The DigestionReady Coaching Programme
Why Coaching?
Who is this programme for?
Why Coaching?
Many people understand the ideas you've seen on our website very quickly.
Recognising readiness to digest.
Understanding the digestive rhythm.
Learning why timing matters.
The greater challenge is applying those ideas consistently in everyday life.
Busy days.
Family meals.
Travel.
Stress.
Social occasions.
Questions that only arise through experience.
That's where coaching becomes valuable.
Who is this programme for?
People who are ready to move beyond understanding the principles...
and develop lasting confidence in their application.
Perhaps you've realised before that your body is giving you signals that it pays to take heed of.
Or perhaps you're simply looking for a more thoughtful, evidence-informed way of improving your weight, digestion and metabolic health.
Either way, coaching provides the opportunity to work together over time.
A natural progression
People usually move through this work in three stages.
Understand
Learn the principles behind DigestionReady and discover why timing matters.
This begins with the articles, videos and resources on the website digestionready.com
Experience
Explore recognising your own body's signals in greater depth through the Happy Tummy mini-course.
Some people find this is all they need to make lasting changes.
Others having gained a good understanding of the principles feel ready to begin with coaching.
Embody
Understanding the principles naturally leads to deeper questions.
How can I be sure I am recognising the body's signals consistently?
What happens under stress?
How do I apply these principles when life becomes complicated?
That's where the DigestionReady Coaching Programme comes in.
Together, we refine your perception of the body's cues until recognising and responding to them becomes natural in everyday life.
There is no rush.
Each stage has value in its own right.
The important thing is to begin at the stage that feels right for you.
Is coaching right for everyone?
No.
Some people find the Happy Tummy mini-course gives them everything they need to begin making lasting changes.
Others prefer to explore the ideas independently before deciding whether they'd like more personalised guidance.
If that feels more like you, I'd encourage you to begin there.
Explore The Happy Tummy Mini-course
Investment: NZD$150
The DigestionReady Coaching Programme is designed to give you personalised guidance as you apply these principles in everyday life.
Over the course of the programme, we'll work together to help you develop lasting confidence in recognising your body's signals and responding to them naturally.
Investment: NZ$3,000
Here is what that the Coaching Programme looks like in practice:
The Awareness Surveys
Before each meal, you'll be guided through a short interactive experience (not a checklist).
It's gentle, step-by-step process that walks you inward — helping you notice what your body is actually communicating in that moment.
Is it ready to digest? Still processing? Sending signals you've never paused to notice?
Each survey meets you exactly where you are. The questions respond to your answers, guiding you toward your own body's wisdom rather than imposing someone else's rules.
You progress through three surveys. And over time you stop needing the surveys.
Because the awareness it builds becomes naturally your own.
Daily Telegram Messages
Every day, you'll receive a short message — a reminder, an encouragement, a quiet prompt to return to awareness.
Not demanding. Not prescriptive.
Just a gentle daily thread connecting you to the process, even on the days when life gets busy and the old patterns try to reassert themselves.
These messages run on a three-monthly cycle — so the support continues to feel fresh and relevant across your six months.
The WAIT Routine
WAIT stands for What Actually Is There.
It is a simple pre-meal technique — practised together on our monthly coaching calls — that brings your awareness directly to the upper abdomen.
Not to analyse. Not to judge.
Simply to notice.
What is your body actually telling you right now?
With practice, WAIT becomes something you carry with you everywhere. A quiet moment of checking in before you eat — that gradually becomes as natural as breathing.
The Community
Perhaps the most unexpected part of DigestionReady is this:
Past participants come back.
Not because they have to. But because they want to.
They return to the monthly calls to share what they've noticed, to encourage those who are earlier in the journey, and to continue deepening their own awareness.
There is something quietly powerful about sitting with people who have already walked this path.
Who can say honestly: yes, it was unfamiliar at first. And yes, it changed their lives.
That kind of encouragement cannot be manufactured.
It simply grows — when the work is real.
This is not a course you consume and set aside.
It is a six-month supported experience — designed around your actual daily life.
And when the six months are complete, you'll be warmly invited to continue attending the monthly coaching calls — as one of those past participants whose presence makes such a difference to others just beginning.
If this feels like the right stage for you, I'd be delighted to work with you.
Why I created DigestionReady
I didn't set out to create a weight loss programme.
I set out to understand something that troubled me as a physician.
Why were my patients — intelligent, motivated, genuinely trying — unable to sustain the changes they so clearly wanted to make?
The answer, I gradually discovered, had nothing to do with willpower or discipline.
It had to do with awareness.
Awareness of whether the body was actually ready to receive food at the moment it was being eaten.
That insight, first encountered through Ayurveda in 1987, became the thread I followed for the next 39 years.
Through clinical practice. Through research. Through a doctorate and several published papers. Through hundreds of conversations with patients who were tired of starting over.
DigestionReady is what that journey produced.
Not a theory. Not another system.
But a practical, gentle, medically grounded way of helping people return to something their body already knows how to do.
I think I've found part of the answer.
And I'd like to help you find it too.
— David Lovell-Smith PhD, MBChB
