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THE TOP WEIGHT-LOSS COACHES
Being overweight can lead to a myriad of health problems. It can decrease life expectancy and disrupt normal body functioning. A sedentary lifestyle or genetic factors can contribute to it.
Losing weight can be extremely challenging. Exercise, diet, lifestyle and mindset – all these factors play a vital role in ensuring weight loss. The weight of most individuals keeps fluctuating on their weight loss journey and they suffer constant setbacks.
Needless to say, after opting for weight loss coaching, it becomes more manageable for individuals not only to lose weight but to maintain it.
We talked with the top 9 weight-loss coaches, each with their own characteristic style to assist their clients to achieve their fitness goals and asked them what’s unique about their coaching and what has led towards their huge success.
Continue reading to find out what they have to say.
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In Brief : The Top Weight-Loss Coaches
- Leah Peters – “Leah Peters: Experienced online weight loss coach and fitness nutritionist, empowering women to achieve their health and fitness goals for over 11 years. With a focus on science-backed principles.
- Tafiq Akhir – “Tafiq Akhir, known as Mr. Menopause, is a Licensed Menopause Specialist, Author, Speaker, and Host of The Mr. Menopause Show. With expertise in midlife hormones, health, and fat loss.
- Hayley Plummer – “Hayley Plummer, a seasoned nutritionist and online coach, brings over 11 years of experience to her practice, specializing in weight loss. Transitioning from a personal trainer to an exclusive online coach.
- Leslie Chen – “Leslie Chen, a high-performance weight loss coach, extends her expertise to empower high-achieving women globally in achieving a head-turning body permanently and effortlessly.
- David Breaker – “David Breaker, an inspiring Weight Loss Coach, embodies the transformative journey of weight loss, having shed an incredible 18 stone (115kgs/250 lbs) himself. Drawing from personal experience, he now dedicates his career to supporting others on their weight-loss journey.
- Daniel Harrod – “Daniel Harrod, an esteemed online fat loss coach and prolific fitness writer, stands as a mentor for aspiring personal trainers entering the industry. As the proprietor of a thriving in-person and online coaching business.
- Esther Avant – “Esther Avant, a seasoned fitness industry professional with a decade and a half of experience, embarked on her fitness journey across corporate, commercial, and boutique wellness settings.
- Sarah Pelc Graca – Unleash the power of sustainable weight loss with Sarah Pelc Graca, renowned as one of Yahoo! News’ Top Weight Loss Coaches to follow in 2021. She’s committed to empowering clients with the skills to shed pounds while indulging in chocolate and wine.
- Dr. Rachel Paul – Unlock your best self with Dr. Rachel Paul, PhD, RD, a renowned nutritionist empowering women to look and feel amazing. With an Instagram and TikTok following exceeding 800 thousand, Dr. Paul guides through easy-to-follow food strategies and mindset shifts.
- Lori Aloisio – Meet Lori Aloisio, a dedicated registered nurse and spiritual health coach on a mission to guide women in shedding excess weight. Lori prioritizes confidence-building and constantly seeks knowledge.
- Ireene Siniakis – Meet Ireene Siniakis, the accomplished author of “The Healthy Executive,” and the visionary Founder of Natural Spice Co. With over 30 years of experience and a wealth of personal development and behavior change training.
- Barbara Orban – Meet Barbara, a seasoned Mindset Transformation Expert and Weight Loss Coach, who spent over 15 years navigating the challenges of strict diets and the perpetual cycle of gaining and losing the same 30 pounds.
- Joe Johnson – Meet Joe, your go-to Online Weight Loss Coach specializing in assisting individuals with 9-5 remote desk jobs to achieve their physique goals. With an evidence-based and data-led approach, Joe ensures his clients experience sustainable weight loss without disrupting their lifestyles.
Leah Peters
Leah Peters, an experienced online weight loss coach and fitness nutritionist, empowers women to achieve their health and fitness goals. With over 11 years in the industry, Leah uses science-backed principles, mindset shifts, and habit changes to help clients lose weight, improve their relationship with food, and attain their best bodies.
Leah Peters is an online weight loss coach and fitness nutritionist. With over 11 years of health industry experience, fitness competition awards, and hands-on expertise with weight loss transformations, Leah uses science-backed principles combined with mindset improvements and habit change to help her clients lose weight, keep it off, improve their relationship with food, and create their best bodies. Through personalized nutrition and workout plans, group support, and one-on-one coaching, Leah’s clients obtain their goals with minimal stress.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
I have created an online database of workout plans, meal planning templates, and nutrition cheat sheets so that my clients have everything they need in one spot. I also have a group chat where I connect with around 20 of my clients daily. This is a great spot to get motivation, ask questions, share struggles, get inspired by others’ fitness posts, and have a safe, private spot to discuss their daily diet and workout habits. Having a secure group chat between women working on the same goal will change your habits and self-talk quickly.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
I strive to lead with compassion in every conversation. If a client can’t stick to their nutrition plan, we get to the deep root cause instead of creating internal conflict with diet guilt. I try to get to know my clients on a personal level because a health transformation requires much more than just a plan on paper. I work with my clients to improve their self-talk, negative thought patterns, and impulsive habits (like overeating) to help them make a lasting change from the inside out.
