Nutrition services

Weight loss classes

• Weight loss – What works webinar: This one-time, one-hour live webinar discusses the essentials to weight management

• Nutrition boot camp: This 4-week class provides guidance, meal plans, and support to jump start your weight loss and exercise. The program is very structured and requires attendance of all four sessions. Participation requires weekly reporting of weight and physical activity.
  
  

Heart health

• Mediterranean diet class: The Mediterranean diet has been shown to help manage cardiovascular risk and inflammation that occurs with many conditions. This one hour live virtual class is lead by a registered dietitian. Make a difference to your health and find out about resources that can help you.

Prediabetes

• Healthy connections class: This is a CDC (Center for Disease Control) accredited program for diabetes prevention and weight loss. Each class series meets weekly (virtually) for 16 weeks consecutive weeks. Upon completion monthly support groups are recommended to continue with the progress.

• Prediabetes class: This one-hour webinar discusses prediabetes and lifestyle.

Diabetes

• Learn to take charge class: Featuring two virtual 60 minute sessions. You will learn about daily self-care, managing blood sugar and making wise food choices.

Health coaching by phone:
Our coaches are health educators with expertise in preventive health care and behavior-change counseling. They don’t tell you what to do – they use your goals to create a customized action plan and help you discover techniques that work for you. Wellness coaching can help you:

• Achieve a healthy weight
• Become more active
• Reduce stress
• Eat healthier
  

Schedule a 1:1 phone or video appointment with a registered dietitian. You may schedule this appointment online by logging into kp.org, select Appointments, then Schedule appointment, then select Nutrition Services/Dietitian. Dates and time listed are for the first available telephone or video appointment. Please not location is not an issue as these are all virtual appointments. In person office appointments are available upon request. Please call (303) 614-1070.

• A healthy weight for you: Strategies for success 
• Weight loss by limiting calories
• Boosting your metabolism
• Developing a plan

If you thrive in a group along with others working on similar goals we offer Kaiser Permanente members a variety of workshops online to support you. For one-on-one support, you can choose to work with a wellness coach on the phone to set goals for healthy, lasting change.

• Weight Management Classes: Taught by Registered Dietitians. Classes are live and offered virtually (online). To schedule, please visit kp.org/classes or call 303-614-1070. The following classes are offered: Weight Loss – What Works Webinar, Nutrition Boot Camp and Healthy Connections.
• Health coaching by phone:
  Our coaches are health educators with expertise in preventive health care and behavior-change counseling. They don’t tell you what to do – they use your goals to create a customized action plan and help you discover techniques that work for you. Wellness coaching can help you:
  • Achieve a healthy weight
  • Become more active
  • Reduce stress
  • Eat healthier

• Weight-loss medicines
• Nonprescription products for weight loss
• Help with your medicine

Bariatric surgery is surgery to help you to lose weight. This type of surgery is only used for people who are very overweight and have not been able to lose weigh with diet and exercise. Learn more by clicking the links below:

• Weight-loss (Bariatric) surgery
• Healthy eating after metabolic and bariatric surgery: Post-surgery meal plan
  
• Metabolic and bariatric surgery: Vitamin and mineral supplement guide 
• Cross addiction and bariatric surgery 
• Birth control and pregnancy with bariatric surgery 

Binge eating is an eating disorder. People who have it eat large amounts of food ina short time. They binge eat regularly for several months. They may feel out of control and eat until they are painfully full.

• Binge eating disorder 
• Emotional eating
• HALT self-check 
• Weight management: Stop negative thoughts
   

Find information that teaches the foundation of healthy eating habits and understanding what and when to eat:

• Healthy eating
• Five ingredients for healthy eating
• Healthy eating: Making healthy choices when you eat out
• Healthy eating: Creating a healthy plate 
• What's in your drink? 
• What's in your snack? 
• Healthy eating: Recognizing your hunger signals
• Healthy eating: Resisting temptation in social situations

• Quick tips: Making fast, healthy meals
  
• Sample of a healthy shopping list 
  
• Meal planning
  
• Using the healthy plate for any cuisine 
  
• What can $10 buy? 
   

Plant based eating is eating a variety of foods grown from plants including fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, grains and seeds. It can help you limit the amount of animal-based products you eat and can be a healthy approach to eating

• Plant-based eating: Using the healthy plate to eat well 
  
• Vegetarian diets
  
• Learning about a vegan diet
  
• Non-milk sources of calcium
   

Nutrients are substances in food that provide energy or that help your body work as it should. Nutrients are used to build and repair body tissues. Macronutrients are the main sources of energy (calories) found in the foods you eat.

• Learning about carbohydrates
  
• Eating protein
  
• Types of fats
  
• Learning about foods with healthy fats
   

These support overall health, disease prevention and wellbeing.

• Vitamins: Their functions and sources
• Minerals: Their functions and sources
• Learning about high-phosphorus foods
• Learning about high-iron foods
• How to read a food label to limit sodium: Care instructions
• Learning about low-sodium foods
  
• Learning about high-potassium foods
• Learning about low-potassium foods
• Learning about high-vitamin D foods
• Learning about high-calcium foods
• Consistent vitamin K diet: Care instructions