{"id":3013,"date":"2010-03-10T21:22:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T21:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2016-08-11T02:37:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:37:38","slug":"health-coaching-how-to-become-a-health-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/health-coaching-how-to-become-a-health-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Coaching to Combat the Battle of the Bulge:  How to Become a Health Coach Who Gets Their Clients Cooking Toward their Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"How to become a health coach\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2010\/02\/how-to-be-a-personal-weight-loss-coach-or-a-fitness-coach\/\" target=\"_self\">How to become a health coach<\/a><\/strong> is a common question, since <strong><a title=\"health coaching\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2010\/01\/health-coaching-personal-nutrition-coach\/\" target=\"_self\">health coaching<\/a><\/strong> is considered to be a super-niche.\u00a0 If you are eager to learn <strong>how to become a health coach<\/strong> in the sub-niche of weight loss, you must learn how to address motivation.\u00a0 People who are overweight are most commonly driven by the need for certainty.\u00a0 Certainty is also known as comfort or security, and we\u2019re all slaves to comfort food when we get stressed or uncertain about something.\u00a0 Once your <strong>health coaching<\/strong> clients are aware of what needs are driving their behavior, they can start seeing that they have choices.<\/p>\n<h3>Discover How to Become a Health Coach Who Shows Their Clients How to Gain Certainty<\/h3>\n<p>If eating certain foods is the source of certainty for your <strong>health coaching<\/strong> clients, getting them to change their behavior without giving them another way to get this need met is pointless.\u00a0 Your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">health coaching<\/span> clients can only rely on willpower for so long before they revolt, binge and inevitably give up.\u00a0 When you learn <strong>how to become a health coach<\/strong> who helps their clients get their needs met for certainty at a higher level by making lifestyle changes, you can really make a difference.<\/p>\n<h3>Help Your Health Coaching Clients Take Charge of What They Eat<\/h3>\n<p>Let your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">health coaching<\/span> clients see that there is much more certainty in preparing their own foods rather than eating out.\u00a0 They control the ingredients.\u00a0 They choose whether they put MSG, sugar, or GMO\u2019s into the food they eat.\u00a0 They can choose to eat organic or not.\u00a0 Who knows what is in that Taco Bell meat anyway?\u00a0 And chicken nuggets?\u00a0 We laugh at the commercial that poses the question, \u201cWhich part of the chicken is the nugget?\u201d\u00a0 But there is little certainty in eating processed foods.\u00a0 What is safe one year may not be safe five years from now.\u00a0 Encouraging your clients to take control of their diet by making their own meals is one way <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how to become a health coach<\/span> who helps their clients gain certainty.<\/p>\n<p>Encourage your health coaching clients to plan what they eat and when.\u00a0 Have them take this job seriously.\u00a0 Now you know more than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how to become a health coach<\/span> who allows their clients to just eat haphazardly anywhere just to fill the void in their stomach.\u00a0 Provide accountability to encourage your clients to plan what they will eat, when they will shop, how they will gather their family and friends around a table that is about the connection instead of filling another unmet need.<\/p>\n<p>Colette Seymann<\/p>\n<p>JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to become a health coach is a common question, since health coaching is considered to be a super-niche.\u00a0 If you are eager to learn how to become a health coach in the sub-niche of weight loss, you must learn how to address motivation.\u00a0 People who are overweight are most commonly driven by the need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[233,285],"tags":[1014,1170],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-health-coaching","category-how-to-become-a-health-coach","tag-health-coaching","tag-how-to-become-a-health-coach","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18138,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions\/18138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}