please contact me on ann@annparker.co.uk
So people seem to throw caution to the wind and eat what they like from November! When I had a beauty/toning table salon I couldnt believe that people left mid November and didnt come back until end of January - I thought people would be exercising up until Christmas and then immediately getting back to it afterwards but how wrong could I be!
What with all the party food, mince pies, drink, chocolate and nuts, Christmas Parties and then eating and drinking for a least 4 days over Christmas the weight (and water retention) can pile on. I know if I did this I would put on at least 14 lb (a UK stone) which would then take me a good three months to get off - and is it worth it? Certainly not to me!
Also it means that it will increase your stomach size and your appetite which means it will be harder to get it under control when you go back to dieting. And it means you will eat more over the Christmas period!
If you are eating like this it also means that you havent got to the bottom of your eating problems. Do you think it gives you a licence to eat? Do you feel deprived if you dont eat what other people are eating? Do you have cravings or are you emotionally eating over this period because of spending time with families, or grief or another reason?
I knew somebody who had lost a lot of weight and went on a cruise where she preceded to eat everything every day, including afternoon tea. This shows that she hasnt healed her problems and it took her over 4 months to get the weight off from one weeks eating! I am not saying that she couldnt have one afternoon tea, but why every day?
So you need to understand why you suddenly drop the exercise and healthy eating routine that you have worked hard on all year? Clear what comes up using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or tapping).
If you are going to over do it, cut down the day before and the day after because excess calories store as water for 48 hours so you could lose it before it turns to fat. This also means that your stomach wont stretch.
Go back to healthy eating the day after Boxing Day (26th in the UK) and throw out or freeze anything that might tempt you - dont let that old excuse of having to eat all the left overs up!
Watch the alcohol as this will put on excess water and make you eat!
Drink a glass of water reasonably slowly 30 minutes before a meal which will fill you up
Ask for treats rather than food for presents - vouchers for treatments, body lotions for pampering, manicures etc
Put a little bit of everything on your plate and always leave something - you dont have to eat everything!
If you are going to a party eat before you go so you are not tempted to pick on sausage rolls!
Remember with peanuts that people may not have washed their hands so this should stop you digging in! And that they may have sneezed all over the party food!
If you feel you are going to eat more, then do some tapping before you eat. Change your beliefs from I need to eat as it is Christmas to I eat to satisfy me and I stop when I am full
Set yourself a target that you will actually lose weight over Christmas rather than put it on and buy yourself something nice in the sales to wear!
Imagine how great you will feel on January 1st being able to get into your clothes easily and with a clear, sparkling complexion! This is so much more important than food which you will have totally forgotten by now!
Monday, 2 December 2019
Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Why my book Unlock Your Maximum Weight Loss Potential could be the best Christmas present ever!
contact me on ann@annparker.co.uk
Over the last 25 years I have read every weight loss book on the market and they have all promised instant weight loss, usually doing one thing. This thing could be juicing, shakes, walking, a particular diet, a particular exercise - the list goes on. But the real truth is that it is not one thing, but many!
The main reason for a weight problem is that your subconscious wants to hold extra weight and until you crack this you may lose the weight but you will put it back on. You see in the press all the time that people have lost 100 lbs only to put it back and more in three months - usually going back to their old eating habits are blamed. This is not true because as anybody knows who has lost a lot of weight you wouldnt put it back on and how could it possibly go back on so quickly - people take years to put on 100 lb! It is because your subconscious has realised you are slim and the old traumas, patterns, ancestral reasons kick in big time and even if you are still being careful the weight will go on. In my case my subconscious knew I would just starve so it filled me with water which I couldnt lose whatever I did.
Yes you need to cut your calories and do exercise but this has to be the best one for you. This is based on what you like, what your body type is and and what your body wants - I use muscle testing for this as everybody is different and my book teaches you how to muscle test so you can find out what suits you. I have know loads of people lose a lot of weight without exercising. I know a lot of slim people who overeat, emotionally eat, have cravings, eat junk food and they dont put on weight - so there must be more reasons. I used to do over three hours exercise a day and it made no difference! I got thrown out of Weight Watchers and Slimming World for putting on weight because my metabolism is too slow and I have to eat very little in small quantities.
