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.
I was recently getting ready for a weekend away and considering what to take with me.
Then I began to think about the one thing we so easily leave behind when we go away - our weight loss motivation mindset. You know what I mean. We leave behind the...
* Mindset of 'Abundance' that allows us to choose the foods
that fuel our body best;
* Key that switches our mind onto our body and tells it when
we have eaten enough;
* List of all our favourite foods that fill us with energy and
happiness;
* Instruction book on 'Conscious Eating' that helps us enjoy
every bite we eat without guilt and shame;
And the reason we leave these things behind? Our minds get 'stuck' believing that food was 'Scarce' and is now about to become 'Abundant'. That's what happens when we label food 'good' or 'bad'. We demonise it, making it scarce in our world until we go on holiday! Then, with all the abundance of food to choose from, we forget our food labelling and often binge on what previously we made 'scarce' in our world. How crazy is that!
Well, not that crazy because overeating is instinctive survival behaviour following a period of starvation or food restriction. The key, therefore, to permanent weight loss or stability is seeing food, in all its abundance, for what it really is - a fuel on which to run our bodies. Link to this the ability to eat consciously, gauging when our fuel tank is just full enough and you have a perfect recipe for loving the food you eat and attaining the weight you want!
When we tell ourselves that no food is restricted, make choices to create a fuel mix that is really enjoyable, yet perfect for our body, we have no need to alter our pattern of eating when away from home. We can even have great fun experimenting with new foods and recipes, expanding the variety that makes up our perfect fuel mix!
Give it a try! Enjoy your holiday and return home without the guilt or need to find the next 'quick fix diet'. Better still; see how often you return home without having put on an extra pound!
