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Partnering with your health care provider, rather than trying to lose weight on your own, may help your chances of success. Take this short quiz to find out how much you know about the role your health care provider can play in your weight management. Most people have no problem maintaining weight loss once they achieve it. Correct! Maintaining a healthy weight is difficult because of how the body responds to weight loss. Only 1 in 10 people is able to keep weight off for more than 1 year. Partnering with your health care provider may help you achieve success. If you want to find a health care provider who specializes in weight management, use the Obesity Care Provider tool on this website. Oops! Not quite. In fact, only 1 in 10 people is able to keep weight off for more than 1 year. How the body responds to weight loss makes it difficult to maintain, but partnering with your health care provider may help you achieve success. If you want to find a health care provider who specializes in weight management, use the Obesity Care Provider tool on this website. Most health care providers believe they shouldn’t need to actively contribute to a patient’s weight-loss efforts. Correct! In fact, 7 in 10 health care providers believe that they should actively contribute to their patient’s weight-loss efforts. You may find that your health care provider has not been as proactive as you’d like. When this happens, it can be helpful to make the first step. If you'd like to find a provider near you who specializes in weight management, the Obesity Care Provider tool on this website can help. Oops! Not quite, 7 in 10 health care providers believe that they should actively contribute to their patient's weight-loss effort. You may find that your health care provider has not been as proactive as you'd like. When this happens, it can be helpful to make the first step. If you'd like to find a provider near you who specializes in weight management, the Obesity Care Provider tool on this website can help. People who partner with a health care provider can lose 5x more weight than those who follow a self-directed program. Correct! Advice from health care providers has been proven to have a positive impact on weight-management efforts. In 1 study, people who partnered with a health care provider lost 5x more weight than those who did not. While healthy eating and physical activity are important, they may not be enough to keep weight off. You can help manage this by adding on other types of treatment, such as counseling, prescription medicines, or bariatric surgery that can help make your plan even more effective. Oops! Not quite. There was 1 study that showed people who partnered with a health care provider lost 5x more weight than those who did not. Advice from health care providers has been proven to have a positive impact on weight-management efforts. You can also talk to your health care provider about different types of treatment, including counseling, prescription medicines that have proven to be effective for weight loss, or bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery is the only medical treatment option available to help people manage excess weight. Correct! There are treatment options today to help people with excess weight including lifestyle changes and prescription medicines. Since weight loss can slow down metabolism and impact appetite hormones that make you feel hungrier and less full, adding a prescription medicine that can help decrease appetite or increase fullness may be an option. You and your health care provider can explore treatment options to develop a weight-management plan that works for you. The TrueWeight® Report on this website can help you start the conversation. Oops! Not quite. Bariatric surgery is not the only option to manage excess weight. Since weight loss can slow down metabolism and impact appetite hormones that make you feel hungrier and less full, adding a prescription medicine that can help decrease appetite or increase fullness may be an option. There are several prescription medicines for weight loss and weight management that have been proven effective in clinical trials. Use the TrueWeight® Report on this website to start the conversation and develop a plan that's right for you. There are many treatment options available that can help people lose excess weight. Correct! There are many prescription medicines for weight loss and weight management. After being studied in clinical trials, these treatments have been proven to be effective. Talk to your health care provider about whether they are right for you and develop a weight-management plan together. Oops, not quite. There are several prescription medicines for weight loss and weight management. Although healthy eating and physical activity are important, they may not be enough to keep the weight off for some. You can discuss whether they are right for you with your health care provider.