Tools
5AsT Toolkit
Translated into 6 different languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, & Portuguese), these tools can be used by healthcare providers to have collaborative conversations with their patients about their journey with weight.
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Patient Decision Making Tool
This tool can be used to record the patient's strengths and challenges according to the 4Ms
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Expectation Gap
The following tool can be used by providers to help explain weight regulation. It includes diagrams and some helpful explanations of factors involved in satiation, digestion, and energy intake
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Obesity Fact Sheet
The following tool can be given to patients to provide some foundational information about obesity.
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Weight Regulation
The following tool can be used by providers to help explain weight regulation. It includes diagrams and some helpful explanations of factors involved in satiation, digestion, and energy intake
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Stress and Eating
This tool can be given to patients to help explain the link between stress and eating.
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Sustaining Change
This tool can be given to patients to help sustain the changes they make by helping them plan for bumps or challenges they may encounter along the way.
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4Ms for Interdisciplinary Team Weight Management Care
This pamphlet provides healthcare professionals with key messaging to support assessment of root causes for obesity according to the 4Ms (Mechanical, Metabolic, Mental, and Social Milieu).
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4Ms Desktop Cards
This set of cards can be used during weight management consultations, to help cue the patient about possible root causes for their obesity.
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Medications & Weight Gain
The following card can be used when considering less obesogenic medications for patients.
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Physical Activity Guide
This guide provides helpful information for providers about physical activity recommendations
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What's Driving Your Hunger
This tool can be given to patients to help explain the drivers for hunger
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