The best way of maintaining a healthy weight (body mass index 20 – 25) is to eat sensibly and exercise moderately at all times – with the occasional treat! But think consciously about what you eat. If you do put on weight, or have gone well beyond your ideal weight, crash diets don’t work in the long-run!
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We can slip back again into our old habits, be they eating weight gaining foods and high calorie drinks, or just having larger portions than we need.
It can sometimes be difficult to stick to the right quantities of healthy foods and a good exercise routine. Both require motivation and adjustment in our eating habits.
If you answer YES to any one of the following questions then weight loss hypnosis can help you to lose weight:
• Do you eat very quickly?
• Do you always clear your plate?
• Do you eat when bored?
• Do you eat when upset?
• Do you eat when tired?
• Is eating chocolate a comfort to you?
• Do you continue to eat when full?
• Were you given sweets or chocolate as a reward when young?
• Have you tried and failed with the fashion diets?
• Did you put on more weight when you finished dieting?
• Do you enjoy lots of soft drinks?
Hypnotherapy for weight loss is a different and permanent approach to losing weight. It is not rapid, you will only lose around 1 - 2 lbs a week on average. It's not a 'fad diet', but a change in your 'relationship' with food and drink. You will look forward to meals and eat slower, savouring every bite. You can eat all your favourite foods but you will find that you become fuller more quickly. If chocolate is a favourate of yours you will learn how to enjoy the taste without having an 'addictive' need to eat to excess.
We are all comfort eaters to certain extents at certain times. But where this is taken to excess and is consistent then weight gain will occur. Sometimes people put weight on because there are underlying emotional issues which need to be resolved. We’ve all heard of ‘comfort eating’ and being overweight can be because deep down a person is unhappy, lonely, lacks confidence, has low self-esteem, or is simply bored.
What they eat and drink supplies both nutrition AND the emotional comfort for their anxieties. The emotional factor may be current, or the continued effect of past experiences - which has developed into an undesirable eating and/or drinking habits. These are the hidden emotional triggers which unconsciously drive us to eat beyond our need to maintain a healthy weight.
It's often said that diets don't work, simply they are not sustainable long-term. Yes, you might lose weight, BUT so often the weight goes back on again, and more! Crash diets are actually dangerous. Many nutritionally starve your body of much needed nutrients, leading you to failing health. Hardly desirable and not stable.
Often we consciously want to eat and drink to maintain a slim, fit & healthy body. BUT it is our unconscious mind which intervenes and takes control. It can be the same with exercise. Hypnosis influences the unconscious mind, replacing the negative 'programming' with positive motivation. It puts you back in control of your weight and your health, changing old habits - and that really is very important!
Clearly what is needed is a sustainable shift in lifestyle in your relationship with both food, drink and exercise. This first means carefully reviewing any emotional and comfort influences on your eating habits. It means focusing the power of your mind to make positive changes - which is where hypnosis comes in.
Also important is having some basic nutritional knowledge and we can help here to. Putting on weight only takes a slight shift from balance. For example, if your body needs say 2000 calories a day and you consume only 10% more (equivalent to a small packet of crisps a day) you will put on nearly three stone over a year!
We believe that if your vision and actions are to be fit and healthy, weight loss will follow. Slow weight loss is the safest, most sustainable and effective stategy. A consistant one pound weight reduction a week, for example, (the energy equivalent of a Mars Bar a day) means your weight would drop by over three stone in a year!Weight loss is not rocket science, yet to be successful you need a concerted effort - in particular a focus of attention. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy will strengthen your resolve and concentrate your mind. Eating will cease to be the obsession it might have been.
Our programme will address any tendancy towards habitual comfort eating. You will have greater awareness of why you have put on weight, and a clear and honest understanding of your habits, particularly your relationship with food and drink.
Hypnosis is not a replacement for will-power, rather it gives you increased confidence, increased self-belief and a determination to be that new fit, healthy and slim person you truly want to be.
Many
people develop a taste for higher calorie foods, including chocolate,
sweets, cheese, cakes and all sorts of snacks. For weight management
to be effective long-term, it is essential to address the habits
which determines your relationship with food and drink. This will then put you in control of your health, adjusting your lifestyle towards the goal of fitness and slimness.
Hypnosis
and hypnotherapy are also proven techniques to minimise stress,
to aid relaxation and reduce tension. All of these influence our
eating habits. If stress is reduced you are less likely to turn
to food as comfort for your subconscious troubles.
The Deadly Cost of Low-Fat Dieting
Daily Express , July 11th 2011 |
