How Cari Corbet-Owen ended up
losing weight naturally...
Hi...I'm Cari Corbet-Owen, a Clinical Psychologist. I've been amused that people think of me as a diet guru, because in reality I'm actually totally anti-diets. My passionate is about losing weight naturally and as far as I'm concerned 'diet' and 'natural' don't even vaguely belong in the same sentence! 
Vastly more important than any books I"ve written or media work done as an anti-diet advocate, I am a weight loss guru in one important way.... I'm 'QBE' (Qualified by Experience). I’ve been there, done every diet on planet earth and worn every size clothing from ‘s’ (so thin you could have faxed me) thru ‘xxxxl’. I'm a diet guru only because I can speak about diets from firsthand experience.
- 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-OwenBut 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 eating.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! And best of all that thought not longer concerns me - yay!
I'm passionate about helping you
Lose weight naturallyI was a diet guru until a personal tragedy introduced me to an unexpected solution to my whole weight saga. 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 and talking and writing about it which has also spawned many 'Cari myths.' Yes! I've heard some pretty fascinating things about myself :) PS: If you want to find out more about what the world considers to be my 'qualifications'and my professional life, you can check out the resume I put together here.
My passion as an ex weight loss guru is also why I've created this website . I know a public life sounds glamorous -and initially it was- but I wanted to get off the treadmill of workshops, book tours, radio and TV interviews etc... etc... but still touch and change lives and spend more 'me-at-home' time.
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 done this page. When I'm handed 'gifts' I believe everyone could benefit from, I feel compelled to share them. The gits I want to share with you are: - Gift #1: How to create a vehicle like this website which allows me a platform to chat to you, share my ideas and offer you the various books I've written about freeing yourself from yo-yo dieting.
- Gift #2: The secrets to losing weight forever without dieting. And psssst.... they don't start with food!
Losing children WAS my giftIn 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. Nor did I know that those losses would turn out to be one of my most valuable chapters.
My journey as a weight loss guru 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! Ad THAT's when the miracle happened and almost miraculously... MY WEIGHT LEFT WITHOUT A STRUGGLE!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 helping me create the most fabulous vehicle so that I share everything I've learned about how to live in a Joy-Filled Body because I've managed to get my Mind over Fatter.
How my wish for more
'me-at-home'time came trueRemember 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. One door never shuts without another opening. 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 to discover a new way to share my weight guru passion with the world AND earn a living without the hectic schedule I'd once had.
Passing on the Good StuffAnd abracadabra, SBI opened me to a whole new world I never knew existed. They gave me incredible tools to make a living online, and a lot of this very site was created right in my hammock chair in my garden. I had no programming skills and I knew about zero about creating a successful money-making website - all I had was a topic I was passionate about. But by doggedly following SBI's step-by-step action guide, asking plenty of questions in the fabulous forums and ... um... yes I did put in plenty of hours, I can look back and be amazed that even lil 'ol technologically-challenged me managed to create this entire website. I started the ditch diets live light website in December 2007, and it didn't take long for it to pay for itself. And the bonus is that I regularly get grateful e.mails for helping people. How lucky can one person be?
A 2010 update: And once my website was set up and pretty much running itself, a fabulous job offer came along. And even without lifting a finger to help my site for 18 months, my traffic continued to grow so that in Jan of this year ditch-diets-live-light.com had over 11 500 visits and 28 000 page viewed!
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