How can I implement the microchallenges into my coaching?

Our daily microchallenges module supplements what a coach, dietitian, physician or any provider is doing to support a person's journey toward healthier eating habits. It is not meant to replace it. Each participant's recommended list of challenges is tailored to their unique journey from their current diet to their goal. Participants engage with content and simple tracking on a daily basis, which offers a great way to provide daily support without requiring a provider to check in each day. 

To use the challenges in the guidance you offer, consider doing the following: 

• When starting off with a client or patient, you can use the list of recommended microchallenges to walk through the curriculum of behaviors the person will work toward -- a new challenge each week. This is like a personalized nutrition plan, giving you actions to recommend. 
• Recommend the patient or participant follow the order of challenges recommended in the tool to build the important habits needed based on their diet pattern goal. Remind them to check in each day as a simple, behavior-based accountability program. The provider or coach only has intermittent meetings or follow ups with the individual. 
• Ask the client or patient if any of the challenges on the list feel harder or easier to achieve. For example, a "No Soda" challenge may be easy for some, and much more difficult for others. Be sure to remind your client that they can change the order of the challenges they work toward to ensure they start off with easily achievable challenges. 
• “Assign” the microchallenges as part of their action steps or agreements for the next week created in the coaching session – either they choose, or the coach assigns based on the conversations that come up in the coaching session. 
• Join the challenges as a coach, and add your clients as buddies, so you can see their daily progress and nudge them from within Diet ID. 
• Have your clients/patients do challenges together, buddy with each other in the tool. We have some coaching partners doing Jump Start Challenges (group-based 2-week challenges), having all their clients do certain challenges together to kick start the year. They give away prizes or offer incentives to those that check-in most often or complete the challenges.

The best way to think of the microchallenges is that we streamline the custom nutrition plan development and provide an easy, engaging, daily accountability solution to help people tackle one new habit at at time.