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3 Habits of My Most Motivated Clients · Doctor Turned Health Coach

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  Welcome to the doctor-turned-health-coach podcast.
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  My name is Dr. Ashori. Today we're going to talk about some of the clients I have.
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  And as you can imagine, as a health coach, I see all kinds.
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  There are people who can seemingly make any decision. They are incredibly motivated,
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  and they can exercise when they need to.
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  They can eat all the right foods. And then, of course, I have clients who just
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  have such a hard time organizing their thoughts, making the right decisions.
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  They're just so frustrated with some things that are just seemingly very easy for others.
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  As a physician, as a family medicine physician, of course, in my medical practice,
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  I see patients who have a lot of lifestyle diseases.
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  And oftentimes, we can say that, well, if they were able to make some different
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  choices, they likely would have a much better outcome.
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  But we have to be careful because there can be some level of judgment there.
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  And that's usually not helpful for anyone, right? It's not good for the doctor.
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  It's not good for the patient.
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  And in my health coaching practice, the three traits that I've seen,
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  that I think we can learn from, from some of these seemingly most motivated individuals,
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  include, the first one is that they know how to retrain their taste buds.
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  Don't worry, we'll get into that.
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  Number two, they make it really easy for themselves to make the better choices.
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  And number three, they're often not very critical of themselves.
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  There's not a lot of self-deprecating thoughts, right?
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  They don't criticize themselves if things don't go according to plan.
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  So starting with the first one taste buds why am i mentioning taste buds well
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  there's a whole industry designed and created to make it it's their mission
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  to ensure that we eat as much,
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  of process of these processed foods that are available as possible and that
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  often leads to overeating too much salt intake too much sugar intake blood glucose
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  problems you name it and And so that industry, the food industry,
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  knows how to manipulate our taste buds.
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  Some of my clients who are very good at this, they know that they themselves
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  can, if somebody else can retrain their taste buds, they themselves can train
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  their taste buds. And that's exactly what they do.
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  Over time, when they realize, oh, here's a problem, looks like I'm getting too
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  much salt, I'm having too much sugar, I'm really dependent on sugar.
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  What I'm going to do for a while is I'm just going to have regular oats.
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  I'm going to make it not that exciting yes, in the beginning I'm just going to have some,
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  bland oats maybe I'll put a little bit of salt in it oh, maybe I'll toast the
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  oats a little bit okay, that's doable I do that long enough and all of a sudden
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  that food is very palatable and enjoyable and you look forward to it,
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  then you kind of start bit by bit adding in a little bit of cinnamon,
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  adding in some hemp seeds, or adding in whatever you like. Maybe it's cardamom.
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  And you create that taste profile that you enjoy.
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  And what they do is they avoid the overstimulation from tastes that are salty, umami, fried, right?
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  All of these, very sweet, of course.
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  Maybe it takes them three months, maybe it takes them six months,
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  but I can tell you that some of my patients who used to have coffee and creamer and sugar,
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  now if they had that same thing, they would just pretty much throw up because
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  they're so accustomed to this
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  black coffee or their tea, and that's the retraining of their taste buds.
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  They've made it intentionally a mission to retrain their taste buds.
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  What else can we learn from this group?
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  One of the aspects of my
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  clients that makes them successful in their health coaching
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  journey to achieve the more ideal version of their health is that they have
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  these daily habits maybe they go to bed at a certain time they make sure that
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  they're getting their seven to ten hours of sleep yes a lot of people get 10
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  hours of sleep there's nothing wrong with that,
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  and they go to the gym when they should they
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  exercise when they should they go for a walk when they should oftentimes
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  they achieve this because their entire day is sort of planned around these things
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  these are the individuals who tend to prioritize their health they tend to prioritize
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  certain things more than others so for example if if.
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  Fun times with their friends and having beers out was their priority,
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  they would make that a priority.
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  They would get their job done as soon as possible.
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  They would pick a bar that is as close to their job as possible so that they
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  can maximize the time with their friends.
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  They would have a perfect list of their favorite beers and topics they would discuss.
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  They would bring playing cards so that there would always be something fun to do.
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  When health is their priority, it's the same thing.
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  They know they even they even choose their job
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  and where they work strategically so that they have time to do the activities
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  they like if it's running they're going to pick the right running shoes for
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  the right time in the year to pick the right location so that they can go for
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  a quick job even if it's for 10 minutes they're going to make sure that they get it done.
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  When it's when it's about eating eating healthy they
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  don't they're okay with going out to dinner with
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  friends socializing absolutely but they know strategically what dishes to order
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  what changes they can make what they can bring with themselves if they need
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  to to add a little bit extra taste to their to their bland dishes that are often
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  available in restaurants for people who are more health conscious.
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  Or maybe they'll grab something quick to eat at home so that they're not starving
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  and then they can get that smaller dish in the restaurant.
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  Sleep is another big one. A lot of my clients, especially with kids,
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  especially with young kids, tend to have a hard time securing that protected
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  time that you need, those couple of hours before sleep that you can actually
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  wind down so that you can fall asleep.
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  Because as we know, or it's important to know, that 80% of sleep problems often
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  are traced back to sleep hygiene, which we can call sleep habits.
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  Securing, protecting that time before you go to bed is one of the best ways
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  to make sure that you get great sleep.
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  And then the final one is the mindset. Anytime we do something that we shouldn't
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  or we think we could have done something better,
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  it's common and it's normal to have that self-criticizing talk, that background talk.
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  I've found in my health coaching clients who are very successful with their
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  overall health strategies, they don't have that.
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  Of course, there can be many extremes of it. Some people are more on the narcissistic
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  side and they believe everything they do is correct.
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  But most of the clients I have just believe in themselves and they know that
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  they can only do their best.
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  When something doesn't go according to plan, they can compartmentalize that and let it go.
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  And they focus on the next day. They almost never will go one or two days,
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  more than one or two days, losing their momentum, their streak.
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  If it fails, they can hold space for themselves, they can love themselves,
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  and they get right back on the horse, as they say.
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  So guys, these are the three things that I think have been incredibly helpful
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  for my clients. I'd love to hear what's worked for you.
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  You can email me, hello at drashori.com.
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  The link's in the description. And thank you for listening today.