How Weight Loss Coaching Differs from Dieting
Dieting is about deprivation. Dieting is about somebody or some book telling you what to eat, and then you go, “Okay, I lost a few pounds,” and go, “Please, where is the food I really like,” and you go back to that.
Coaching on an optimal level for weight loss and wellness has to do with meeting people where they are and then helping them transform where they are to go where they want to go. What I mean by that is, you know, in the martial arts, it’s you break people’s force that way, yes? And, very often with dieting and health field, you have people saying, “You should eat this way, go on this diet, you ought to do this.”
And I am suggesting that with coaching, wellness coaching, and the approach that I put together, the whole-person nutrition program and Aikido, which is a martial art, instead of breaking the force, you meet the person where they are and then you work with them that way. So you are not breaking someone’s force through health education, telling them what they should eat or giving them a book to read that tells them what they should eat, but rather you are finding out where they are in terms of what their health concern is. Whether it be heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers, they are all interconnected, weight, and then working with them to move them where they want to go, based on what’s best for them and what optimal eating is for them personally.