Get More Nutrition - Weight Loss Coaching by fitinfun

If you are obese or overweight, you are most likely not getting enough nutrition in your diet. My weight loss coaching puts nutrition front and center. Let’s get started doing better with your food choices now.

What are Essential Nutrients?

Here is a graphic of the essential nutrients from a site I love called World’s Healthiest Foods.

If you get the optimum amount of all of these things each day, you will be well on your way to health. This graphic is a starting point. But holy cow, this is intimidating! How are you going to figure it out?

We’re taking small steps, consistently over time, and you will not even feel any pain. Instead your body is going to spring to life!

Adding Essential Nutrients

The steps to add these wonderful substances to your life are these:

• Pick a nutrient to tackle
• Find out how to get it in your food
• Find out out how NOT to get it in your body
• Start eating the good sources 5-7 times a week
• Create the habit of eating the new substance
• Continue the new habit
• Move on to the next habit

Vitamin C – Our first nutrient

Let’s start with Vitamin C. Here is a graphic of good sources for it from Wellness News at Weighing Success: April 2012, but this same graphic is all over the internet and seems to be stolen from elsewhere.

Pick a nutrient to tackle

VITAMIN C - We are starting here because Vitamin C is an easy nutrient to get.

Find out how to get it in your food

Pick some of the items above and add them to your current diet

Find out out how NOT to get it in your body

Make sure you are getting healthy sources. Do not take supplements if you can help it. Do not eat any foods that are on the “dirty dozen” list unless you go organic or locally grown and know to be “clean.” For example, potatoes are the "most sprayed" food in America. Fast food french fries are not a good source!

Start eating the good sources 5-7 times a week

Figure out how to add the new foods to your diet. For example:

• squeeze lemon or lime on any other food
• Eat a kiwi fruit each day
• Add cabbage and radishes to your soup, salad, or stir fry

Create the habit of eating the new substance

Now you need to develop this habit.

• Put Vitamin C at the top of your thoughts and keep it there.
• Use your weight loss journal and record how you are doing.
• Be kind to yourself. Habits take 30 days to take hold.
• If you fall down today, get back on track tomorrow.

Continue the new habit

Keep going and do not give up. Keep this list of foods with you and make sure you always have one or more of them ready to eat.

Move on to the next habit

Coming soon! I will post the next nutrient in a few days. I hope you will be well on your way with this one and will let me know how it is going.

Objections you may have

Please tell me any negative thoughts you have about this idea. Most of this thoughts fall under the categoriy of excuses for not losing weight. Here are a few I've heard from previous coaching clients and my rebuttals:

I would rather just take a pill and not worry about getting nutrients in my food.

Supplements are often not absorbed properly in our bodies. I do not know of any I can recommend. My goal is to get you eating real food that fuels your body and this is an easy place to start.

Who says we need these nutrients? Show me scientific studies.

Do you have any studies about the garbage you are eating now and why it made you fat? I can get studies for you, but this would be a needless distraction to the efforts your are making now.

Tell me exactly how much Vitamin C I need each day so I can track it.

You need way more than you are getting and this small effort is probably not enough. Once we get you going on a few of these nutrients, we will find the best trackers for you if your really want to count at that point.

I hate every single food on this list and won’t eat any of them

Let’s look again and see if we can find ways to incorporate them without problems. If this is your sticking point, we need to work hard to start somewhere. Your tastes will change before you know it, but you have to give it a chance.

I heard Vitamin C will kill you

Anything will kill you in huge quantities. You are not going to eat huge quantities of Vitamin C and this plan is unlikely to be your cause of death.

This is not enough effort. I need quick results.

You are obese. You did not get this way in one day, and you have not lost weight with any other method. Try this idea and lets keep going. In a few short weeks and months, you will see results if you stay committed.

The outline of my weight loss program for you includes these topics:

• Overcoming excuses
• What are you eating now?
• Winning the Food Fight
• Exercise Effectively
• Clean up the rest of your life
• Rest, recover, regroup
• Becoming the new you

Today we started tackling the food fight and we will be continuing from here.

I have already written a whole book about weight loss excuses and I highly recommend it. You can take a look at Chapter One for free and see if it might be helpful for your efforts.

My post today is for the steemiteducation tag. This is a great place to teach others what you know. Go on over to the @steemiteducation blog, follow directions, and start posting there too. We want to learn from you!

If you would like individual and private weight loss coaching, I can help you. Contact me and lets get this party started!