Could You Benefit From Weight Loss Coaching

Excess weight is often a precursor to Heart Disease. High blood pressure, blood sugar problems, diabetes, and other conditions put a tremendous strain on the heart.

Most people who are overweight know that making healthy lifestyle choices will reduce the risk or even reverse the effects of heart disease, but know isn’t always enough to create action. Just knowing the basics of eating healthier and moving your body more isn’t always enough to create the impact on your health you desire.

Often times it takes regimented and targeted behavior coaching to transform the lifestyle issues that are causing the factors that are negatively impacting a person’s health and well being.

This weight loss coaching approach to transformation goes way beyond macros, dieting, and exercise to make lasting lifestyle changes.

A weight loss coach goes far beyond just measuring calories or getting your steps in. They get to the root of the matter, by asking tough questions that stimulate thought in their clients. This process helps uncover the reason why a client might not be “showing up for themselves”, and pursuing the active lifestyle that they know will yield the results they desire.

A weight loss coach helps their clients uncover factors of self sabotage, deal with doubt, and the desire to be accepted. The dive deep, and uncover a person’s motivating factors for making change. Then they help set up the conditions for inevitable success.

All of this is done through one on one coaching sessions that are designed to move a client closer towards their goals by initiating action.

You may think of a weight loss coach as a dieting coach that not only focuses on teaching you “what” to eat, but also “how” to eat, as well as “who” you are being when you eat.

That may sound a little silly, but it can simply be explained. First off, most people have no idea that they over eat on a consistent basis. They may be eating too fast for the body to register fullness. Or, they may be waiting too late to start eating and are “starving”…which leads to bad food choices. They may also turn to food as a coping mechanism when they are stressed, upset, depressed, or overwhelmed. If someone is really wanting to lose weight and keep it off, all of these problem areas must be brought to light, and plans put in place to deal with them. This is a health coach’s specialty.

A health coach diet plan may start with simply observing what a client’s typical day is for a week or two. When, what, and why they eat certain foods will be talked about and understood during this time. After this initial observation period, a coach will then give suggestions on behavior changes that will get a client moving in the direction they want to. All of this is done before a strict diet plan is created. If a client’s behavior, attitudes, and beliefs surrounding food are not changed first, no real progress can be made in the way of long term weight loss.

If you are searching out a coach for weight loss, make sure that they are qualified to address these areas of concern first and foremost. Simply subscribing someone to a diet is not the correct course of action if there are underlying behavior problems that will derail progress. This is where a coach will excel where a personal trainer or dietician may fail at helping a client reach their goals.

There is a proven process when it comes to effective weight loss coaching, and everything begins with understanding what deep motivational factors you may have for success. Most people know that they want to lose 20 pounds or so, but they don’t really know why it’s important to them. They may think that they just want to look good on the beach this Summer. But, the truth may go deeper than that. A coach asks the right questions to uncover these deep motivations or a client’s “Why” for making change. a deep understanding of why you need to succeed makes failure not an option.

After there is a clear understanding of why success is so imperative, the ground work can be laid out and conditions for success can be constructed. Your coach will lay out a plan of attack based on what they have discovered during your initial meeting.

There are three key components to a successful weight loss coaching program. First and foremost, the right system needs to be in place. This is the right steps in the right order to help you overcome your roadblocks a little chunk at a time. The more help someone needs, the less they can handle at once, so a good coaching program makes use of small steps for success.

Secondly, a successful program will have the right support in place to allow changes to occur. As a person changes, their needs also may change. So, a proper weight loss coaching program will be able to shift whenever it needs to. Most “off the shelf” weight loss programs fall short here.

Lastly, a successful weight loss program provides accountability. This is also where most diets fall short. With accountability in place, it makes follow through more likely to happen. Nobody wants to tell their coach that they didn’t follow through…so they just do it.

Is it possible to lose weight with an online program? The answer is yes, but only if it includes the key areas of focus we laid out above. Online coaching is a very convenient way for people to get the help that they need. The best online program to lose weight will be both convenient and easy to follow, while also providing guidance and accountability. Accountability is the key component that most online weight loss programs lack, and is also one of the most important factors for success.

There are far too many weight loss programs for women out there to count. All of these programs have gimmicks, supplements to buy, or WOW factors to entice women into buying their program. And, for good reason! Women make up the bulk of clients for the weight loss industry.

You may ask the question: If there are so many programs out there for women, why do so many women need help? Consider the three key elements discussed above. How many programs offer a personalized system, support, and accountability? Not many, and these three elements are essential to success.

A quick internet search for weight loss coaches near me or nutrition coaches near me will lead to hundreds if not thousands of results. Keeping the concepts we discussed above in mind will help you make an informed decision on whether to work with someone or not. It’s an important decision, and do not choose a weight loss program that doesn’t provide the support and accountability that is so key to your success.

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