Weigh Less

Feel Great, Look Amazing

Anne Marie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:40:17 +0000

Feel Great, Look Amazing comes to Dublin 4!

Would you like to lose those unwanted pounds and look WOW for Christmas?

Do you have a wardrobe full of clothes that don’t fit or don’t suit?

You love clothes, you love style, you care about how you look and yet, sometimes, you’re not feeling as confident as you would like to. At times, you feel like you’re stuck in a ’style-rut’ and don’t quite know how to update your look or you look in the mirror and don’t feel good about the body staring back at you.

Ø Would you like to learn what your best colours are and how to wear them?

Ø Do you want to follow our individually tailored weight loss plan and lose half a stone in 6 weeks?

Ø Would you like to discover how to make the most of your body shape and dress to your best advantage?

Ø Do you want to discover how to get the size and shape you want through changing your behaviour?

Ø Would you like to learn how to recession proof your wardrobe through smart shopping?

If you have answered yes to any of the above questions then this workshop is for you!

Email annemarie@healthforce.ie (087-7626020)

or frances@imagematters.ie. (086-8119698)

Cost

€175 per person

When

6 nights commencing Wednesday October 7th, 2009 – 6.30-9.00pm

Where

D4 Hotel (formerly the Berkeley Court Hotel ), Lansdowne Rd. Dublin 4

Feel Great – Look Amazing is a 6 week course that is fun, interactive and non-judgmental & supports each individual’s needs. The course includes your own personalised Look Amazing style bible and a Feel Great progress & information pack with an optional weekly weigh in tracker.

Feel Great, Look Amazing

Anne Marie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:29:35 +0000

Feel Great, Look Amazing

BOOK your place NOW as places are limited

Find out more about the founders of this life changing program at:

www.imagematters.ie
www.weighless.ie

Feel Great – Look Amazing is a 6 week course that is fun, interactive and non-judgmental & supports each individual’s needs.

The course includes your own personalised Look Amazing style bible and a Feel Great progress & information pack with an optional weekly weigh in tracker.

Each week, Anne Marie from Healthforce and Frances from Image Matters will share their insider tips, experience and expertise making a vital difference to how you look and feel about your image. BOOK your place NOW as places are limited

Cost

€225 per person. Special offer - book 2 places and get 2^nd one 10% discount

When

6 nights commencing Wednesday October 7th, 2009 – 6.30-9.00pm

Where

D4 Hotel (formerly the Berkeley Court Hotel ), Lansdowne Rd. Dublin 4

Feel Great, Look Amazing comes to Dublin 4!

September 7, 2009

Would you like to lose those unwanted pounds and look WOW for Christmas?

Do you have a wardrobe full of clothes that don’t fit or don’t suit?

Ø Would you like to learn what your best colours are and how to wear them?

Ø Do you want to follow our individually tailored weight loss plan and lose half a stone in 6 weeks?

Ø Would you like to discover how to make the most of your body shape and dress to your best advantage?

Ø Do you want to discover how to get the size and shape you want through changing your behaviour?

Ø Would you like to learn how to recession proof your wardrobe through smart shopping?

If you have answered yes to any of the above questions then this workshop is for you!

Email annemarie@healthforce.ie (087-7626020)

or frances@imagematters.ie. (086-8119698)

John Quinn

Anne Marie — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:57:53 +0000

Dear Anne Marie,

I wanted to take the opportunity to let you know happy I am with the results of your Weigh Less programme.

Since I started I have lost 13 pounds, this is more than I anticipated at the start and is down mainly to your support and encouragement in helping me believe this was possible.

The structure of the programme encouraged me to stop and think about exactly what I was eating at any given time, this has made me more aware and more focused.

Your particular attention to a long term weight loss plan is relevant to me, like most people I seem to lose weight and then put it back on again but this time I feel that I am much better equiped to focus on a more permanent result.

This in turn makes me feel better about myself and acts as motivation to achieve even more.

Your attention to detail and persistence is an inspiration and I am grateful to you for all your positive input.

Once again, many thanks and regards
John Quinn

4FM talks to Weigh Less

Anne Marie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:57:24 +0000

4Fm's Michael Comyn talks to Weigh Less. Click below to listen

4FM’s Micheal Comyn talks to Anne Marie Graham from Weigh Less about the great new weight loss program that’s now in your area!

You can listen to the full interview here on Weighless.ie (5MB MP3 file - click to save or listen)

Brian Tracy on Weigh Less

Anne Marie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:15:40 +0000

Anne Marie Graham of Weigh Less discusses the new program with Brian Tracy

At a recent conference I had the opportunity to outline the Weigh Less Program to Brian Tracy and he was very complimentary about the whole concept. An acknowledged expert in the area of human potential and personal effectiveness for years and a pioneer in embracing new learning and new systems for learning that allow people to achieve maximum success, he pointed out that in his line of business he has used many of the same principals that are applied in the Weigh Less program and was confident that it will be a huge success. He also gave me his own top three tips for remaining as fit and healthy as he is…no refined sugars, no salt and no “white flour” products. He couples this with daily exercise and believes that 20 minutes exercise per day is enough to produce Endorphins –our feel good hormones, described by Brian as “nature’s happy drugs”!

Ciara Lucey

Anne Marie — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:38:06 +0000

“Weigh Less worked for me. I had tried a lot of diets and tricks before to
lose weight but with limited success and weight always piled back on again. Weigh Less was something new and something that really worked for me.

It keeps you focused, it keeps you motivated and most of all it was the reason that I lost just under 2 stone in 12 weeks.

I found that keeping the diary kept me on track. It helped me to see exactly
what I was doing , why I was doing it and exactly what I was accountable for.

