A health coach doesn’t make you count calories, nor does she stand over you at the gym and force you to work out. Rather, she focuses on changing your mindset towards food, wellness and exercise so you can hit your health goals. Clara How hired one and went through a six-week programme to see if it would make her ditch some of her bad habits.
I exercise at least twice a week, and I’ve always assumed that this gave me licence to eat whatever I wanted. So I was taken aback when health coach Tisha Jaswantlal told me otherwise at our first coaching session.
Diet is far more important than an exercise routine, she explained. What we put into our bodies affects our health on a much larger scale. Hearing that, I decided that my long term aim would be to develop better eating habits and maintain them. See, I tend to gravitate towards comfort food, which means creamy pasta and a bucket load of dessert. If a health coach could kick that dependency on comfort eating, I was all for giving it a go.
I had assumed that Tisha would just tell me what I should and shouldn’t be eating. But I got so much more from her than that. She gave me an education on nutrition, fitness and wellness – like how to manage stress and develop better sleeping habits.
This story is from the February 2018 edition of Her World Singapore.
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