Chrissie Webber works as a writer, business coach and motivation/ leadership trainer and is Managing Director of Life-Shapers Ltd, an online weight-loss motivation company. With over 20 years experience in the field of business and people development she has an expertise in the area of motivation for permanent weight loss.
Following a lifetime of weight issues - at her heaviest, over 21 stone and a massive size 30 – she has personal experience of diets and their devastating effect on size and psyche. With a background in nursing, psychology and business coaching, coupled with a lifetime of dieting, she developed and successfully used a series of models and tools that enhance weight loss motivation. Now over 5 dress sizes smaller and having sustained her weight loss for several years, Chrissie continues her passionate drive to change the mindsets of people away from a ‘Scarcity’ dieting mindset – where food is demonised as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – to an ‘Abundance’ mindset where mind, body and spirit work hand in hand with food and nature.
Life throws us many different experiences, some of which we don’t want but still have to go through. Each of them is a gift; although we may not see the offering it affords us at the time. Within each of these gifts is hidden a learning experience. All to often we obliterate the learning by escaping from the emotions and difficulties that can accompany these gifts. One of the ways we do this is by turning to food as a comforter to bury our emotions and fears.
I have just had one of those gifts – my daughter has been in hospital for an operation. Being human, the stress got to me and back crept the comfort eating, for a while.
The difference, this time, was that I acknowledged the reasons behind my inappropriate eating and began to give myself the love and support I needed. Beating myself up needlessly had never served any purpose other than increasing my distress. That of course only led to more comfort eating!
Breaking this vicious circle is the gift I found. It showed me how important it is to acknowledge the reasons behind our comfort eating, forgive ourselves and turn for support from the people who feed our souls. Getting back on track with my ‘Conscious Eating’ habits requires us to look for the gift and learn from the experience.
