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.
Have you ever considered how important it is to have a positive body image? For many of us this is not an easy thing to sustain, yet it is vital if we are to lose weight permanently. Think about it for a moment. If you hate part or the whole of your body now what will be different when you lose weight?
Body Dysmorphia – a hatred of your own body- does not tend to change when you lose weight or even reach your target weight. All those weeks, months and years of focussing on what you hate about yourself, take their toll. Unless during the process of you losing weight you learn to gradually love the skin you’re in, you are likely to remain dissatisfied with your body image when you are the weight you were born to be.
For some people this can lead them into over dieting or giving up and putting the weight back on because they never find the body perfection they seek. One of the keys to sustainable weight loss is therefore finding different ways to learn how to love your body image as you gradually lose weight.
Don’t worry, this will not stop you wanting to lose weight but will enhance your motivation as you learn to love and take care of every inch of you. It is in this journey of self-love and self-acceptance that true weight loss success lays.
Sometimes it is great to do something different to find ways of loving the skin your in. So last week, I organised a fun ‘girly’ evening for some of my friends and family. Instead of just sitting and doing the usual ‘girly’ things, which of course includes lots of chatting, I decide to organise something different. I arranged for a Colour and Image Consultant to spend the evening with us.
We spent a great evening discovering the colours and outfits that best suited our skin tones and body shape. This inspired me to have a wardrobe clear out – always a rewarding and freeing experience – and to rediscover clothes and combinations I had not thought of before. I now have a new wardrobe of my old clothes as I am wearing things I had forgotten about and better still, outfits that make me feel a million dollars when I wear them.
