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Monday, March 24, 2014

Why A Weight Loss Coach

By Aurelie Appasamy


Do you enthusiastically start a new diet to get off it only a few days later? Do you follow a diet perfectly then go overboard and over indulge on the weekend and undo all your hard work that way? Do you have a personal trainer or a nutritionist who have laid out a perfect exercise and nutrition plan for you but you just cannot stick to those programs. Do you spend hours at the gym only to undo all your hard work by overeating or drinking? Is your weight loss journey just a constant battle despite the help from a personal trainer or nutritionist? What If I told you that you are only one step away from success. All you have to do is stop the self-sabotage? You are getting professional help from a personal trainer and nutritionist and congratulations for stepping up, now you need one more thing and that is to take care of your mindset and do some work on yourself. Aurelie is a weight loss coach and assisting people in overcoming self-sabotage is what she does best. She is trained in Neuro Linguistic Programming a technique commonly used to foster personal development and facilitate change.

Aurelie has been involved in the fitness industry for a long time and unfortunately the approach taken by many weight loss professionals isn't complete and only address one side of the equation. Exercise and nutrition although are the two pillars of weight loss, those alone aren't enough to produce long term results as there is a third pillar of weight loss which is the mindset. A weight loss coach is qualified and trained in mindset coaching and can help you with your mindset. The thing is many people think that adopting a great success mindset is as simple as being more positive and happy. But this isn't true. Our mindset or state of mind depends on our emotions and emotional states and our thoughts patterns. If it was as easy as being positive wouldn't you be having the outcomes that you wanted by now? Creating the mindset that you need requires a great deal of self-awareness, it includes exploring and examining your fears, the way you have interpreted events from your past and the way you deal with your own emotions on a subconscious level. A weight loss coach assist you in gaining more insights into your own behaviour, emotions and patterns so that you gain a deeper understanding of your own behaviour. With the help of a weight loss coach you will finally understand why you self-sabotage, why you have those cravings, why it always seems that things get in the way of you reaching your goals. Once this is understood, a weight loss coach will also assist you overcome those emotional barriers with life coaching tools and a techniques such as NLP, EFT and hypnosis.

A weight loss coach will assist you look at various areas of your life to determine where the underlying issue could be coming from.

If you are not happy about your weight and body image right now, chances are you are also not happy in other areas of your life as well due to your weight. For instance your weight may be affecting your self esteem which is in turn affecting your relationships. This occurs because we are holistic individuals and every aspects of our lives is related to each other. This also means that if you aren't happy with your body image and health, chances are there is something else impacting on your weight and health. It could be lack of fulfillment in your job, it could be lack of recognition, needs not being met in the bedroom. Aurelie can work with you individually and help you uncover the underlying source of your weight issues. Aurelie will assist you wil various areas of your life as well and help you have more life satisfaction.

There are a few differences between life coaching and therapy, counseling and advising. Many professionals such as personal trainers and nutritionist tend to take an advising role as they are going to give you expert professional advice on nutrition and exercise. However a weight loss coach does very little advising. A weight loss coach rather will work with you and ask you questions to explore your own goals, motives emotional barriers and will equip you with mindset tools to take action and succeed. Therapy on the other had tends to focus on past events or past traumatic events and has a healing component to it. Therapy isn't goal or outcome orientated but is useful in dealing with past traumatic events that may have been stored and are affecting your ability to deal with life. Coaching on the other hand has some healing components but mostly focus on goals and is outcome focused. Coaching is designed to help you set realistic goals and overcome the barriers or obstacles that gets in your way.

A weight loss coach such as Aurelie Appasamy is also compassionate. Compassion comes from understanding a behaviour without judgement. A fantastic life coach is extremely compassionate because she understand and is trained in human behaviour. This is something that many weight loss professionals lack as they lack the ability to dig deeper into human behaviour. Tell me does your personal trainer really understands why you self-sabotage? Does he or she really understands why you don't stick to your eating plan? Why you have those cravings or eat emotionally? The problem is when we are unable to comprehend something, we make assumptions and there are some very common assumptions made in the fitness industry. For instance, if you aren't able to stick to a program, you must lack will power, if you lack motivation to exercise then you must be lazy, if you are overweight then you must be disorganized. These are all common misconceptions and assumptions made which of course isn't true. There is a lot more behind the scenes and a weight loss coach trained in human behaviour knows this. A coaching environment is a safe and judgement free zone, where you can explore freely without being judged and where you do not need to be afraid of making mistakes.




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