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Nutrition Coaching Client Form Template

Onboard nutrition clients without the back-and-forth — one form captures health history, goals, eating patterns, and lifestyle in 10 minutes flat.

A complete nutrition coaching intake form that gathers everything a coach needs before the first session: medical background, dietary preferences, current eating habits, body composition data, and the goals the client actually wants to hit. Send the link, let the client fill it from their phone, and walk into session one already knowing what to work on.

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Why use a nutrition coaching client form?

The first 20 minutes of a nutrition consultation usually get burned on basic data collection — name, age, allergies, what they ate yesterday. By the time the actual coaching starts, half the session is gone and the client is already tired of answering questions. A digital intake form pushes all of that to before the appointment. The client fills it out on their phone the night before, you read it with your morning coffee, and session one opens with the question that actually matters: "tell me about the weight you've been carrying for three years." That's the difference between a coach who shows up prepared and one who shows up curious. It also gives you a clean baseline. When the client comes back in 8 weeks and says "I don't feel any different," you have their original answers to compare against — sleep hours, energy ratings, cravings frequency. Often they've changed more than they realize, and the form is the receipt.

What's included in this template

15 fields — customize any field or add new ones with AI.

Short textFull name✱
EmailEmail address✱
PhonePhone number✱
DateDate of birth✱
Short textHeight and current weight✱
DropdownPrimary nutrition goal✱
Long textMedical conditions or medications
Long textFood allergies and intolerances
Multiple choiceDietary preference (omnivore, vegetarian, vegan, other)✱
Long textTypical day of eating — describe meals and snacks✱
NumberAverage sleep per night (hours)
DropdownWeekly exercise frequency
File uploadUpload recent bloodwork or body composition report (optional)
Long textHow will you measure success in 12 weeks?✱
CheckboxesI agree to share this information with my coach✱

Need different fields?

Tell the AI what to change — "add a budget dropdown" or "remove phone number" — and it edits the form instantly. Every field type above can be added, removed, or relabeled through the chat interface.

Key features of this nutrition coaching client form template

Everything you need to launch this form in minutes, share it with your team, and collect submissions reliably.

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Branching by goal

Pick "weight loss" and the form asks about prior diets; pick "performance" and it asks about training volume. Clients only see the questions that apply to them.

2

File upload for bloodwork

Clients can attach a PDF from their last physical or a screenshot from their InBody scan, so you have the numbers in hand before session one.

3

Mobile-first by default

Most clients fill this out from the couch on their phone. Long-form questions auto-expand and the typical-day-of-eating textarea has a sensible character count.

4

Auto-routed to your CRM

New submissions land in HubSpot as a contact and trigger a Slack ping in your coaching channel, so a real human follows up within the same business day.

5

GDPR-friendly consent

The final acknowledgement checkbox creates an audit trail of when the client agreed to share their health data — useful if you ever need to prove informed consent.

6

Reusable as a re-assessment form

Duplicate the same template every 8 to 12 weeks to track changes in sleep, cravings, and energy without retyping the question set.

Perfect for

Registered dietitians running a private practice, certified nutrition coaches selling 12-week packages, online weight-loss programs onboarding hundreds of clients a month, gym owners adding nutrition as an upsell, sports performance coaches working with athletes, functional medicine clinics, and corporate wellness providers running group nutrition cohorts.

How to use this template

1

Open the template

Click "Use this template free." Flexform loads the form instantly — no account needed to preview.

2

Customize with AI

Type what you want to change in the chat: fields to add or remove, rename labels, change field types, or rearrange pages.

3

Connect & publish

Link to Google Sheets or Slack with one click, then embed on your site or share the link.

Ways to use this template

12-week coaching program onboarding

Send the form the moment a client pays for the package. By the time the kickoff call happens, you have their goals, history, and a typical day of eating ready to discuss instead of collect.

Group nutrition cohort intake

Run a 30-person fat-loss cohort? Send one link, get 30 structured responses in a Google Sheet, and sort by goal so you can group similar clients into the same office hours.

