Posts Tagged ‘Hypnosis For Dieting’

Weight Loss Miracle – Self-hypnosis Plus the South Beach Diet

November 23rd, 2009

The South Beach diet is one of the most widely used ways to lose weight today. It is based around diet and lifestyle changes that help you steadily lose weight. By cutting out “bad” fats and carbohydrates and having plenty of “good” ones, dieters can take weight off without feeling deprived or sacrificing their health.

There are three stages in the diet program. During the first phase, dieters avoid all carbohydrates except for vegetables. Although many foods are restricted, dieters still have a wide range of foods they can eat. The first phase is the most difficult phase, but also the shortest since it only takes fourteen days. Dieters can expect to lose around ten pounds during this time.

In phase two, dieters begin incorporating the previously banned carb-rich foods into their meals. Dieters are expected to lose 1 to 2 pounds each week while steadily raising the volume of carbohydrates they eat. The second phase lasts until dieters attain their target weight.

The third phase is the maintenance phase. Dieters utilize their healthy eating strategies from phase two to maintain their goal weight throughout the duration of their lives. If dieters start to put on weight, they may go back to the first phase of the diet.

It is likely that you have seen pre-prepared South Beach meals and snacks sold in stores. These items are handy, but you do not need to buy them in order to follow the diet. You only need to commit to the different general guidelines for each phase of the diet.

During phase one of the diet, you are permitted to consume lean meats, such as turkey, chicken, and fish, eggs, most vegetables, nuts, and a limited amount of dairy products. Fruit juices and fruit are not eaten during this phase because they are high in sugar. Also banned are all carbohydrates, fatty cuts of meat, alcohol, and a few vegetables that are rather high in sugar content, such as corn. The point of this phase is to ban “bad” carbohydrates from your diet and initiate the process of losing weight.

During the second phase, dieters gradually reintroduce fruit, whole grains, and other banned foods into their diet. In the process, dieters learn how to adjust their diet to maintain a desirable weight. Once this is successfully accomplished, the diet moves into the life maintenance phase, in which dieters attempt to maintain the healthy habits that brought them to their desired weight.

The factor for success with the South Beach program is committing to eating healthy. Although that appears easy, this diet program and most other diet programs stop working because dieters abandon the diet before the program can achieve results. The challenges that most dieters have with weight loss often result from deep-rooted issues such as a lack of drive to lose weight, a habit of binge eating, or out-of-control appetite. The good thing is that all of these issues can be resolved with techniques that anyone can learn from a high quality hypnotherapy weight loss CD program.

To treat a lack of motivation, a technique from a technology called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) will induce a strong desire to stick to your dieting goals.

To begin, dieters pinpoint precisely what it is that is most important to them, as a person. This is called their “highly valued criteria.” Then, NLP techniques are applied to make the dieters feel that by losing weight, their highly valued criteria will become enhanced. An alternative is to make the dieter feel that if they do not lose weight, their highly valued criteria will be placed in jeopardy.

Motivation comes from what we believe in, not from logic! So in the previous case, let us say that the dieter’s most highly valued desire is that the dieter’s children are happy and safe. Using an NLP tool called Submodalities, we can guide the dieter into feeling that if she or he is unable to lose weight, the children will be condemned to emulating their parent and they will be overweight and unhappy. This type of belief will provide a strong desire and feeling to stick to a diet and take the weight off.

Several NLP techniques can help to reduce or even completely remove the urges and cravings that prompt one to eat too much. This works very well to help dieters stick to the first and most challenging weeks of the South Beach diet. Furthermore, helps dieters commit to an exercise program, which will increase the usefulness of any diet program.

Stress is an issue that often drives people to eat too much or stop paying attention to their health, but stress-relief is offered by both hypnosis and NLP techniques. One such tool is called the NLP Flash. With this technique, having the unconscious use stressful thoughts as triggers for relaxing thoughts relieves the stress that causes the impulse to eat excessively.

