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.
Developing a positive body image, right now, before you find the weight you were born to be is absolutely essential to sustaining your weight loss. Why is this? Because you are likely to still hate your body, and not be able to see it in all its beauty, when you have eventually lost the weight you want to. This can so easily lead to eventual weight gain and all you efforts being in vain.
The fear is that we will not have the incentive to lose weight if we are in love with something that is not how we want it to be. Since when was anything perfect? There are always things we wish we could change in others and ourselves but that doesn’t mean to say we can’t love them despite their foibles. This is unconditional love. It is what we deserve and need from ourselves if we are to sustain the motivation to lose weight permanently.
To lose weight permanently and give up our battle with food we need to develop not only a positive body image but also a deep love of how we look. So here are my top 10 tips for how to develop a positive body image…
1. Find clothes that suit your body shape and make you feel great.
2. For your women who have never had a bra fitting, enhance your shapely figure with the right bra.
4. Let your self be pampered by a facial make-over and learn some new make-up techniques to highlight your beautiful features.
5. Get up each morning and put on clothes that make you feel beautiful.
6. Every morning look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself how beautiful and loved you are.
7. Look at the parts of you that you like and start to really love them.
8. Every month, take one part of you that you hate and look at it every morning with loving thoughts and words.
9. Play a game inside your head of catching the negative thoughts you have about your body image and changing them to loving and accepting ones.
10.Listen for the compliments about how you look and NEVER throw them away. Accept and absorb the loving support they bring by saying a simple ‘Thank You’ and believing the compliment to be true. By building a positive body image, no matter what your size and shaper, your true inner beauty is allowed to shine forth. Make sure you polish the ‘shine’ every day.
3. Give yourself a great big hug and a special gift of a new ‘hair do’.
