Advisory and Client-Focused

Level 5

Welcome and Introduction

Poll: Share your experience with weight challenges

📘 SKILLS LAB™: What's your goal?

Complete Your Personal Strategy Questionnaire

Poll: Share your past experience with diets and cleanses

📕 UNIT 1: The Dangers of Being Overweight

Poll: Share with the class how much weight you would like to lose

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Clinical Weight Loss Strategies to Support Your Clients

Poll: When is your biggest meal of the day? 

📘 SKILLS LAB™: What Do People Eat?

Poll: Take a closer look at your shopping habits

The Knowledge Essentials Guide 

Poll: Spotting added sugars in common foods

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: The Men Who Made Us Fat (Part 1)

Downloadable Client Materials and Session Handouts

🎙️Off The Page Podcast

Module feedback

Before you take your quiz

Module Quiz

1. The Dangers of Excess Body Fat

Module 2 Learning Outcomes

Poll: Comparing fat and carbohydrates

📘 SKILLS LAB™: What Is Your Weight Gain Probability?

Poll: Share your weight gain probability score

📕 UNIT 1: What Makes Us Fat?

POLL: What may be stored in body fat cells?

📕 UNIT 2: How to Start Losing Weight?

Poll: Share which C.R.A.P. foods are part of your diet

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: The men that made us fat (Part 2)

2. What Causes Weight Gain?

Module 3 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your views on protein and fat gain

POLL: What does exercise change first?

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: What is fat?

📕 UNIT 1: How the body stores fat and protein

POLL: Your awareness of early low-carb weight loss

📕 UNIT 2: How the body stores carbohydrates

POLL: Looking at glycogen and water loss

📕 UNIT 3: Low Carb vs. Low Fat Diets

POLL: Share your views on long-term low-carb dieting

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: The men that made us fat (Part 3)

3. How The Body Stores Fat

Module 4 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Your dream goal weight

📕 UNIT 1: Weight History Analysis

POLL: Reflect on your ideal and maintainable weight

📕 UNIT 2: Weight History Evaluation

POLL: Share your views on body weight and appearance

📘SKILLS LAB™: What Is Your Ideal Weight?

4. Weight History Evaluation

Module 5 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Explore beliefs about rapid early weight loss

📕 UNIT 1: Optimal Weight and Goal Setting

POLL: Share your views on realistic weight loss goals

📕 UNIT 2: Successful Weight Loss and Adherence

POLL: Explore your expected weight loss timeline

📕 UNIT 3: Calculating BMI

POLL: Share your BMI category

📕 UNIT 4: Calculating Ideal Weight

POLL: Compare your dream weight with a calculated estimate

5. Ideal Weight

Module 6 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Body Composition Assessment

📕 UNIT 2: Blood Pressure and Weight Control

POLL: Share your blood pressure category

📕 UNIT 3: Measuring Height and Weight

📕 UNIT 4: Tracking Body Measurements

POLL: Share your waist-to-hip ratio category

📕 UNIT 5: Monitoring Body Fat

POLL: Share your body fat category

📕 UNIT 6: Preparing Your Consultation Space

6. Body Composition Assessment

Module 7 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Compare calories per 100 grams

📕 UNIT 1: Effective Weight Management

POLL: Comparing protein and fat in food choices

📕 UNIT 2:  Analysing The Energy Values in Food

📕 UNIT 3: What is Metabolism

📕 UNIT 4: Client Metabolic Assessment

7. Metabolic Analysis

Module 8 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Explore beliefs about food addiction

📕 UNIT 1: Food Addiction: Lack of Willpower, or Else?

📘SKILLS LAB™: Are You Addicted to Food?

POLL: Share your food addiction scale category

📕 UNIT 2: Food Habituation and Weight Loss

POLL: Exploring how food variety may affect intake

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Your Brain on Sugar

POLL: Explore what processed snack foods may contain

8. Food addiction

Module 9 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Your views on GI and carbohydrate content

📕 UNIT 1: Insulin and The Glycaemic Index

POLL: Comparing the GI of common carbohydrate foods

📕 UNIT 2: GI of Foods and Satiety

📕 UNIT 3: Low GI or Low Carb

9. Good Carbs, Bad Carbs

Module 10 Learning Outcomes

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: The Fantastical World of Hormones

📕 UNIT 1:  How Do Hormones Work?

📕 UNIT 2: Appetite Hormones: Hungry messengers

10. Hunger and Hormones

Module 11 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: How to Plan a Weight Loss Diet

POLL: Share your daily calorie target

📕 UNIT 2: Carbohydrates and Weight Loss

POLL: Reflect on your snacking habits

📕 UNIT 3: Dietary Fat Reduction

📕 UNIT 4: Protein for Fat Loss

📕 UNIT 5: Target Macronutrient Ratios

11. Building a Personalised Plan

Module 12 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Explore how eating without hunger may affect intake

📕 UNIT 1:  The Weight Loss Formula™

POLL: Those who lose weight through portion control report greater or lower weight loss and hunger? 