Tafiq Akhir
Tafiq Akhir, aka Mr. Menopause, is a Licensed Menopause Specialist, Author, Speaker, and Host of The Mr. Menopause Show. Tafiq has expertise in midlife hormone, health, and fat loss. Tafiq’s parent company, Tafiq’s Physiques, was honored as one of the best health and wellness businesses in California on California’s Recommended Business List for 2020/2021.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
I help women reverse illness, shed stubborn body fat, and eliminate the root cause of their menopause and health issues with my holistic approach to healthy aging based on my proprietary Metabolic Enhancement Method. I help women acknowledge the root cause of their hormone and weight management issues by activating a personalized metabolic enhancement plan to achieve symptom relief, health improvement, long-term fats loss, and a better quality of life.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
The single most important thing that contributes to my success as a coach is the personalization I offer my clients. My programs and coaching services are customized based on their individual goals, culture, environment, likes, dislikes, physical capability, and commitment level.
Hayley Plummer
Hayley Plummer is a nutritionist and online coach, specialising in weight loss. After 11 years as a personal trainer, Hayley now works exclusively online, supporting women to improve their health and fitness, build a healthy relationship with food, and reach their goals without restrictive dieting. Her goal is to empower clients to understand what works, create a sustainable lifestyle that they enjoy, and achieve results they can maintain for life.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
My coaching provides the whole package that busy women need – individualised guidance, education around nutrition, exercise and mindset, group support, home workouts, weekly check-ins, and a support group to join too. We use the flexibility of online coaching to provide what clients need in a way that suits them, empowering them with the knowledge, accountability, and help they need to become a fitter, happier, healthier version of themselves, and live their best life.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
The single most important thing is my experience working as a 1:1 personal trainer. This enabled me to work closely with hundreds of women, understand their struggles, and learn what they need to achieve lasting results. I’ve studied extensively nutrition, exercise, psychology, women’s health, menopause, and more to be able to provide that support online.
Leslie Chen
Leslie Chen is a high-performance weight loss coach who helps high-achieving women all over the world get a head-turning body permanently and effortlessly, while ending food obsession and emotional eating problems. She also teaches how to stop emotional eating forever and regain 100% self-control towards food. Her proprietary system Lean Instinct Formula™ leverages powerful wisdom from Asia which helps people achieve food freedom and weight freedom in weeks by reactivating their dormant instincts.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
Leveraging time-tested, scientific wisdom from East Asia, Leslie’s coaching program not only helps you lose weight but also helps you re-write your year-long weight patterns — so that weight is a non-issue in life, permanently. The transformation not only happens on your body but also on the way you think, feel, sense, and experience food. It means your psychology towards food is also permanently rewired.
The trick is activating your body to lose the weight FOR you within 10 weeks. So you don’t do the work, your body does it — as you retrain and re-activate your core senses and instincts.Most importantly, there’s no metrics, techniques, rules, or regimens to follow to keep your weight at bay. You experience the results BEFORE you learn the how-to because when your instinct is functioning, it does the job for you whether you understand how it does it or not.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
The combination of living 19 years in China and 17 years in the US — as well as the experience of gaining 50 pounds in the US and losing them EFFORTLESSLY using simple, long-standing Asian secrets — has given me the powerful foundation that I’ve used to help hundreds of women achieve life-long results so car. If you are brought up in the American fad diet culture, your beliefs and perspectives around food can be severely skewed and it’s very hard to move beyond a dieter’s mentality. However, coming from a different culture where it’s a common experience to keep a 120-pound body while eating whatever you want, without even being aware of the calories, I can teach the most authentic, natural things that create immediate, and authentic results.
David Breaker
David Breaker is an inspiring Weight Loss Coach who has been there and got the size 6 XL T-shirt. Having lost 18 stone (115kgs/250 lbs), he changed his life and now supports others through their weight-loss journey. He has spent over 700 hours with clients one to one and in groups, and in the six years of his business helped people lose 40 stone (254 kg/560 lbs).
