Love It to Lose It

Friday, 24 June 2016

WHAT TO EAT TO RAISE YOUR HAPPINESS LEVELS

Have you ever noticed how much easier it is to lose weight or eat the foods that suit you, when you are happy? Along with maintaining your happiness through a positive mental attitude, you can actually stimulate it through the food you eat. Yes, that’s right you can really eat to be happy!
 

It is all down to the foods you eat and their effect on the chemical reactions in your brain. Serotonin is a brain chemical, a type of messenger, that operates between nerve cells. It is aided in its use in the brain by vital fats from fish oils, cold-pressed flax and walnut oil. As a natural anti-depressant it can also reduces craving and comfort eating.

So where does this serotonin come from? Well, we make it in our body from an amino acid called tryptophan. Just think of the foods that give you a fast ‘quick fix’ high. The foods that offer this limited ‘quick fix’ serotonin effect include sweets, confectionary, crisps, white bread, white rice, alcohol and other processed foods. 

These particular amino acid rich foods have a quick release but short-term effect on the body. All, however, perpetuate your cravings when the initial serotonin ‘high’ dissipates. That makes them foods that increase your cravings as the tryptophan levels suddenly decrease. This is one reason why, when your brain is lacking in serotonin, you reach out for these tryptophan ‘quick fix’ foods as a comforter. There is no doubt that they do give you the desired boost of serotonin but it is temporary and therefore you are more likely to eat inappropriately.

By eating foods that steadily release tryptophan, the ones that don't give you a quick serotonin fix, you can naturally boost your long-term levels of serotonin. This in turn reduces your food cravings and raises your happiness levels. How great is that!

Maintaining correct levels of tryptophan is critical in balancing your moods and behaviour. It heals the unhappiness or depression that leads you back into inappropriate eating habits. In addition these ‘slow release’ tryptophan foods give you a long-term sense of well being. If levels in your body are normal, you won't crave or feel the need to overeat sugary and refined carbohydrate foods. Steady, long-term releasing tryptophan is found mainly in…
ü  Turkey;
ü  Chicken;
ü  Fish;
ü  Pheasant;
ü  Partridge;
ü  Cottage cheese;
ü  Bananas;
ü  Eggs;
ü  Nuts;
ü  Wheat germ;
ü  Avocados;
ü  Milk;
ü  Cheese;
ü  Legumes (peas, beans, pulses, soya);
ü  In smaller amounts in potatoes, wholegrain breads, cereals, and brown rice.

Eating a balanced diet that includes some of these foods can help raise your happiness motivators. With other amino acids competing with tryptophan to be absorbed into the body, it is helpful to raise insulin levels moderately. This can be achieved by eating small amounts of starchy foods such as brown rice, wholemeal bread, porridge oats and jacket potatoes, alongside protein foods. Sunlight is also essential for the development of serotonin in our bodies.
 

As a messenger in the brain, serotonin also needs healthy receptors in order for messages to be transmitted effectively. These chemical receptors are built principally from vital fats found mainly in oily fish (such as mackerel, salmon, tuna, herrings and sardine), fish oil supplements, cold-pressed flax and walnut oil.
 

Depression and negative moods can be significantly improved by daily introductions of these fats, along with slow releasing tryptophan rich foods, over a three to four month period. How's that for a great solution to healing your cravings and overeating. Eat your way to happiness and the weight you were born to be!


Tuesday, 21 June 2016

LIVE WEBINAR - How to Lose Weight & Beat the Dieting Game

Join me live on Tuesday 28th June at 7pm (GMT) for my Webinar on 'How to Lose Weight & Beat the Dieting Game'

Discover a New Alternative to all the Diets That Have Never Worked For You! 

Learn How to Love Yourself to The Weight You Were Born to Be! 

Create a New Lifestyle Change and Beat the Dieting Game!


Register NOW and get your link ready to join me on Tuesday 28th June at 7pm (GMT) and learn more about how to find the Weight You Were Born to Be.


Monday, 20 June 2016

HOW IMAGINED UGLINESS INHIBITS WEIGHT LOSS THROUGH BODY DYSMORPHIA

Only 4% of women genetically have the ‘ideal’ body currently presented by the media. Constantly bombarded by these images, it is no wonder that 80% of women are dissatisfied with their appearance. 20 years ago the average model weighted 8% less than the average woman but today’s models weigh 23% less!


Body Dysmorphia or, imagined ugliness, is a disorder that now permeates our society. Most women who diet and achieve their target weight still hate their body!  This stops them from finding long-term happiness and joy when they achieve their weight loss goal. The stress created by the imagined ugliness only leads to increased comfort eating, unhappiness and weight gain.

To achieve successful long-term weight loss, a woman needs to learn how to befriend her body and ‘love the skin she is in’. However to do this she must:

~        Learn to ignore the cultural and media messages that imply she is not ‘Good Enough’

~        Accept the body shape that is genetically programmed within her


Understand that if she loves her body as it is right now she can learn to nourish it in a loving
way and so still lose weight

Learn to love each part of her body – even the wobbly bits

Learn to exchange her negative beliefs about herself for positive ones



Success of weight loss can be tinged by failure as we fight with food and our body image. The focus of the dieting game is all wrong!  Food is not the issue, but rather how we feel about ourselves. Learning to love the skin we are in aids us in our weight loss and in avoiding the perils of Body Dysmorphia.


