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 is so easy to lose sight of your weight loss goal, from time to time. This especially happens when our minds revert to the old learnt patterns of dieting. We hook back into thinking of some foods as bad and oops, we’re back craving what we think we can’t have.
Of course, our motivation can wane, when life gets stressful and the old habits of comfort eating kick back into play. Or maybe you just get tired of your battle with food and nature.
Whatever the reason for your lack of motivation, there are ways of kick-starting it again quickly and easily.
These are what I call the six magic motivators…
1. Focus on how negative and unhappy you feel when not leading a healthy lifestyle. Contrast that with how energised, confident and happy you feel when you are enjoying eating healthily.
2. Take action to reduce your stress levels – exercise, yoga, meditation etc. This will reduce your desire to comfort eat.
3. Start an evening ritual to review all the positive and loving things that have happened that day. Also include the self-loving acts you have achieved.
4. Start a morning ritual to project a picture of the coming day that is filled with wonderful people, great experiences and loving moments.
5. Take a break and visualise yourself as a slim trim person. Create a detailed photographic image in your mind of the new you and feel the joy and achievement that goes with it. Do this often throughout the day. 6. Visualise yourself surrounded by food. Carefully search for the foods that you love and that work best with your body and fill you with energy. Include them in your next meal where possible. By using these motivators – all or some of them – you will find it easier to get back on track with your healthy lifestyle. And one last thought, remember that there is much, much more to life than food and weight. Start to live, love and be happy with the wonderful unique person you really are.
