Here’s how I look at it…
When it comes to losing weight, fitting back into favorite clothing, feeling comfortable at the beach and all the other desires of an emotional eater…
The reality is, the journey ahead of them to lose the weight they want is like climbing a mountain.
And it’s a steep uphill climb to the top for them.
(Nothing wrong with that - that’s why they hired you)
But imagine for just a minute…
The triggers they carry with them while trying to make that climb are like heavy (and invisible) anchors piled up in their back-packs.
Everytime they begin the climb, it doesn’t take long before the triggers weigh them down, burn them out and force them to head back down to the bottom of the mountain.
...Until life at the bottom gets uncomfortable enough to want to make the climb again and repeat the process of taking a few steps up and then back down.
This is the yo-yo effect.
Eventually they think something is wrong with the trail.
So they hire a coach hoping they can show them another route to the top of the mountain.
But the anchors don’t just disappear because they have a guide now.
The guide can know the fastest and most proven path to the top of the mountain…
But as long as those anchors are still dragging the emotional-eater down, they won’t be able to stay on the path - and eventually they’ll turn around and head right back down the mountain…
...Complaining about the path and questioning the guide the whole way down.
Of course, this is super frustrating to the guide who has been to the top, studied all the different routes for years and knows this path is the absolute best option…
...but since the guide also can’t see the anchors, they just get mad and frustrated with the client. Thinking they don’t actually want to go to the top...that they’re just being lazy and uncommitted.
Now,
As if the invisible anchors aren’t challenging enough…
To make matters even worse, in most cases, the roadmaps the nutritionists valiantly worked so hard to develop, end up triggering another obstacle because it didn’t match their “personality”...(making the climb even more difficult).
For example,
Let’s say your client is afraid of heights, and not only do they have to lug around a back-pack full of anchors, but the path they’re being led down traverses along narrow trails running alongside giant cliffs…
The chances of them staying the course is slim-to-none.
Here’s how this works in a real world scenario:
Let’s say there’s an emotional eater who ‘secretly’ loves control, needs variety and gets anxious with too much structure/rigidity...yet their coaches program gives them an exact # of calories to hit and a strict and limited variety of food they can eat.
It’s not gonna end well.
Same thing happens in the opposite scenario.
Some clients get anxious and stressed out with too much variety, too many options and not enough structure. If they’re program is too flexible and open to “listening to their bodies”...
Again, it’s not going to end well.
Listen, as coaches who are tasked to lead clients desperate to get healthy, lose weight and regain control over their eating habits; I believe it’s our ethical duty to learn these two powerful skills.
#1- How to remove the anchors (Triggers) off of our clients' backs so they have the stamina and capacity to consistently climb towards their goals.
#2- How to create customized road maps based on our clients personality and triggers so they can consistently follow the path up the mountain.
You will learn how to master both skills inside of TriggerMapping™.
Become the final stop on your clients weight loss journey today.