For You
CONTRAVE dosage card
For Your Patients
Support Program Information
Experience CONTRAVE patient leaflet
Experience CONTRAVE Patient Video
CONTRAVE® dosing
Dosing instructions for patients
Useful information, recommended dosing, and other important safety information to consider with CONTRAVE® as a part of your weight management journey.
Nutrition
Nutrition — Planning ahead
Newsletter on nutrition and meal planning.
Nutrition — Building blocks
Newsletter on building fast, fun meals!
Food tracking and journaling
Newsletter with a food tracker and journaling tips to help keep you on track.
Beyond the scale — Counting quality over quantity
Newsletter on what makes up calories with tips on improving your calorie quality.
Applying easy nutrition concepts
Jennifer Brown, a dietitian specializing in obesity and nutrition, demonstrates 3 nutrition approaches to weight management: good, better, best; 80/20; and the balanced plate approach.
Meal timing: Using 80/20; good, better, best; and balanced plate concepts
In this follow-up video, Jennifer Brown, a dietitian specializing in obesity and nutrition, offers concrete examples of how you can put these concepts into practice in your everyday life.
Debunking nutrition myths
Exploring bread, sweeteners and low-carb diets, Jennifer Brown, a dietitian specializing in obesity and nutrition, helps us separate fact from fiction.
Activity
It’s your move
Newsletter on ideas to get active and to counter setbacks.
Seated chair exercise circuit
Exercise from the comfort of your chair!
Mild/moderate exercise video
Moderate intensity exercise video.
Lifestyle
Action plan sheet
To be completed with your healthcare professional to help you set lifestyle and diet goals and implement your action plan throughout your weight management journey.
Create a healthier kitchen
Newsletter offering simple tips to help create a healthy kitchen.
Secrets of the shopping cart
Newsletter with ideas on food choices at the supermarket, keeping a list, and reading food labels.
Tips for staying on track
Newsletter on how to keep up with your healthy habits and maintain motivation to stay on track.
Sleep and weight management
Newsletter focusing on the importance of sleep and how it may impact weight management.
Hydrate to help with hunger pangs
Newsletter on hydration with handy tips on how you can stay hydrated every day.
Stress and weight management
Newsletter on how stress may play a role in weight management.
All hands on deck — Enlisting family support
Newsletter on recruiting your family to help support you throughout your weight management journey.
Understanding obesity
Dr. Shahebina Walji, from the Calgary Weight Management Centre, helps us understand what may determine our body weight.
Motivation
The role of motivation in weight management
Dr. Stephen Stotland, a psychologist specializing in weight management, describes the role motivation plays in weight management and provides valuable and practical tips to help motivate you.
Helping make and sustain desired behavioural changes
Dr. Stephen Stotland, a psychologist specializing in weight management, focuses on how you can change your behaviours rather than change your weight.
Mindful eating
5-Minute guided mindful eating meditation
Sandra Elia, a counsellor dedicated to helping people change their relationship with food, offers a 5-minute guided meditation to counter mindless eating.
Plan for setbacks
Sandra Elia, a counsellor dedicated to helping people change their relationship with food, identifies setbacks and high-risk times, and provides tips to help avoid and get through those times.
Mindful eating and weight management
Sandra Elia, a counsellor dedicated to helping people change their relationship with food, offers practical methods to counter mindless eating through the power of meditation.
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