The coordinating health professional will engage the patient's family so that they are made to feel part of the health care team. The health professional will make specific recommendations to help the patient adhere to the weight management program and identify potential barriers to the changes in lifestyle that will become an integral part of the program. The health care professional will also discuss the need for reasonable weight management goals that are sustainable. As discussed in chapter 9, the use of a multidisciplinary, lifestyle-based intervention for the management of obese individuals is a grade A recommendation. Furthermore, discussion of the weight management program before its initiation among members of the health care team and the patient to establish management goals and review potential barriers to achieving these goals is a grade B recommendation.