Obesity and Weight Loss

Multiple Choice

Someone loses 10lbs of fat in one month. How many extra calories did they have to burn to do that?

• 3,500

• 35,000

• 10,000

Open Ended

When someone loses weight (bodyfat), how do you think that weight "leaves" the body? For example, if someone loses 1lb of fat in one week, where did all that weight go?

Open Ended

Why do you think it is considered unhealthy to be overweight? What do you think it does to the body to be overweight or obese?

Open Ended

What do you think classifies someone as "normal," "overweight," or "obese?" How does a healthcare professional decide what category someone is in?

Open Ended

How do you think Body Mass Index (BMI) would be a helpful metric (measurement)? What might it generally tell us about a group of people, like residents of the state of Alabama?

Open Ended

Body Mass Index (BMI) is calculated by dividing weight by height. Name 1 or 2 types of individuals whose health you think might not be accurately represented by their BMI.

Open Ended

How do you think we could quickly and easily measure how much visceral fat someone has?

Open Ended

In addition to waist-to-hip ratio, what are some other metrics (measurements) that you think would reliably tell us if someone is healthy or at risk of serious health conditions?

Open Ended

What does it mean to be in a caloric deficit? How could one achieve that?

Multiple Choice

If you someone is in a 500 calorie deficit every day for a week, how much weight would you expect them to lose?

• 0.5 lbs

• 1 lb

• 1.5 lbs

• 2 lbs

Multiple Choice

I someone wanted to eat at a 400 calorie deficit every day, how many grams of carbohydrates could they cut out to accomplish this?

• 100

• 3,500

• 400

• 4,000

Open Ended

How do you think we burn most of our calories in a day? What uses the most energy?

Multiple Choice

What burns the SECOND most amount of calories in a day?

• Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

• Thermic Effect of Food (TEF)

• Exercise Activity (EAT)

• Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT)

Multiple Choice

Which macronutrient has the highest TEF?

• Carbohydrates

• Fat

• Fiber

• Protein

Open Ended

What do you think happens to the way one's body burns calories as they lose weight? Does it go up? Down? Stay the same? What else do you think happens during weight loss?

Fill in the Blanks

When someone loses weight, the weight leaves the body as water and ______ ______.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is required for weight loss?

• Eating less

• Caloric surplus

• Caloric deficit

• Exercise