Question

A nurse is working with a group of patients. one patient states, "my goal is to reduce my weight from 280 pounds to 230 pounds in 6 months." what response by the nurse would be most appropriate for this patient?
a. "most weight loss occurs in the first 6 months, so you should try to reduce your weight to 200 pounds."
b. "safe and maintainable weight loss should be about 10% of body weight in 6 months."
c. "that is a realistic goal for your weight-reduction program."
d. "weight loss of more than 20 pounds in 6 months could be dangerous."

Answer 1

Its definitely not A or D because there are 26 weeks in 6 months.

generally, a weight loss of 1-2 lbs per week is reasonable and safe. 

I would say B because it is unrealistic that someone would always lose 2lbs a week

Answer 2

Answer:

b. "safe and maintainable weight loss should be about 10% of body weight in 6 months."

Explanation:

It is very important to keep our patients in a realistic way of living and expecting from their treatment, it is also very important to remember that we should only healthy loss 10% of our weight in 6 months so the nurse should share that with the patient and make him conscient of that so he won´t be expecting to loose that much weight.