Goals include:
- to achieve and maintain permanent lifestyle changes that result in the prevention of excessive weight gain and the promotion of healthy growth.
- In children without obesity-related complications, a goal of weight maintenance should be set, until a BMI-for-age of <85th percentile is achieved. If weight loss occurs through the implementation of a healthy lifestyle, height growth should be maintained, and the rate of weight loss should be slow.
- In obese adolescents and