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
David fully invests in his client’s journey and uses multiple skills and experiences developed over the last ten years of his journey. For example, he understands that weight loss is not just about the food you eat but the emotions and habits around that food. David also respects that this is about long-term change, not short-term gains, and supports clients to make this fit into their lifestyle, not just another fad diet.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
David has been through this process, having been that morbidly obese man on the road to an early death. Clients come to David because he can empathise with their challenges while inspiring them. He isn’t that skinny person that has never struggled with their weight or food, and he ensures that clients are fully supported and held accountable for their actions.
Daniel Harrod
Daniel Harrod is an online fat loss coach, renowned fitness writer, and mentor to novice personal trainers looking to carve out similar rewarding careers in the industry. He runs his successful in-person and online coaching business, writes for some of the biggest health and fitness sites in the world, and hosts popular seminars and talks. He finished as runner-up in the Personal Trainer of the Year category at the UK National Fitness Awards in 2019.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
My empathetic and science-driven coaching ethos focuses predominantly on the mindset surrounding fat loss and muscle gain. I aim to help people harness the appropriate belief and value-based systems and psychological techniques to deal with the challenges of any physical and mental transformation. I like to integrate sound physiological transformation principles with meaningful mindset shifts to help my clients achieve – and keep – the best results possible.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
My ability to communicate challenging scientific principles in a simplistic and understanding manner, through my writing and results-driven coaching systems, has contributed to my success as a coach. I’ve developed numerous fat loss programmes, mindset courses, physical handbooks, and articulate and in-depth guides for clients wishing to transform their physique. People who come to me don’t receive cookie-cutter meal plans and generic coaching, but personalised and extensive training to shed those frustrating and unwanted pounds.
Esther Avant
Esther Avant is a fifteen-year fitness industry veteran with experience working in corporate, commercial & boutique wellness prior to starting her own business, EA Coaching. She has a BS in Exercise Science from Boston University & a diploma in sports nutrition from the Institute of Performance Nutrition. Her certifications include Certified Sports Nutritionist from the International Society of Sports Nutrition (CISSN), Precision Nutrition Level 1 & 2, & Certified Personal Trainer from the American Council on Exercise.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
My coaching programs are unique due to the fact that they include four important pillars for overall health and happiness: exercise, nutrition, lifestyle, and mindset. I focus on education and helping clients build the skills and habits they need to be successful long after we’ve stopped working together. By helping clients prepare for maintenance from the get-go, they’re able to keep the weight off and live their healthiest, happiest, and most confident lives.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
The single most important thing that has contributed to my success as a coach (and all my successes, really) is consistency. I have never entertained the idea of my business not being successful so I’ve continued to show up, day-in and day-out, even when I felt defeated or like I didn’t know what I was doing. That consistency eventually built momentum which helped turn EA Coaching into a thriving business instead of a hobby.
Sarah Pelc Graca
Ranked as one of Yahoo! News’ Top Weight Loss Coaches to follow in 2021, Sarah Pelc Graca believes in empowering and teaching her clients the skills to sustainably lose weight while still enjoying chocolate and wine. More importantly, she teaches her clients the strategies to maintain weight-loss long-term. She has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Huff Post, Pop Sugar Fitness, and InStyle Magazine.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
Many weight loss coaches and programs only focus on nutrition and/or exercise. I help my clients with nutrition and exercise, but also help them to create an empowered mindset. This helps clients to lose weight and keep it off, but it also helps them create a peaceful relationship around food choices (without feeling guilt or shame).
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Every client I work with leads a unique life so I treat each client as an individual, as opposed to having a generic “cookie-cutter” approach that all clients must conform to. I pride myself in being an equal parts detective, cheerleader, and accountability coach with each client to learn how to best guide and motivate them, regardless of their individual life circumstances.
Dr. Rachel Paul
Dr. Rachel Paul, PhD, RD is a nationally recognized nutritionist, who helps women look and feel amazing with her easy-to-follow food guidance and mindset shifts, particularly on Instagram and TikTok with a combined over 800 thousand followers. Her program Best Body is a simple system to lose weight permanently and finally feel in control around food.
She’s been featured globally in Business Insider, Daily Mail, and Cosmopolitan, Martha Stewart Weddings, etc.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
Without the right mindset, it’s near impossible to take control over your eating. With my Best Body program, I’ll help you lose weight for good and stop the cycles of emotional, stress and boredom eating. Instead of forbidding foods, together, we’ll learn your body’s important cues so you can still savor the foods you love while taking control of any food situation. And when you join, you’ll have an entire community of women to cheer you on. Changing your mindset, along with my simple and satisfying food guidance, makes my weight loss solution permanent.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
When women struggle with weight loss, it’s often from a lack of self-love and respect. Our relationships with food can be complicated, but they don’t have to be! The single most important thing for my success has been the ability to combine empathy, empowerment, and actionable solutions for my clients.
