Weight loss seems to be on everyone’s mind during those post-holiday weeks in early January, and who can blame us all for worrying? It seems like the entire month of December is spent on one nonstop smorgasboard of fattening, sugary, salty foods.
Sure, they taste good, but we end up paying in pounds (on our body, not the British currency) later on, and we all know that especially the older we get, those pounds go on easy, but become much harder to take off.
However, even if you think you have the most stubborn body fat, and you feel like losing weight takes more time than you’d like to waste on eating salads with no dressing and lean meats, rest assured that there are diets out there that anyone can lose weight on.
It just depends on what is the least painless for you personally. Do you hate carbs? Go on a low carb diet or carb conscious diet like the Zone or the South Beach Diet.
If you don’t care for meats and proteins, you may want to opt for a vegetarian based diet, or even a vegan diet for that matter. These types of diets tend to rely mostly on whole grains, nuts and other sources of fiber and substance that don’t involve any type of animal meat of animal byproducts.
What about those diets for people who don’t like to cook, and need to have portion control and calorie control? Well, in this day and age of everything you could possibly want at the click of a button or movement of a computer mouse, you can even get healthy, reduced calorie, and portion controlled meals sent right to your door.
Although these options may not be something that some people consider cost effective, if you really stick to the menu of foods that are shipped to you, and don’t veer off the menu and start spending money on fast food or restaurant foods, then you actually should find that you’re spending about the same amount as you would have on the groceries and restaurant meals that you normally would be eating anyways.
For those that are a little more adventurous and not averse to the more “extreme” diets, there are fasting diets that some swear by not only to jump start their weight loss, but also to give them an internal “cleansing” of sorts.
Although these types of diets are criticized for their extremism, and some even decry them as harmful to the health of anyone who does them, there are devotees that believe these types of deprivation diets give them their health back, and more importantly, take the focus off food in their life for a while, allowing them to channel their creative efforts everywhere else.
There are always those good old stand by diets that I think everyone and their brother has tried at some point, like the cabbage soup diet, which is famed for it’s use as a medical weight loss tool for those that are going to undergo some sort of surgical or medical procedure in the next few weeks.
It is known for it’s quick results, but a lot of people complain that it not only gives them zero variety since that’s all they can eat all day, but also that it gives them excess gas (which is of course embarrassing and not a desirable side effect of any diet).
My personal recommendation is that no matter what the type of diet you decide to try in 2009 to help you attain and maintain your ideal weight and gain your health back, you may want to buy a good set of self hypnosis CD’s for weight loss.
These can not only help you to get the internal willpower you need to lose weight and keep on losing weight, but they also work on such a subliminal level that you don’t even notice that you’re exercising the correct behavior that allows you to lose weight, keep on losing, and maintain your ideal weight.
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November 20th, 2009The Three Bodies of Weight Loss
November 17th, 2009The following words may seem taboo: weight loss is easy! We have just been going about it the wrong way. Almost all of the products and diets on the market today miss key components to achieving permanent weight loss. Almost all of them only focus on the physical body- what we eat, how much we eat, when we eat and how much we exercise. If that is all that is necessary, then why have you not achieved your ideal weight? Why do diets and pills have a success rate of less than 9%? The reason is simple: there is a missing link to permanent weight loss. The physical aspect of weight loss is only one third of the equation.
There are three separate aspects that must addressed for permanent weight loss, and I like to refer to them as the three bodies. The physical body is the first. The other bodies for weight loss are the missing links; the mental body and the emotional body. The mental body includes your eating habits, orientation and perception of food. The emotional body includes the emotional reasons you eat, your attitudes toward food, and the underlying reasons you are overweight. When you work with all three bodies, it makes weight loss easy! Imagine sitting on a stool with only one leg. How long could you balance yourself? That is what it is like attempting to lose weight while only focusing on the physical- it becomes a balancing act and a struggle to stay upright! If you find a stool that is steady with three legs, there is no balancing act at all. It is easy to comfortably sit on a balanced stool! When you have a plan that focuses on the physical, mental and emotional bodies of weight loss, you feel comfortable and secure, and your success rate dramatically increases from that of diets alone.
It is important to understand why the mental and emotional bodies play such a large role in weight loss. If making a change was as easy as simply stating the desire, we would all be ultra-healthy, thin millionaires with the perfect partners. How many times have you made a New Years resolution and had it fall through? Because we are creatures of habit, change can sometimes be difficult. When you want to make a change, sometimes it feels as though you are pushing against something inside of yourself. What you are pushing against is your unconscious (AKA subconscious) mind.
Let’s talk quickly about the unconscious mind. The unconscious works very differently than the conscious mind. For example, when you think about not being allowed to eat cheesecake, it makes the unconscious mind want to eat cheesecake even more because you are thinking about cheesecake! The unconscious does not know that cheesecake is bad because it only understands pictures and emotions, so all it sees is cheesecake! The more you think about not wanting the cheesecake, the more and more appealing it becomes until finally… well you know what happens. In order to easily avoid “bad” foods and cut down on or totally halt cravings, it is important to work with the “language” of the unconscious mind.
