Before you even begin…!

1. What do I need to stop doing

2. Start doing

To lose weight and look slim and sexy for 2012 -carbs are not BAD! They won’t make you fat so don’t cut them out. It’s ‘good carbs’ and drinking water that build and sustain muscle mass more so than protein! But don’t be seduced, for that stodgie banana bread that looks oh-so-tempting is not a ‘good carb’:-)) Enjoy your food!

Yours in sassy savvy success

Picture the scene, you’re a specialist who helps people understand how to think, how to eat and how to move to maximise weight loss success. You’re fit, active, healthy and you look great. You only put organic, chemical and pesticide-free unprocessed food into your body. The only fluid you drink is ‘pure water’, no tea, coffee, alcohol or soda. You exercise regularly and intensely and you love it. You’re full of life!

Then all of a sudden you seem to be struck by some sort of ‘Eating Monster’. You start to crave food. But not the healthy stuff. You crave those ‘bad carbs’ and once you get started you can’t seem to stop, no matter ‘bad’ you know they are for you. In the space of 3 months you gain 10 kilos. You feel fat, miserable and demoralised. You feel so ashamed and embarrassed because you’re the one who’s meant to be the weight loss expert and you’ve gained weight! And not only gained weight, no matter what you did it stated glued to your body for 2 years!

You’ve almost resigned yourself to being ‘fat’ for the rest of your days.

Could imagine anything worse?

This was me 3 years ago.

What turned this all around for me? For I did turn it around in a BIG WAY!

I sat down a year ago in complete despair. I was overwhelmed with despair. But I asked myself a question that was to change my life. I asked: ‘what is truly going on here? What is the true cause of my weight struggle, that once I addressed I never have to struggle with food and weight again?” This critical question opened up those HUGE DOORS!

I embarked on a journey of research which lead me to discover that it’s the level of ‘stress/ distress’ that our bodies experience, at a core level, that we’re often not aware of, that dictates and ‘controls’ our eating no matter how much we try not to eat. For the ‘stressed/ distressed’ body is only trying to communicate its ‘unhappiness’ to us in a way that will get our attention. For it doesn’t want to be ‘stress/ distressed’. It wants to be ‘happy’ and ‘at peace’. So it tries to grab our attention in a way it knows will get our attention the most and it’s through weight gain. For how much do we hate being overweight??? ALOT! This was like a ‘light-bulb moment’ for me!

So I then thought, “if we can switch off this ‘stress/ distress’ then our bodies could ‘relax’ and therefore, in theory, stop interfering with our eating and therefore interfering with our weight”. By switching off this ‘stress/ distress’, in theory, the urge to keep eating would spontaneously evaporate making eating, in a healthy way more conducive to weight loss. Also eating healthy would then become more natural and easier to stick do and maintain. Again making weight loss success in the long run a reality.

I then decided it was time to put my theory into action. And guess what? I lost the 10 kilos I had gained. But I lost another 10 kilos! In total I have lost 20 kilos!!! I’m down to goal weight and I feel so ‘Calm, Slim and Sexy’ and full of life again.

This has been the greatest gift to me this year.

Yours always in peace and grace,

Jo

 ’Looking good’, it’s what you want to hear, it’s how you want to look, it’s how you want to feel… it’s the body you want to have… what will it take?

Hmmmmmm, I know you’ve got what it takes to have the body you want!!!

It’s right there for you!

I know you’ve tried everything but there is always a way! Always!!!

Let me give you some tips to get started.

*Be willing to open your mind to what ‘The Way’ to have the body you want is for you.

*Be willing to stay in the moment so you feel the ‘nudges’ from within guiding you to take the ‘right’ and best ‘action for you.

*Persist until you get the results!

It’s as simple as that. I promise.

Flick me an email jo@joanneprior.com for I’d love to hear how you go with this.

Yours in savvy sassy success

Jo

Hmmmmm, he’s got a point:-))

What do you think?!

Flick me an email jo@joanneprior.com for I”d love to hear from you!

Chat soon,

Jo

“Peace of mind is the ideal diet-aid” – Cathy Kelly

Yours in sassy savvy success

Jo

Yours in peace and grace,

Jo

“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore. How beautiful and ‘right’ does that feel?! I hope this lightens the load today and encourages you to keep striving to live your success in the way that feels beautiful and ‘right’ for YOU!

Yours in peace and grace,

Jo

By Joanne M Prior

You’re at a loss. You don’t know what’s going on. It doesn’t seem to matter how much you know about diet and exercise, or how much you do diet and exercise those extra kilos won’t budge. You’ve tried eating healthier and exercising harder, but it makes no difference. In fact it seems to cause you to eat more of those ‘bad carbs’.  No matter how hard you try you just can’t seem to stop this vicious cycle .You feel fed-up, annoyed and dishearten and you don’t know what to do.

It’s demoralising for a smart, intelligent and educated woman who is successful in most areas of her to be beaten by the seeming simple achievement like losing weight. It seems like it should be so easy, cut the calories, up the exercise, creates an energy deficiency and weight loss occurs. It’s simple mathematics. But it’s not adding up for you at the moment! In fact you are gaining the opposite result. What is going on here? Are you stuck forever in this vicious cycle? Or is there a way out for you?

You’ll be happy to know there is a way out. What a relief I hear you say! So how about I explain why you’re stuck then I’ll take you through my ’3 Step – Calm, Slim, Sexy Weight Loss Plan’ to get those kilos melting off for once and for all?
Now the main reason why these kilos won’t budge no matter how hard you try is because of a nasty hormone called Cortisol. Basically it’s a hormone that is released when you feel ‘stressed. The more stressed’ you feel the more Cortisol is pumped into your body. The reason why this is significant for you and your weight loss is that Cortisol’s job in your body is to store body fat to see you through the stressful times. So basically it causes you to ‘eat more’, put on weight and keep that weight on so that you’ll be safe! Ahhhh. There’s your vicious cycle! It’s not because you can’t lose weight, it’s because your hormones are keeping you fat.

Now is there steps you can take to flick this hormone off to make it easier for you to release those kilos now and forever?

You’ll be happy to know it is possible if you follow my ‘3 Step – Calm, Slim, Sexy –Weight Loss Plan’.

Step 1; be willing to accept that ‘doing more’ is not going to achieve your goal. Yes keep with your ‘healthy eating’ and regular exercise, without wiping yourself out, but ‘doing more’ is only causing you more stress and the stress is making you fat!

Step 2; be willing to find a way that will allow you to slow down. There are many ways to ‘slow down’ i.e. yoga, meditation, prayer or slow walking. Be willing to open your mind to which method is right and best for you.
Step 3; once you find the method of slowing down that works for you, persist with it. For it takes time, at least 3 months, to experience the full benefit. The more your body releases the stress, and the less you create the stress, the less Cortisol you will produce, the less Cortisol you produce the less you will crave those ‘bad carbs’, the more the kilos will come off. Problem solved.

From such a seemingly complicated problem can the simplest of answers arrive.

With willingness and persistence to do it differently weight loss success can be yours, finally. Calm, Slim, Sexy here you come.

 Jo

Yours in savvy sassy success,

Jo