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.
Happy New Year!
I always feel that this is an exciting time. A new year is ahead of me with a myriad of possibilities. Christmas and its excesses are gone. And I admit to being human. I succumbed to the temptations of overeating. Not as much as in the past though, as I did three significant things…
- I let go of the guilt and enjoyed the excesses
- I refocused on my ‘Conscious Eating’ the day after Boxing Day
- I did some internal and external clearing out
This final point was the most powerful one in terms of motivation. It started with a very strong desire to clear out my wardrobe. This was prompted by the fact that I had received, for Christmas, the book ‘The Body Shape Bible’ by Trinny and Susannah. That was the first of my external clear outs. The second one came with the decision that after years of dabbling with vegetarian food, I was going to take the plunge and go fully vegetarian. This lead to me clearing out my pantry.
Both these acts in themselves were extremely cathartic. Then, finally I spent a day clearing my office. This mammoth task ended with three bin bags of rubbish to be taken to the tip!
That was all well and good but I realised it was all external ‘stuff’. All very valuable but the internal ‘stuff’ would still remain unless I tackled some of that too. As I thought about it I realised there were two internal areas to tackle…
- My mindset
- My body
So I had a good look at some of my negative beliefs and thought processes. Yes, even after all this writing and personal development, there are some that remain! That was really useful in helping me focus on the positive and raise my self-motivation. It also helped me understand some of the ways I sabotage my New Year resolutions. (More of that in another Blog) Then I decided my body needed a good clear out too and a 3 day detox on a raw food diet was the answer for me.
This is something I have never done before. Already I feel full of energy and have discovered some wonderful new foods and a renewed interest in experimenting with what suits my body. If you are interested in eating raw food then try this great blog that I found from the Raw Food Coach http://www.karenknowler.typepad.com/
May 2008 be the start of a new and exciting chapter in your life with happiness and joy in the food you eat and the body you live in.
