The purpose of this study is evaluating the effect of education based on extended parallel process model on weight and knowledge of women about overweight before pregnancy. Sample size is sixty women with BMI more than Twenty-five, referred to counseling pre-pregnancy to health centers in Mashhad. For Sampling, at first one center selected from the five main health centers and then two sub-centers selected by tables of random numbers, one center as intervention and other as control group. The intervention group received two sessions of group training (by Interval is two days) based on concepts of extended parallel process model. At the beginning of the study, individuals in both groups received a nutritional check list based on the instructions in the Ministry of Health's maternal and child nutrition booklet. They would have to complete it at home and were delivered to researcher two and four weeks after intervention. instruments for collecting Data were questionnaires included: demographic, knowledge, concepts of model including susceptibility, severity, self-efficacy and perceived response, anxiety, physical activity, body image, eating disorders, Social protection questionnaires, as well as meters and scales for measuring body mass index. Before, two and four weeks after the intervention, instruments used.