Change Bites – Using Change Management Principles to Change Your Diet

Change is an inevitable part of life, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to achieve or to cope with. When you need to completely change your diet, it can rock your world—it can affect nearly everything you do, as well as the people close to you. If you’re going through this and you’re feeling overwhelmed, Certified Health Coach Marissa Costonis is here to help, with her book Change Bites: 5 Change Management Strategies to Transform Your Health.

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Costonis knows what she’s talking about, both from the point of view of a change management specialist and that of a person who had to drastically change her diet. Having spent years as a business consultant on change management, she realized that she could employ those change management strategies in her own life to ease her transition to her new way of eating. She understands how this transition can seem daunting, if not insurmountable, and she simplifies the process by encouraging change “one bite at a time.” She reasons that taking small “bites” is easier and makes the goal more attainable than trying to take on the entire change at once.

Because Change Bites is about the process of making a dietary change, its principles can be applied to whatever your desired end result might be, whether it’s vegetarian, vegan, paleo, keto, gluten-free, or just a desire to eat more healthfully. It also can help whether you have to make a complete change in your diet or just want to modify your eating style.

Change Bites is not merely a self-help or how-to book; it’s also a workbook, with spaces for recording your experiences and thoughts as you work through your own change. Some are set up as exercises to help you identify things like problems and solutions. It’s very helpful and makes the book more personal.

Adding to that approach, Costonis includes “bites” in each chapter that both illustrate and personalize the points she’s making:

• Personal Bite: The author’s own experience, including her struggles and successes, and how she employed the strategies
• Business Bite: Examples of the change management process companies use, and how it can apply to making a personal change
• Before You Bite: Things to think about before employing a given chapter’s principles

If this approach appeals to you, check out Costonis’s website and Facebook page, where you can learn more about her and how she can help you make your own transition in a lasting way.

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