Inoka Perera

This session Provides clinical insights into the complex management of obesity throughout reproductive stages, examining evidence-based approaches for weight optimisation during preconception, fertility treatments, pregnancy, and postpartum periods while balancing maternal-fetal health outcomes.

Key Takeaways:

• Understanding how obesity affects fertility, ovulation, pregnancy complications, and metabolic health, plus strategies for safe preconception weight management and timing interventions to improve conception rates and pregnancy outcomes.

• Navigating appropriate gestational weight gain targets, managing obesity-related pregnancy complications, addressing postpartum weight retention, and safely integrating pharmacological or surgical interventions across different reproductive stages without compromising maternal or infant health.

How nutritionists and psychologists collaborate to develop individualised treatment strategies, integrating tailored dietary approaches based on metabolic profiles with psychological interventions addressing behavioural patterns, emotional eating, and sustainable lifestyle change.