Allergies and intolerances need to be eliminated so get an intolerance test done. You can get a voucher on Groupon and start to keep a food diary as you can see when something upsets you. Also please remember that when you combine foods they can cause water retention or problems - hence the food diary.
Nutrition is very important so you will most probably need to take supplements. Breathing is very important to get rid of the toxins and to speed up the metabolism. If you have a low thyroid it is almost impossible to lose weight. My book explains in great detail what you have to do, buy and if packed full of techniques and advice. You most probably will need an appetite suppressant or learn how to use Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) to release the traumas, low self esteem or other reasons why you cant lose weight - this information is all in my book.
My books is written from over 25 years of experience from myself and my clients. It is backed up by research and science and is full of funny personal antedotes!! I would suggest buying the paperback as it is a book that you will be dipping into over the next few years.
Over the last 25 years I have read every weight loss book on the market and they have all promised instant weight loss, usually doing one thing. This thing could be juicing, shakes, walking, a particular diet, a particular exercise - the list goes on. But the real truth is that it is not one thing, but many!
The main reason for a weight problem is that your subconscious wants to hold extra weight and until you crack this you may lose the weight but you will put it back on. You see in the press all the time that people have lost 100 lbs only to put it back and more in three months - usually going back to their old eating habits are blamed. This is not true because as anybody knows who has lost a lot of weight you wouldnt put it back on and how could it possibly go back on so quickly - people take years to put on 100 lb! It is because your subconscious has realised you are slim and the old traumas, patterns, ancestral reasons kick in big time and even if you are still being careful the weight will go on. In my case my subconscious knew I would just starve so it filled me with water which I couldnt lose whatever I did.
Yes you need to cut your calories and do exercise but this has to be the best one for you. This is based on what you like, what your body type is and and what your body wants - I use muscle testing for this as everybody is different and my book teaches you how to muscle test so you can find out what suits you. I have know loads of people lose a lot of weight without exercising. I know a lot of slim people who overeat, emotionally eat, have cravings, eat junk food and they dont put on weight - so there must be more reasons. I used to do over three hours exercise a day and it made no difference! I got thrown out of Weight Watchers and Slimming World for putting on weight because my metabolism is too slow and I have to eat very little in small quantities.
Allergies and intolerances need to be eliminated so get an intolerance test done. You can get a voucher on Groupon and start to keep a food diary as you can see when something upsets you. Also please remember that when you combine foods they can cause water retention or problems - hence the food diary.
Nutrition is very important so you will most probably need to take supplements. Breathing is very important to get rid of the toxins and to speed up the metabolism. If you have a low thyroid it is almost impossible to lose weight. My book explains in great detail what you have to do, buy and if packed full of techniques and advice. You most probably will need an appetite suppressant or learn how to use Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) to release the traumas, low self esteem or other reasons why you cant lose weight - this information is all in my book.
My books is written from over 25 years of experience from myself and my clients. It is backed up by research and science and is full of funny personal antedotes!! I would suggest buying the paperback as it is a book that you will be dipping into over the next few years.
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Why does your subconscious use weight as protection?
please contact me on ann@annparker.co.uk
So I am now fully recovered from my hip operation and feel like a million dollars! As I was ill on holiday and had an allergic reaction to some antibiotics I have also lost some more weight and was feeling really good about myself. So I started to wear tighter fitting clothes, makeup and jewellry and I was getting loads of compliments!! So what happened - suddenly I went from not eating to uncontrollably eating everything in sight - horror shock horror. I never do this and it makes me feel out of control, a pig and that I will put back all my weight.
So after a day when I realised I could do something to stop this, I did a session on myself and guess what I found? My subconscious had gone into panic mode, didnt feel safe and was trying to pack the weight back on again! I thought I had cleared all of this as I have been working on this for years and managed to get down to a UK size 18 which I was quite happy with - or rather my subconscious was happy with!
