title: The obese patient.
abstract: For motivated obese patients, the three main strategies to achieve weight reduction are appropriate dietary advice, counselling, and regular review, which are maintained even after the goal weight has been reached. The patient's limited objectives should include gradual weight reduction and eating less of the food they normally enjoy.
authors.affiliation: WA Faculty of the Family Medicine Programme.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kaczmarczyk
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*