Why You Should Have a Nutrition Coach and How to Pick Em’
Often times, okay almost all the time, people have trouble with nutrition. You aren’t alone! Nutrition isn’t always easy for people. Yes, the staple rules of what is healthy and what is not are usually pretty concrete but what you do with that information is its own battle.
Many individuals just don’t know HOW to eat healthy. They are stuck between this diet or that diet. It can create this constant cycle of thinking, “This doesn’t work!” or “It just wasn’t for me!”
Is keto better? Or maybe I should be eating paleo? Which is going to make me lose 30 pounds?
Lucky for you! There are dedicated individuals who have committed a lot of time and effort into learning how to NUTRITION. A nutrition coach can help guide you in the right direction with your health and lifestyle goals. This takes the guesswork off of your shoulders and keeps you from bouncing around looking for answers.
Who to hire?
So you want to hire a coach… But how do you know you are getting someone legit?
Sadly in the world of health and nutrition there are some sneaky people. People looking to maximize their profits at the expense of their clients. Sometimes clients are vulnerable because they desperately want help, and there are some coaches who prey on this just to make a dollar. It isn’t ethical! They will claim to have some secret method for losing weight and make all of these bogus promises to gain interest. Many of their testimonials will be fake photos of people who didn’t even work with them.
When this happens it can create a distrust in the nutrition coaching community, making it tougher on all other coaches who mean well.
So, how are you going to determine if someone is the real deal? Do your research! Reach out to any of their old clients and see what their experience was like. These people usually have no issue sharing any bad experiences they may have had. You can check their credentials and see if that “certification” really qualifies them to help you. I would even go as far to research their scope of practice to make sure they aren’t going outside of that.
