How I ended up
losing weight naturally...
and making a website about it

IF I CAN FREE MYSELF FROM DIETING, YOU CAN TOO!

Hi...I'm Cari, I'm a Clinical Psychologist and your 'healthy weight loss researcher and guide.'

I'm also 'QBE' (Qualified by Experience). Vastly more important than any books I've written or media work I've done as an anti-diet advocate, I’ve been there, done that and worn every size from ‘s’ (so thin you could have faxed me) thru ‘xxxxl’ (for plus-size).

• I went on my first diet when I was 11,
• had Anorexia by 15, (I also flirted with exercise bulimia when I was 23)
• then gained 267% of my body weight
• and followed that up with over 20 years of self-loathing, body hatred and desperate yo-yo dieting.

The new Cari Corbet-Owen

But...now I can go anywhere, be faced with any food, and eating is never an issue. It's so liberating to no longer fret about 'good foods' and 'bad foods'.

Exercise, is no longer a bore or chore. No it's fun and play. And I’ve fallen in like with myself again.

Now you may think I'm saying I can like myself and feel comfortable in my body because I’ve finally achieved body beautiful status. But um… well to be frank…‘Sports Illustrated’ isn’t exactly knocking my door down to get me on their next bikini photo-shoot and I don't see that changing any time soon!

BUT I WAS A DIET-AHOLIC UNTIL a personal tragedy introduced me to an unexpected solution to my whole weight saga.

I'm passionate about helping YOU

It's the knowledge I discovered at this time that makes me passionate about helping you free yourself to live with more joy and inner fulfillment. It's why I've spent decades researching weight loss. It's also why I've done the TV, radio and media bit which has also spawned many 'Cari myths.' Yes! I've heard some pretty fascinating things about myself!

It's also why I've created this website. I wanted to get off that treadmill of workshops, book tours, radio and TV interviews etc... etc... but still touch and change lives. I know a public life may sound glamorous -and initially it was- but it was also exhausting. I longed for more 'me-at-home' time.

If you want to find out more about my qualifications and the media and other work I've done you can download this slideshow.

It's my responsibility to pass on
GOOD stuff

I wasn't planning on writing a page about 'who I am' because actually... I'm just me. Just because I've run workshops internationally etc...doesn't make me one iota more special or important than any other person reading this.

Like everyone else on planet earth, I'm full of inconsistencies and imperfections - these are what make me (and you) fabulously human. I have my share of insecurities - fortunately vastly fewer than when I was younger... and for that matter... thinner... and um... for that matter supposedly more physically beautiful.

So here's why I've written this page introducing myself to you. When I'm handed 'gifts' I truly believe everyone could benefit from, I simply HAVE to share them. In this case:

• How to create a vehicle like this website which allows me a platform to offer you the books I've written about....




• the secrets to weight loss. And psssst.... they don't start with food! Bet that surprised you?

In the early 1990's I lost five children: three to miscarriages, then finally, our one twin son was still-born and the other lived for only 45 minutes. It shattered and shook my world.

Cari Corbet-Owen was apparently a failure as a woman. My body had betrayed me, it wasn't able to do the one thing all women 'should' be able to do - become a mother.

The person I knew myself to be dissolved and what had felt like solid foundations felt like shifting sands.

Little did I realize that I had to 'lose' the old Cari to allow way for a new one to be birthed, or that those losses would turn out to be one of my most valuable chapters.

My journey can help YOU
but how do I reach you?

You're probably thinking... yeah! yeah! So what does that have to do with weight and a website? :) Well what pulled me back from the brink was FEEDING myself with Spiritual growth, instead of feeding my face with food. And, to put it mildly....what I discovered blew me away because it was something I'd never come across in any diet book!

When the enormity of what I'd discovered hit me, THAT's when the miracle happened and almost miraculously...

I didn't have to:

• diet.
• count calories.
• hate myself.
• try to live up to the (sometimes ridiculous) ideals of our culture.

I could stop waging the weight war. Amazing! And finding SBI (the company who taught me all I know about website design) has given me the gift of providing the most fabulous vehicle to reach you so that I share everything I've learned about how to live in a Joy-Filled Body. But I can't resist telling you about...

Remember how I told you I wished for a less frantic lifestyle? Well... be careful what you wish for. It has a funny way of manifesting, often in unexpected ways. Out of the blue, one stroke of a legislative pen changed hubby's business and magically, almost as if it had been divinely orchestrated, he was head-hunted. As one door was shutting another opened.

Wow: "LIFE'S AN ADVENTURE - WHY NOT?" And before I knew it, we were setting up home in California. But there was a hitch... I wouldn't have a work permit for three years.

And so it happened that I was led (yes, 'led') to discover the second gift I feel compelled to pass on... I'd never given much thought to how I might be able to share my passion with the world AND earn a living without the hectic schedule I'd once had.

• So you don't have programming skills or know anything about designing a website?
• Or for that matter you don't have a business or product to sell, and maybe don't even know what to make a site about?

No problem. All you need is to bring what SBI calls BAM (Brain, Attitude and Motivation), and I followed a DIY program of following a step by step Action Guide. Yes, I have put in a lot of work (if you can call it that), but I've loved every moment of it. The hours have flown by.

Or, maybe you're not a DIY person. No problem, SBI thinks of everything. Sign up to join their fabulous e.learning classes where you'll be part of a 10-week online group, led by an experienced SBI'er who week by week will answer your specific questions and takes you through the process of creating not just create a website, but a profitable online business (regardless of what it's about!).

I started the ditch diets live light website in December 2007, and it didn't take long for it to pay for itself. I regularly get grateful e.mails for helping people AND the bonus is that I have a fabulous vehicle that allows me to share what I feel so passionate about. Isn't life great?

A 2010 update: And once my website was set up and pretty much running itself, a fabulous job offer came along but with just the smallest amount of tweaking now and again, my traffic continues to grow and in Jan of this year I had over 28 000 page views!

Any questions? Well just like SBI e.learning will give you an experienced SBI tutor, they also have experienced people to answer all your questions. So....ask away!

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