Why try Full Plate Living for Catholics?

Most diets ask you to cut back, cut out, and white-knuckle your way to results that rarely last. Full Plate Living takes a different approach. Instead of restriction, you'll learn to fill your plate with whole, fiber-rich foods that keep you full, satisfied, and energized, while naturally supporting healthy, sustainable weight loss. Over eight guided sessions, you'll discover practical, doable strategies for shifting how you eat, one small step at a time, without counting calories or weighing in. You'll learn the science behind why fiber and water-rich foods help you feel full on fewer calories, how to "power up" meals you already enjoy, and how to build the kind of lasting habits that research shows actually stick. Just as important, you won't be doing this alone. Full Plate Living is built around group encouragement and shared experience, because lasting change is always easier with support. This isn't a fad diet. It's a sustainable way of eating that helps you reclaim your health and your energy for life by eating a rainbow of nourishing foods as God intended for the health of your body.

About the course

Full Plate Living Healthy Lifestyle Program was developed by Ardmore Institute of Health as a way to help teach lifestyle medicine nutrition principles.  It is offered here at MyCatholicDoctor Academy as an 8-week group program, with online community access.   If you are still interested in this program, but unable to enroll due to cost or lack of availability, you can also consider the free online self-paced program at fullplateliving.org.

Eat more, not less.

Learn to fill your plate with satisfying, fiber-rich whole foods so you feel full and energized, without the hunger and deprivation of traditional diets.

Build habits that actually last.

Take small, doable steps backed by the latest behavior-change research, so your progress is steady and sustainable instead of a yo-yo cycle of loss and regain.

Find strength in community.

Learn alongside others on the same journey, with encouragement and shared accountability that make lasting change far more achievable than going it alone.

image of instructor

Meet your instructor

Michele Suhie, PhD, NBC-HWC, DipACLM Michele is the Director of Health Education at MyCatholicDoctor Academy and a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach and Certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional. Michele has been coaching individuals toward successful health behavior change for nearly a decade, and she is a Certified Full Plate Living Facilitator through the Ardmore Institute of Health. Her approach views health behavior change through a Trinitarian Model of Health, promoting the integration of lifestyle medicine, positive psychology, and practice of the faith in community. She is also an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University and coordinates the Sunday music ministry at her parish.

Curriculum

10 Chapters · 11 Lessons

  1. 1
    1. (Included in full purchase)

      About Full Plate Living Healthy Lifestyle Program

    2. (Included in full purchase)

      Get your participant guide

  2. 2
    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Power Up with Natural Fiber Foods

  3. 3
    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Fiber foods that help you lose weight

  4. 4
    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Reach a health weight without deprivation

  5. 5
    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Avoiding self-sabotage and negative thoughts

  6. 6
    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Level up your health journey

  7. 7
    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Power up the most important meal of the day

  8. 8
    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Strategies for the shopping trip

  9. 9
    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Making restaurant meals work for you

  10. 10
    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Keep up your momentum

Ready to Fill Your Plate, Not Cut It Down?

Join the eight-session Full Plate Living program and discover how small changes can lead to lasting health.

COMING SOON! Please contact us for enrollment information. Opens email in new window