Weigh Less is all about small steps to your goal so you hae chagend your behaviour without stuggling as you dont realsie you’ve begun to do it! So often we go on diets we just focus on how much we are losing or about eating as little as possible. Anne Marie helped me to see the bigger picture and I learned that for me Weigh Less is not a diet - it’s a healthy lifestyle choice.

I would highly recommend the Weigh Less programme.”

Weigh Less in your area soon

Anne Marie — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:36:13 +0000

Weigh Less is commencing in Monaghan on Tuesday June 23rd 2009…more details to follow

Weighty Issues of the “Fat Trap”

Anne Marie — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:30:58 +0000

An epidemic of grave proportions is poised to swamp our nation’s health service and ruin the lives of future generations. It has struck our society with such severity and has in its wake left such a trail of destruction in the form of related and consequential diseases and its force shows little sign of weakening.

This epidemic is obesity and it does not discriminate; its affects can be observed across the board, transcending boundaries of age, gender and class as all but a fortunate few are susceptible to its clutches.

Most amazingly perhaps, on examination of the weighty issues of the aptly titled “Fat Trap” is the phenomenal increase in the incidence of childhood obesity with recent studies by the National Task Force of Obesity indicating that over 300, 000 children in Ireland are now classified as” obese”. This cross section of society at one time deemed the most physically active by comparison are now succumbing to the charms of the PS3, Nintendo DS and X Box over the fading lure of sport and the playground games of yesteryear. Is Wii Fit as close to physical health as tomorrows adults will get? It seems a widening in the range of all things “virtual” creates a widening in all things physical, by association, with the average child’s weight in 1950 being 50 lbs lighter by comparison with the 2008 average, (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health).

However, equally disturbing home truths about our rapidly deteriorating relationship with body image and size are observed at the opposite end of the spectrum. Many eating disorders and eating difficulties, although less apparent than obesity are more prevalent, with girls as young as 6 being diagnosed with Anorexia. A survey carried out by St John of Gods (Lucena Report in 2007) revealed that 11% of young girls have significant eating concerns with a frightening 43.7% of participants admitting to being affected to the same extent by the media portrayal of weight and shape.

This figure is all the more startling when viewed in the harsh light of stark reality; the women we idolise in today’s press with “perfect” figures and “glowing” complexions have been artistically altered and airbrushed down to the minutest detail. We truly are chasing a digitally remastered pot of gold at the end of a computer generated rainbow.

The obsession with celebrity “royalty” however cannot be simply dismissed as an adolesant “flight of fancy”, for the reign of terror of the “Yummy Mummy” has embroiled more than an insecure minority in a post natal battle with bulge. This is a fat trap snaring women across the globe. The cult status of the revamped Silvercross and a realigned figure have served us nothing but feelings of inadequacy as women in real life, strive seemingly against the odds to regain their pre birth weight shortly after giving birth. At a time so vulnerable for so many women the added pressure of daily doses of women at pre pregnancy weight (which for most of these photographed women is more equivalent of pre pubescent weight) within days of delivery, is prompting feelings of inadequacy and low self confidence. A survey recently carried out by mumsnet.com highlighted this shocking truth, revealing that of 1300 mothers surveyed, less then a quarter were happy with their post pregnancy appearance and one out of two of those polled were declaring themselves “actively unhappy” (S. Hegarty, Irish Independent, 13.03.2008)

Fears are rarely allayed by screaming headings from so called “glossy” magazines’ across the shelves, aimed at women from twelve to one hundred and twelve, each promising to reveal Hollywood’s latest wonder plan. These re almost always, nothing but a short term fix for a long term problem lured in to the vicious cycle of yo-yo dieting on fad food plans, our minds crave the rapid weight loss we’re assured of as our bodies fight the devastating consequences: metabolic instability and lack of nutrients. The old “what you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts” philosophy rings ever more true as we observe this pattern leading to weight gain as the most common overall outcome. We conveniently blank out of our “overall picture of perfection” the lengths these celebrities have physically and nutritionally gone to in order to achieve honed and toned physique we observe as we crave their every inch, plastered on the front pages. How though, can we not be affected to some degree by this brain washing of perfection when the same unwitting celeb may well gain a pound or two and then have taunts about cellulite replace the “dream”.

The “Diet Industry” has become one of the biggest industries of our time and could be seen as largely responsible or at least contributory to our distorted perception of “Normal Weight Management” and the concept of “Yo-Yo Dieting”. It has gone on to promote everything from starvation diets where we are made believe that eating little or nothing and instead supplementing shakes, soups and “miracle” meal replacement bars will help solve our problem to promoting the belief that the well advertised number of fat removal methods and cosmetic procedures will give us the body we’ve always wanted and more critically give us the empty promise of the dream life thereafter.

What we need in order to break this seemingly unending cycle of destructive dieting is a change in our thinking more than our eating. We must first address the “Why” of the problem. We have control over three things in life, the thoughts we think, the things we visualise and the actions we take (our behavior). Examining what we are eating is one great step in the right direction but answering the question of “why am I doing this”, “what’s in this way of eating for me”, “is it making me really happy” and “how did I get to this point” is a great distance further on, on the same road.

Weigh Less is a refreshing break from the ridiculous unrealistic fad food plans. It serves to enable its participants to examine the reason that their relationship with food is not as they would wish and facilitates participants every leap to enhanced self esteem and improved body image. Weigh Less is based entirely on meals made up of healthy balanced portions and positive reinforcement of self through one to one consultations over the twelve week primary program. There is no pressure for huge weight loss over a few days unlike some of its competitors and infact our consultants do not recommend any more than 2 pounds weight loss per week.

The key on the Weigh Less program is breaking the big goal down in to small “bite size” steps making the big goal just a series smaller manageable goals!

For more information please log on to www.healthforce.ie/weighless or contact me through Linked In.