When I was three I was sexually abused which first lead to my weight problem. As an adult I lost weight and was very attractive and received masses amount of attention from men. I also had a few date rape episodes ..... I travelled a lot for work and it was so bad that you couldnt even go down for dinner. When I was working in Mexico for two months one day I had 30 hits from men (my colleague and I compared notes every day!). So you can see why I then put the weight back on and why my subconscious went into melt down the minute I started to get compliments.
I am still working through this as safety is a very strong survival issue and the subconscious takes some healing to release it. But now I am hopeful that I will get down to a 16.
You see weight is very rarely to do with food but the underlying reasons why your subconscious wants to eat. You need to heal those before the weight will stay off for good. And even then a situation may trigger a reaction, like this had for me. So if you think this is you, why not contact me for a session or buy my book Unlock Your Maximum Weight Loss Potential on Amazon and find out the root cause of your weight problem.
So I am now fully recovered from my hip operation and feel like a million dollars! As I was ill on holiday and had an allergic reaction to some antibiotics I have also lost some more weight and was feeling really good about myself. So I started to wear tighter fitting clothes, makeup and jewellry and I was getting loads of compliments!! So what happened - suddenly I went from not eating to uncontrollably eating everything in sight - horror shock horror. I never do this and it makes me feel out of control, a pig and that I will put back all my weight.
So after a day when I realised I could do something to stop this, I did a session on myself and guess what I found? My subconscious had gone into panic mode, didnt feel safe and was trying to pack the weight back on again! I thought I had cleared all of this as I have been working on this for years and managed to get down to a UK size 18 which I was quite happy with - or rather my subconscious was happy with!
When I was three I was sexually abused which first lead to my weight problem. As an adult I lost weight and was very attractive and received masses amount of attention from men. I also had a few date rape episodes ..... I travelled a lot for work and it was so bad that you couldnt even go down for dinner. When I was working in Mexico for two months one day I had 30 hits from men (my colleague and I compared notes every day!). So you can see why I then put the weight back on and why my subconscious went into melt down the minute I started to get compliments.
I am still working through this as safety is a very strong survival issue and the subconscious takes some healing to release it. But now I am hopeful that I will get down to a 16.
You see weight is very rarely to do with food but the underlying reasons why your subconscious wants to eat. You need to heal those before the weight will stay off for good. And even then a situation may trigger a reaction, like this had for me. So if you think this is you, why not contact me for a session or buy my book Unlock Your Maximum Weight Loss Potential on Amazon and find out the root cause of your weight problem.
Dr. Karen Becker from Healthy Pets, who's a leading authority in pet nutrition.
I have been asked to post this article by Dr Karen Becker on pet nutrition. This is so important as so many of the most popular food is full of things we would never feed our pets! As an animal communicator I will always ask the pet what they need, any intolerances, any supplements they need - so you are getting it from the horses mouth - so to speak! If you would like an animal communication session please contact me on ann@annparker.co.uk
However, this is easier said than done. There's a lot of information out there from a lot of different sources (some better than others), and it's easy to get overwhelmed.
We know a lot goes into deciding what to put in your furry friend’s food bowl, so to make things easier, we’ve outlined some important points for you to consider.
Next, it’s important to know which kinds of wholesome foods and supplements you can give your pet. A dietary boost can help get your pal into tip-top shape, depending on his or her nutrition needs.
Then, you also have to decide whether you’d like to feed your dog or cat a kibble, wet food, cooked, or raw diet, based on his or her health and your budget and lifestyle. Yes, there’s a lot to consider!
Crucial Things
To Consider When It Comes To Feeding Your Pet
Loving pet parents
are often concerned about whether they’re making the best feeding decisions for
their dogs and cats. Although the ideal diet is different for each animal, learning some general
information about pet nutrition can help you make healthy choices for your
four-legged family member. However, this is easier said than done. There's a lot of information out there from a lot of different sources (some better than others), and it's easy to get overwhelmed.
We know a lot goes into deciding what to put in your furry friend’s food bowl, so to make things easier, we’ve outlined some important points for you to consider.
