The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 1): An Epidemic for Every Body

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

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.

The Truth About Sugar - A Sweet Addiction

At last research and science is proving that those of us with a food and weight issue are NOT LACKING IN WILLPOWER.  How many years have I beat myself up for not being, 'Good Enough' strong enough and consistent enough to lose weight permanently? Decades!

The convenience food industry have a lot to answer for and below is a video highlighting the science behind our addiction to sugar and our perceived lack of willpower. When we eat refined sugars and flour (present in most convenience foods) it causes the release of dopamine, a chemical that plays a major part in reward-motivated behaviour, giving us a 'food high' and a craving for more.

This is because, as with all addictive substances (including tabacco, alcohol and drugs), these addictive foods release high levels of dopamine into our body. The problem with this is that the dopamine receptors become overloaded and begin to work less effectively. In turn this means that to gain the same level of enjoyment, more of the addictive substance/food is required to feel the same level of reward.We are hooked into a cycle of craving and eating that only escalates if you have an addictive peronality. (For more details and to take a 'Susceptibility' Test see Susan Pierce Thompson's videos.

Don't give up though as there is great news. By cutting out refined sugar and flour from your diet for just 2-3 weeks the damage to the dopamine receptors is reversed. This means that your cravings are controlled and your battle with food, a thing of the past.

WHAT THE DIET INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW!

Have you ever wondered why diets don’t work for you? Did you know that 98% of dieters regain their weight with 2 years - plus more in most cases? Only 100th of 1% of those who do lose weight keep it off for over 10 years!

These are the statistics that the diet industry does not want you to know. Also, here are some facts they don't want us to know either:

Demonising Food Makes You Fat!
Even with the shift towards healthy eating plans the figures have not improved. Why is this? I believe that one answer is really quite simple – our mind is set to a mode of ‘scarcity’ thinking!

When we listen to and take on board all the negative messages from a diet culture that has us believing food is either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ we make it scarce in our lives when trying to be 'good'.


What rubbish! By demonising and making food scarce in this way it is inevitable that you will crave it at some stage in the future. After all, isn’t it human nature to want what we believe we cannot or should not have?

 
It's Not About Having No Willpower!
In fact, you probably put yourself into a mindset equivalent of someone who really lives with starvation, and then wonder where your will power goes when there is an abundance of food! Then, of course, we make things worse by beating ourselves up for not having the willpower to stick to our ‘good’ food regime. And where does this critical, self-judging mindset lead us? Straight back into our comfort eating, of course!




Willpower is Not The Issue, Food Addiction Is!
The final thing that the diet industry do not tell us is that, not only are we in a mental trap, for some of us we are addicted to certain food especially sugar and refined flour. For those of us with addictive personalities, which you are born this way and cannot change it, the reactions in our bodies cause us to crave more and more of the foods that spike our insulin. Worse still is that fact that insulin enhances fat retention rather than reduction and sugar is 8 times more addictive than cocaine!

Sugar is in Almost all Conveniene Foods Including Diet Foods!
With 80% of the foods on our supermarket shelves and most convenience foods, containing sugar, it's time to get back to good old home cooking from scratch. What is even worse is that diet foods usually contain sugar to enhance their flavour! So we are now hooked on diet foods. It's no wonder we can't lose weight permanently. 



All Foods Are Good, Only Your Body Can Tell You Which Ones Suit Your Body Best!
So, the way to increase your motivation is to see food in its proper role, as a fuel on which our bodies live and thrive; to see ALL food as ‘good’ without fearing it or battling with it every day. By determining exactly what foods make up your ideal fuel recipe. 

The final key is the one I believe we are also missing - developing a love affair with ourselves and asking our inner guide what fuel we actually want. By giving ourselves choices, whilst focussing on the energising and healing effect of the foods that fuel us best it is far easier to lose weight. The battle with food has been conquered because it is no longer your focus, love is. 

A COMFORT EATERS DAYBREAK ROUTINE

I have been thinking recently about how important the start of the day is. It has an impact on our thoughts and actions during the following hours. For this reason it is important to start well. So, what do I mean by this?

It is all too easy to get out of bed when the alarm goes off and throw ourselves into the day. However, have you ever noticed that if your head is full of stressful thoughts and negativity, from the very start, your day does not usually pan out too well? In all the rush of breakfast time do you reach out for food that is comforting or quick and easy? This is what happens when we do not set our mind and body in the right mode for the day.

Without a self-loving routine we fail to switch our minds onto our bodies, we allow our minds to be ruminating with negative and self-critical thoughts and we have not tapped into an amazing energy source that will sustain us even on our busiest days.

The fact is that by rolling out of bed, straight into the daily activity, your stress levels are most likely to roll over from the day before. And what does this lead to? Comfort eating! So how can you make sure you day starts well and has an amazingly positive impact on the day? 

  

• Give yourself some ‘Me Time’. This is time to be alone, at the start of the day, and get your mind and body ready to meet whatever it brings.

• If you have no time to fit this in, first thing, then make the time by getting up half an hour or an hour earlier. You deserve this special time to start the day right.

• Switch your mind onto your body by mindfully doing exercise, breathing and stretching. (I do yoga because I love it). Whatever you do make it a routine that you concentrate on. When your mind wanders bring it back to feeling the movements of your body. Fifteen minutes is all you need.

• Following the exercise, sit somewhere comfortable and quiet. Sit upright with your back straight and unsupported (a chair is OK if you are not comfortable on the floor). Concentrate on your inward and outward breaths. When thoughts come into your mind just let them go without self-criticism and return your focus onto your breathing. Fifteen minutes is all you need.

• Finally count your blessings. List in your mind all the wonderful people and experiences in your life and give thanks for each one. Think of the day ahead and see it working out wonderfully and give thanks for all it is going to bring to you.

Now you are ready for the day, less stressed, more in touch with your body and its signals of what and how much to eat and filled with joy. What a self-loving way to start every day.