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.
What sort of a day or week are you having? Is it filled with happiness? Do you eat less when you are happy? I am asking these questions because I realised a long time ago that the happier we are the less we reach out inappropriately, for food . The more emotionally balanced we feel, in our life, the less we need to use food as a substitute for happiness.
Of course, happiness for most people is not a permanent state of being. However we can make a choice, in our lives, to fill each day with as much happiness as possible.
We also have a choice about how we handle the things that make us unhappy. The fact is that unhappiness is a state of mind that generates uncomfortable emotions, which many of us then try to bury with food. What we are missing out on is the lesson those emotions are there to tell us. They are actually the needle of our internal barometer, indicating to us when we are off course.
To get back on track or stay on a course for happiness there are 6 Key things we can do…
1. Make the choice to seek and focus on happiness every day.
2. Acknowledge the things that are outside of your influence to change and let go of them or they will continue to cause you pain and upset. 3. Practice noticing any thoughts that focus on negative past events and 4. Practice labelling your thoughts into categories such as judgemental, 5. Practice noticing when you are focussed on fears and worries of the 6. Practice Mindfulness, living in the moment as much as possible,
remembrances. These are gone and cannot be changed but they will
cause unhappiness if you allow them to. Let them go by bringing all
your attention to the here-and-now.
fearful, depressive, guilty, helpless, worried, lonely, jealous, sad or
anxious. Let them go by creating and taking actions to overcome them.
It is in the inaction that unhappiness lies.
future. Acknowledge that these things have not occurred as yet and
may never do so. Let go and stop wasting the happiness of the
moment on things that may never be.
without past or future thoughts. See the joy, beauty and happiness in
whatever you are doing, no matter how mundane.
