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Vegetarian Coaching: Become A Happy Healthy Vegetarian In No Time
Happy, Healthy, and Veg In No Time? Isn't That A Radical Idea? Maybe!Unless you have a vegetarian coach. With coaching, you can become a happy, healthy vegetarian in about 1/10th the time, with a fraction of the difficulty, and expense, and 200% more enjoyment than without a coach. I recently came across this definition of coaching: "Coaching is a professional service, providing clients with feedback, insights, and guidance from an outside vantagepoint...coaching is an on-going collaborative partnership built on taking action..." How Coaching Can Help You Become A Happy, Healthy VeggieWe become vegetarians for the best of reasons - to improve our health, to eat in harmony with nature, without killing animals and the environment, and because it feels right to us. Becoming vegetarian is empowering, joyful, enlightening. In practice, the vegetarian transition is long, and on-again-off-again. It affects every aspect of your life, in unpredictable ways. Do any of these situations sound familiar to you?Doubt: You worry about being vegetarian because of concerns about health and nutrition. You wonder - am I doing the right thing, harming my health, stunting my children's growth, should I really be vegetarian? Am I getting enough protein, B-vitamins, too much carbs, etc? Confusion: You don't know what kind of vegetarian you should be, what's true and what's not about what you read and hear. You feel pressured to be vegan, or to stop being vegan, to eat what everybody else eats, or not! Overwhelmed by information overload, and your own ignorance - having to learn all this new stuff, not knowing what to do. It's like starting a new profession, or moving to a new place. You've abandoned all that's familiar, but you don't know the new territory or what to do. Isolated: You don't know any other vegetarians, and nobody understands. Your vegetarian diet is causing difficulties with relationships, work, school, etc., and you're growing apart from friends and relatives. Need a Change: Maybe you've been vegetarian for years, but lately you've felt that your health and well-being aren't what they should be, and you think you need to make some changes, but you've gotten into kind of a rut, and aren't sure what direction to take. Frustrated:Vegetarian food, especially organic and non-gmo, is expensive, hard-to-find, difficult and time-consuming to prepare. Disillusioned: You've gone from one diet to another to another, each one promising to be The Ideal Diet, and you've reached the point where you wonder if this whole vegetarian thing isn't a crock, and it's time to go back to the "real world". Being vegetarian is natural. But there isn't a set of instructions that works for everybody, because the process of becoming vegetarian is unique to every individual. That's why we run into difficulties with our new, strange diet, and why vegetarian coaching is so valuable! Working one-on-one with a coach, who can see where you are, and what needs to happen to be where you want to be, is a short cut to vegetarian fulfillment. My own experiences becoming vegetarian made we want to help my fellow vegetarians. My Vegetarian Education - School Of Tough BeansI started off being vegetarian - it seems like a hundred years - but it was actually thiry-seven years ago. I'm an adventurous, do-it-yourself sort, and there isn't much about being vegetarian that I haven't tried or experienced. Such an approach to life has both rewards and drawbacks. On one hand, I'm able to see and think for myself - I've never automatically believed what "experts" tell me. On the other hand, I paid a high price for my long, slow, hazardous learning curve. I would have benefited greatly from having a coach. I might not have believed a thing they said, but if I had, it would have saved me years of angst and malnutrition! When I was quite young, I fell in love with the idea of being vegetarian. It seemed like the cure for my screwed-up life. I wanted to be pure. I started off cutting out red meat, and eating a lot of fish. I cooked big messes of vegetables, very badly. Ditto brown rice. Then I went on a macrobiotic diet, which wouldn't have been so bad, except I really took it to extremes. I ended up skin and bones, scaring my mother half to death. Think Gulag survivor! After my macrobiotic phase, I learned to bake bread (very yeasty and dense), and ate lots of cheese, and copious amounts of heavy grain and bean dishes. At that point I still didn't own a vegetarian cookbook, and didn't know any other vegetarians. After a while even I noticed that I wasn't in the best of shape. With the help of some kind people, I recovered, and