When challenging yourself to any "improvement/development," it's easy to assume that discipline, focus, and motivation are necessary components for success. While important, they are not the only ingredients needed. One would argue they are not even the main ingredients for long-term change. Instead of willpower and restraint, studies show that a more comprehensive approach, including our thought patterns and behaviors, impacts the outcome, especially regarding health and wellness.

Enter: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). As it's commonly referred to, CBT is not a new therapeutic approach. It is, however, becoming more popular in the health and fitness industry. This practical and scientifically proven methodology combined with nutrition and lifestyle coaching is more than just a weight loss solution but rather a sustainable lifestyle change.

It is the future of Health and Wellness as it prioritizes the process of learning, shifting, and HEALing back into the idea of health. CBT health coaching will guide you from feeling tired of struggling to survive and wanting to do more by addressing how your thoughts and feelings impact your specific behavior. Often this begins with a desire to eat healthier and lose weight but leads to total lifestyle transformation and elevated self-worth. The methodologies encourage exploring how your thoughts and emotions impact your life, thus allowing for habit and sustainable lifestyle change. It becomes most critical when looking to make changes in your health and wellness, namely weight loss.

**Here are 3 ways CBT Health Coaching can support your weight loss journey:**

Recognize and Reduce Over Eating

Even if you're eating the healthiest foods, you won't lose weight if you're overeating. In the basic breakdown of weight loss, if you're consuming more calories than you are using (i.e., you're eating more than you are burning), you will have difficulty obtaining results. CBT Health coaching gives you the tools to identify emotional or mindless eating and helps guide you to recognize appropriate hunger cues. Additionally, you'll learn to address triggers leading to those unhelpful behaviors and replace them with habits in line with your goals. You can start learning how to do this will be shared for free in the Mindset Matters Masterclass!

Understand Response Patterns and Manage Hunger Confusion

Do you know the difference between being hungry and having a craving? Do you know what cravings are communicating? Are you aware of your eating habits and how they connect with feelings such as boredom, stress, grief, or even being thirsty? Do you know how hormones, gut health, and early life experiences impact how your body and brain comprehend hunger? All of these and more are addressed with CBT Health coaching. You can recognize the differences and start giving your body what it NEEDS instead of what you think it needs.

Establish healthier habits

Diets don't work. Period. It's like putting a bandaid on a wound gushing blood. It's a temporary fix that never fully addresses (or heals) the problem. Until you identify unhelpful and unhealthy habits and replace them with ones, you won't ever make a lifestyle change. Our habits are the foundation of our health and happiness. If we embody thoughts and behaviors that don't align with our desires are; we sabotage our own goals and dreams.

Create a sustainable lifestyle change

Change is hard, but it is not impossible. You cannot control what has already happened or choices you've already made. Establishing the tools to reframe your thoughts and adjust your patterns of behaviors is a powerful way to release your limiting beliefs and embrace your self-worth.

If you've been struggling to successfully make changes that don't feel restrictive, inhibiting, and bringing long-term joy, CBT wellness coaching could be a positive addition to your life.