For most of us that make a New Year resolution to lose weight,
the reality is that we will break our resolve by the end of March if not
well before. According to the research by Professor Richard Wiseman at
the University of Hertfordshire only 28% of people who make weight loss
resolutions actually succeed. Why is that? The answer is quite simple -
we either make the wrong resolution or we make it in the wrong way. Many
of us also make it year after year, with the result being a feeling of
failure.
Sustainable weight loss is rarely achieved by a focus on food or weight. It is achieved by the motivation for change, created through self-loving acts and the support we gain from others to achieve a happier life. This was also the finding of Professor Wiseman's research with 32% of success where the resolution was to enjoy life more. That means a focus on creating actions to fill our lives with the people and moments that feed our soul and fill us with joy.
Self-loving actions include those of listening to our body by developing the long, lost art of 'Conscious Eating'. These are habits, with food, used by people who have never dieted. They include the thoughtful, loving act of consuming food that fuels our body for health, happiness and energy.
Most important of all for women is the need to make public their resolution goals, to friends and family who are able to give loving support. This is borne out by Professor Wiseman's research, which also showed that men require linking their goals to a measure of success for themselves i.e., becoming more attractive to women.
Also required for these self-loving actions to be sustainable, are new sets of rules or boundaries around the way we view and use our minds as well as food. The act of taking control of our choices to focus on positive thoughts and beliefs is reflected back to us in the way our lives become happier and less stressful.
Managing our emotions without burying them with excess food is another of the self-loving acts that aid in reducing stress. By facing our feelings, acknowledging and releasing them appropriately, a self-loving process heals and dissipates the negative emotions. Then there is no need to use food as a comforter. It is replaced by the comfort of self-loving actions.
When we love ourselves enough to demonstrate this daily, in the way we act and view our world and body, we make a paradigm shift that increases joy and reduces stress. This has a significant effect on the reduction of our comfort eating. A more effective New Year resolution, that brings sustainable weight loss, is therefore to find happiness through loving ourselves more than we have ever been loved before.
© Chrissie Webber 2008
Sustainable weight loss is rarely achieved by a focus on food or weight. It is achieved by the motivation for change, created through self-loving acts and the support we gain from others to achieve a happier life. This was also the finding of Professor Wiseman's research with 32% of success where the resolution was to enjoy life more. That means a focus on creating actions to fill our lives with the people and moments that feed our soul and fill us with joy.
Self-loving actions include those of listening to our body by developing the long, lost art of 'Conscious Eating'. These are habits, with food, used by people who have never dieted. They include the thoughtful, loving act of consuming food that fuels our body for health, happiness and energy.
Most important of all for women is the need to make public their resolution goals, to friends and family who are able to give loving support. This is borne out by Professor Wiseman's research, which also showed that men require linking their goals to a measure of success for themselves i.e., becoming more attractive to women.
Also required for these self-loving actions to be sustainable, are new sets of rules or boundaries around the way we view and use our minds as well as food. The act of taking control of our choices to focus on positive thoughts and beliefs is reflected back to us in the way our lives become happier and less stressful.
Managing our emotions without burying them with excess food is another of the self-loving acts that aid in reducing stress. By facing our feelings, acknowledging and releasing them appropriately, a self-loving process heals and dissipates the negative emotions. Then there is no need to use food as a comforter. It is replaced by the comfort of self-loving actions.
When we love ourselves enough to demonstrate this daily, in the way we act and view our world and body, we make a paradigm shift that increases joy and reduces stress. This has a significant effect on the reduction of our comfort eating. A more effective New Year resolution, that brings sustainable weight loss, is therefore to find happiness through loving ourselves more than we have ever been loved before.
© Chrissie Webber 2008
Chrissie Webber is a published author, business coach and
leadership trainer. As Managing Director of Life-Shapers Ltd she is
developing her online weight-loss motivation company
[http://www.lifeshapers.co.uk] into a franchise of Life Shapers Weight
Management Coaches.
Her track record in the area of weight management is firstly a personal one. 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 she has written a book about her motivational journey. Weight Loss, Life Gain - A Motivational Journey to Permanent Weight Loss was published in January 2008 by Accent Press.
Her Blog [http://www.chrissiewebber.co.uk] and free monthly eZine now offer support to others.
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Her track record in the area of weight management is firstly a personal one. 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 she has written a book about her motivational journey. Weight Loss, Life Gain - A Motivational Journey to Permanent Weight Loss was published in January 2008 by Accent Press.
Her Blog [http://www.chrissiewebber.co.uk] and free monthly eZine now offer support to others.
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