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: The Soup Experiment

📕 UNIT 2: Dietary Evaluation Methods

POLL:How much food do we tend to eat each day?

📕 UNIT 3: Food Record Analysis and Recommendations

POLL: Does eating “just in case” work?

📕 UNIT 4: Introducing the Weight Loss Pyramid™

POLL: Reflect on breakfast and weight loss beliefs

📘SKILLS LAB™: What's your current food pyramid?

POLL: Reflect on the foundation of your current eating pattern

📕 UNIT 5: Meal Planning and Eating Times

POLL: When is your biggest meal of the day?

12. Diet Evaluation and Action Planning

Module 13 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Reflect on the value of keeping a food journal

📕 UNIT 1: The 15 Pillars of Weight Control

POLL: Which of the 15 pillars are you planning to implement this week?

📘SKILLS LAB™: What Is Your Personal Action Plan?

POLL: Explore how irregular meal rhythms may affect weight

📕 UNIT 2: How to Promote Weight Loss Success

The second Knowledge Essentials

13. Promoting Immediate Changes

Module 14 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your current physical activity level

📕 UNIT 1: Is Exercise Really Necessary to Lose Weight

POLL: Reflect on your relationship with physical activity

📕 UNIT 2: How to Speed Up Fat Loss

▶️ SKILLS LAB™: How Fit Are You?

POLL: Share your Fitness Assessment category

📕 UNIT 3: Client Activity Program

Downloadable Client Materials and Session Handouts:

14. How to Speed Up Fat Loss

Module 15 Learning Outcomes

📘SKILLS LAB™: Could You Have a Food Intolerance?

POLL: Share your Food Intolerance score category

📕 UNIT 1: When is Fat not Fat

📕 UNIT 2: Detecting a Food Allergy or Intolerance

📕 UNIT 3: Pulse Testing Methods

📕 UNIT 4: Food Rotation and Reintroduction

15. Food Intolerances and Weight Gain

Module 16 Learning Outcomes

📘SKILLS LAB™: How Stressed Are You?

POLL: Share your Perceived Stress Scale category

📕 UNIT 1: Comfort Food as Self-Medication

POLL: How’s your sleep?

📕 UNIT 2: Sleep Debt and Cravings

POLL: How many hours do you normally sleep?

📕 UNIT 3: Sleep and Weight Loss

16. Stress as a Weight Gain Contributor

Module 17 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Psychology of Change

📕 UNIT 2: Motivational Interviewing

📕 UNIT 3:  Roadmap to Success

POLL: Share how you feel after eating a food treat

📕 UNIT 4: How Not to Fail

POLL: Reflect on how stress and tiredness affect your eating

📕 UNIT 5: Food Relationship

17. Psychology of Weight Loss

Module 18 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Personality Traits and Weight Loss

📘SKILLS LAB™: What's your Weight Loss Personality?

POLL: Share your weight loss personality type

18. BONUS MODULE: Weight Loss Personality Test

Module 19 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Dos, don'ts, and must dos as a Clinical Weight Loss Practitioner

📕 UNIT 2: Legal, Insurance, Tax, and Professional Considerations

Before you take your Final Exam

Final Exam

19. Professional considerations and FINAL EXAM

Certificate Registration Form

Do you need insurance to practice?

Accessing Your Certificate

20. Final Steps

<p>Comprised of 70 units across 19 modules, this professional certification addresses some of the most common questions and concerns surrounding the science of weight loss. We explore how appetite neurochemistry, hunger hormones, nutrition science, food addiction, eating psychology, and food allergies and intolerances contribute to weight loss over time. Then, we give you the knowledge you need to advise clients as they strive to become healthier from the inside out. </p>

The science-based certification designed to teach you how to help your clients lose weight and overcome food addiction.

Advanced Clinical Weight Loss Practitioner

Maurice Castelijn

What you will learn

Perform a body composition assessment, weight history evaluation, and metabolic analysis, assess health risk, and track anthropometric changes

Identify symptoms of food addiction, food intolerances, acute stress, or circadian irregularities, and make recommendations to help alleviate them (whilst ensuring medical or psychological referral where appropriate)

Evaluate food records, fluid intake, and fitness level, and build a personalised nutritional, activity and lifestyle programme for effective fat loss

Identify the main triggers of food cravings and overeating, how hunger hormones are regulated, dieting psychology, and weight re-gain predictors

Calculate individual protein, carbohydrate and fat requirements for weight loss, and adjust a diet plan based on activity level and metabolic needs

Apply advanced strategies for successful fat loss, including SCM coaching techniques, motivational systems, and personality typing

Course content

Course Description

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