If you’ve ever tried to improve your health and wellness and lose weight, but failed terribly, then you know how crushing it is to try diligently to get yourself back in shape but be forced back to the drawing board. Weight loss is never easy, and it can be made more difficult by diseases and other illnesses that hold you back. If that sounds like the struggle you’ve been dealing with, consider the benefits of a health coach and how a health coach can help you regain control of your body.
A health coach won’t ever be able to guarantee that you’ll find success but they can work with to ensure that you stay on the right track over the course of your wellness training and lifestyle changes. When left to your own devices, you know that its easy to derail but a health coach can keep you going strong.
The health coach you work with should be able to devise a strategy that is not only easy for you but helps you gradually adapt to a different lifestyle without feeling like you’ve sacrificed everything for nothing but pain and discomfort. They can track your progress and prove to you that changes are creating positive outcomes by presenting you with evidence of your own success.
Of course success comes from a variety of factors, and the health coach isn’t there to just hammer on your physically and run you through army drills. They’re not drill instructors. A health coach is there to help you find a holistic balance in your life; a natural state that is centered, where your body functions at an optimum level. In order to achieve this balance there are small changes that need to be made in a number of areas throughout your life.
None of the changes are life altering in the sense that the health coach is going to force you to give anything up. They won’t force you to do anything. Instead they will encourage you to make gradual steps in the right direction. Once your body begins to correct itself you’ll notice that every step becomes easier. What started as a staggering uphill battle will change into a downhill sled ride that’s more fun than work – and to top it off you’ll feel more energized and the weight will start to fall off quite readily.
Your health coach will show you the proof and benefits of new diets (modified eating habits, not crash diets) elimination of the worst foods while embracing delicious “healthy” foods, and specific exercises that are easy to perform no matter where you are.
The most important benefit is that a health coach can bring you to a point where you will truly understand that food that you’re taking into your body and your home. You’ll discover that even cleverly packaged “health food” isn’t really healthy, and you’ll see the dangers lurking within your own cupboards. Success is only a meeting with a health coach away.
Taheerah Barney is a holistic health & wellness counselor and has worked with hundreds of clients to improve their health & eating habits, combat disease and help them lose weight. To learn more about the benefits of hiring a Hoboken health coach please visit 360nourishment.com