Tara Schmidt, M.Ed., RDN, LD
Weight Loss for Life, by Mayo Clinic
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Ready to make lasting changes to your weight and health?
This isn’t another quick fix. This is a comprehensive, evidence-based programme in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, created to help you lose weight sustainably and maintain your progress for life.
Led by Tara Schmidt, M.Ed., RDN, LD, a registered dietitian at Mayo Clinic, you’ll learn the science of what truly drives effective weight loss. You’ll build a personalised eating plan that adapts to your lifestyle, create an exercise routine you can stick to, and develop the core habits that research links to long-term success.
Through practical tools and real-world guidance, you’ll learn to:
• Understand what shapes your eating patterns
• Navigate social situations and meals out with confidence
• Build habits that support long-term health rather than short-term restriction
This programme values progress over perfection. It’s designed to empower you with understanding, not rules, giving you the confidence to make decisions that support your health now and in the years ahead.
Taking weight-loss medication?
If you’re using GLP-1s or other weight-loss treatments, this programme provides the essential nutritional and lifestyle foundation to optimise your results and help prevent weight regain.
Lessons
What You’ll Learn
Begin your journey by discovering how personalised health insights can guide sustainable, long-term weight loss. In this introduction, you'll meet the clinical experts behind the programme and learn how digital tools, combined with trusted NHS care, can support your goals. You'll hear how evidence-based guidance from Mayo Clinic specialists has helped many people achieve meaningful weight loss—and why simple, sustainable changes to eating habits, activity, and daily routines can make a powerful difference, even if past attempts have felt challenging.
Discover why traditional diets fail and learn how to select an eating plan you can sustain for life. This module helps you understand the difference between fad diets and healthful lifestyles, exploring common mistakes like expecting results too quickly or choosing overly restrictive programmes. You'll learn to evaluate diets based on nutritional balance, family compatibility, and long-term viability. Rather than eliminating entire food groups, you'll discover how to incorporate nutrition from grains, fruits, vegetables, proteins, and fats in a way that supports both weight loss and your lifestyle. Through reflection exercises, you'll identify what's truly sustainable for you, because the best diet is one you can stick with forever.
Unravel the science behind calories and learn how to make them work for you, not against you. This module demystifies the calories in versus calories out equation, explaining metabolism and how to genuinely increase it through muscle building. You'll discover the crucial concepts of calorie density and nutrient density, learning which foods keep you fuller for longer through volume, fibre, and protein. With practical guidance on reading food labels and identifying hidden calories in beverages, you'll gain the awareness needed to make informed choices. By understanding how different macronutrients affect satiety, you'll learn to eat less whilst potentially consuming more food, the key to losing weight without constant hunger.
Master the plate method, a simple, visual approach to balanced nutrition that works for the whole family. This module introduces a practical framework where half your plate is fruits and vegetables, a quarter is protein, and a quarter is whole grains. You'll learn handson portion control techniques, time-saving strategies like batch cooking and cross-utilisation, and how to plan meals around your schedule rather than the other way round. Discover how to reduce food waste with frozen produce, make healthier versions of takeaway favourites, and overcome the common barrier of time through strategic planning. By moving from relying on willpower to following a roadmap, you'll transform meal planning from overwhelming to routine.
Build a sustainable exercise routine that supports your weight loss goals and boosts your overall health. This module breaks down the national guidelines of 150 minutes per week into manageable chunks that fit your life. You'll understand the two essential components,cardio and strength training,and learn why strength training is crucial for maintaining your metabolism as you lose weight. Through inspiring real-life stories and expert insights from Professor Scarlett McNally on exercise as "the miracle cure," you'll discover how to overcome common barriers and find activities you genuinely enjoy. Whether you're starting with a lap around your kitchen island or training for a marathon, you'll learn to set SMART goals and use the FIT principle to build an exercise habit that lasts.
Unlock the power of self-awareness through self-monitoring,one of the strongest predictors of long-term weight loss success. This module shows you how to track your habits in a way that brings awareness without guilt or shame. You'll learn various methods of monitoring food intake, exercise, and other lifestyle factors, discovering what works best for you. Understanding that tracking doesn't have to be tedious or daily,research shows three days a week is equally effective,you'll find a sustainable approach. Through practical examples, you'll see how self-monitoring reveals surprising patterns, from hidden calories in coffee to the power of mindless snacking, giving you the information needed to make meaningful changes.
Explore the psychology behind eating habits and learn to identify and modify your food triggers. This module introduces the stimulus-response-reward pathway, helping you understand why you eat when you're not hungry. You'll discover how to work backwards from the reward you're seeking,whether comfort, relaxation, or socialisation,to create new responses that don't involve food. Learn about behaviour chains and how to break patterns of "all or nothing" thinking that sabotage progress. With insights into how our obesogenic environment and highly palatable foods influence eating behaviours, you'll gain compassion for yourself whilst developing practical strategies to adapt habits. This isn't about perfection; it's about progress and building confidence in lifestyle changes that last forever.
Navigate restaurants, takeaways, and social eating whilst maintaining your health goals. This module provides practical strategies for controlling portions and making healthier choices when eating away from home, where meals can contain thousands of calories. You'll learn to scan menus in advance, use the plate method even with restaurant food, and practice mindful eating to recognise fullness cues. Discover how to adapt your frequency of eating out, make smart substitutions, and handle communal eating during festivals and celebrations without feeling deprived. With techniques for managing proximity to food and addressing beverages, you'll gain the confidence to enjoy social occasions whilst staying committed to your health journey.
Learn the six key strategies that weight loss maintainers use to keep weight off for years, based on extensive research. This module reveals that 98% of successful maintainers modified their diet sustainably, 94% increased exercise, and 90% exercise at least one hour daily,double the standard guidelines. You'll understand the crucial difference between a lapse and a relapse, discovering how to keep moving forward even after setbacks. Learn whether you're a solo or group changer and how to communicate your needs to those around you. By identifying your support system and building accountability, you'll create the foundation for lasting success. This final module empowers you to take everything you've learned and transform it into lifelong habits that support your health and wellbeing.
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Answers to the most common questions about learning with us.
Our online classroom is designed to help you learn from experts in a collaborative, social environment alongside a small group of learners.
Each lesson combines expert-led videos with optional assignments, giving you the opportunity to apply what you’ve learned and share your work with others. You can take part in ongoing discussions, ask questions, exchange feedback, and learn from a community of like-minded people from around the world.
By learning together in a small, supportive group, you benefit not only from expert guidance but also from shared ideas, perspectives, and experiences—helping you stay engaged and retain what you learn.
You can start your course at any time within 12 months of purchase. Once you begin, you’ll have lifetime access, so you can revisit lesson videos and notes whenever you like.
Courses are designed to fit around your schedule, allowing you to learn at your own pace. Each lesson video is typically 30–40 minutes, and we recommend around an hour for each assignment.
Both Peer and Expert options give you full access to the course content, including lesson videos, downloadable notes, assignments, and a collaborative online classroom with up to 20 learners. You’ll also have lifetime access to revisit the material at any time.
The Expert option includes everything in Peer, plus personalised assignment feedback, direct messaging with your expert tutor, and a certificate of completion.
With the Expert option, you can interact directly with your tutor throughout the course. You’ll typically have one week per lesson to ask questions and receive feedback on your assignments, with as much interaction as you need during that time.
Your tutor access begins when you enter the classroom and follows the course schedule (for example, a four-lesson course usually runs over four weeks). If you need more time or support, our team is here to help.
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