NUTRITIONAL COACHING

When you set your appointment for your fitness evaluation, we reveiw your health history, and your fitness and weight loss goals. The fitness evaluation is also a snap shot of your current eating lifestyle. Let’s face it most of us know we have room for improvement, or worse, we know our eating has created a body we are dragging around. If you want to lose weight or just feel better, we will taylor our coaching to what you want.

Our plan is to teach YOU how to EAT FOR YOUR GOAL. We’ll set up a Stair Step Plan that will be sure you set the stage for fat-burning without slowing your metabolism. Slowing the metabolism is a common shortfall of most weight loss programs. We teach you how to eat so you maintain or restore metabolism so you can burn your fat in the furnace of your fat-burning metabolism. Remember, the size of your furnace increases with your strength and activity level.

In addition to the profound and important reccomendations below, learn more in our Transitions Lifestyle System. The Transitions Lifestyle course is offered about every 8 weeks. It will teach you how to eat whole low-glycemic foods to stabilize blood sugar. Stabilizing blood sugar levels sets the stage for optimizing fat-burning and increasing overall strength and energy. For more details on our Transitions program call us.

Eating for your goal is the most answered question in the fitness industry. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of plans that may or may not work for you. Fortunately, we have based our wellness coaching on the few profound things most of the experts agree on. Whether you choose to train with us or not, we encourage you to adopt these few basic principles:

	1) Drink more clean, filtered water. If you are active or attempting to burn fat off your body, Aim for 10 to 12 eight oz glasses of clean water per day.
2) Eat 4 to 6 meals a day every day! (that could be six same sized meals, or breakfast is the biggest tapering off towards dinner, or three meals and two to three snacks.)
	3) Limit saturated fat and avoid highly processed foods like chain restaurant food, candy, sugary cereal, packaged junky food.
4) Mind your serving sizes. Know how much you are eating; don’t guess! American restaurants have doubled their serving sizes the last few years! Be diligent!
	5) Five is fine, but NINE servings of fruit and vegetables EVERY DAY is divine ! Make sure you have a fruit or vegetable at EVERY meal.