realized what I had done to myself, and became very cautious. I tried to eat a healthy conventional diet, learned to cook veggies, and gradually worked my way back to being vegetarian. I eventually found some cookbooks, and met a few other vegetarians, but there was still way too much struggling in the dark. My experience was a bit extreme, but not so very different from that of many others I've met. (I was just more perverse than most!) But why should it take you that long, or so much difficulty, to be a successful vegetarian? Is Savvy Vegetarian Coaching Right For You?Coaching doesn't work miracles. It's not something I do for you. It's a process, which starts with letting go, and ends with understanding and a plan! I want to work with people who are open to change, and want to work toward a vegetarian lifestyle. You have to decide whether you feel comfortable with my philosophy and my coaching style. I invite you to read my bio, and the SV advice letters. I don't know if I'm the right person to help you, or if you need any help. SV's mission is to support all things vegetarian, and some of you may just want to visit Savvy Vegetarian, and check out: Advice Articles Blog Recipes Reports Resources For those who think they could use a little assistance, Vegetarian Coaching can help you to quickly adopt a happy, healthy vegetarian lifestyle. 7 Steps To Success With Vegetarian Coaching:1. An easy, practical, gradual approach, to increase your confidence, give you a diet that works for you, and provide a solid foundation for your easy, fulfilling, unique vegetarian lifestyle. Wouldn't it be great to have that kind of support for becoming vegetarian? 2. Coaching saves you time: One of the biggest surprises for everyone who becomes vegetarian is how much time it takes. It isn't really surprising - in the natural course of things, that much evolution would take many lifetimes. But here's the good news: Vegetarian coaching will save you many years of unnecessary confusion, trouble and expense in becoming vegetarian. You don't need to experience the tough stuff in order to learn and grow - in fact, hardship stunts your growth! 3. The social divide which suddenly appears when you go vegetarian can be a shock. It shouldn't be that big a deal, but people we know don't always react well when we step outside the accepted range of behaviors. Vegetarian coaching greatly increases your chances of going vegetarian without alienating your family & friends, because I tell you where the social land-mines are buried, and help you avoid them. 4. No agenda: I don't endorse particular vegetarian diets, and I don't have a personal agenda. That's because there is no one diet that will work for everybody. Your diet has to work for your body type, your age, your lifestyle, and your health. There are also many possible variations in diet based on the seasons, and where you live. Basically, it's your diet, and you're in charge. 5. But you're not alone! You don't have to do it all by yourself. If you just want me to advise you, I'm okay with that. You shouldn't have to re-invent the wheel. 6. On the other hand, working with a coach can make you self-sufficient. When we work as a team, and figure things out together, then you own the knowledge, and the process of arriving at that knowledge. You've reset your brain to solve that particular kind of problem and its variations whenever they arise, and you'll continue making successful decisions for yourself long after you've forgotten you ever talked to me! 7. Eliminate worry, confusion, doubts, and difficulties, so that you can relax, and have fun becoming vegetarian! You deserve it! Food is one of life's greatest pleasures. My Personal Guarantee:Your first session is free! We'll get to know each other, talk about your vegetarian goals, and do some coaching. If you want to continue with coaching, I guarantee your satisfaction. If you feel that it hasn't helped, I'll thank you for an educational experience and refund your money. I don't want to be paid if you're not satisfied. At the end of your first session, we'll agree on practical goals, and an action plan for you. If you choose to continue with coaching, the fee is $75 per hour, payable by credit card. Remember, if you're not satisfied, you pay nothing. "We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginning all our lives." - Thomas Merton (1915-1968) American religious and writer [a.k.a. Fr. M. Louis] Set Up Your Free Introductory Coaching SessionPrivacy policy and disclaimers. If you'd rather, call me at 1-800-433-8344. I'm not always available, but evenings and weekends are usually good times. I'll call you back asap.
All the best to you, and Happy Vegging!
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