9 Mind-Blowing Lessons I Learned When I Hired a Health Coach

 I was eating poorly

Well, technically I was eating healthy, but I wasn’t eating for weight loss. I hired a health coach, Alex Salzberg, a certified yoga instructor who specializes in both fitness and nutrition: A year after having a baby, I knew my body wasn’t where I wanted it to be. I still had one size left to lose and I was determined to fit back into all the clothes hanging in my closet.

We took a look at my diet together and saw that I was focusing on high protein, low carb, but a lot of my carbs were still coming from grains that weren’t helping me shed fat. So instead, we decided to switch things up by introducing a ketogenic diet (high fat, low carb, moderate protein) that would help my body burn fat.

I ended up loving the diet so much—I dropped a size during the first 2 weeks—that I’ll probably stick with it in the long run, and shift to a maintenance version once I’ve reached my goal weight.

from Diet & Weight Loss – Reader's Digest http://ift.tt/2x8NSlf