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 was just reflecting on how, last week, I felt completely out of balance. I had lost my flow and felt as though, instead of easily sailing along the river of life, I was on a river with lots of whirlpools and eddies. Not only had my feeling of being centred and balanced been lost but also my mind more easily filled with its old habitual negative thoughts.
There are many things in life that send us along an off-shoot of our personal river of life. You know the one. When you are on it, life and happiness flow, you eat appropriately, feel in control and never comfort eat.
When on the wrong river, we struggle against the flow of water. My life of playing the dieting game was like that as I battled with my weight. The more I fought against the reality of my body image, the food that suited my body best and the negative and self-critical thoughts in my head, the more I prevented myself finding my own river of life where food and nature work in harmony.
How do I know I have wondered away from my river of life…
* My life or day is full of stress
* I start to give myself excuses for not taking exercise
* I withdraw from the world, into myself and comfort eat
* I set up a battle within my head about food
* My thoughts revolve to those of self-criticism and self-doubt
* I start to live less in the moment and more in the negativity of my head I find again, through these actions, the peace and tranquillity that comes when going with the flow of life and not against it. Follow your intuition, find the synchronicity in your life, get out of your own way and let nature do the rest. 
Creating the right balance in my life of loving actions that increase my physical activity and fun, feed my body with foods that fill me with energy, feed my soul with the love of friends and family and feed my purpose in life through the work and writing I do is the way I get back on track.
