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The Telos Reset

The Telos Reset is a 14-week coaching program built on The Telos Method. It is designed for a full, demanding life, and it works to a standard of about 80% rather than perfection. Three levels of support are available, from one-to-one coaching to a self-paced plan.

The 80% standard

Most programs are built for a week that goes to plan. Yours does not. There is a work trip, a parent who needs collecting, a grandchild with a temperature, and a Thursday that disappears entirely.

The Reset assumes that. The standard is roughly 80% effort, applied consistently, because that is where results actually live. Not a full overhaul of your life, not fourteen perfect weeks. Small, intentional shifts that hold when the week falls apart, which it will.

This is the difference most women notice first. Nobody is going to hand you a meal-prep schedule, tell you to give up the foods you like, or design a plan that only works when you are home with a stocked kitchen.

What the 14 weeks cover

The Reset delivers The Telos Method, a five-part framework built for the metabolic realities of this stage of life:

  • Stabilize — stress and cortisol, and why pushing through stopped working
  • Nourish — improved food quality and achievable weekly food preparation, in patterns that survive travel, restaurants and a busy week
  • Move — strength work that protects the muscle you are losing, at a volume you can keep
  • Restore — sleep, which is the best-evidenced lever here and usually the first thing sacrificed
  • Sustain — the habits and accountability that separate this from everything self-directed you have tried

Three ways to do it

 One-to-OneGroupSelf-Paced
Price$2,000$1,000$250
The Telos MethodYesYesYes
A plan built for your lifeYesAdapted in groupYou adapt it
Weekly coachingOne-to-oneIn a small groupAvailable for an additional fee
AccountabilityYour coach, expecting to hear from youThe group, and your coachPrivate Facebook group participation
How you startFree assessmentFree assessmentBuy and begin

An honest word about the self-paced plan. It is the same method with the least support: accountability comes from the private Facebook group rather than a coach, and weekly coaching can be added for an additional fee. Support is the thing that separates this from every self-directed program you have already tried and abandoned, so if self-directed has failed you repeatedly, start with the assessment conversation instead. We would rather say that now than take the money.

What it is not

The Reset is coaching. It is not medical care, and it is not a replacement for it.

If your doctor has raised medication for thyroid, blood sugar, or cholesterol, that decision belongs to the two of you. Coaching supports the daily habits that influence those markers, and works alongside your physician rather than in competition with them. We do not diagnose, prescribe, interpret lab results, or write meal plans. You can read the full boundary here.

The same applies if you are taking or considering a GLP-1. That is a conversation for you and your prescriber, and coaching is not an alternative to it. More on that here.

Is it worth it?

Women hesitate here more over permission than price. Kids in college, aging parents, and a quiet sense that spending this on yourself would be selfish.

But ask what you actually want from this and it is rarely a number. It is getting down on the floor with your grandchildren and back up again. Travelling with your spouse or partner while you both still can. Not watching your own decline the way you have watched your mother’s. Every one of those is about someone else. Staying well is what lets you keep showing up for them.

More on that on the cost question.

Start with the assessment

The free Metabolic Health Assessment is a 30-minute conversation about where your health actually is and which of the three levels fits. There is no obligation to continue, and if the Reset is the wrong thing for you, you will hear that.

Written by Bo Yates, NBC-HWC. Last updated 25 July 2026. Coaching is not medical care. This page is general education and is not a substitute for advice from your own physician.

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