What is The 12 Week Coaching Group?
The upcoming 12 Week Coaching Group is a course that helps people gain food freedom, obsess less about food, and end the dieting cycle of restriction and overindulging. In this course I teach tactical, practical strategies from a food philosophy called #moderation365. In addition, we work on mindset, mindfulness, and habit creating and breaking.
I create a private Facebook group in which participants engage on a daily basis. I post the weekly lesson there, and participants post their homework there. It's the perfect accountability group.
The "special sauce" is in a weekly individual coaching phone call, as well as texting between calls. Each participant has a weekly opportunity to check in with me, ask questions, get clarification, support, guidance, and accountability.
How was this 12 Week Coaching group born?
I have taught group fitness off and on my whole adult life, and I have been a personal trainer for the last 6 years. As I gained experience as a personal trainer, it became obvious that fitness/weight loss/health was about so much more than working out. Yes, exercise is crucial for many reasons, but I realized that nutrition played an even bigger role in getting healthy.
I then became certified as a nutrition coach through Precision Nutrition so that I could help folks with exercise AND nutrition. As I set to work applying what I learned, I then realized something else. A client's attitude-- her mindset-- played a HUGE role in the attainment of her goals. In essence, whether she thought she could or she thought she couldn't, she was correct. My wheels were turning-- there were so many moving parts to this wellness thing!
I stumbled upon a book called Willpower Doesn't Work by Benjamin Hardy that further convinced me that weight loss is not simply clean eating and exercise. I then dove down the rabbit hole of habits and behavior and got a Behavior Change certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
All this time I was working on my own mindset, habits, nutrition, and exercise. I loved (and still love) being my own guinea pig. My heart and my mind were opened in a big way and I have been reaching for a better version of myself every day since.
I began to wonder how I could share what I had learned with more than just the women I was training one-on-one. That's when I got the idea of an online program. I hesitantly offered a course called "The Wellness Project" to a small group of women in one of my group fitness classes. They said yes! All 5 of them! Thus began my first online program.
The Wellness Project has been through many iterations. I am okay with that-- I think of it as a living, breathing, ever-changing process. First I called it The Nutrition Challenge, but it turned out to be about way more than nutrition. Then I called it the Wellness Challenge, but I soon realized the word challenge did not encompass what the process entailed. It felt more like a project, so I changed it to The Wellness Project, and that stuck for a while.
Then I happened upon #moderation365 one day during quarantine, and I loved that the food philosophy lined up with what I already teach. It was a great opportunity to further my education and to offer more to my clients, so I jumped in with both feet. At this point in time, I have passed my test and have turned in my case study, and am now just awaiting my certificate.
How much does the Coaching Group cost?
The cost is $300. If you would like to pay in installments, I am happy to work something out for you.
When does the next Coaching Group begin?
Enrollment is open until April 2, 2021. We begin on April 12, 2021.
The upcoming 12 Week Coaching Group is a course that helps people gain food freedom, obsess less about food, and end the dieting cycle of restriction and overindulging. In this course I teach tactical, practical strategies from a food philosophy called #moderation365. In addition, we work on mindset, mindfulness, and habit creating and breaking.
I create a private Facebook group in which participants engage on a daily basis. I post the weekly lesson there, and participants post their homework there. It's the perfect accountability group.
The "special sauce" is in a weekly individual coaching phone call, as well as texting between calls. Each participant has a weekly opportunity to check in with me, ask questions, get clarification, support, guidance, and accountability.
How was this 12 Week Coaching group born?
I have taught group fitness off and on my whole adult life, and I have been a personal trainer for the last 6 years. As I gained experience as a personal trainer, it became obvious that fitness/weight loss/health was about so much more than working out. Yes, exercise is crucial for many reasons, but I realized that nutrition played an even bigger role in getting healthy.
I then became certified as a nutrition coach through Precision Nutrition so that I could help folks with exercise AND nutrition. As I set to work applying what I learned, I then realized something else. A client's attitude-- her mindset-- played a HUGE role in the attainment of her goals. In essence, whether she thought she could or she thought she couldn't, she was correct. My wheels were turning-- there were so many moving parts to this wellness thing!
I stumbled upon a book called Willpower Doesn't Work by Benjamin Hardy that further convinced me that weight loss is not simply clean eating and exercise. I then dove down the rabbit hole of habits and behavior and got a Behavior Change certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
All this time I was working on my own mindset, habits, nutrition, and exercise. I loved (and still love) being my own guinea pig. My heart and my mind were opened in a big way and I have been reaching for a better version of myself every day since.
I began to wonder how I could share what I had learned with more than just the women I was training one-on-one. That's when I got the idea of an online program. I hesitantly offered a course called "The Wellness Project" to a small group of women in one of my group fitness classes. They said yes! All 5 of them! Thus began my first online program.
The Wellness Project has been through many iterations. I am okay with that-- I think of it as a living, breathing, ever-changing process. First I called it The Nutrition Challenge, but it turned out to be about way more than nutrition. Then I called it the Wellness Challenge, but I soon realized the word challenge did not encompass what the process entailed. It felt more like a project, so I changed it to The Wellness Project, and that stuck for a while.
Then I happened upon #moderation365 one day during quarantine, and I loved that the food philosophy lined up with what I already teach. It was a great opportunity to further my education and to offer more to my clients, so I jumped in with both feet. At this point in time, I have passed my test and have turned in my case study, and am now just awaiting my certificate.
How much does the Coaching Group cost?
The cost is $300. If you would like to pay in installments, I am happy to work something out for you.
When does the next Coaching Group begin?
Enrollment is open until April 2, 2021. We begin on April 12, 2021.
