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.
Finding the right type of support that keeps us motivated is vital to the process of sustainable weight management. There are of course lots of ways we can get the support we need. I have found it in…
· Writing a journal / book / blog, anything I can put my thoughts into and of course review on a regular basis;
· Reading motivational books;
· Listening to music that lifts my spirits and feeds my soul;
· Spending time meditating every day. For years I sought out the type of support that I now know did not suit me. It failed to motivate me for long because it played on my deep beliefs that I was ‘Not Good Enough’ and a failure if I was not losing weight. No wonder I could not sustain my motivation and attain permanent weight loss! For many of us we need support that… ü Reinforces that we are not a failure; ü Is filled with empathy, understanding and encouragement; ü Helps us re-focus when we lapse in old habits with food; ü Allows us to learn about our bodies and how to love them; ü Allows us to learn how to change the way we think about and use food; ü Makes us feel wonderful about ourselves, inside and out. Finding the right support is vital if we are to change the way we behave around food. Just finding a friend who encourages and supports your motivation offers you more chance of finding the weight you were born to be. If you find reading motivational articles helps then take a look down the left hand column of this Blog. You will find a range of articles I have published. Keep an eye out for new articles as they will be posted there regularly. Find the keys to your motivation and see how easy it is to give up your struggle with life and food. 
Of course, these are all important but nowhere near as good as support from others. This was brought home to me a few weeks ago when I started training my first Life Shapers Weight Management Coach (http://www.lifeshapers.co.uk/LifeShapersCoachTraining.aspx). I had forgotten just how motivational it was to be working with, supporting and being supported by other like-minded people.
