SMART Goals:
How they Sabotage Eating and Exercise Goals
and What Works for Deeper Coaching Impact
Free WORKSHOP WITH Ali Shapiro, MSOD, CHHC
SMART goals have become the standard and default approach to setting goals across all industries, nutrition and exercise included.
And yet cumulative, emerging research illuminates that when it comes to eating and healthy habits, SMART goals fail to create sustainable results and often set clients back.
Fortunately, there’s a much better way.
What we know about how to change and heal is shifting.
I want you to be part of this change.
It involves a radically different approach to goal setting and coaching.
Register Below To Get The Replay
and get a sneak peek at the Truce Coaching Certification Program
Workshop
In this workshop for Coaches, therapists, and other health professionals, we will cover:
- The emerging research on why eating and exercise are in a unique change category and how this changes the client goals and coaching for deep impact.
- The protective role of bad habits and why this understanding shifts everything, including the idea that a client has to “Tony Robbins” their way out of bad food and health habits.
- Why more tools that stay on the surface aren’t the answer and how to reduce the amount of tools and “to-dos” for more results and no more “failing at one more thing”.
- “Complexity fitness” and its role in empowering clients by ending the sabotaging, all or-nothing mindset.
At the end, Ali will also share about her upcoming Truce Coaching Certification, which most definitely doesn’t use SMART goals and supports root-cause resolution of clients most challenging and stubborn food and health habits.
Register Below To Get The Replay
and get a sneak peek at the Truce Coaching Certification Program
About Ali Shapiro

In addition to never once using SMART Goals, Ali is the creator of Truce with Food® and the ICF-Certified, trauma informed Truce Coaching Certification, host of the top-ranked podcast Insatiable, a holistic nutritionist, integrated health coach and rebel with a serious cause.
She’s academically, practically, and empathetically aware of how the medical system, diet culture and body positivity movements all have their own flavor of crazy.
She created her Truce with Food method while in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania where she drew from her decade plus of working with real life clients and her own personal healing journey from having cancer as a teenager.
Ali and her client’s Truce with Food success have been featured in national and regional media.

Credentials & Awards
Masters of Science, Organizational Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
Concentrations in Change Management, Coaching and Leadership
Lois A. Ginsberg Community Award, University of Pennsylvania, 2013
Functional Medicine Apprenticeship, 2008-2012
Institute for the Psychology of Eating, 2010
The Institute for Integrative Nutrition/Columbia University Teachers College, 2006-2008