One-On-One Coaching With Heather

My mission as a coach is to not only help you achieve your weight and health goals...

... but it’s also to help you fix all the areas of your life that impact your weight and relationship with food—including personal relationships, work, family time, holidays, and the challenges of dieting on weekends—all areas that can be challenges while focusing on losing weight and changing your habits.

Heather’s Coaching Philosophy

What I have realized is that weight issues do not happen in a vacuum. They are a combination of many habits and behaviors we have acquired over time. My coaching philosophy is to help fix the whole person, not just the symptom—which is weight.

We will look at all the areas of your life that are not serving you and ultimately causing you to run headfirst toward the Oreos when you get home from work. We’ll discuss self-sabotage on the weekends and what makes you sit on the couch at night and mindlessly eat while binge-watching your favorite show on Netflix.

Everyone starts out just wanting something simple. They’ll say, “Heather, just tell me what to eat or tell me what exercise plan to do,” but what they don’t see is that there are a ton of reasons and obstacles that will get in their way of executing that plan without proper coaching.

I work with people who know how to diet.

They’ve been on multiple diets. In fact, they could probably all write their own diet book if they wanted to! So, the issue is not a lack of knowledge. The issue is their life is not structured in a way in which they can execute the behaviors necessary to get to their goals.

You live your life rushing from work, to picking up the kids, to just showing up at PTA meetings and one week blurs into the next week. Before you know it, months have passed and you still haven’t achieved what you want to.

Pairing with me as a coach will force you to look at your life differently. We’ll define the systems that are broken and restructure them.

What Can I Expect From Heather As A Coach?

The reason that people struggle with changing their lives on their own is because they’re simply living their lives—not evaluating them. They can’t see the forest through the trees.

As your coach, I’m going to be helping you break out of the ruts and the routines you’re currently in. We’re going to find new ways for you to start making progress in simplifying and streamlining your life.

Coaching will help you see things completely differently. By bringing me on as your partner, we’re going to find what is currently not working for you, make improvements, set new goals, and get you moving forward.

You can continue to do this on your own, but chances are, if you’re like many of the people I work with, you’ve started over multiple times. You’ve probably told yourself, “I’ll start again on Monday, or January 1st, or when the kids go back to school. I’ll have everything under control before vacation or after the holidays.”

And each time you promise yourself that this time it will be different. You promise yourself you’re going to make big changes and you’re going to reach your goals, but then after a few weeks or a few days, you find you are worn out because you’ve bitten off far more than you can chew. Instead of finding out how to make it work on a smaller scale, you quit and repeat this cycle over and over again.

What if we stopped this cycle?

What if we took small changes and layered them on top of other small changes in order to make big progress over time?

What Are Some Of The Issues Heather Can Help Me With?

Some of the issues that I’ve been helping my one-on-one coaching clients with over the years are:

Creating healthy food boundaries, and similar boundaries for family and friends
Being happy with where you are now, not the future
Taking control of your professional life and finding balance
Improve communication with your spouse and kids and reduce emotional eating
Changing your view of what Health and weight loss looks like
Focus on actions and behaviors instead of outcomes
How to ask for what you need and want without getting frustrated and let down
How to prioritize time for yourself
How to cope with emotional and stressful situations without turning to food
How to enjoy traveling for work and leisure
How to create healthy meals that everyone in the family will enjoy
How to eat out and still stay on track with your goals
How to make fitness a regular habit

How Do I Know If I Need A Coach?

When you get tired of repeating the same cycle over and over again and you’re willing to look at weight loss and health on a deeper level, then coaching is for you! I see people’s health and weight as a physical outcome that stems from many areas being unbalanced and unhealthy in their lives.

Together, we can figure out what these areas are and start to make improvements so you can be healthier and happier today!

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If you are ready to take action, then please take the coaching survey. Heather reads every survey submitted and if you and she seem to be a good fit for each other, you can schedule a free coaching call* to see if coaching is right for you. (*based on availability)

What Do Others Say About Heather’s Coaching?

Through the years, Heather has helped hundreds of people take back control over their weight issues. Here’s what a few of them had to say about working with her.

“I feel like I’ve done almost everything! Susan Powter, Jenny Craig, Tops, Atkins, Keto, WW, starvation, vegan, P90X- all of it! I’ve learned from my coaching experience that if my head was in the right place, I could have made any one of those programs work for me. As with all my dieting experiences, I went all in. I focused so much on following a plan and doing it exactly as prescribed, I forgot to include myself. I was so busy working for the plan I forgot to evaluate if that plan worked for me! Heather has taught me how to look for solutions to MY overweight.

With her coaching, I have been able to figure out why I overeat. I’ve been able to identify patterns that do not serve me. I’ve been able to take a really good look at how I approach problems and see that my approach (overly critical, task-oriented) can actually be sabotaging my efforts because they do not make me feel good and they do not matter.

At the end of the day, the plan, the food, the exercise…none of it really matters unless your head is screwed on right. Before coaching, I had stripped threads in my head. No matter how hard I tried to screw my head on right, those stripped threads just made it get stuck. I finally feel like it’s threading easily. Now that my threads are fixed, I can work on screwing this head on right!”