Lori Aloisio
Lori Aloisio, a registered nurse and a spiritual health coach, currently focuses on helping women lose excess weight. She is focused on building women’s confidence. She is a woman that is constantly hungry for more knowledge which was why she went further to study nutrition and alternative medicine. Lori is known for formulating weight loss methods without using conventional weight-loss diets, workouts, and portion restrictions.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
As a spiritual health coach, I work with the Law of Attraction. She removes the cause of excess weight, so it does not reoccur. The conventional method removes the superficial problem of weight loss. Still, these methods are blind to the reason why women are overweight. My business, Healthy & Free Life, targets women in the modern age and spiritual society. Sustaining weight loss revolves around building up your spiritual energy, changing your thought pattern, and self-love. Seeing yourself in a different outlook is the first step to weight loss, and Healthy & Free Life walks women through this step.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
My work helps women lose weight by assisting them in renewing their energy and increasing their spiritual frequency. The basics of all these are to make women feel great about themselves. According to the Law of Attraction, the better you feel, the more you attract good things to yourself. Women who feel wrong about their weight loss journey have low energy. This is why I assist women in rectifying that by increasing their energy levels. My alternative methods include the S.H.I.F.T method (which she developed herself), shadow approach, healing of past trauma, self-love, Law of Attraction, amongst others.
Ireene Siniakis
Ireene Siniakis is the author of the book “The Healthy Executive”, the Founder of Natural Spice Co., and an International Online Weight Loss & Life Coach having coached thousands of high-achieving, professional women across the globe. Spanning over 30 years, with a tonne of personal development and behavior change training under her belt, Ireene has a holistic approach to coaching women on health and Life.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
Being a straight talkin’ Health Coach, I have a no-nonsense approach to weight loss. My coaching is holistic, with a dominant focus on mental fitness first and foremost, to help high-achiever women learn to play Life on their rules. I have an unwavering passion to help my clients build resilience and take back control of their health, and life. Between the conflicting information, misinformation, and outright untruths and lies being told about fitness and weight loss, I have an empathetic, yet firm, approach to what it really takes to get mentally strong and physically lean. My clients’ results are life-changing!
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
The single most important thing contributing to my success as a coach is my: authenticity and my accessibility. I have compassion for women who feel stuck and an unwavering desire to help these women not only improve physically but grow mentally. From decades of personal experience, personal development, and the training and know-how of what it takes to build a strong, lean, and fit body, my coaching is all-encompassing including full support and accessibility to me, when required. Clients can contact me on a daily basis via a walkie-talkie App, sharing their thoughts, feelings, and emotions through their journey. I then empower them to reframe any thoughts to take them back in control of their health and life – no one offers that service and it’s a game-changer!
Barbara Orban
Barbara spent over 15 years of her life on strict diets, gaining and losing the same 30 pounds over and over. After coming to the realisation that dieting wasn’t working, she started to look into the mindset. She reprogrammed her subconscious mind, lost 30 pounds for the last time 6 years ago and got her life and joy back. Since then she hasn’t fluctuated in weight. She continues to use her beliefs and energy to maintain her weight with ease and helps clients and students do the same.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
I help people get to the root of their weight issues. My clients will start to see how the messages about their body from childhood and adolescence becomes their beliefs and inner dialogue driving their behaviours and actions around food.
Joe Johnson
Joe is an online weight loss coach who helps people with 9-5 remote desk jobs achieve their physique goals without disrupting their lifestyles or using extreme dieting principles.
He uses an evidence based, data-led approach to ensure his clients lose weight in a sustainable way that allows them freedom and flexibility to continue eating the foods they love, fulfil all their professional responsibilities, and go out and socialize.
He can be reached at 9-to-5-nutrition.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
I don’t just help people achieve their target weight, I ensure that throughout the process, my clients are educated as to exactly why they are losing weight. Why is this important? Sustainability.
The majority of people regain all the weight they lose after dieting (and sometimes more). My clients have all the tools and knowledge they need to maintain the results they’ve achieved, long after they’ve stopped working with me.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
The single most important thing that has contributed to my success as a coach is my experience in the trenches. I’ve lived (and still live) the life that my clients do; tied to a desk from at least 9-5, busy days and little time to cook or work out.
But I’ve also been through phases of gaining muscle and losing fat, religiously tracking calories and successfully achieving, and more importantly, maintaining the physique I want. I’ve walked a mile in my client’s shoes, which is why I’m able to get them great results too.
Conclusion
There you have it, the top weight loss coaches.
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