Some
Things To Consider ...
For starters, there
are some common mistakes that you should avoid, like overfeeding your pet,
getting store-bought food full of filler ingredients, and underestimating the
importance of a balanced diet. All these factors can potentially lead to health
issues down the road. Next, it’s important to know which kinds of wholesome foods and supplements you can give your pet. A dietary boost can help get your pal into tip-top shape, depending on his or her nutrition needs.
Then, you also have to decide whether you’d like to feed your dog or cat a kibble, wet food, cooked, or raw diet, based on his or her health and your budget and lifestyle. Yes, there’s a lot to consider!
While this may seem
overwhelming, the good news is, small changes can make a big difference.
For instance, switching out high-calorie, processed treats for wholesome, homemade goodies can help animals reach or maintain a healthy weight.
Certain pet-safe whole foods like banana slices, carrots, plain cooked chicken, and eggs can even offer a nutritional boost. And while these foods will supplement the diet with extra vitamins and minerals, your pal will just think he or she is getting a yummy snack!
Nutrition: The Foundation Of HealthFor instance, switching out high-calorie, processed treats for wholesome, homemade goodies can help animals reach or maintain a healthy weight.
Certain pet-safe whole foods like banana slices, carrots, plain cooked chicken, and eggs can even offer a nutritional boost. And while these foods will supplement the diet with extra vitamins and minerals, your pal will just think he or she is getting a yummy snack!
Just like with
humans, our pets’ health begins with proper nutrition. The big difference,
though, is that they depend on us to make their eating decisions for them!
The good news is, you don’t have to be an expert to be a wonderful pet parent, but you do have to have a little background knowledge about animal nutrition and health. That includes getting expert guidance from veterinarians and nutritionists to help you learn how to best care for your pal.
But while their help is crucial, at the end of the day, the choices you make for your four-legged friend are ultimately up to you. So, listen to the advice of trusted professionals, do some research, and use your best judgment. After all, no one knows your pet quite as well as you!
The good news is, you don’t have to be an expert to be a wonderful pet parent, but you do have to have a little background knowledge about animal nutrition and health. That includes getting expert guidance from veterinarians and nutritionists to help you learn how to best care for your pal.
But while their help is crucial, at the end of the day, the choices you make for your four-legged friend are ultimately up to you. So, listen to the advice of trusted professionals, do some research, and use your best judgment. After all, no one knows your pet quite as well as you!
Monday, 30 September 2019
Why do you eat emotionally?
please contact me at ann@annparker.co.uk
Well I am back if you noticed that I havent been posting in a while. I had an amazing two weeks in Java and Sumatra wandering around temples and playing with orangutans! Then I went into hospital to have my left hip replaced and am now running around like a two year old - well nearly anyway!!
So time to get back to business and to weight problems......
Do you eat emotionally? Do you polish off a bar of chocolate and not even realise that you have done it? Do you eat a packet of biscuits and then feel guilty, shameful and your self worth dips? If you do you are not alone. There are many reasons why you do this but the good news is that they can be healed so you are not bothered about food!
1. Hormones - you know that at a certain time of the month your eating can go out of control
2. No money - believe it or not weight is linked to money and the less you have the more you may eat - this is to do with scarcity patterns
3. You have starved in past lives and your body doesnt want that to happen in this one
4. You have had trauma in your life and the eating blocks the pain of having to deal with it
5. You may have very low self esteem and eat to feel better
6. You could be "stuffing" emotions down rather than dealing with them
7. Your body type may require more food
8. and the list goes on ........................
Using EFT can release traumas, past lives, stuck emotions and most other things so this is your first port of call - but of course, you have to do it for it it work! I know of specific points that you can use for appetite suppression to you dont have to use the full routine............ My book, Unlock Your Maximum Weight Loss Potential, shows you a lot more techniques to get your eating under control - but it can be brought under control and you CAN lose your weight and be SLIM for life!
Well I am back if you noticed that I havent been posting in a while. I had an amazing two weeks in Java and Sumatra wandering around temples and playing with orangutans! Then I went into hospital to have my left hip replaced and am now running around like a two year old - well nearly anyway!!
