4 little secrets to help you lose weight

Before transitioning to life coaching, I worked as a health coach. The primary reason for this shift was my observation that as a health coach, most women came to me mainly for weight loss rather than overall health improvement. I realized that weight loss and being healthy were not always synonymous.

- Kim Klein

Through my experience with numerous clients, I noticed that the real challenge wasn't necessarily related to food or a lack of nutritional knowledge. Instead, it often came down to a low or lack of self-worth. I believe that when we love ourselves, feel worthy, and valuable, we tend to take better care of ourselves and make better life choices.

I'd like to share what I consider to be four relatively unknown secrets about weight loss.

The first secret: a little something called Primary Food and Secondary Food: (This is something I learned while attending the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.)

Primary foods, or nonfood sources of nourishment, are what really fuel us. Nutrition, the actual food we put in our mouths, is a secondary source of energy. Remember what it was like to be a child, running wild with joy and imagination? Picture a group of kids playing outside, so immersed in the fun that when their mom calls them in for dinner, they shout back, "Not yet! We're not hungry!" Eventually, they come inside, wolf down just enough to be excused, and dash back out to soak up the last bits of daylight.

When bedtime comes, they fall asleep, content, spent, and not thinking about food at all. What truly nourished them was joy, connection, and freedom.