How to Find the Perfect Weight Loss Coach for Your Journey
If you’re tired of yo-yo dieting, unsustainable quick fixes, and feeling like nothing works, you may be considering a weight loss coach to help you finally achieve lasting results. But how do you find the right coach?
The key is to focus on someone who addresses the root of the problem—your mindset. After all, 92.8% of the weight loss challenge lies in transforming your mental and emotional relationship with food, not in resorting to pills, shots, or other unnatural methods.
Here’s how to find a weight loss coach who can guide you to success by helping you heal from the inside out.
How to Find the Perfect Weight Loss Coach for Your Journey
Following are 10 things to look for to help you find the perfect weight loss coach. Let’s check them out:
1. Look for a Coach Who Focuses on Mindset Transformation
Weight loss is more than just calories in and calories out. A great coach will help you understand the beliefs, habits, and emotions driving your eating behaviors.
Instead of prescribing restrictive meal plans, they’ll teach you how to reframe your mindset and create a positive relationship with food. Get a weight loss mindset if you truly want to break free of the struggle!
2. Seek a Coach Who Helps You Heal Emotional Eating
If you eat to manage stress, boredom, or emotions, you need a weight loss coach who can help you recognize and address these patterns. Emotional eating is one of the most common barriers to weight loss, and a good coach will provide tools to manage triggers and build healthier coping mechanisms.
If your eating behaviors stray into binge eating, compulsive overeating or mindless eating, let your weight loss coach know and as long as she has the tools to teach which heal the root of the problem, then you’ll get to learn how to break free of those unhealthy eating behaviors too!
3. Find a Weight Loss Coach Who Prioritizes Natural, Sustainable Weight Loss
Avoid coaches who promote quick fixes like appetite suppressants, injections, or extreme diets. True transformation comes from adopting sustainable habits that nourish your body and mind.
A natural approach ensures you’re not just losing weight but building lifelong health. Learn the tools you need to be able to manage your emotions and mindset to not only lose weight but keep it off, naturally.
4. Ask About Their Philosophy on Behavior Change
Does the coach emphasize long-term changes over short-term results? Effective weight loss coaches guide you to uncover and change behaviors that have kept you stuck. They’ll help you identify patterns and create realistic strategies to overcome them.
Gaining tools to lock in behavior change is very important too. It’s interesting because since 2009 I’ve been coaching amazing women (and a few cool men!), and I’ve had several coaching clients who had had therapy before finding me. After going through my coaching system, they said they gained tools from me that they’d been looking for but had never gotten in therapy.
Make sure to find a weight loss coach who shows you how to step into your own power to change your eating behaviors.
5. Check for Experience with Inside-Out Transformation
Look for testimonials or case studies that highlight how the coach has helped others achieve results by addressing the mental and emotional aspects of weight loss. A coach who specializes in inside-out transformation will focus on your unique journey rather than offering a one-size-fits-all food plan, which is likely something you already posses – the “How to Eat” diet or lifestyle plan.
The problem with only following a food diet is that it leaves out 92.8% of what you need – the inner self transformation so that you shift how you think and believe about yourself, about food, and about losing weight. Once you get the right mindset for weight loss, it becomes struggle-free! Change your mind to change your body.
6. Ensure They Provide Accountability and Support
Changing deeply ingrained habits isn’t easy. The right coach will be there to celebrate your wins, guide you through setbacks, and hold you accountable. This partnership is essential for building confidence and maintaining motivation.
A mistake that many make when trying to lose weight is they ask their spouse or a friend to hold them accountable. This never ends up working because either the spouse or friend won’t want to hurt your feelings so they won’t tell you the truth, or if they do then you can end up feeling resentful when they’re trying to hold you accountable.
Hire a professional coach instead and let them do the job of helping you follow through with action to match your words. I myself, verify with my clients if they want my Get Real coaching and accountability, which they end up confirming they do, since that is one of the reasons they want me to coach them. When you can get out of your own way with coaching and stay consistent, amazing things can happen!
7. Ask If They Help with Overcoming Self-Sabotage
Self-sabotage often stems from limiting beliefs about your worth or ability to succeed. A skilled weight loss coach who specialized in mindset will help you uncover these blocks and replace them with empowering thoughts and beliefs, enabling you to stop undermining your progress.
Clearing limiting beliefs is key to your weight loss success. I rely on my master level NLP certified skills to help my clients clear a whole list of their worst limiting beliefs in just about an hour. You can’t even imagine the shift until you experience it.
8. Consider Their Approach to Food and Freedom
A great coach will teach you to enjoy food without guilt, recognize hunger and fullness cues, and break free from the cycle of restriction and overeating. Look for someone who emphasizes mindful eating and balance.
Don’t expect to achieve all of this immediately though, it takes time to get from where you are to where you want to be. The Good News is that you CAN get there, you just have to take the first step, and then take a string of baby steps along the way!
9. Look for a Weight Loss Coach Who Respects Your Unique Journey
The right coach will take the time to understand your history, challenges, and goals. While you have things in common with other emotional eaters, binge eaters and yo-yo dieters, you have your own unique life experiences, which need to be respected because they brought you to where you are now.
What’s empowering is that you can absolutely keep everything that’s working for you in your life right now, and just focus on shifting the unique parts of you that are sabotaging your weight loss goals. All of this comes together, step by step!
10. Trust Your Instincts
Ultimately, finding the perfect weight loss coach is about trust. Choose someone you feel comfortable with—someone who inspires you, understands you, and genuinely wants to see you succeed.
It also helps when you can find a weight loss coach who has been where you are now. I myself, understand what it’s like to be stuck in the struggle, wanting to lose weight but you just can’t stop eating. When you’re stuck in old food cycles, sugar addiction, binge eating, emotional eating, when food is all you think about but you want to lose weight, it can all feel very very frustrating.
The good news is you don’t have to stay there, and if you tune into your gut, ask yourself what’s going to change if you keep trying to “go it alone” with these problems. If you really do want help, reaching out can require a lot of trust, trust in your gut, trust in yourself that you are worth the effort to do something new and different for yourself.
Ready to Transform Your Mindset and Achieve Lasting Results?
If you’re ready to heal the root of your overeating and weight loss struggles and embrace a natural, sustainable approach to weight loss, I invite you to apply for a complimentary weight loss discovery session. Together, we’ll explore what’s been holding you back and create a clear plan for transforming your mindset and behaviors from the inside out.
I’ve had many clients over the years who have said they felt it was a “divine appointment” to work with me. They found me by reading one of my blog posts like you are now or through my podcast, The JoLynn Braley Show. Who knows, maybe you’ll say the same thing! But we’ll only know if we talk so I have a first step for you if you’re ready to transform your mindset and achieve lasting results:
Click here to apply now. Your future self is waiting!
