Hello and welcome to this episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am Danny Lennon, your host,

and we're at episode 326 of the podcast. And today's topic is going to be relevant, particularly

to those you who are coaching in some capacity, whether that says a nutritionist, dietitian, a doctor, a personal trainer,

or really any area of health coaching. And we're going to touch on a number of different themes

throughout the discussion today. And I think particularly a lot of this is going to center around

first the need in this moment moment or at least as this podcast

is going out where the whole world is in a very strange place and this has presented some unique

challenges to everyone who is a coach not only in terms of the economics of that and having

not being able to have a physical place to work,

whether you own a gym, whether you're a personal trainer, whether you have a nutrition consultancy,

all those barriers that you now don't have that operational,

and you may have to have adapted to move a lot of those people online, but even beyond that

for online programming, this now means if you are doing training programming, for example,

you are undoubtedly have various different degrees of equipment availability for your various different clients,

given on their personal circumstances and the restrictions

that are in place in their location. On a nutrition side, there's a lot of challenges here too.

The fact that we have this complete upheaval of our schedules and normal routines always presents

a challenge for our normal nutritional habits.

Now the times of day we're eating are going to be probably changed.

We're going to have maybe some anxieties and fears that may play a role in, some emotional eating.

The fact that we can't get to the gym and train as normal may not give us that same anchor that we usually have to keep us on track with a specific nutrition

goal and we may just not feel like sticking to our usual modes of eating or the disruption to

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