Laura

COACHING CLIENT

"In the beginning, I had hoped that this would work but lacked the confidence and skills in getting the weight off and learning to maintain the weight loss. Now it is over a year later, and I can say that I now have the skills and that confidence. It is still a bumpy ride, but a far more manageable one. I remember back to other times I got the weight off. I remember living every moment in fear because I wasn’t sure what to do to keep my weight off. I really just lacked the skills and the confidence in those skills."

"Learning to set boundaries for the first time in my life and following through on those boundaries. Learning to believe in myself. Standing up for myself for the first time in my life. It has been so freeing."

“My goals changed as we unpacked my story. I realized my primary goal was not weight-loss, but to save my life. This may sound like an exaggeration, but I’ve ended up in the hospital in trying to conform to what the military wants me to be. If I had not heard your podcast and started working with you, I would have eventually died or had a much shorter life span because what I was doing was killing my body physically and emotionally.

By making my goal and getting through weigh-ins without spiraling down into the depths of despair, my life has been given back to me. Another goal I did not realize I had until I started working with you was how to handle big-picture time and the rest of my life NOT during weigh-in seasons. I’m still working on it, but I am confident that I will figure it out because of the tools I received from coaching.

Sunny

COACHING CLIENT

“My coaching relationship with Heather has helped in so many ways. First of all, I must say that Heather is truly a caring person who makes you feel that you are not alone. She has had her own struggle with weight loss and knows where you are coming from. Second and very important to me was the one-on-one time with Heather. I had listened to the podcasts and the meetings but for me, the one-on-one time with Heather really got me on track by making me accountable for my actions.

It also gave me the confidence to ask questions that I would have been embarrassed to ask in a group. The time with Heather allowed me to personalize my weight loss journey. That is something missing from any other weight loss program that I had tried and believe me I have tried them all. Heather looks at you as a whole person. Losing the weight is just a small part of the journey. She is concerned about your overall health both mentally and physically.

My one-on-one sessions addressed all of these areas. In addition, at the end of each session, Heather and I agreed on what my goals would be for the next couple of weeks before we talked again. She helped me break the goals down into smaller chunks so that they weren’t so overwhelming. Heather has given me such an incredible gift. She has helped me realize what it will take for me to continue to be successful with my weight. My hot buttons for success are tracking my food and daily exercise. I feel that Heather is always there if I need a refresher or another reality check.

My only regret is that I wish I had contacted Heather much sooner. Truly the cost of my sessions is money well spent for my happiness, my health, and my wholeness. Thank you Heather. You have truly saved my life.”

Madeline

COACHING CLIENT

“Heather had insight into my life experiences that I did not see myself. She could see where the stumbling blocks were for me and was very up-front about what they were. She helped me deal with them in a strategic and positive way. We are all so close to ourselves that even the most self-aware person can miss what is staring them in the face. That was the most valuable thing I received. Someone else being able to help me face and then change my situations for the better.”

“I had tried every diet program and book out there. Always to lose some, and more significantly, ALWAYS to gain it back. I FINALLY found that I could lose with maintenance in mind. I lost 25 pounds since finding the HSM podcast and working with you. The integral piece was learning to maintain. Taking a maintenance break was the scariest thing! And I did it and I learned a ton. Thank you for encouraging that piece into our time together. I still have a few pounds to go but have confidence that I have the tools to do it this time. What was super helpful was all of the work we did on my life and my habits and my work situation—beyond the food—all the stuff that was tripping me up. I am super successful in my life and could never figure out why my food and dieting couldn't be successful as well. I made that work and life success work for me by setting boundaries and scheduling with a different attitude.” Patty COACHING CLIENT

“I feel like I have exceeded my goals! I never thought that I would lose over 20 pounds and keep it off but most importantly my mindset is the biggest change for me. I will never go back to quick fixes and shaming myself into losing weight.”

“Heather’s enthusiasm, knowledge, and positivity were invaluable. I always felt as if I was Heather’s only client. During our calls, I had her undivided attention. She always remembered what challenges I was facing and what goals we had set in past sessions. Heather’s support was invaluable to me.”

“Heather and I spent way more time talking about and making strategies for dealing with my emotional health than on actual food-related topics. Those were in there too, but if the underlying issues are not worked on - any kind of "diet" you pursue is temporary.”

“I have exceeded my goals because I have been able to maintain my weight at 10 pounds below my Weight Watchers goal weight for the past two months and I feel so much better. With Heather’s help I have also been able to develop some extremely useful tools and strategies for long-term maintenance. While I still would like to lose another 10 pounds, Heather has helped me to appreciate the need to maintain where I am right now for a while.”

Victoria

COACHING CLIENT

“Heather’s coaching has helped me examine the way I think about food and diet and fitness. It has helped me learn to reframe my thoughts and move toward my goals with that reframing in mind. It has shown me that setting goals is fine, but that we also need to ask "ok, how likely am I to realistically do XYZ in approaching those goals?" It has helped me realize that I am more than my relationship with food and weight. It has helped me learn to be honest with myself, and to put myself first so that I can be there for those I love.”

“Mindset, mindset, mindset. We began with some simple tweaks to my diet (making it easier to stay on plan) and then worked a lot on mindset - what you had the capacity to take on at any given time. I had never really absorbed before that dieting is a stressor. And of course, it is! That makes total sense. But I never thought of it that way before and I think that led to a lot of self-recrimination when I needed more patience.”

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