Nutritional Behavior Coaching
Good nutrition is essential for a healthy life and can have a profound impact on our physical, mental and emotional well-being. While many people know the importance of good nutrition, making changes to your diet and eating habits can be challenging. This is where a nutrition coach can help.
At Empowered Health, we treat food like medicine. One of the ways we do that is through our Nutritional Behavior Coaching program.
When it comes to food, there are many influences on what we eat as well as how we eat. These can be social, psychological and physiological. Our personal biology and history can also cause us to have unique perspectives and responses to food.
A nutritional behavior coach can help you develop healthy eating habits and reach your health and fitness goals. Whether you want to lose weight, improve your athletic performance, or simply maintain a healthy lifestyle, a nutritional behavior coach can provide you with the guidance and support you need to succeed.
With our Nutritional Behavior Coaching program, your health coach will guide you to gain awareness around which of these influences are interfering with your ability to eat intuitively for your body.
There are several tools we use, depending on your circumstances and goals:
- Digital Food Diary: Checking for the gap between how you are currently eating, and either
- How you want to eat, or;
- Following your medical practitioner’s recommendations.
We will co-create a plan to narrow this gap and address behaviors around doing so.
- Intuitive Eating: Move away from the rules around diet culture and learn to reconnect with your body and hunger signals. These concepts can help you re-learn how to eat based on your body’s needs versus arbitrary rules or habits.
- HeartMath: Utilize mind-body practices to manage stress and address emotional eating behaviors.
Making these changes is a team effort. Between the nutritional suggestions provided by your medical practitioner and the behavioral support from your health coach, you will gain support needed to make targeted changes to nutrition. These changes will empower you to further your health and wellness goals.
One of the main benefits of working with a nutrition coach is that they can help you break down the barriers to healthy eating. Whether it’s a busy schedule, a lack of knowledge, or a lack of motivation, a nutrition coach can help you find solutions to these challenges and keep you on track towards your goals.
Another benefit of nutrition coaching is accountability. A nutrition coach will check in with you regularly to see how you’re doing and make adjustments to your nutrition plan as needed. This level of accountability can help you stay motivated and stay on track with your goals.
Finally, a nutrition coach can also help you develop a positive relationship with food. Rather than viewing food as the enemy, a nutrition coach can help you see it as a tool to help you achieve your goals. They can help you understand the importance of moderation, and how to balance your diet with a variety of healthy foods.
Nutritional Behavior Coaching is offered as part of the health coaching services with our Certified Health Coach, Intuitive Eating Counselor and HeartMath Certified Practitioner Erika Zink.