Safe Weight Management
Self-guided Course
If you want to find out why weight-loss programs are broken and harmful, then this course is for you. Finally, discover why weight gain is not your fault and why inability to lose weight is also NOT YOUR FAULT.
People are wisely giving up on commercial and amateur 'weight-loss' schemes. People are realizing that some kinds of weight-loss schemes are dangerous because they lead to weight regain plus more. People are gaining more and more weight as the years go by and more weight-loss programs are exposed as leading from overweight to obesity and severe obesity. .
Meet Dr. Joan Ifland, author/editor of the textbook, Processed Food Addiction
Dr. Ifland has been creating breakthroughs in recovery from food addiction from 1999 with her first popular book, to 2018 with her textbook, Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery. She led the first evidence-based online recovery program with the Addiction Reset Community (ARC) in 2018, the first science-based Food Addiction Recovery Advocate (FARA) program in 2020, and the first online program for remission of disease in the Remission Optimistic Community (ROC) in 2023. She also assisted the team that created the Holistic Recovery Community in 2023.
Dr. Ifland is the lead author of the first scholarly description of processed food addiction and definition of addictive foods. She is the founder of the Facebook Group, Food Addiction Education.
Dr. Ifland earned her PhD in addictive nutrition at Union Institute and University (2010); her MBA at Stanford Business School (1978) and her BA in Economics and Political Science at Oberlin College (1974). She currently resides in Seattle.
Here’s what you will discover:
- Startling evidence for the brokenness of weight-loss programs
- A pathway to stop self-blame and self-hatred for your weight status
- Eye-opening realizations for how your social circles keep you from getting to your preferred weight status
- Techniques to make weight-loss safe from regain and eating-disorders
- Safe, kind, supportive materials where you can learn, ask questions, and express your thoughts freely.
What you can expect during the 4-week course:
Week 1: Why Nothing Else has Worked
- Find out how weight-loss programs actually ramp up cravings
- Learn how eight-loss programs wake up intense food seeking.
- See how quick weight loss promotes weight gain and weight loss resistance
- Stop blaming yourself for broken programs
- Week 1: Discussion questions to clarify what happened to you.
Week 2: Banishing Weight Stigma
- Learn how the culture stigmatizes weight status for profit
- See how weight stigma stress us and creates cravings
- Become aware of deception about the relationship of health to weight status
- Week 2: Decision questions to free us from weight stigma
Week 3: How we Gain Weight from Social Circles
- Our loving brains want us to fit in even if it means gaining weight
- See the evidence that we cannot expect to lose weight in a social circles that is gaining weight
- Find out easy ways to get your brain to tune in to healthy online social circles
- See why you cannot lose weight without the right social circle
- Week 3: Thought-provoking discussion questions free you from self-blame
Week 4: Food Addiction and Weight Loss
- Find out how to harness processed food recovery to get to your preferred weight status
- Learn how to address food addiction to avoid weight regain
- Learn how to win the battle in your head
- Become aware of the skills we all actually need to lose weight
- Discussion Questions: Get new insights into how your weight has been affected by hidden addiction to processed foods.
Here’s what you get:
√ The 4-Week Self-guided Course: Safe Weight Management: Why Nothing has Worked
√ Access to a dedicated Facebook Q&A Forum moderated by our expert course facilitators.
√ A weekly email with helpful course information, videos and handouts, and a recording of each weekly group session.
√ Lifelong access to Bonus Resources