Re-assessment at the midpoint

Duplicate the same template, label it "Week 6 check-in", and send it before the midpoint call. Compare against the original to see what has actually moved.

Lead qualification for free consults

Add the form to the booking flow for free 20-minute consults. You walk into the call knowing whether the lead is a real fit or whether they need to see a doctor first.

Sports performance baseline

For athletes, swap the weight-loss goal options for performance markers — power output, time-to-fatigue, recovery quality — and use it as the start-of-season baseline.

Functional medicine clinic intake

Layer the nutrition intake on top of the medical history a doctor already collected. The textarea for typical eating becomes the bridge between the clinical chart and the food log.

Workflow integrations

Connect this form to your existing tools with no middleware. Every submission triggers your workflow automatically.

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Real-time sync

Data appears in your CRM or spreadsheet within 1–2 seconds of submission — no cron jobs, no delays.

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Conditional routing

Route submissions to different Slack channels, HubSpot pipelines, or Airtable bases based on field values.

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Two-way data flow

Pre-fill form fields with CRM data for returning visitors. Update existing records instead of creating duplicates.

Why choose Flexform?

Most intake forms in this category are PDFs. The client downloads it, opens it on a phone that can't fill PDFs cleanly, and the coach ends up retyping the answers into a spreadsheet anyway. FlexForm fixes that mid-step — the form lives at a share link, the client fills it on any device, and answers land in Google Sheets or HubSpot the second they hit submit. When you want to tweak something — drop a question, add a check for whether the client has worked with a coach before, change the goal options to match your specific niche — you describe the change in plain English and the AI editor updates the form. No drag-and-drop, no field-by-field clicking. The same goes for theming: ask for your brand color and a softer font and it ships. For coaches building branded apps, the Kotlin Multiplatform mobile SDK embeds the same form natively in Android and iOS, so a client onboarding through your app sees the form inside your UI, not a redirect. And every piece of this — the share link, the AI editing, the integrations — works on the free forever plan, so you can run your first 50 clients through it before paying a cent.
One link, share anywhere
Native iOS & Android SDK
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Frequently asked questions

How long does it take a client to fill this out?

Most clients finish in 8 to 12 minutes if they actually engage with the typical-day-of-eating question. Skim-fillers do it in 5. If your version feels too long, the AI editor can shorten it by removing optional fields in one prompt.

Can clients upload bloodwork or a body composition scan?

Yes. The file upload field accepts PDF, JPG, and PNG up to 10 MB, which covers most lab reports and InBody printouts. You receive the file as a link in your submissions dashboard.

Is this HIPAA compliant?

FlexForm is suitable for general wellness intake but is not currently HIPAA-covered out of the box. If you practice in a regulated medical context in the US, treat this form as pre-screening and collect the formally protected health data through your HIPAA-covered EHR. Coaches outside the US generally use it as-is.

How do I get the responses into my existing tools?

Connect Google Sheets for a running log, HubSpot to create a contact per submission, or Slack for a real-time ping when a new client signs up. Most coaches turn on all three so the form fits the workflow they already have.

Can I rebrand the form to match my coaching business?

You can change the colors, fonts, and logo from the theme panel in about a minute. For deeper changes — different question wording, a hidden field that tracks the coach assigned — ask the AI editor in plain English and it rewrites the form for you.

Does the client need an account to fill it out?

No. You send a share link, they open it, they answer, they submit. No login, no app install, no friction. That is the single biggest reason intake completion rates jump compared to PDFs or portal-locked forms.

Can I embed this inside my coaching app?

Yes — FlexForm ships a Kotlin Multiplatform SDK that renders the same form natively inside Android and iOS apps. Your client sees your UI, you get the same structured submissions on the backend.

What happens after a client submits?

The submission appears in your FlexForm dashboard, gets pushed to any integration you have connected, and the client sees a customizable confirmation screen. You can add a Calendly link there to book session one right away.

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