Working with a Health Coach to Achieve your Ideal Weight
If you struggle with your weight and have tried numerous weight loss diets, then you may find the support of a health coach offers a unique experience.
Like many of us, you may have tried various diets and lost weight initially, only to fall back into old eating habits and to regain all the weight you lost. If so, coaching can be transformative.
A health coach may not only empower you with the information and knowledge you need to make healthy eating and lifestyle choices, but provide you with mindset and behaviour change techniques to ensure the changes will last for the rest of your life.
One clear and well documented advantage of working with a health coach, is accountability. Several studies have demonstrated that the encouragement and support of a professional can considerably increase your chances of success.
Working with a coach keeps you motivated when you feel discouraged, builds your self confidence when you need to get back on track and helps you solve problems when you encounter obstacles on your weight loss journey.
The knowledge that you have to check in regularly to report on your progress can be motivate you and mean you are less likely to resort to eating junk food or to overeat.
If you are serious about making long term lifestyle changes and achieving your ideal weight permanently, then working with a coach will also give you the mental and emotional tools you need to overcome the most common pitfalls you will have encountered in the past.
For instance, when you feel stressed, frustrated, sad or lonely, do you find yourself eating foods you know will sabotage your efforts?
Do you feel pressure to eat at social occasions because you don’t want to disappoint your host, or because you are afraid of what others may think?
Do you crave food you wouldn’t normally eat, simply because it’s free and available at work or because you walk past that tempting bakery on the way home?
With the help of a coach you can learn how to become aware of unhelpful thoughts and self-sabotage and learn how to face challenging situations, so it becomes second nature for you to be in control of your eating habits.
A health coach will not give you a specific diet which involves calorie counting or a detailed macronutrient split. Instead, we work with you to help you learn how to compose your plate in a balanced and healthy way. We give you ideas and recipes and empower you to design your own meal plans and work with you to organise an exercise regime in order to optimise your overall health.
Understanding what a healthy diet looks like is key. Do it once, do it well, and you will never have to do it again. Once you know the impact nutrition has your body and overall health, the knowledge will remain with you for life.
Last, but not least, our approach is holistic, meaning we are concerned with the whole person. We consider your stress levels, sleep patterns and emotional health, all crucial elements which influence the way you eat and exercise. These factors are too often neglected when you are simply given a diet plan and asked to follow it by the book.
Our mission is to help change the way you think and feel about eating, dieting and exercise.
You deserve to feel powerful, strong, vibrant and fit. If you are ready to take that first step, get in touch, book a free consultation and find out how we might be able to support you.
We would love to work with you and help you to achieve your goals.
