Weight Loss
Hypnosis is an excellent way to lose weight
How many of us have tried to lose 10, 20, or 30 pounds of excess weight? And
you may have succeeded from time to time. But for how long?
You may have discovered by now that diets do not work in the long run. You
may lose 10 or 15 pounds by struggling to limit your calories for a few weeks
or even a month. You may even increase your metabolism by forcing yourself
to exercise for a month or two. But once you reach your goal, you stop exercising
and go back to your old eating habits. That’s when you start gaining
back the weight you lost, and maybe even a few extra pounds. You end up gaining
back all the weight you lost because your habits have not changed.
Hypnosis is an effective method for weight loss because it excels at
helping people to change habits. There is no struggle with diet because you
will enjoy eating fresh, healthy foods instead of high-fat junk food. You will
automatically prefer to eat food that is nutritious because your body feels
so much better when you do. You will not have to force yourself to exercise;
you will genuinely want to move your body because it feels good when you do.
You will learn to crave healthy food and exercise, and so it will become a
natural part of your life. You will learn the habits of a slim person, and
incorporate those habits into your daily life going forward into the future.
And that is why you will be successful using hypnosis to lose weight and maintain
that healthy and attractive body that you deserve.
Hypnosis may be one of the best solutions to weight loss. Strategies
to control stress may just be the best tools to reduce weight for the long
term. Stress appears to be a major cause of weight gain and reducing stress
levels seems to have a cause/effect relationship on people's weight.
UCSF researchers have identified a biochemical feedback system in rats that
could explain why some people crave comfort foods—such as chocolate chip
cookies and greasy cheeseburgers—when they are chronically stressed, and
why such people are apt to gain weight in the abdomen.
If you suffer chronic stress in your daily life, at work, at home, in traffic:
and these types of events are relentless and ongoing, you may have chronically
elevated adrenal hormones (chronic stress). But human beings are creative about
finding ways to survive difficult situations and for some, chocolate or fried
potatoes may do the trick. These foods stimulate neurochemicals that activate
pleasure centers in the brain.
Fortunately, there are other ways to treat chronic stress: exercise, yoga,
meditation, sex, and hot baths all stimulate these same neurochemicals that
activate pleasure centers in the brain. Relaxation techniques also work by
reducing the psychological drives on stress output, which can be the root causes
of stress.
Although drugs and alcohol do stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain,
they are not a good choice for reducing stress because they also stimulate
greater stress, and thereby create compulsions for using more substances to
get the same amount of pleasure.
Comfort foods are not a good long-term solution to reduce stress, because
there are serious health consequences of a diet high in fat and sugars— abdominal
obesity (which can lead to cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes and stroke),
and cardiovascular disease itself.
In the short run, if you're chronically stressed it might be worthwhile to
sleep more to help reduce stress. In the long run, eliminating the source of
the stress or changing your relationship to the source of the stress is going
to be the best choice for you.
Will power and fad diets are not enough to keep those inches off.
What can and will work is re-programming your mind so you can create new stimulus
responses to food, hunger urges, locations and the unconscious reasons you
eat. You can begin to feel better now as you realize that your weight will
begin to fade away...giving yourself a new sense of pride and a slimmer, more
attractive body.
Hypnosis works
best for those people whose excess weight is a result of overeating and/or
lack of exercise. Hypnosis does not work for those whose excess of weight
is the result of physiological causes. If you fall into the category of
overweight overeaters, your problem is not in your metabolic rate; it is, most
likely, in your mind—your unconscious mind. You may have lost weight before
with lots of conscious effort. Your conscious mind served as a food cop to
keep yourself from old habits of eating and behaving. But, as soon as you reached
your goal and stopped dieting, your old unconscious habits took over again.
This is because the unconscious is more powerful than the conscious mind,
and you did what you were most strongly directed to do: You ate more than
your body physically needed.
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