Description
MOVE!® Coach is a weight management app for Veterans, service members, their families, and others who want to lose weight. This 16-week program guides the participants to achieve success with weight loss and management through education and use of tools in an easy and convenient way. Participants can monitor and receive feedback regarding their progress with weight, diet, and exercise goals.
Features:
- Self-Management Modules – Build weight management skills through maintaining a healthy diet and staying active. Each module contains specific activities and worksheets as well as a summary. Complete one module per week over a 16-week period.
- Trackers – Keep a daily weight diary and track your progress on dietary, physical activity and weight loss goals.
- Tools – Use Calculation Tools to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI), exercise intensity, calories burned, and activity-to-step conversions. Use Manage Stress Tools to keep your mental health on the right track.
- Support – Share your progress on social media, challenge your friends to build healthier habits, and read success stories from other MOVE! Coach users.
- Resources – Access additional information on weight management, nutrition and other health resources.
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Frequently Asked Questions
While MOVE! Coach can be used by anyone; only Veteran participants will be able to have connection with their MOVE! health care team. Access for everyone is supported because the VA supports families, caregivers, and additional Veteran support systems who may also be interested in weight management.
Each module has an objectives overview, educational content, videos and activities related to the weeks topic, an opportunity to set SMART goals, and review related content.
You will always be able to go back to the self-management modules you have completed. While it is recommended that you work on one module per week, you can manually unlock future modules to review content in advance.
Once you have completed a module, you can generate a PDF report of the answers and information you provided as you went through the module.
From the Tracker screen under the Goal Tracking section, tap whether you would like to set weight, physical activity or dietary goals. You will be asked to type your goals and set a check-in date for your progress.
You can also hold yourself accountable for meeting your goals by sharing them with your friends via social media.
At the bottom of the graph, you can change the date range of the data graphed by tapping the range that appears at the bottom left corner of the screen. You can choose from 1 Day, 1 Week, 1 Month, 3 Months, 6 Months, 1 Year or 2 Years, depending on the amount of data that you have entered. You also have the option of sharing a PDF of your graphs.
The MOVE!® Coach App also allows you to share PDFs of your Self-Management Module Summaries and Reports. On the PDF you would like to share, tap the box icon with an arrow to see additional ways of sharing besides social media. Based on the features and applications installed on your device that can send PDFs, tap the method you would like to use. Send as you normally share information with these methods.
If you need assistance with the MOVE! Coach App, dial 877-470-5947 to speak with a VA representative.