Participants will be complete a total of 24, 1-hour group sessions with a health educator (exercise physiologist). The group size will be 10-15 participants and will be completed via Zoom. Prior to each group meeting, participants will email their weekly self-monitoring sheets to their health educator to review diet and exercise adherence. Each group session will follow a pre-determined structure: group discussion, review of adherence, 5 to 10 minutes of physical activity, and an active learning-based activity.

The flipped classroom educational model requires participants to independently review educational material before class, and class time with the health educator is spent engaging in group and individual skills-based activities and problem-solving assignments. The theoretical basis for the development of active learning is to elicit higher cognitive learning, according to the revised Bloom's taxonomy and shift independent student time to passive learning (remembering and understanding) and collaborative student and educator time to active learning (applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating). Thus, the weight management education will include: case vignettes, group debates/discussions, think-pair-share activities, gamification of health-related topics, creation of meal and physical activity, problem-solving barriers to a healthy diet and physical activity, and hands-on worksheets.

Attendance to the group education sessions will be measured weekly and evaluated by the health educator. Attendance records will be entered into the study REDCap database.

Attrition rate will be measured at the end of the intervention measured as the percent of participants who completed all 24 weeks of the weight loss program.

Participants will be weighed at the outpatient weight management clinic in a private room by a registered nurse prior to the participant seeing a clinic physician. Weight will be collected to the nearest 0.1 kg.