Out-of-control eating habits can also cause people to put on weight. A lot of people have seemingly unmanageable eating habits because over the years, they have developed a “conditioned response” to eat under certain circumstances. For example, many of us snack on junk food in front of the television even though we aren’t actually hungry. The good thing is, hypnosis and NLP both have techniques that can quickly eliminate these conditioned responses. These techniques eliminate the appetite without drugs or pills.

By targeting the underlying problems that prevent people from shedding pounds, NLP and hypnosis has helped many people finally get in the best shape of their lives. When used with the South Beach plan, dieters may enjoy easy weight loss and success at achieving their fitness goals.

No comments »

Posted in weight loss self hypnosis

Tags:

Use Self Hypnosis for Weight Loss to Achieve Your Goal

October 29th, 2009

What exactly is hypnosis, how can you use self-hypnosis for weight loss? In this article, we’ll take a look at the principles and techniques of self hypnosis for personal development, and specifically, how these techniques could help to achieve your weight loss goals.
Hypnosis can be described as an altered state of mind where you are in a type of trance, yet awake and alert at the same time. It can be difficult for many people to imagine what this state is really like unless they have experienced self hypnosis personally. However, the feeling of being in a trance-like state and yet wide awake is something most of us have experienced in our everday lives from time to time. One good example of this “dual state” is driving.
In a recent article in the Orlando Sentinel, hypnosis is compared to driving on a road that we are very familiar with, and find that we have no recollection of the last 20 miles. It can feel like you have been in a trance-like state, yet at the same time you have been awake and alert, dealing with traffic the way you usually do.
I like this description because it is something most of us can recognize and relate to. We have all at some point found ourselves in a situation like this. If you see a hypnotherapist, this person will guide you into hypnosis and help you get to the bottom of your subconscious problems. He or she will then give you suggestions or “commands” to help alter the way your subconscious mind is reacting, and to enforce new, more beneficial beliefs.
If you are using self hypnosis, you will basically go through the same process yourself. The easiest way to experience self hypnosis for weight loss is through using pre-recorded hypnosis mp3’s. It is possible to learn to write your own script and then record it, but this can be quite complicated and you will have to learn a great deal about the hypnosis process first in order to see any real benefits.
A self hypnosis for weight loss mp3 will be targeted at the subconscious blocks you have that can keep you from losing the weight on your own. It doesn’t allow you to eat whatever you want and be a couch potato while still magically shedding pounds by the dozens; but it can help remove subconscious blocks and resistance that have prevented you from following through on your weight loss goals in the past.
Self hypnosis for weight loss can provide the motivation you need to finally take action. It can make it easier for you to overcome your subconscious resistance that keeps you from exercising regularly, or it can help you deal with and overcome the emotional reasons why you haven’t been able to stick to a healthy eating plan in the past.
The recordings target thoughts and habits you might not even be aware of. For example, you may think you can’t stop eating because you have no will power; but the real problem could be that your subconscious is programmed to make you eat more than your body needs because of an emotional situation from your childhood, or even a negative thinking pattern you have developed about yourself and your weight.
Your subconscious mind is always trying to maintain the status quo because it thinks this is the best way to keep you healthy and because it listens to — and believes — everything you tell it. If you keep saying to yourself that you are fat, your subconscious will see it as its responsibility to keep things that way. Using self hypnosis for weight loss can help you “re-train” your subconscious mind so it helps you to achieve your goal, instead of keeping up the resistance.

No comments »

Posted in weight loss self hypnosis

Tags:

Weight Loss Miracle – Hypnosis Cds Plus the Suddenly Slim Lifestyle System

October 20th, 2009

The Suddenly Slim plan is an herb-based weight loss program that offers a fast method to shed pounds using meal replacement shakes, pills, and supplements. This diet claims that within ten days, it can increase the metabolism to make the body burn calories and shed excess weight without altering diet or exercise habits.

