How Wellness and Nutrition Coaching Can Help

In my first post, What are These Feelings?  I wrote about how many  clients in their 40s and 50s ask why all the things that worked in the past suddenly seemed to fail.

Now you’ve articulated your dismay, your “WTF what-are-these-feelings,” your frustration that maintaining your weight and feeling energized should not feel quite this hard.

And you’ve resolved to do something about it.

Wellness and nutrition coaching can help. The process of updating how you eat and move, to better meet you where you are in life, shouldn’t feel lonely.

Working with a coach to take a new look at your diet and exercise behaviors can help you learn to accommodate your body’s changing needs.

A well-matched coach is a thought partner who can help you discern what is fact or fiction, helping you make smart choices in a world overflowing with competing and conflicting information.

For example, there’s a lot of buzz about superfoods, such as how everyone should be eating turmeric. But how much and in what form? Does it really help?  Maybe there’s something that’s more proven to help with the issue you’re hoping to address.

A coach can help you understand your uniqueness; that what works for one person may not work for the next. With a coach, together you can develop a personal plan that’s right for you, that you will be comfortable sustaining and that not just works in the short term, but ongoing.

A coach can help you stay motivated for the long-term, supporting and helping you overcome all the challenges, both internal and external, that can get in your way. A coach can help bridge the gap between you knowing what you should be doing and actually doing it, consistently. And the real magic comes when we do things consistently.

In my next post, I’ll share some nutritional strategies.

Carolyn Kontos, MS, ACC, offers Wellness & Nutrition Coaching at the JCC through her Eat Well Programs. For more information, contact Carolyn at [email protected]