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 only reflecting this morning on the importance of friendships to our level of motivation. For too many years I surrounded myself with friends who did nothing to aid my motivation, self-love or happiness. In fact, if I am honest the friendships I was used to were destructive and demotivating.
Eventually I realised that my permanent weight loss came when I was truly happy and self-loving enough to seek out friendships that fed my soul. These are the ones with people who…
· Bring a ray of sunshine in your life just when you need it;
· Are joyful for you when you have good news;
· Are supportive and non-judgemental;
· Will tell you the truth;
· Tell you how wonderful, unique and beautiful you are;
· Love you and all your ‘wobbly bits’;
· Accept you just as you are – the good and the bad;
· Support your dreams and aspirations;
· Encourage your self-loving actions;
· Love the person you are now and the one you were born to be. And the most important friendship of all turned out to be with myself! The funny thing is, once I began to fill the roles of friendship listed above, by myself, true and wonderful new friends began to come into my life. And the remarkable thing is, as my friendships grew with the people who feed my soul, so my unhealthy relationship with food diminished.
