What kind of motivation a client has matters more than how much, and what that changes in a session.

What goal research adds beyond SMART: challenging goals, values-based visions, and if-then plans.

What has changed in MI since many coaches trained: the current spirit, the 4 tasks, and the evidence.

New habits usually take 2 to 5 months to feel automatic, not 21 days, and a missed day barely matters.

What the research supports in Atomic Habits, and where "1% better" and identity habits run ahead of it.

David Kessler's 3 moves: refuse what you can't control, have an alternate plan, and limit cues.

System 1 and System 2, and why arranging surroundings ahead of time beats leaning on willpower.

The evidence favors eating seafood. Large fish oil trials were mostly null, and higher doses carry risk.

Color is a useful conversation cue, but the stronger evidence is about how much produce and which kinds.

How much calcium a plant food contains isn't how much the body absorbs. A corrected, checked list.

Plant foods contain all 9 essential amino acids. Total protein and variety matter, not combining.

What energy density and the thermic effect of food really do, and how to use them without restriction.

Which grocery tips hold up, which work against tight budgets, and how to co-create a shopping plan.

What mindful eating reliably changes, where evidence is thin, and how it differs from intuitive eating.

Dopamine drives wanting more than liking, which explains the pull toward food a client doesn't enjoy.

Shapiro's 3 axioms show why a client's practice isn't working, and where the mindfulness evidence stops.

No single exercise wins. What the guidelines and step research say, and how clients choose what lasts.

Why scattered attention costs clients more than time, and how coaches help them protect focus.

What Magnusson's book says, what clutter research shows about stress, and how coaches support clients.

How food cues shape eating, why rigid rules backfire, and how clients write flexible if-then plans.