You Be the Coach - Sample

The person who I am coaching and his/her goal:

Lorna: She doesn’t have good nutritional habit and often feels tired during the day. Her goal is to eat more regularly so she can better meet her nutritional needs and have more energy throughout her day.	
1. Pre-Contemplation (red)
Lorna’s friends comment that they either don’t see her eat lunch during the day or she grabs a quick and usually unhealthy snack. She doesn’t really think it is an issue. 	2.  Contemplation (orange)

Lorna knows she needs to make a change but doesn’t know where to start.  She is anxious because she doesn’t have a lot of time in her day to shop for food and has a limited budget.
	3.  Preparation (yellow)

Lorna starts to talk to her friends about what they do to eat healthy on their limited budget. She is also trying to think of better affordable foods she can have as a grab and go snack at work. 
	
What Lorna says to indicate she is in this stage of change: 

“I can’t really see why it is your concern or what the big deal is to you.” 

Strategy to help my client to the next level: 

I would explain to Lorna how her unhealthy eating habits might lead to health issues later on that she could avoid with small changes. 
	What Lorna says to indicate she is in this stage of change:

“I know that if I want to feel better I have to eat better but I don’t have time to make healthy lunches.” 

Strategy to help my client to the next level: 

I would coach Lorna to think about one small change she can make to her food choices that will work with her budget and have her explore some options for us to talk about. 
	What Lorna says to indicate she is in this stage of change:

“I want to start changing my eating habits at work but don’t know what I what would be a healthy affordable option for me.” 

Strategy to help my client to the next level: 

I would coach Lorna to find and decide on one affordable healthy food that she will buy enough to last her the whole week.  This is a ready to go type food such as fruit. 
	
4.  Action (green)

Lorna has found three different low cost healthy snacks she can grab on the go to avoid buying unhealthy food and has started bringing them to work. She can see that she will actually save money by not buying snacks at work.
	5.  Maintenance (blue)

Lorna now has a healthy snack once a day at work and eats it when she feels her energy getting low. She still gets energy lows in the afternoon. 

	6. Relapse (purple)

When Lorna sleeps in and does not plan ahead to keep snacks at work she still grabs the unhealthy choice to keep her energy up. When she feels her energy dropping she reminds herself to plan to leave healthy snacks at work but is not always successful.	
What Lorna says to indicate she is in this stage of change:

“This is great. It is not as difficult as I thought.”

Strategy to help my client to the next level: 

I will encourage Lorna to set a realistic goal of taking one healthy snack with her each day so she can stick to her plan and her goal of healthier eating. 
	What Lorna says to indicate she is in this stage of change:

“I love that I feel better and feel good that I am keeping to my goal of one healthy snack a day.”

Strategy to help my client to the next level: 

I will encourage Lorna to include a second healthy snack for the afternoon to avoid that energy low	What Lorna says to indicate she is in this stage of change:

“I have so much more energy but it’s hard to keep this up when I am rushed for time.” 

Strategy to help my client to the next level:
 
I will coach Lorna to try to leave a few non-perishable healthy snacks at work so she still has a healthy option when she is running late.