Thursday, 2 June 2016

THE LOVE IT to LOSE IT Lifestyle Change Programme

About The Programme


The LOVE IT to LOSE IT Lifestyle Change Programme is NOT A DIET. It is a self-development programme, launching this autumn, to help end your battle with food and yourself, in order to find the weight you were born to be. Designed to help people who are looking to escape the dieting trap, its focus is on learning how to truly love yourself and create a new relationship with food. Its side effect is weight loss.

 Are You Ready to Give Up Your Daily Battle and Find Real, Ongoing Joy and Happiness?

This online programme offers you weekly learning sessions that teach you how to love yourself, your body, your life and the food you eat. You will re-learn the habits of people who have never dieted and the skills of conscious eating. It will help you overcome your cravings, stop your comfort eating and train your brain to stop its negative, self-destruction. Each month these learning sessions, in total, will take you no longer than 60 to 90 minutes, yet their impact will last a lifetime.

What Would Life Be Like to Live it without the Destructive Self-Critic in You Head?

You will develop a wonderful love affair with yourself and life that helps you easily choose the food that fuels your body with loving energy. Through the use of short Video Blogs, Animations and Motivational Quotes your learning will be supported. With a questionnaire or exercise once a month your learning is further enhanced. Finally, each month you will receive either a link to a fun, audio/visual e-workshop or a live Webinar with Chrissie Webber.

Are You Ready to Change Your Life and Have a Love Affair with Yourself?

As a member of the LOVE IT to LOSE IT community you have access to the archives of all the programme material and the Face Book Support Group. If you choose the 12 month programme you will also learn how to use Mindful Meditation, Mindful Healing and how to overcome sabotage and lack of focus.

Chrissie Dropped 2 Dress Sizes in the First 4 Months! Are You Ready to Join Her?

This Lifestyle Change Programme has nothing to do with willpower and everything to do with developing a new and loving relationship with yourself. It has three levels, Silver, Gold and Platinum:

SILVER – 6 Month Programme £9.99 per month

One email a week with learning and action points

Access to the Members Site with archives of material

Weekly notification about the latest Blog Post offering more support

(Membership can be cancelled after the first paid 3 months)


GOLD – 12 Month Programme £14.99 per month

One email a week with learning and action points

Access to the Members Site with archives of material

Weekly notification about the latest Blog Post offering more support

Access to the GOLD Members Weekly Facebook Support Group

Online Tuition in Mindful Meditation & Healing (from month 6)

Weekly Motivation Tips and Quotes

(Membership can be cancelled after the first paid 3 months)


PLATINUM – 18 Month Programme £19.99 per month

One email a week with learning and action points

Access to the Members Site with archives of material

Weekly notification about the latest Blog Post offering more support

Access to the GOLD Members Weekly Facebook Support Group

Online Tuition in Mindful Meditation & Healing (from month 6)

Weekly Motivation Tips and Quotes

Monthly Online Group Coaching Session With Chrissie

(Membership can be cancelled after the first paid 3 months)

SPECIAL OFFER

The LOVE IT to LOSE IT website will be launched in the autumn of 2016.
If you register for the programme before we launch you will get

3 MONTHS FREE MEMBERSHIP 

(Register NOW at the top of this page)

Choose either the 6 month, 12 month or 18 month Programme and get the first 3 months FREE

Thursday, 26 May 2016

HOW TO ESCAPE THE DIETING TRAP


Join me live next Tuesday 31st May for my Webinar on 'How to Escape the Dieting Trap'

Learn how I escaped the insanity of dieting and dropped 2 dress sizes in 4 months!


Register NOW and get your link ready to join me next Tuesday and learn more about how to find the Weight You Were Born to Be.


Sunday, 13 March 2016

ARE YOUR FRIENDS KEEPING YOU FAT?

Are your friends keeping you fat?

This is a very serious question to ask yourself when you are working towards discovering the weight you were born to be. One of my clients was recently telling me about some of her friends who pass very negative comments when she looses weight. In the coaching session we discussed how and why these people act this way.

Love Yourself Thin
The reality is that when you make changes to your life, weight and size some people are not happy about it. Sadly, there are those who are jealous. Then there are those who are frightened that they may lose their relationship with you when you change, because others may find you attractive.

My client was astounded at the comment passed by her friend when she challenged the negativity. Her friend said "Well there has to be someone in the group who is fat so that we can feel good about ourselves!"

It is so easy to let this type of person throw us straight back into our comfort eating to bury the very understandable emotions experienced by such a comment. That's the whole point of such a statement. It is subtally manipulative, especially as it is human nature to want to fit or be loved. However, by holding our personal power, challenging such negativity and continuing on our loving pathway to change, we may risk losing friendships and even loved ones.

Self-love is not just about making positive changes in what we chose to eat, it is also about loving ourselves enough to challenge hurtful and negative behavious that impact on us. I was so proud of my client because she held her personal power and told her friend that she really did not like what she had said. By doing this it opened up the opportunity for the other person to learn about being kind, loving and supportive.

This is what I call a 'wake up call' as it offers the other person a chance to understand you from a place of love, not jealousy or fear. It helps them understand that you are serious about your self-loving changes and offers you an opportunity to assess if the relationship is a sound and loving one. By doing this you see the person behind the mask.

When we begin to love ourselves deeply we attract into our lives those people who are also able to love us as we deserve. This may mean that we need to move away from those who do not learn anything from our appropriate challenges to their negativity. Alternatively, we may need to work hard at relationships, we do not want to lose. This is done by lovingly dispelling their fears of losing us.

The great thing about creating an amazing love affair with ourselves is the pathway of learning that is opened up to us.

Enjoy developing your love.