How do you other trainers get clients to make small changes in eating habits?
I agree with what the others have said here. I would add that reminding my clients that we’re in this for the long-haul; here to make a lifelong, lifestyle change in their eating habits, and that this journey cannot be made, or at least sustained, by trying to make it in a drastic way. I remind them that if some of the ‘drastic diets’ that they may have heard or read about truly worked over the long haul, then the market place would not be inundated with literally hundreds of diets. I usually also ask them whether they think they could sustain ‘XYZ’ drastic diet for the remainder of their lives, and the honest answer that usually comes back is ‘no.’ Small, steady changes towards a healthy diet IS sustainable and doable, and their best way to success.
LaRue, CSCS
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