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.
Today I have taken a section from my book Weight Loss, Life Gain that highlights the importance of connecting to more than just food.
An obsession with what we eat is unhealthy and leads us into believing that we should make food scarce by restricting it. This ‘Scarcity Mindset’ only leads to craving and eventually over eating. Quantity, balance and changing our connection away from food and towards more loving thoughts and actions are the keys, after years of dieting.
One of the first loving acts that requires attention after years of playing the dieting game is to connect back in touch with yourself and life. For years you may have only been connected to food. Your focus may have been on wanting it, thinking about it and allowing it to rule your life. This focus may have obliterated the loving connections in life that bring happiness and joy.
So on your journey through life are you connected or disconnected? When you live your life in an ‘Abundant’ mindset…
- Your mind is connected to the feelings of your body;
- Your mind is connected to your fuel tank – your empty/full feelings - to ensure that excess food is not wasted (put on our waists and hips!);
- Your mind is connected to life in the moment – the power of the present;
- Your mind is connected to your inner friend and the loving things that ‘Feed Your Soul’;
- Your mind is connected with the energy that each food provides in order to determine those that are the best fuel for your body;
- You are connected with your own inner beauty;
- You are connected to your deep intuition;
- You are connected to your emotions and thoughts managing them appropriately without burying them with food by comfort eating;
- Your mind is connected to your inner friend and the loving things that ‘Feed Your Soul’;
Through this mindset you fully connect with the abundance of joy and beauty in the world around you. You connect with the positive things people say, not the negative ones. You are healthily connected with the food you eat. In this mindset you seek, and find, the abundant connections with the joy and happiness you deeply crave.
The disturbing thing is, when you are disconnected, you think you will find happiness at a certain weight, size or shape. This is the illusion that a ‘Scarcity’ mindset creates!
Change the focus of your life and fill it with loving connections now!
