Ill be happy when I lose that last 10lbs........

Yeah, yeah!! My god if I hear one more woman say that to me again Im going to chop her head off.  There you go - 10 lbs gone - just like that!! Now how do you feel????

Honestly the amount of women that I encounter on a daily basis who put their happiness and lives on hold because of their "extra" weight they perceive they are carrying.

Why not be happy now, right now in this very moment, embrace everything about you.  Go on - I dare you, strip off your clothes and stand in front of a full length mirror and take a good long hard look at your body.  Really look, look intently at who you are and how you are made up.  This body of yours does a good job, no wait, it does a grand job, it carries you around every single day.  It gets you out of bed in the morning, it gets to work, its takes you to the pub, health club in the evening, it enables you to play with your kids, it helps you run for the train, it does everything you ask of it.  But maybe thats the problem your asking your body the wrong questions, your not telling exactly what you want it to do and then you get pissed off when it doesnt look the way you want it to.

When I work with my clients I suggest to them that they start by accepting and honoring who and what they are.  I encourage my clients to ask the questions why they are the way they are.  If they are unhappy with their size then why are they this size, what has driven them to be this size.  If the answers are that they are overeating, under exercising then they need to address this and a simple tip of the balance will result in weight loss.  What my clients have got to understand as well is that as women we store more fat, we are designed that way, fat is womanly, it gives us curves, it enables us to reproduce and it is essentially what makes us women.

Another scenario that I encounter is that when women have been trying to lose weight for a long time they normally have plateaued.  So when I suggest to them that they may be at their natural weight I normally get a fierce reaction from them.  Yes any woman can be lean, she can reduce her fat levels right down, but at what cost, normally periods disappear and these women are depriving themselves of food on a daily basis which normally results in them being more obsessed with food than when they started.  Their moods start to plummet, their sex drive disappears and even though they are leaner than ever their self esteem takes a nose dive.  Sounds great doesn't it - and most of my clients have to understand that if they do want to lose that last 5 - 10lbs then major deprivation is on the cards.

We are a nation that compares ourselves to everyone else.  If I can suggest just one thing - that is to honor who you are, realise that you are unique, you are very special and there is no one else like you.  What works for one woman doesn't mean that it will work for you.  We need to take care of ourselves, honor who we are, cherish our bodies and vow to always do the best we can each and every single day of our lives.  We want to live a long, healthy, vibrant and bountiful life full of sexy energy and I guarantee that if you are living a life deprived of food you are not going to feel this way.

There is so much to do in life, to feel, to learn, to experience and when we take away our obsession with being slim, lean, skinny, smaller we are freed up totally so we can live out our lifes full potential.