So time to get back to business and to weight problems......
Do you eat emotionally? Do you polish off a bar of chocolate and not even realise that you have done it? Do you eat a packet of biscuits and then feel guilty, shameful and your self worth dips? If you do you are not alone. There are many reasons why you do this but the good news is that they can be healed so you are not bothered about food!
1. Hormones - you know that at a certain time of the month your eating can go out of control
2. No money - believe it or not weight is linked to money and the less you have the more you may eat - this is to do with scarcity patterns
3. You have starved in past lives and your body doesnt want that to happen in this one
4. You have had trauma in your life and the eating blocks the pain of having to deal with it
5. You may have very low self esteem and eat to feel better
6. You could be "stuffing" emotions down rather than dealing with them
7. Your body type may require more food
8. and the list goes on ........................
Using EFT can release traumas, past lives, stuck emotions and most other things so this is your first port of call - but of course, you have to do it for it it work! I know of specific points that you can use for appetite suppression to you dont have to use the full routine............ My book, Unlock Your Maximum Weight Loss Potential, shows you a lot more techniques to get your eating under control - but it can be brought under control and you CAN lose your weight and be SLIM for life!
Friday, 16 August 2019
Is your underactive thyroid causing your weight problem?
please contact me on ann@annparker.co.uk
Do you know what your thyroid is? It is a butterfly shaped gland situated in the front of your neck and forms part of your throat chakra. It is usually associated with not being able to speak up for yourself or speak your truth - sound familiar?!
The thyroid basically controls most of your hormone functions including your metabolism. As the estimate now for being underactive is 1 in 5 (especially women) it is not suprising that there is an obesity problem. In the UK the tests are inadequate and can say you are normal when you are not (this has happened to me). That is if the doctor evens picks it up because most always associate being overweight with overeating. Then the medication doesnt help - it may help some but it wont help with weight loss. So you continually put on weight and then cant lose it, despite dieting or starving - also the thyroid will fill you with excess water that you cant lose either.
You need to tune into your thyroid and see what is there. What shape, colour, size, texture and if there are memories, trauma or past life information that needs clearing - then use the techniques in my book to release and replace with self love and confidence. People who have been physically, mentally, emotionally or sexually abuse can have an underactive thyroid. If you are looking at past lives it can be because you were hanged, or other injuries to the throat.
Homeopathy is brilliant for thyroid and so is spirulina. You need to make sure that you are getting the correct vitamins and minerals. Again my book lists everything including what crystals to use to heal your thyroid and speed up your metabolism.
Why not buy my book and use it as your bible to help heal your body and your weight?
Do you know what your thyroid is? It is a butterfly shaped gland situated in the front of your neck and forms part of your throat chakra. It is usually associated with not being able to speak up for yourself or speak your truth - sound familiar?!
The thyroid basically controls most of your hormone functions including your metabolism. As the estimate now for being underactive is 1 in 5 (especially women) it is not suprising that there is an obesity problem. In the UK the tests are inadequate and can say you are normal when you are not (this has happened to me). That is if the doctor evens picks it up because most always associate being overweight with overeating. Then the medication doesnt help - it may help some but it wont help with weight loss. So you continually put on weight and then cant lose it, despite dieting or starving - also the thyroid will fill you with excess water that you cant lose either.
You need to tune into your thyroid and see what is there. What shape, colour, size, texture and if there are memories, trauma or past life information that needs clearing - then use the techniques in my book to release and replace with self love and confidence. People who have been physically, mentally, emotionally or sexually abuse can have an underactive thyroid. If you are looking at past lives it can be because you were hanged, or other injuries to the throat.
Homeopathy is brilliant for thyroid and so is spirulina. You need to make sure that you are getting the correct vitamins and minerals. Again my book lists everything including what crystals to use to heal your thyroid and speed up your metabolism.
Why not buy my book and use it as your bible to help heal your body and your weight?
