Warrior Nutrition

Your SFHW Health & Wellness Coach will guide you and be at your side, coaching you to reach your health and wellness goals. They will help you make gradual, sustainable changes that will create huge improvements in your overall well-being. Your coaching will include education in the following concepts:

Bio-individuality
Personal tastes and preferences, natural shapes and sizes, blood types, metabolic rates and genetic backgrounds all influence what foods work best for each individual. This approach takes all these factors into account to create a personalized way of eating.

Crowding Out
Most nutrition experts give their clients a list of foods to avoid, which explains why so many people are turned off by nutrition. Crowding out adds more to your diet rather than cutting back.

Deconstructing Cravings
Many people believe cravings are a problem, but cravings play a critical role in understanding what the body needs.

Energetics of Food
All food has distinct qualities and energetic properties, depending on where, when and how it grows, as well as how it is prepared.

Food/Mood Connection
Scientific research and personal experience both demonstrate that what we eat affects how we think and how we act.

Integrative Nutrition
No one diet works for everyone. Learn the pros and cons of many popular diets because all diet programs contain elements of truth.

Primary Food
Sometime we are fed not by food but by the energy in our lives. Healthy relationships, regular physical activity, a fulfilling career and a spiritual practice can fill your soul and satisfy your hunger for living.

Salt
Although salt is not inherently bad, most Americans consume more than double the daily recommended amount of sodium. Experts agree that diets high in salt are a major contributor to high blood pressure.

Whole Grains
Whole grains have been a central element of the human diet since the dawn of civilization. They are some of the best sources of dietary fiber and B vitamins and provide long-lasting energy.

What is Primary Food?
We have a philosophy about food—it’s that everything we consider as a source of nutrition is really just a secondary source of nourishment.

The foods you eat are secondary to all the other things that feed you—your relationships, career, spirituality, and exercise routine. Those are the things we call primary foods.

All that we consider today as nutrition is really just a secondary source of energy.

Think back to a time when you were passionately in love. Everything was exciting. Colors were vibrant. Intimacy was magical. Your lover’s touch and feelings of exhilaration sustained you. You were floating on air, gazing into each other’s eyes. You forgot about food and were high on life.

Remember when, as a child, you were playing outside, having fun? Suddenly, your mother announced dinner was ready, but you were not hungry at all. The passion of play took all of your attention.

Sometimes we are fed not by food but by the energy in our lives.

These moments and feelings demonstrate that everything is food. We take in thousands of experiences in life that can fulfill us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

We hunger for play, touch, romance, intimacy, love, achievement, success, art, music, self-expression, leadership, excitement, adventure and spirituality.

All of these elements are essential forms of nourishment. The extent to which we are able to incorporate them determines how enjoyable and worthwhile our lives feel.

Nutrition
Nutrition is the study of food and how it nourishes the human body. Obviously, there is a direct link between what we eat and our weight. Diet and weight are something many of us struggle with our whole lives. If you are interested in learning more and working towards eating a healthier diet, the information on the links below offer a great foundation. If you want to know more, or are ready to make a change to a healthier lifestyle, contact us. We can help!

Links to Help You Work Towards a Healthy Weight!

Menu Planner
This is a great online tool for counting calories.

Portion Distortion
A simple interactive tool for reviewing portion size, the calories consumed, and how long it can take to burn off the calories.

Balancing Calories
Everything you could ever want to know about calories!

What You Should Know About Popular Diets
The real truth behind popular diets, amazing claims, and what you should really know about these diets.

Strategies for Success
If you are interested in losing weight, start here..

Tips for Eating Out  
How to make good choices when you eat out.

How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label
This site explains how to “decipher” a food label and understand the information so you can make better choices.

Fruits & Veggies: More Matters  
Look for the Fruits & Veggies: More Matters logo in your grocery store.