Introduction to Nutrition Coaching
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TAC Fitness is excited to now offer Nutrition Coaching, personalized to help you crush your fitness goals. Molly Kempel has joined our team as a nutritionist and is ready to connect to help you build a plan that optimizes your health while fitting seamlessly into your life.
There’s a lot of nonsense in the nutrition space, so we thought it might be helpful to have Molly answer some top FAQ’s around nutrition coaching and how it can help you.
First, what exactly is nutrition coaching?
Nutrition coaching is a personalized service that helps you reach your fitness & wellness goals through tailored dietary guidance, lifestyle adjustments and ongoing support. If you have goals around:
- Physical/ athletic performance
- Weight loss or gain
- Living long and living well
- Injury recovery
Then the right nutrition can help you get there. Standardized diets often focus on restriction and temporary changes, but nutrition coaching offers a sustainable path to health, emphasizing flexibility, balance, and informed choices. Coaching is for people who are looking to understand how to take the next step in their health journey and better support their goals.
Why is nutrition important?
If you’re working hard towards a healthier you but ignoring the nutrition piece you’re leaving progress on the table. Ever wondered how much you should be eating, when you should be eating, or what you should be eating to support your goals? Building an understanding of nutrition will accelerate you towards your goals- the food we eat drives our bodies, from cellular interactions that create energy, to controlling fluctuating hormones that impact our mood, food is a main driver of how we feel and perform throughout the day.
Today’s nutrition space is a bit of a Wild West- influencers and dramatic headlines have taken over and there’s a new piece of “advice” every week, usually based off of some cherry-picked data.The right coach can help you sort through this by recognizing the scientific foundations that exist in nutritional science, but also the individual nuances that make a plan successful.
Ok, but are you going to tell me to give up chocolate/ bread/ coffee?
Absolutely not- the difference between “dieting” and effective coaching is that coaching is based around making sustainable lifestyle changes, not outlining tons of restrictions. I don’t prescribe to restrictive diets, intense food tracking or cutting out food groups. Unless there is an identified sensitivity or allergy your plan should allow you to live your life, enjoy the foods you love, and fit into your current lifestyle. A plan is only as good as your ability to implement it, and that’s going to mean something a little different for everyone, based on your lifestyle, preferences, schedule, household, and a number of other factors.
Ok… I’m pretty busy- what do I have to do every day?
Coaching starts with a 30-45 minute sit down where we dive into your goals, food preferences, lifestyle and health history. From there we identify the main areas we can tackle first to get you working towards your goals, and build a plan that helps you stack incremental changes on top of each other to hit that bigger target. We work through a personalized app and every week there are 10 check in questions (it takes 5 minutes), a quick conversation if needed, and a habit/ challenge to add. You also have unlimited messaging through the app to answer any questions that may come up. Every month we connect for 30 minutes or so to discuss your progress, and in the interim we connect through emails/ messages. This is not designed to be another burden on your busy schedule- it’s simple, straightforward, and effective.
Within my app there are dozens of resources from recipes to guides, with more added each week. I believe coaching is a partnership, and that you need to have the information you need to make the most informed decisions for you. These resources are straightforward, science based and help you build the knowledge base you need in order to continue navigating the nutrition and health space.
What’s the first step?
Wondering how nutrition coaching fits into your plan? Let’s have a quick chat- I’d be happy to answer any questions, talk more about my process or start to brainstorm a plan for you! Get in touch at Molly@theaspenclinic.org.