The products used in this diet plan have a variety of herbal extracts often found in herbal-based weight loss products. The diet plan claims that the herbal extracts work by reducing the appetite, increasing energy levels and metabolic rate, and cleansing the body in a detoxification process.

The diet lasts for only ten days, during which the dieter consumes diet shakes and takes diet pills. The shakes are meant to satisfy and eliminate hunger and provide the body with essential nutrition. The diet supplements and pills include ingredients such as caffeine, green tea, and soy protein to promote health and losing weight.

Before trying any herbal supplement or weight loss drug, it is best to ask your doctor about the health risks of the diet and whether it is the right plan for you. Many ingredients may have beneficial health effects, but as with any drug, there are associated health risks. One such example is with pills that contain the diet drug Ephedra, which is banned in the US due to health risks (recent formulations of Suddenly Slim products have substituted Ephedra with bitter orange).

The Suddenly Slim diet is often considered to be a “fad diet” that works for some but not all. One of the reasons this diet can fail is because it is almost impossible to achieve long-lasting weight loss in only ten days. Many people on the Suddenly Slim diet plan, report losing weight but end up regaining it after the diet is over. For most people, it takes dedication and lifestyle changes to permanently keep weight off. Usually, long-term commitments such as good eating habits and regular exercise will lead to weight loss.

Unfortunately, many overweight people have a tough time maintaining a healthy lifestyle for keeping weight off. Many struggle to lose weight because they suffer from out-of-control appetites, emotional stress, strong food cravings, or a lack of motivation. Since these are psychological or “thought-based” problems, hypnotherapy has been shown to be an effective weight loss tool that helps eliminate these issues and helps people lose weight on their own.

One of the greatest uses for hypnosis is for appetite suppression. Hypnotic therapy works using the unconscious mind to treat the mental causes of an out-of-control appetite. Many people cannot seem to control their appetites because they are “emotional eaters,” who eat in response to their emotions, such as when they are angry or bored. Hypnosis breaks the unconscious link between our feelings and eating to free emotional eaters from the urge to overeat.

Another reason why an individual may have an out-of-control appetite is because the individual is unconsciously “conditioned” to eat in certain scenarios. For example, it is easy to “veg out” in front of the television and eat a ton of junk food, even when you aren’t really hungry. Hypnotic therapy helps re-train the unconscious mind to remove the urge to mindlessly overeat, resulting in appetite control without pills.

Hypnotic therapy is also an effective tool for overcoming stress. Stress and anxiety often cause people to overeat, or reduces their drive to exercise and care for their own health. Hypnotherapy techniques, especially the newer forms called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), can help you keep an optimistic frame of mind and deal with stress in a way that promotes your health and a stress-free life.

A lack of motivation is another serious problem that stands between many dieters and success. Hypnosis therapy and NLP techniques are the answer for supplying motivation. First, you think about and identify what is most important in your life. Then you take advantage of NLP to make yourself think that the important things in your life will enjoy gains if you exercise and enhance your health and your looks. This lets you stay powerfully motivated to exercise and tone your body.

Anyone can learn hypnosis techniques and NLP from the right hypnosis weight loss CD program. Hypnosis weight loss CDs use the remarkable abilities of the unconscious mind to let dieters take off weight. By eliminating cravings and urges to overeat, the appetite is controlled in a non-invasive, effective way. Correctly developed hypnosis therapy will easily increase one’s drive to exercise and help achieve one’s weight loss goals. Because weight loss hypnotherapy is excellent at helping dieters to lose weight naturally and for good, it has become an immensely popular weight loss aid that works for everyone.

