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ONLINE NUTRITION COACHING: THE MAKING OF A GOOD CLIENT + COACH RELATIONSHIP
In today’s post, I’m talking all about the client + coach relationship and how to really get the most out of your work with a coach. Whether you work with one of our coaches or have worked with any sort of coach in the past or are thinking about working with a coach, understanding how you can bring your best to the table can make or break your success in reaching your goals.
Debunking the Myth of Good vs. Bad Foods: The Key to a Better Relationship With Food
Our relationship with food is something that has been crafted over many years of familial influence, social gatherings, and trendy “quick grab” headlines. You likely have foods categorized into groups like “breakfast, lunch, dinner”, “good and bad”, “healthy and unhealthy”. While some of these categories might be useful, others might be a barricade built in front of our own food freedom.
Why We Stress Eat: Strategies to Stop Emotional Eating
I believe it can be really helpful to understand what our body’s physiological response to stress looks like and how it relates to food (including digging into why stress eating can feel so good). From there, we can get into a few practical exercises to help manage our physiological response to stress to help interrupt the physical urge to stress eat.
Combining Intermittent Fasting with Macro Tracking: A Sound Strategy?
Intermittent fasting can be used as another tool to help manage hunger and work towards fat loss goals. Curious about what intermittent fasting even is and if it may be a helpful strategy for you? Read on!
Three Essential Strategies for Effective Fat Loss
A summary of last week’s Live Class: 3 Keys to Your Most Successful Diet. This live class wasn’t about the one secret to dieting or how to lose fat fast. Rather, it was about 3 principles that, if followed, will result in successful fat loss no matter how old you are, how active you are, or what your lifestyle is.
Debunking Myths: Essential Facts About Fat Loss
There is an overwhelming amount of nutrition and diet information available all around us. It can be difficult to wade through what is fact and what is fad, especially when the idea of what is the “best” diet is constantly changing. Today we’re simplifying the topic of fat loss with five facts that may answer some of your common diet-related questions.
Effective Strategies for Athletes to Make Weight Safely: Weightlifting, BJJ, MMA, Wrestling
If you participate in a sport with weight classes, you probably know the struggle of balancing your actual body weight and maintaining (or increasing) strength. It can be a fine line to walk, but there are strategies that can help your weight cut be a more enjoyable experience!
Nutrition Strategies for Optimizing Gym Performance: Nutrient Timing and Protein Needs
We’ve talked about the importance of nutrition in regard to specific fat loss, health, and athletic performance goals before.
Today we’re going to dig a little deeper and take a closer look at what it really means to eat for performance. Whether you’re a weightlifter who competes regularly, looking to improve on last year’s CrossFit Open performance, or just someone who wants to run farther or lift heavier, you can probably benefit from focusing on tailoring your nutrition to your performance goals.
Understanding Intermittent Fasting: Benefits and Considerations While Tracking Macros
I’m a “kind of” intermittent faster. What does that mean? It means that I kind of stick to a time restricted eating window but don’t stress too much about it. I find that, personally, intermittent fasting helps me control hunger throughout the day and prioritize my hydration - something I’m terrible at - and helps keep me in a good eating routine whether I’m tracking my macros or not.
Curious about what intermittent fasting even is and if it may be a helpful strategy for you? Read on!
Tailored Nutrition Strategies for your Health, Fat Loss, and Performance Goals
As coaches, we care about goals. Like A LOT. We can’t create a nutrition game plan for you without a clear idea of what your goals are. More importantly, you won’t meet or even surpass your goals without a clear idea of what you’re working towards either.
Whether you already made a plan for the New Year or are still feeling a little lost, it’s never a bad time to take a step back and reevaluate your goals If you’re unsure of where to even begin, today’s post will help you create a clear and specific goal so you can have clear action plan to make them happen.
Understanding the Maintenance Phase in Your Nutrition Journey
If you have serious fat loss goals, a maintenance period is a necessary part of your fat loss journey. If you have spent considerable amount of time in a calorie deficit, you should plan on taking periodic maintenance phases to add in more calories and give your body (and brain) a little break.
Tracking Macros for Optimal Health
If your goal is to achieve optimal health, you should focus on finding balance in your diet. Optimal health means something different to each of us. To me, it means learning to find the balance needed in your diet to maintain a healthy body and build sustainable eating habits that will serve you long-term. Being lean is great, and getting strong is cool, but what good are those goals if they leave your health compromised?
Nutrition Strategies for Fat Loss and Body Composition Goals
If your goals are geared towards changing your body weight, body shape, or body composition, your focus should be on eating in a calorie deficit.