Why You Might WANT To Hire a Coach [Ep. 95]

0:00 This is the eat well. Well live well podcast. I'm Lisa Salsbury. And this is episode 95. Y you might want to hire a coach. Welcome to Eat Well, Think Well, Live Well; the podcast for women who want to lose weight, but are tired of counting and calculating all the food. I'm your host, Lisa Salsbury. I'm a certified health and weight loss coach and life coach, and most importantly a recovered chronic dieter. I'll teach you to figure out why you are eating when you aren't hungry, instead of worrying so much about what you are eating. Hello. So good to talk with you today. Thanks for tuning in. I hope that your weather is getting just as beautiful as mine is.

0:42 My garden is really taking off. I got all new tomato cages this year, so I'm really hopeful. That I can contain the jungle that I have had the last couple years. All right. This episode is all about. What coaching is and kind of what it isn't. The first thing I want to say is no one needs a coach. But you might want one. This is something I heard from a coach I trust and admire. And I have thought on it several times in the last few months, because many, many coaches say almost the opposite. They say everyone needs a coach. It's like having a dentist. Everyone needs a life coach. But I wanted to talk to you today about why you don't need a coach.

1:27 But why you might want one it's it's totally different. So I often say my clients lose weight, but I'm not going to say that you lost weight because I was your coach. You did it. You did the work, but coaching might just be the exact right tool for you. Nail guns. Don't build houses. But they are great tools to use. Could you build a house without a nail gun? Sure. Probably. I don't know, not a construction worker, but you could use a hammer, might be slower. You could use screws and drills and all the other things that bind wood and sheet rock and all the house, he things together.

2:08 There are lots of tools in the tool belt. When you build houses. The same is true when you're trying to lose weight. You could join a gym that hopefully has a nutrition program. You could find a weight loss partner, friend, someone to keep you accountable and to report to you could download an app and follow the instructions there. Although this is my least favorite way. You could buy a book, follow that you could get a journal and write down everything you eat. There are tons of tools and useful resources for you to lose weight. Coaching. Is just another tool. The nice thing is that coaching actually encompasses a lot of those other tools. My coaching is a nutrition program, accountability workbook with journaling pages and a place for your food journal.

2:55 And your thoughts about food and cravings and all the weight loss things rolled into one. So that's reason number one, why you might want to hire a coach because it's a tool that you just want in your tool belt. Reason number two. You might want to hire a coach is you might like who you are when you are being coached. I like who I am when I'm being coached. It's kind of like brushing my teeth. I mean, sometimes you could skip brushing your teeth, right? Your oral health is not going to greatly suffer. If you fall into bed without doing it sometimes. But do you like that? Or do you like the way it feels when you brush your teeth and wash your face and then get into bed?

3:38 You may just like who you are and how you feel when you're being coached. I know I've mentioned this one before and I don't want to hang all of my coaching on this one client's comment, but it just hit me so profoundly. Like, yeah, this is why I love coaching. She said during one of our sessions, I'm becoming an emotionally stronger person, which makes me happier than being a thinner person. She has lost, I think, close to 40 pounds. I'm not sure. I, um, I've lost track, but this is what I'm talking about. She likes who she is because of the work she has done with coaching. You might like who you are and how you show up in the world.

4:21 When you're working with a coach and you implement the things that we talk about. Another client recently said, I have also switched my top priority. From the number on the scale, over to the feelings I want to have throughout the day. Because those feelings are what we're actually chasing. When we think of ourselves at a goal weight, I can cultivate those feelings now instead of waiting to lose all the weight. I think this really illustrates the idea of liking who you are when you're being coached and focusing on intentionally creating your life instead. Of only focusing on the scale weight. Which I think can happen when you're just simply doing a diet.

5:06 Third reason you might want to hire a coach is to check your blind spots. I had a client recently say that I helped her reach her goals by reflecting back the truth. Of what I could not see. I thought that was really interesting. Where do you think your blind spots are? Where are you thinking that you're like, quote unquote, doing everything right. Or maybe you aren't noticing what thoughts are really getting in the way of moving forward or moving past your cravings. The thing about true blind spots is that most of the time, you really truly don't know what they are. Often a client is telling me something, either as fact, or as some trivial side note. And I'm like, ah, there it is.

5:48 When I reflect that back to them so they can hear, Hey, this is what you're thinking in that situation. It's often really surprising. This is similar to when you're writing an essay for school and you're reading it. And editing it and thinking it's fine. And then you read it out loud to someone else to see what they think. And that's when you hear the grammatical error. Sometimes our thoughts sound very. Normal, if you will inside our head, but then when you're speaking them out loud telling a coach what it was, you were thinking in the moment of the overeat. I'm like, oh, there it is. When you're telling the story of why you overate, I'm able to hear that thought error in there and then just help you see it as well.

6:35 Okay. That's it. Just to sum up reasons you might want to hire a coach. Number one, it's a great tool to have in your tool belt of weight loss. Number two, you like who you are when you're being coached or you like who you are becoming as you implement the tools in the program that I teach. And number three, you're interested in what your blind spots might be. Coaching helps you consciously decide how to live your life, but you still create that life. If you say I couldn't have done it without you, after we're done coaching, then I've missed out on helping you understand the power.

7:15 Always lies with you. I understand. That's my client's way of saying thank you. And I can just say you're welcome, but I hope I always show them. How they are the creator of their results. And I can still not believe that they couldn't have done it without me. People don't need to hire me. You don't have to have a coach to lose weight. But people who get the most out of it just really want one. They want to work with a coach. If you've been listening to the podcast and your intuition has been nudging, you like, Hmm. I wonder what it would be like to work with a coach. And she sounds like just the kind of person I could talk to.

7:56 You are probably a person who wants to hire a coach. Really the best way to find out if coaching is going to work for you is to try it, try some coaching. Schedule a time to talk to me directly and test it out. Schedule a free food planning session so we can meet on zoom for 45 minutes and really get started on your weight loss. Hope to talk to you soon. As always, thanks for listening and sharing the eat. Well think. Well live well podcast.