Coaching clients
Please note this example of what I do with a client. When we first started working together, my client, Gina, was struggling to make healthy eating choices and establish healthy habits both during the week and on weekends. Like many of my clients, over time Gina figured out systems and habits that made her weekdays go so much better (e.g. she started making her lunch the night before, she meal planned dinner with her husband Sunday nights, she started getting regular grocery deliveries, etc.), but weekends continued to be a big struggle. Week after week, Gina and I would meet and she would tell me how frustrated she was that her weekend, once again, got off track. I asked Gina if she was making a plan for weekends. Was she (in advance) thinking through what social engagements and plans she had for the weekend and then deciding how she would handle each one, eating-wise? Gina said that she was doing it a little bit, but mostly informally and in her head (not writing anything...