Tuesday, 6 August 2019
Do you use your weight as protection against something?
please contact me at ann@annparker.co.uk
I was 12 lb when I was born and I have struggled with my weight all my life. I have even lived on 150 calories for 7 years and did three hours of exercise a day (which I am now paying for with dodgy hips!). I started to investigate why I couldn't lose weight more deeply and went to visit a therapist who did muscle testing - this means that you ask your body yes or no questions and your body responds as it absolutely knows what it wants. So she asked my body if it wanted to lose weight and it said NO! I was absolutely gobsmacked - but "I do" I said - but your body/subconscious etc doesn't want to! So after I recovered from the shock, I realised that I had been using my weight as protection against something because every time I tuned into me being slim and attractive I felt the most tremendous fear and felt sick.
Being overweight means that you are not attractive to the majority of men (I can tell you that!) but that can be an advantage if you don't want the attention or have been abused. This is what had happened to me. When I was three I was sexually abused by my babysitters son for three years and had only got out of it by being ill and then my father was posted somewhere else so we moved. When I was slim for a few years I was very attractive and attracted a lot of attention from men and as I travelled around the world working it became a real problem as you couldn't even walk along a corridor without somebody trying to hit on you. As you can see by the picture that I was pretty stunning - how I loved my hair like that! So all the fear of the abuse came back and I started to put on weight. As my body knew I would starve until it came off, it flooded me with excess water which I couldn't do anything about.
I was 12 lb when I was born and I have struggled with my weight all my life. I have even lived on 150 calories for 7 years and did three hours of exercise a day (which I am now paying for with dodgy hips!). I started to investigate why I couldn't lose weight more deeply and went to visit a therapist who did muscle testing - this means that you ask your body yes or no questions and your body responds as it absolutely knows what it wants. So she asked my body if it wanted to lose weight and it said NO! I was absolutely gobsmacked - but "I do" I said - but your body/subconscious etc doesn't want to! So after I recovered from the shock, I realised that I had been using my weight as protection against something because every time I tuned into me being slim and attractive I felt the most tremendous fear and felt sick.
Being overweight means that you are not attractive to the majority of men (I can tell you that!) but that can be an advantage if you don't want the attention or have been abused. This is what had happened to me. When I was three I was sexually abused by my babysitters son for three years and had only got out of it by being ill and then my father was posted somewhere else so we moved. When I was slim for a few years I was very attractive and attracted a lot of attention from men and as I travelled around the world working it became a real problem as you couldn't even walk along a corridor without somebody trying to hit on you. As you can see by the picture that I was pretty stunning - how I loved my hair like that! So all the fear of the abuse came back and I started to put on weight. As my body knew I would starve until it came off, it flooded me with excess water which I couldn't do anything about.
With my clients, I find that this is the no. 1 reason for being overweight and if they lose it they will put it back on immediately. Abuse of any kind does take a lot of healing but it can be done and self esteem, confidence and respect can be restored. You may get the attention but it totally goes over your head because the patterns, blocks, trauma and fears have been cleared so your body/subconscious does not register this as a problem any more.
There is always a payback for everything - it is caused secondary gain. You all know of the woman who looks after their mother and moans all the time but when you say you need to back off they don't. This is because they get attention from other people which they wouldn't get if they stopped doing it. Other reasons that you would use your weight as protection:
1. traumas in past lives - you may not believe in past lives but any type of trauma in your ancestors may cause this fear within you
2. low self esteem/worth so your weight stops you from being promoted, getting a new job, going on holiday or many other reasons
3. you don't want to be seen so you make yourself big - I know this sounds the wrong way around but actually people don't pay any attention to overweight people - unless it is to be rude!
4. self hate - you hate yourself for eating and feel disgust so you eat more. If you loved yourself this wouldn't happen
5. You are carrying heavy burdens/weighted down by your life experience
5. there are so many more reasons that are explained in my book, Unlock your Maximum Weight Loss Potential
But the good news is that all of these issues can be healed and you can lose weight and be happy. Buy my book and watch the weight drop off - why not book an appointment with me so we can explore the real reasons of your weight problem
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