How to Know if We’re A Good Fit: Questions to Ask Yourself.
Are you willing to work hard and commit time on a daily basis?
The grocery shopping, meal preparation, food logging and intentional physical activity necessary for optimal health all require significant time commitments, often on a daily basis.
Are you willing to be uncomfortable as you move through the process?
As we begin changing your eating, exercise and lifestyle habits, your body will need to adjust. That transition process is going to be physically, mentally and emotionally uncomfortable.
Are you willing to stop eating foods that you’ve eaten your whole life?
If a food isn’t increasing your health, we’re likely going to eliminate it, at least temporarily. Grains, alcohol, sweets, desserts—the specific list varies from client to client, but you’ll need to be ready to eliminate foods that may have once been staples.
Are you willing to perform some intentional physical activity daily?
A sedentary body is not going to heal. It’s absolutely critical to to perform intentional physical movement of some kind (and there are a lot of different kinds) every day.
Are you willing to prioritize your health over your job?
Putting your health before your work will, perhaps counterintuitively, have a positive effect on your ability to do your job. On the other hand, ignoring your health will have a negative impact. Worst-case scenario: Who will do your job when you’re sick or when you’re dead?
Are you willing to spend more money on better food?
Healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy food. Be prepared to pay what you might initially consider ridiculous prices for high-quality food. The silver lining: You won’t be wasting money on other nutritionally empty foods.
Are you willing to put your health above social niceties?
It might be awkward to decline food when someone offers it or uncomfortable to go without eating rather than eat something devoid of nutrition, but you’re going to have to do it.
Are you willing to spend more time in your kitchen interacting with your food?
Having a relationship with your food—touching the vegetables, noticing their colors, experimenting with spices and learning new cooking techniques—is a key part of this journey to optimal health. Get comfortable with it, enjoy it, and make time for it.
Are you willing to take high-quality supplements?
Supplements might be necessary to correct a deficiency quickly and get you to that next level of health—and no, I’m not talking about the supplements you buy from Costco.