Reverse the Risk: Your Evidence-Based Guide to Preventing & Reversing Pre-Diabetes
A science-backed, psychologically grounded program that gives you the knowledge, tools, and confidence to prevent or reverse pre-diabetes — for good, not just for now.
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Explain what pre-diabetes is at a biological level — including how insulin resistance develops and why it's reversible — so you can make informed, confident decisions about your health.
- Identify your personal stage of readiness for change using the Transtheoretical Model (TTM), and apply stage-matched strategies to move forward without overwhelm.
- Apply the COM-B framework to diagnose the real barriers blocking your healthy habits — whether they are gaps in capability, opportunity, or motivation — and address each one systematically.
- Implement evidence-based dietary adjustments (not a rigid meal plan) that measurably support blood glucose regulation, backed by current clinical research.
- Build a sustainable physical activity routine tailored to your current fitness level, using research on the specific types and timing of movement most effective for insulin sensitivity.
- Use proven psychological techniques — including self-monitoring, implementation intentions, and motivational strategies — to maintain behaviour change long-term.
- Interpret common blood sugar metrics (fasting glucose, HbA1c, post-meal readings) so you can track your own progress and have more productive conversations with your healthcare team.
- Construct a personalised prevention or reversal action plan that integrates your lifestyle, values, and health goals — and that you'll actually follow.
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 19 lessons
Understanding Pre-Diabetes From the Inside Out
Before behaviour change can happen, learners need accurate, empowering knowledge about what pre-diabetes actually is at a biological level. This module replaces fear and confusion with clarity, establishing the scientific foundation that underpins every decision made in the rest of the program. It directly addresses the Capability (knowledge) component of COM-B.
- 1.1What Is Pre-Diabetes? The Biology Behind the DiagnosisIncluded
- 1.2Reading Your Numbers — Fasting Glucose, HbA1c, and Post-Meal ReadingsIncluded
- 1.3Why Now? The Risk Factors That Brought You HereIncluded
Where Are You Now? Mapping Your Readiness and Barriers
Sustainable behaviour change requires an honest, non-judgmental assessment of where a person is starting from — psychologically, practically, and environmentally. This module introduces the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) and the COM-B framework as two powerful lenses for self-diagnosis. Learners discover their current stage of change and the precise nature of the barriers blocking them — before attempting any lifestyle modification.
- 2.1Your Stage of Change — The Transtheoretical Model in Plain LanguageIncluded
- 2.2Diagnosing Your Real Barriers — The COM-B ModelIncluded
- 2.3Building Your Psychological Foundation — Self-Efficacy and Motivation That LastsIncluded
Eating for Blood Sugar Balance — Evidence-Based Nutrition Without the Rules
This module translates the latest clinical nutrition research into practical, flexible dietary strategies learners can implement immediately. Rather than prescribing a single diet, it equips learners with principles and tools that can be personalised to their food culture, preferences, and lifestyle. The focus is on blood glucose regulation, not restriction.
- 3.1The Glycaemic Impact of Food — What the Research Actually SaysIncluded
- 3.2Practical Eating Strategies — Building Habits, Not RulesIncluded
- 3.3Navigating Real Life — Social Eating, Stress Eating, and Food Environment DesignIncluded
Movement as Medicine — Building an Activity Routine That Actually Sticks
Physical activity is one of the most powerful interventions for insulin sensitivity — but only if it is the right type, at the right timing, and sustained consistently. This module translates exercise physiology research into a personalised, graduated activity plan. It addresses both the physical and psychological barriers to movement that are unique to this population.
- 4.1Why Movement Is the Most Underrated Diabetes Prevention ToolIncluded
- 4.2Designing Your Personal Movement Plan — Type, Timing, and DoseIncluded
- 4.3Staying in Motion — Overcoming Slumps, Building Habit Loops, and Progressing SafelyIncluded
The Psychology of Lasting Change — Thinking, Habits, and Long-Term Maintenance
Knowledge and a good plan are necessary but not sufficient. This module goes deep into the psychological mechanisms that determine whether behaviour change lasts — including self-monitoring, implementation intentions, cognitive reframing, relapse prevention, and identity-based change. It draws on behaviour change theory, CBT principles, and the maintenance stage of the TTM.
- 5.1Self-Monitoring — The Single Most Effective Behaviour Change Tool You're Probably UnderusingIncluded
- 5.2Implementation Intentions and the Art of Planning for FailureIncluded
- 5.3Thinking Traps, Cognitive Reframing, and the All-or-Nothing MindsetIncluded
- 5.4Managing Stress, Sleep, and the Hidden Drivers of Blood SugarIncluded
Your Personalised Action Plan — Putting It All Together for Life
The final module brings every thread of the course together into a coherent, personalised, and realistic long-term action plan. Learners synthesise their learning from all five preceding modules, consolidate their self-knowledge, and build a living document they can update and return to throughout their health journey. This module also prepares learners to sustain change beyond the course — and equips healthcare professionals to adapt the frameworks for client use.
- 6.1Reviewing Your Progress — What's Changed, What's Shifted, and What's NextIncluded
- 6.2Constructing Your Personalised Prevention and Reversal Action PlanIncluded
- 6.3Life After the Course — Maintaining Momentum, Preventing Relapse, and Continuing to GrowIncluded
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Your teacher
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Kim Close
I created Reverse the Risk because I kept seeing the same thing: people leaving a pre-diabetes diagnosis without a real roadmap — just generic advice that didn't account for the messy, complicated reality of changing deeply ingrained habits. My background sits at the intersection of evidence-based health science and behavioural psychology, and I've spent years studying why people struggle to change even when the stakes are high, and — more importantly — what actually works. This course brings together the best of current metabolic health research with two of the most robust frameworks in behaviour change science: the Transtheoretical Model and the COM-B model. My approach is non-judgmental, practically focused, and grounded in research — not trends. I believe that with the right knowledge and the right psychological tools, preventing or reversing pre-diabetes is absolutely achievable. I'm here to give you both.
— Kim Close
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