Foundations of Weight Loss Course
While many diets exist out there than can lead to weight loss, research shows that across the board none of them do a good job of creating long lasting results for their participants. In fact, between 80 and 95% of dieters gain their weight back within a few years of their diet. By taking a progressive, habit-based approach, AFS CEO Mike Stack and Education Coordinator Sawyer Paull-Baird guide you through what they hope will be your final weight loss journey in the Foundations of Weight Loss Course.
Covering a wide variety of nutrition, environmental, and even mindset topics, this course is the product of a combined 25+ years of coaching experience between Mike & Sawyer.
Included in this 8 module course:
* One 30 minute 1-on-1 coaching meeting
* Individualized Nutrition Report created by an AFS coach
* Fifteen 10-20 minute video lessons
* 48 page eBook chock-full of great information and activities
* Private forum dedicated to Foundations course members
We strongly believe that this course has the potential to create long lasting weight loss and positive change in your life.
Topics Covered:
1- Creating Your Final Diet
* Why Do Diets Fail
Creating Your Plan
2-Your Body's Inner Wisdom
* Understanding Your Hunger
* Managing Hunger & Satiety Strategies
3- Quality vs Quantity
* Why They Both Matter...
* Can Clean Eating Go Too Far?
4-Progress Check-In
* Measuring Progress
*Making Adjustments
5- Proteins, Carbs & Fats
* Deep Dive
6- The Social Side
* The Importance of Social Support
*The Comparison Complex
7- Decision Proofing Your Environment
* The Importance of Food Environment
8- Conclusion- This is Only The Beginning.
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Foundations of Weight Loss Introduction
Topics covered:
- How to best navigate through the course
- What you can expect from the course
- Next steps prior to starting Module 1 -
Module 1, Video 1- Why Diets Fail
Topics covered:
- What do many popular diets get wrong?
- How can we learn from those mistakes?
- What is different about this course?
- What expectations should you have moving ahead?
- Reflection on your past experiences. How can you learn from them? -
Module 1, Video 2- Creating our Plan
Topics covered:
- Food logging pros and cons
- Weekly habit pros and cons
- Expectations and best practices for each path
- Recommended next steps for each path. -
Module 2, Video 1- Understanding Your Hunger
Topics covered:
- Different types of hunger
- Expected levels of hunger while in a calorie deficit
- Steps and tools to become more in tune with your body's hunger signals
- Benefits of tuning in with your body's hunger
- Next steps for becoming more aware of hunger. -
Module 2, Video 2- Managing Your Hunger
Topics covered:
- How hunger can be a roadblock for success for some.
- What strategies can we use to reduce hunger and promote satiety?
- Action tips for implementing these.
- Next steps and weekly activity. -
Module 3, Video 1- Quality & Quantity
Topics covered:
- Examining arguments made by quality and quantity focused sides of nutrition.
- Why both quality and quantity matter.
- Extra focus on quality, and how quality matters even independently of, as well as in relation to, quantity.
- Ways to incrementally improve food quality.
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Module 3, Video 2- Can Clean Eating Go Too Far?
Topics covered:
- Holistic health, what role does weight loss play in that entire puzzle?
- Ensuring that our efforts to improve body composition are not swinging other areas of our health in an unhealthy place.
- How can we know when our dieting efforts are going too far?
- Reflection and recomm... -
Module 4, Video 1- Measuring Progress
Topics covered:
- How are things going for you? Are you seeing results?
- Other than the scale, how else may results show up.
- Reemphasize patience, and the value of a slower but steady approach to weight loss.
- Suggestion of getting another InBody measurement. -
Module 4, Video 2- Making Adjustments
Topics covered:
- We walk you through how you can make adjustments to your plan, step by step, to kickstart your weight loss.
- Why eventually, nearly everyone will have to adjust their program. -
Module 5- Macronutrients
Topics covered:
- The benefits of protein, carbohydrates, and fats in the diets. Why you shouldn't demonize any of them.
- Considerations for health promoting consumption of each of the macronutrients.
- Continuum when it comes to food quality with each macronutrient.
- Recommended activity for ... -
Module 6, Video 1- Social Support
Topics covered:
- Why is social support so important?
- How can you gather more support around you?
- What might a conversation asking for support look like?
- Next steps and weekly activity. -
Module 6, Video 2- The Comparison Complex
Topics covered:
- Why can comparing oneself to others be so dangerous?
- What are common ways in which comparison happens, and how can we avoid it?
- Steps to comparison proof our environment.
- Next steps and weekly activity. -
Module 7- Decision Proofing Our Environment
Topics covered:
- What is decision fatigue, or ego depletion?
- How does the environment play a role in our health?
- How can we exert some control over our environment to set ourselves up for success?
- Steps for "decision proofing" our environment.
- Next steps and weekly activity. -
Module 8, Video 1- Reviewing, Revising & Moving Ahead
Topics covered:
- The importance of a long-term focus
- Why we must continue to maintain and build on these habits moving ahead to sustain or keep making progress.
- Steps for reflecting on, revising, or building on habits introduced in this course
- Next steps and weekly activity. -
Module 8, Video 2- What If You Didn't Get What You Wanted?
Topics covered:
- Reasons why you may not be seeing progress.
- Strategies for revising parts of the plan to see more results.
- Alternative frameworks for those who have continuously struggled, many times, with weight loss programs. -
Foundations-of-Weight-Loss-Workbook.pdf
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Foundations-of-Weight-Loss-EBook-(2).pdf
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