You’ve been different all your life. From childhood, to college, to work life, you’ve always used your own unique approach to reach your goals. It’s time to treat your health and your self-love with the sme consideration.
Partake 1-1 Coaching
If you want to uncover your own joyful way of eating, & confidently navigate your unique lifestyle while still knowing you’re hitting your health goals, Partake is your next step.
Accelerate: Calories for Efficient Weight-Loss
If you’ve just found out you need to lose weight, and you want to take action as efficiently as possible, Accelerate is for you.
Hi, I’m Megan Gaul.
I’m a health coach, and founder of Partake.
I work to liberate fellow nerdy & introverted women from feeling guilty about their food, so they can find peace with a happier weight.
My personal journey with weight loss and weight-maintenance inspired me to begin coaching. Learning how to repair my relationship with food, and find a happier and maintainable weight in the process, while working with the strengths that my geeky upbringing and introverted nature gave me, has transformed me and my values. It’s taught me that I can trust in myself, that I can feel calm and compassionate towards myself, and that no matter what life throws at me, I always have power to make gradual changes to my situation, and increase my happiness over time.
After coming to a happier place with food and my weight, I began to see how so many women struggle with the same things I have. I see how the unique way we approach the world impacts our relationship with food, and causes unnecessary stress, new health problems, low energy, and poorer quality of life. I wanted to apply my confidence, calmness, and compassion in helping other women repair how they relate to food and their weight.
So many of us feel like our lives are being lived for us. Because of the way we grew up, feeling like outsiders, we’ve developed ways to make ourselves feel loved and accepted. We put tons of energy into being awesome at work, and trying to keep up with the social demands of life.
But there’s a catch. As adults, we now feel like:
the needs of our jobs, families, or friend group make it impossible for us to take care of ourselves
we’re constantly one step away from social-exhaustion and work burn-out
we need to keep everyone else happy with us, first and foremost
And when we try to become “healthier” and lose weight (which takes time, energy, boundaries, and self-prioritization), we feel frustration because we notice how much we prioritize others over ourselves. And we notice JUST HOW CLOSE we are to a total burnout or breakdown.
We also have some more unique barriers. We grew up different, often even bullied in middle and high school. We often felt ostracized from others, especially women who were comfortable with themselves, their social life, and even comfortable with femininity. This makes the whole “health, diet, gym” world feel totally foreign, or even hostile.
We also feel like we’re alone in this fight. But there are so many people like you!
So, we’re in this cycle where we ignore our own needs, and we also feel totally “othered” by the whole world of feminine-coded diet/health/gym culture. Because of these factors, many of us have “started and stopped” our health journeys so many times that we’ve lost trust in ourselves. We forget about our inherent capability to grow and change. I want to help you rekindle this knowledge.
I also want to dismantle the diet-industry narrative that we have to cut things out of our lives in order to be healthy. We are told that we’ll have to sacrifice all our favorite foods if we want to reach a lower body weight. Nothing could be further from the truth! I want to free nerdy introverted women from that “health guilt” and find joy and a happier relationship with their favorite foods. I want to support you in becoming healthier in that process, and most importantly, never losing what it means to be uniquely and geekily you.
My services don’t provide faceless and generic nutrition advice.
If you work with me 1:1 through coaching, I won’t be writing up your grocery lists or prescribing what you should do. I will use our first session to listen to your situation, ask you about your goals, your motivations, and what you envision “success” will look like for you. We will set milestones towards your goal, and if needed, we will experiment with changes you want to make to your meals, meal timing, or other supporting habits. We’re going to work WITH your personality, not against it.
When you run into difficulties in meeting whatever milestone you’ve set, we will debrief to uncover whether there’s a foundational behavior that could be helpful to work on first.
Setting timelines on weight-loss can cause unnecessary frustration and stress, which usually causes us to give up. This is because we don’t have direct control over the speed of the scale. Instead of putting all our energy towards sticking to a timeline, we will focus on 2 things that are fully within your control:
taking action
creating consistency
I help you get clear on where you want to go, and create strategies that remove the roadblocks.
