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.
It took me over 30 years to realise that the dieting game was failing me. Before that I thought I was the failure! What a relief it was when I woke up to the fact that I was normal and that even people who have never dieted before actually crave food and binge after being on a restricted food programme.
The problem for many people, these days, is that they are trying to change their lifestyle, to a healthy eating one, whilst still retaining the mindset of a dieter…
~ Food labelling – good/bad
~ Guilt and shame around food
~ Hating their body image
~ Spending much of the day thinking about food
~ Believing they are ‘Not Good Enough’
~ Counting calories, points or colours ü Stop playing victim to food and weight by allowing it to control your life
ü Change your focus away from food and onto things that bring you joy and happiness
ü Stop talking about food in terms of good and bad
ü Start discovering the foods that suit your body best
ü Experiment to find the foods that fill you with joy and energy
ü Stop complaining about your weight, size and shape – take action to make life changes
ü Find the positive support you need to sustain your life changes
Creating the actions you want to change your life is obviously not a quick fix. But when did any of the quick fixes you have tried ever work as a long-term solution to your weight loss? Ø Remember this is a life change not a weight loss destination
Ø Search for the triggers that pull the rug out from your motivation
Ø Find ways to overcome your triggers that lead to comfort eating
Ø Re-learn the skills of listening to your body – it really does know exactly what it wants and needs
Ø Surround yourself with positive people who actively encourage and support your life changes
Ø Increase your physical activity but find a way to make it fun and enjoyable
Ø Give yourself lots of loving and caring moments every day Now take action, get rid of the dieting mindset and make your healthy eating plan work for you.
It's no wonder that healthy eating still sees people struggling with life and weight. The key is to change your perspective completely…
If you really want to eat healthily and lose weight permanently then you have to be prepared to make some real life changes. That’s why ongoing support and motivation is so important. Without it you so easily slip back into the old familiar habits with food. So here are a few tips for staying on track…
