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Improving your overall well-being through healthy lifestyle changes can include finding your best weight.

This no longer means focusing on a number on a scale or restrictive fad diets, but instead an approach focused on overall health — both psychological and physical — that is both sustainable and satisfying. Your best weight is the one you’re at while living a healthy lifestyle that you also enjoy.

How we can help

Working collaboratively with your family doctor, members of our Health Team can support you to make healthy and sustainable lifestyle changes.

Health Management Nurse — offers strategies for healthier lifestyle habits and can help you set achievable health goals, including healthy eating, the right amount of physical activity for you and managing your stress or sleep.

Registered Dietitian  — through group workshops and one-on-one appointments, our registered dietitians offer nutrition advice and information around achieving your best weight and can help you set personal nutrition goals.

Clinical Pharmacist — reviews your medications to identify if any are contributing to your weight and discusses medications that are used for managing weight.

Related workshops

Our free group workshops may be able to support you.

  • In our Ask a Dietitian workshop, registered dietitians break down myths and offer up the real facts around achieving your best weight and how to make sustainable lifestyle changes.
  • Craving Change helps you understand the why behind food cravings, what situations, thoughts and emotions can affect your food choices and how to change those thinking habits.

Ask a Dietitian

Get answers to your food and nutrition-related questions. Our free Ask a Dietitian group workshops cover the fundamentals of cholesterol, diabetes and achieving your best weight through healthy behaviours. Along with learning from registered dietitians, you will have the chance…

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Craving Change

Find out why you eat the way you do (and what to do about it). Ever feel full but find you keep eating anyway? Do you find yourself craving certain foods at specific times or in response to specific emotions?…

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Documents

Top tips for eating healthy 

Healthy Eating Checklist

A chart to track progress on eating goals including some examples.

Monthly goal setting

Five tips for planning meals.

Meal planning

Tips for how to use leftovers.  

Making food last longer

A scale for measuring levels of hunger including the ideal zone. 

Hunger scale

Find tips on keeping food bills manageable.

Grocery shopping on a budget
Factors that influence weight

Find options for buying groceries in the city.  

Calgary grocery options

External resources

Canada's Food Guide

A breakdown of healthy eating as well as recipes and resources.

Read Canada's Food Guide

Alberta Health Services — adult weight management

Programs and services available to adult Albertans.

Alberta Health Services — adult weight management

MyHealth Alberta — weight management

Find information and resources for Albertans on healthy living. 

Weight management

Alberta Health Services — SCREEN-8 Self-Screen

A short questionnaire to determine if you could use more nutrition education and support.

SCREEN-8 questionnaire