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 have just been invited to join the ‘Experts’ list of an American web site www.weightlossbuddy.com. They have a great ‘buddy’ support system going and it got me thinking about how much more we could support each other by sharing our thoughts, tips and ideas about motivation.
Whenever we support another person the process has such an advantage for ourselves. It raises our own motivation…
· Through the thought we have to put into how we support another;
· By the response we get when it helps another;
· By the response we get when others support us with their thoughts, ideas and tips;
· Through the fact that when we help another we are more committed to helping ourselves. As the saying goes, ‘You have to be in it to win it’. That is the same with any form of support but especially for weight loss motivation. To get the most out of it and to keep your motivation levels high you need to engage with the process of helping others. I have certainly noticed this since I working with Lynne Rees, my first Life Shapers, Weight Management Motivation Coach, as she develops her weekly meetings in Swansea. The very process of attending her motivation classes and sharing with others the ups and downs of weight loss keeps me on track. So, I was thinking what better opportunity than using my blog to get a support network off the ground. You can easily and quickly create a user account (left hand column) and then write your comments. That way I can support you individually through some online coaching as I respond to your comments. Alternatively why not join my support group ‘Permanent Weight Loss Motivation’ http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1064361795 through my Facebook site. I have just started a discussion topic on motivation so why not join me http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10299177974 and get involved with supporting others. I look forward to meeting you through my blog or Facebook and raising our motivation even further. 
We can grow each others potential to find the weight we were born to be. How great is that?
