Associated

  This book gives parents and children a positive, safe initial approach to lifetime weight management.

  Trim Kids

• Virtual Lifestyle Management

  Cost Associated

  This interactive weight management program is designed for health care provider organizations that wish to improve the overall health of obese and sedentary adult patients through increased physical activity and proper nutrition.

  DPS Health

• Vtrim Online

  Cost Associated

  Registration Required

  This online weight management program combines proven scientific research with online technology.  It is ideal for motivated individuals, as well as motivated employers and their teams, who wish to reduce weight, improve health, and build a culture of personal well-being at home and at the workplace.

  Vtrim Online

• Watch Your Weight!/¡Cuide su peso!

  This bilingual Spanish and English booklet provides helpful steps for Hispanics/Latinos to reduce your risk of a heart attack by making healthy lifestyle changes and watching your weight. En español

  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

• Weight Watchers

  Cost Associated

  Registration Required

  This program can help you lose weight by forming helpful habits, eating smarter, getting more exercise, and providing support through in-person meetings and online resources. En español

  Weight Watchers