Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching
There are as many myths as there are diets, the bottom line is diets don’t work and proper nutrition does.
Nutrition and lifestyle coaching (NLC) is a no nonsense way of filtering
through diet and nutrition myths. There are as many myths as there are
diets, the bottom line is diets don’t work and proper nutrition
does.
There are several steps involved for weight loss, weight gain and good
health.
These tests below are a typical protocol for a NLC practitioner, which
provides important information about a client’s health and where
to begin helping them achieve overall health.
1. Fill out a metabolic typing questionnaire.
This tells the client if they are a carbohydrate, mixed or protein type.
One of these types dictates the client’s biochemical individuality.
Example: Your mother is a vegetarian and your father is a carnivore, you
are a combination of both. Let’s say your mother did all the shopping
and cooking and it was all vegetarian. To make this short, you would not
have been eating to accommodate your biochemical individuality.
2. Fill out a health appraisal questionnaire (HAQ).
This checks all of the clients systems like heart, lungs, liver, bowel,
kidneys, sex organs, brain, central nervous system, skin, etc, etc…
Each section will have a rating of low, medium, or high. High being a
state of priority which would be addressed first unless there are multiple
highs on the chart. In that case to make things simple you could start
with the very left hand column. Which brings us to our next topic the
bowel?
3. Fill out the Colon transit time test.
The client eats beets, activated charcoal, or a can of corn if they don’t
have other colon issues like polyps, diverticulosis, and or colitis.
Having done that the client marks the time they took any of those and
waits for it to make it’s way out the back door. A time is marked
when they first see it and another time is marked when they last see it.
The amount of time the ingredients takes to pass will give important information.
4. Sleep and activity log.
This will determine if the client is getting the required sleep to help
heal the body. Activity log allows the client to see if they are doing
too much or not enough.
Quick and helpful suggestions for proper nutrition.
• Divide your body weight in half and drink that number of ounces
in clean pure water per day.
• Eat fresh organic meats and vegetables.
• Avoid anything that comes in a box or package, this means it has
been processed or modified for packaging and production. This includes
some organic products which may have small amounts of organic ingredients.
• Avoid sugar, processed breads, pasta.
• Don’t food combine; an example would be protein with an
orange juice, or having desert after meal. This usually causes a chemical
reaction and the sugar putrefies the protein. Eat fruits 30 min before
the protein or several hours after the protein.
• Structure your meals in an inverted pyramid. Breakfast should
be your largest meal with protein being a large component. Dinner should
be the smallest meal and protein still being a large component of the
meal.
• Stop eating before 8:00 pm, this includes snacking.
• Don’t eat in front of the boob tube or drink cold beverages
at your meals. Both halt the digestion process.
• Chew your food before you swallow, and eat the protein on the
plate first. Eating the protein first allows the fats from the protein
to send a signal to the pituitary gland to tell your stomach that you
are feeling satisfied and to stop eating. Ever wonder why restaurants
give you a drink order, bring bread, and suggest appetizers. They carb
you up to keep you eating.
• Stop thinking of food as the product of your weight problems.
The problem is the type and quantity of food at usually the wrong time
or not eating at the right intervals, which is every three to four hours.
For more information or to schedule an appointment please contact us by phone 416.879.2377 or email fhs@fusionhealthstudio.com
