Weight Management in Health and Disease: A Case Study Analysis

Running head: CASE STUDY ANALYSIS
WEIGHT MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS1
Introduction
Weight management is a controlled and continuous process which helps individuals to
manage their increasing weight and provides them with the ability so that they could control
their increasing weight with effective and critical weight management strategies (Duncan et
al., 2017). As per Rutledge and Demark-Wahnefried (2016), with proper balanced nutrition
and maintained caloric consumption, it is possible to control or maintain a certain
anthropometric measurement, so that all the healthcare complication associated with
increased weight and obesity could be controlled.
This particular report would include the case analysis of Christine (35) and through
her anthropometric measurements and food and dietary analysis her weight management case
situation would be presented. Further, through the use of FoodWorks program, her dietary
consumptions would be analysed through macro and micro nutrients calculation. Finally,
short term and long term goals for her weight management has also been developed and a
new weight management plan would be developed so that the weight management could be
successfully obtained.
Case study of Christine
Christine (35) is a mother of two children of 12 and 8 years respectively. She works
as a part time librarian in the primary school of her children and she works there for two
weekdays. It was mentioned in the case study that Christine has been diagnosed as a patient
of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) as well as hypertension and has a family
history of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) or other heart complications as her father died of
myocardial infarction. Her weight management disrupted after the birth of her elder son
Thomas as she was unable to lose her pregnancy fat afterwards. Currently she follows Weight
Watchers “Freestyle” program and has lost 1.5 Kgs in two months. However, she is unable to

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS2
control her food and dietary preferences and faces overeating associated complication. She
sleeps 6 hours average, weighs 95 Kgs, height 170 cm, slightly increased blood pressure
138/90 mmHg and 110 cm hip circumference.
Christine’s BMI
BMI or Body Mass Index is the calculation of the body fat that is decided based upon
the height and weight of the individual so that their weight and body fat measurement could
be obtained (Locke et al., 2015). For this calculation, the weight of the individual (in
kilograms) is divided by the height (in meter square) and through this calculation, their body
fat percentage is calculated (Di Angelantonio et al., 2016). The BMI calculated for Christine
is 32.9 Kg/ meter square. As per the Australian Government’s Department of health (2019), if
any person has BMI more than 30, then the person should be considered obese and as per
these calculations, the ideal weight range for Christine would be 70 to 75 Kg.
Current diet appraisal (Foodzone)
While critically discussing the diet and nutritional intake of Christine for three days
(weekend, working weekday and non-working day), her food intake, macro and micro
nutrient consumption and fat division should be considered. As per the dietary analysis of
Christine conducted in the Foodzone program, it was found that throughout these days, the
patients consumes total 7749.8 KJ of calories in non-working weekdays, 8098 KJ calories on
a working weekday whereas 9309.2 KJ calories on weekend. As mentioned in Nutrition
Australia (2019), healthy female within the age 31 to 50 years, height 170 cm and weight 63
to 65 Kg should consume 8000 KJ of calories every day and due to this, it could be said that
she consumes more than her caloric requirements and hence, this should be one aspect which
should be controlled. Further, while discussing her macronutrient consumption, it was seen
that 36.6% of her daily energy requirement comes from carbohydrate whereas 15% comes