No comments »

Posted in weight loss self hypnosis

Tags:

Weight Loss Miracle – Hypnosis Plus the Ornish Lifestyle Diet

October 11th, 2009

The Ornish Diet is a low fat, vegetarian diet program. Correct application of the nutrition plan, exercise, and stress-management techniques of this diet results in weight loss and improved health for most people. Although this diet takes more dedication than many other diets, and often requires big lifestyle changes for the dieter, research indicates that it is effective for both losing weight and reversing heart disease. With its emphasis on stress-management and choosing healthy foods, this diet is also a perfect candidate for combined use with hypnosis therapy.

The Ornish diet can be in one of two, slightly different formulations, a Preventative diet and a Reversal diet. The Reversal diet is formulated for people already suffering from heart disease who want to reverse the effects of the disease and reduce their risk for heart attacks. The Preventative diet is perfect for people who need to shed pounds and lower their chance of developing heart disease. It is also suitable for people trying to lower their cholesterol levels.

Both versions of the Ornish diet recommend a diet plan that is composed of 10% fat, 20% protein, and 70% complex carbohydrates. Under the diet, all meat, fish, and poultry are to be avoided. All fats, nuts, seeds, and oils are also not permitted. Refined carbohydrate foods such as white flour and white rice are also banned, but whole grain pasta and bread, beans, and legumes are permitted.

Foods allowed in limited quantities include egg whites and fat free dairy products such as fat-free milk, yogurt, and cheese. Most processed foods are to be avoided, since any convenience foods with more than two grams of fat per serving are not permitted.

The diet allows you to eat beans, vegetables, whole grains, and fruit at every meal until you feel full. The good thing about this program is that since you are permitted to consume as much as you want of permitted foods, you can feel full and satisfied all the time. This program, unlike many others, is not based on unsafe “starvation” methods.

In addition to the diet plan, another important key to the Ornish diet program is stress-management. There are many stress-reducing practices you can use, such as yoga, meditation, and hypnosis. Hypnosis is ideal for relieving anxiety and tension while supporting natural weight loss. Hypnosis works by guiding your unconscious mind to having positive thoughts instead of negative thoughts when you begin to feel anxious. These techniques are extremely effective in promoting relaxation.

While the Ornish diet is healthy and effective for most dieters, it can be challenging to follow because it involves many restrictions. This diet and others similar to it often fail because people are unable to stay on them. Many people struggle with dieting because they suffer from an uncontrollable appetite, irresistible food cravings, compulsive overeating, or a simple lack of motivation to stick to a weight loss program. These obstacles keep many hard-working dieters from maintaining their diet and achieving permanent weight loss. Hypnosis therapy helps you beat these obstacles, and is an effective complement to the Ornish diet plan because it offers motivation to stay on a weight loss program.

Hypnosis works to control and regulate the appetite by “reprogramming” the unconscious mind to eliminate and replace bad habits with good ones. A lifetime of unhealthy eating habits such as “emotional eating” can cause people to eat compulsively, even when they are not truly hungry. Hypnosis breaks unhealthy associations with food and our feelings to eliminate this conditioned response and prevent emotional eating. Hypnosis can further influence dieting success by replacing the overeating response with another activity, such as exercise. This way, instead of feeling the urge to overeat, you will have the motivation to engage in healthy physical activity.  

Hypnosis can also be used to quell the emotional anxieties that keep you from losing weight. For many people, being overweight provides a “secondary gain” in the form of a sense of emotional protection or safety. For instance, many people with low self-esteem fear rejection, so they use their weight as a reason to believe that other people will dislike them.  Through hypnosis, we can think more positively and focus on improving our health instead of becoming overwhelmed by such anxieties. We can use hypnotherapy to boost our self-esteem, placing more value on ourselves and our own health.

Hypnosis offers a powerful, natural combination of stress-management, motivation, and behavior modification to encourage weight loss and help you follow your preferred diet plan. Using hypnosis with the Ornish diet is especially effective, but hypnotherapy is great for helping dieters stay on any diet program. Hypnosis promotes the success of weight loss diet programs as well as natural weight loss so people can enjoy permanent results.

No comments »

Posted in weight loss self hypnosis

Tags: