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Advanced Diet Planning for Weight Plateau Practicum

Lecturers: Romy Moujaes, MSc, LD & Stephanie Baddour, MSc, LD
CPECS: 3.5

The Advanced Diet Planning for Weight Plateau Practicum is designed to help dietitians better understand the physiological, hormonal, and behavioral complexities behind weight-loss resistance and plateaus. This practical training provides advanced evidence-based strategies to help patients overcome stalled progress while maintaining healthy and sustainable approaches.

Participants will critically evaluate popular dieting trends, modern weight-loss methods, and metabolic adaptations associated with weight loss. The course also focuses on advanced diet-planning interventions, including ketogenic diets, high-protein diets, and practical transition strategies back to balanced eating.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will learn how to:

  • Understand metabolic adaptations involved in weight plateaus

  • Assess hormonal and behavioral contributors to stalled weight loss

  • Evaluate modern dieting trends critically

  • Implement evidence-based strategies to break weight plateaus

  • Apply ketogenic and high-protein diets appropriately

  • Transition patients safely toward sustainable eating patterns

  • Improve long-term patient adherence and outcomes

Course Schedule

5:00 – 5:15 PM
Introduction

5:15 – 6:30 PM
Module 1: The Complexities of Weight Loss

6:30 – 6:40 PM
Break

6:40 – 8:30 PM
Module 2: Fighting Weight Plateau

8:20 – 8:30 PM
Conclusion & Q&A

This practicum equips dietitians with practical clinical tools to better manage challenging weight-loss cases and improve patient success rates.

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