Research shows that achieving your health goals is 70-80% diet and 20-30% exercise. While both are essential and compliment each other, there is no point spending hours in the gym each week only to set back your efforts with poor nutrition. While some personal trainers also offer nutrition advice, it pays to have a coach who specializes in the field.
Apart from weight management, nutrition also affects your digestion, sleep, energy levels, productivity, mood, emotional well-being, mental health, and a host of other chronic illnesses (like diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, and autoimmune conditions)… Need we say more?
Every time you sit down at a meal, you can make a decision to either fuel your body or feed disease. Let us help you with that decision.

A good coaching plan:

• Provides both structure and flexibility
• Allows for customization – the ability to customize based on individual skill level, goals, health condition, availability, readiness and willingness
• Sets goals that are simple, segmental, sequential, strategic and supported
• Provides accountability – constant access to one’s coach with reminders to practice the nutrition, exercise, or lifestyle habits that are currently being worked on
• Is data-driven through the use of progress monitoring tools – measuring indicators at regular intervals is important to assess the efficacy of the plan, and to keep doing what works and change what isn’t
• Is based on solid nutrition principles that are evidence-based, not fad diets or heresay

The 6-week “Reboot your Health” coaching program equips you with all the knowledge, skill set, and tools you need to continue on your health journey. However, beyond the 6 weeks, some individuals benefit from having a coach to continue setting goals with them and to provide accountability (we all know the importance of accountability and progress monitoring when trying to achieve long-term change). The 3-month “Transform your Health” coaching program does just this – it is an extension of the 6-week program, with continued support from your coach to move you further along your goals.
If you have several health goals you would like to achieve, or feel that you have a long way to go to achieve your goals, the 3-month coaching program may be more suitable for you. Read more about each service here.

While there is a time and place for this, we generally do not advocate counting calories – it is not a sustainable practice and perpetuates a mindset of restriction and deprivation (read our article on the problems with calorie counting here!). Learning to listen to your body’s hunger and satiation cues is part of the coaching process. When eating nutrient-dense whole foods and practicing mindful eating, it is easier to tune in to your body’s appetite (and reduces overeating/emotional eating). We also abide by the rule of inclusion rather than exclusion – increasingly eating more healthy foods will eventually crowd out the unhealthy foods.

It is not within our scope of work as a health coach to diagnose specific medical conditions or to prescribe medication. It is an individual’s personal responsibility to consult directly with their health care provider before, during, and after nutrition coaching.
Any information or advice provided by our coaches is not intended to be a replacement for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment for any medical condition. Any information or advice is to be solely relied upon as nutritional and lifestyle recommendations towards supporting a healthier body and mind. Individuals should consult their health care provider before making any health care decisions or for advice about a specific medical condition. Where necessary, we may refer you to the relevant health professionals.

Health coaching is a collaborative and personalized program that focuses on improving health and wellness. Health Coaching builds an individual’s capacity to achieve short- and long-term health and fitness goals. Participants in a health coaching program interact one-on-one with their health coach by telephone, instant messenger, email and online journal.
Unlike personal training or counseling, YOU, the client, are the expert when working with a health coach. Whether you’re working toward general wellness or a more specific health-related issue, a health coach will focus on enhancing your quality of life. Our health coaches guide, motivate, provide customized resources, and help you to set achievable goals. Health Coaches do not diagnose, prescribe, or give advice. Instead health coaches use their expertise to provide you with tools, not opinions.
The role of a health coach is unique. A health coach will not just ask you if you have done your crunches for the day UNLESS that is what you want your health coach to do. Instead, the health coach is there to help you identify and achieve whatever goals you set for improved vitality by coordinating the many resources available to you through this and other programs.

Stacy is a certified health coach through a reputable medical institution and holds various specialty certifications. Stacy has a masters degree level of education and 17 years of experience studying the field of nutrition and has studied counseling and various motivation techniques.

Professional coaches have long been recognized for their skills in helping athletes and executives perform at their best and Wellness Coaches are helping people reach their best health and well-being. Wellness coaching is done through a relationship that creates transformation and learning in people seeking to change the parts of their lives that are no longer serving them well. It starts with an engaging conversation in which we re-imagine your health and sometimes access what you already know.
Wellness coaching is a relational tool (with me) to get at your deepest wants and desires around your health and lifestyle. It is a conversation in which I listen intensely to what you want and work closely with you to use your strengths to get it. We focus on the present and the imagined future and only the past as it relates to prior successes. We work together to bring out your very best self and apply it to the wellness arena, “ to your own self be true”.

For most of us, getting the most out of life is important, and is probably something we all aspire to. Being healthy and well means different things to different people, but on some level all of us want to be physically able to carry out our daily activities without too much difficulty. This is often referred to as our general fitness level. Why is it important to be generally fit in both mind and body? Because, in addition to having to carry out our daily activities, including work, family responsibilities, and social obligations, most of us want to live long and productive lives. In order to accomplish this, we need to strive towards a healthy combination of physical, mental, emotional and social well-being.
My goal is to help you achieve this. I particularly believe that we need to maintain a certain level of health and wellness before anything bad (medically) happens to us.I speak from experience as a mom helping her children stay well, including helping one child keep down inflammation from a long term disease. Fighting the aging process and maintaining quality of life is an important goal of mine so that I can be active and comfortable for as long as possible and enjoy playing with my grandkids whenever that day comes! I have been able to keep my own joint issues at bay and reduce pain by implementing the nutrition and tools that I teach.
According to the American College of Sports Medicine, the reason health and wellness matter, is because being physically and emotionally fit is essential to decreasing one’s risk of developing many serious chronic diseases including heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, depression, arthritis, osteoporosis, and even some cancers. More importantly, if we do develop any of these conditions, generally, the fitter we are, the better we will be able to deal with and manage our illness.

Wellness Coaching can include discussions about anything that impacts your health, fitness, and general well-being. The five main areas that a Wellness Coach can help with are: fitness, nutrition, stress management, weight, and other health-related issues. Wellness Coaching can help you to eat healthier, get fitter, and increase your daily energy. The main focus with Wellness Coaching is to make long-lasting healthy lifestyle changes, not to provide quick fixes.

Most of us know that we need to be fitter, lose weight, exercise more, eat healthier, etc. but we find that it is extremely difficult to make these important and critical changes on our own. We might begin a fitness program or go on a diet, but we don’t seem to be able to follow through with what we started. The knowledge and information about being healthy is all around us, yet achieving good health is much easier said than done. A Wellness Coach can work with you to set goals, prioritize what matters most and help you to follow through! A good coach will help you build confidence in your ability to make changes and create new (healthy habits) on your own, so eventually, the coach is no longer needed. In Wellness Coaching, a close relationship and partnership with a coach provides structure, accountability, expertise, and inspiration. This enables the client to learn, grow, and develop beyond what he or she can do alone.

Do you have significant changes you want to make in one or more areas of your life? Do you need to overhaul your eating patterns, or begin to make exercise a routine part of your day, rather than have it be an afterthought? Do you know that your stress coping mechanisms are not working, but you don’t have any idea what to do about it? If so, a Wellness Coach might be exactly what you are looking for to help you establish and realize your health and wellness goals.

Weight loss IS Personal Training. Weight loss is the number one goal clients mention when joining a gym and working with a trainer. Stacy and her trainers will create a program that includes the appropriate amount of resistance and cardiovascular training to maximize your weight loss. The trainer will also make recommendations for proper nutrition and supplementation to assist with weight loss.