While I could go into much more detail, I also want to briefly discuss the emotional body of eating. There are two types of hunger- biological and emotional, and it is easy to tell the difference. Biological hunger comes on gradually and patiently, while emotional hunger comes on suddenly and feels urgent. Underlying feelings such as self-loathing, hopelessness, sadness, or worthlessness are often at the root of emotional hunger. Less intense emotions such as boredom can become a culprit as well. Whatever the underlying emotion is, eating is simply masking what is going on in your life. When you notice that you are experiencing emotional hunger, instead of asking “What should I eat?”, a better question to ask is “What is eating me?” Start keeping a list of those feelings and thoughts and find a way to resolve them! There are so many modalities that can help you let go of negative emotions and beliefs, such as psychotherapy, hypnosis, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Time Empowerment (my personal favorite), and Body Alignment, just to name a few. In my personal practice, I find that having multiple modalities in my toolbox greatly increases the amount of change I can help a client achieve. If you are looking for assistance, you may want to seek someone skilled in many modalities as well.
In summary, when you work with all three bodies of weight loss- the physical, the mental, and the emotional- you greatly increase your chances at achieving permanent weight loss and you feel much better! Weight loss can be totally easy if you approach it in a way that works with you, instead of against you! For continued advice on learning about all three bodies of weight loss, I highly recommend visiting my website at www.YourEmpowermentSource.com. We have also included a free law of attraction meditation download on our site.
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Weight Loss Help: How Self Hypnosis Can Help With Loss of Weight
November 14th, 2009Weight loss help is available in many forms and the vast number of diets and fat reduction approaches can be very confusing. You can find support when you use self-hypnosis as a guide to reducing mass. This process helps you gain self-confidence while giving you the motivation to stop overeating.
Weight Control Help
Part of the problem with keeping the extra pounds at bay is lack of motivation. You may want to get rid of the fat on a conscious level but you continue your behavioral patterns that sabotage your efforts. Will power lasts only so long when you don’t have the proper motivation.
Self-hypnosis helps you determine the real reason for your motivation. On a subconscious level, you are denying yourself a comforting substance that you have to face on a daily basis. Unlike a drug addiction, an addiction to food is one that you have to face every day because you do have to eat.
Some people have a great deal of difficulty balancing the subconscious motivation to keep the extra pounds. You have spent a good deal of time identifying with food and with the image of yourself as an overweight individual. Making changes in your diet and exercise routine falls short when your are holding on to your comfort zone.
Stop Overeating
You can’t expect to simply stop overeating though many people around you suggest that it is that simple. You know that you have a subconscious drive to overeat and you don’t know why. You find that you eat out of habit, when you are bored or when you are experiencing emotional situations.
While you need to stop overeating to lose weight, you have to change your patterns of thought and your habits through the subconscious mind. This process is very simple and you can be well on your way to getting rid of your poor eating habits, replacing them with healthy options.
Weight Loss Help
The process of changing your body begins with changing your mind. You can use hypnosis as a method of entering the subconscious to change your patterns of habit. This approach also motivates you by giving you very clear images of yourself at your goal.
The inner peace and contentment you feel when you visualize yourself at your goal cannot be replaced with any food. Your motivation has changed from the false pleasure of eating to the real pleasure of living a healthy lifestyle.
The support you need is available in the recording found here – Weight Loss Help. This hypnotic session is by Steve G Jones M.Ed., a renowned hypnotherapist who brings his talent and insight to each of his recordings. Another excellent selection is by Debbie Williams, found here – Stop Overeating. Debbie Williams offers her extensive clinical experience and guidance to her sessions. Other valuable recordings are available here – Weight Control Help. Just click on the links for more information.
Hypnosis for Weight Loss : My Experience
November 13th, 2009The subconscious mind is a subject of much debate. Some say that it wields more power over our everyday actions than we know, while others discount it as more or less an additional complexity of the vast human mind to be pondered, but nothing so powerful as to control our every choice. This is where self for weight loss hypnosis enters the picture.
First, let’s start off on a little history lesson on hypnosis. Hypnosis as we know it today actually has its roots (arguably) in several different cultures, at around the same time, hundreds of years ago. It’s roots go back to early Hindu cultures as well as early European civilizations as a means of healing one’s body and treating ailments.
Here’s where it gets interesting. It is believed that hypnosis may have crept into modern medicine and common practice inadvertently through what may have been the first failed “placebo” experiment on whether magnet therapy worked or not, performed hundreds of years ago at the request of the medical community.
Magnet therapy was put into practice and was believed to have helped heal many people’s ailments until it was put to the test and found that the only effect it had on anyone was what was called a “placebo” effect.
A placebo effect is basically an effect that is physiologically real (you can feel it physically, and your body obeys the suggestion of the mind), but is in fact simply brought on, or conjured up, by the human mind. It is essentially the power of suggestion at work, and that is exactly what hypnosis is – the utilization of the power of subconscious suggestion.
Hypnosis is a deeply relaxed “trance” state where suggestions made verbally by the hypnotizer are grabbed by the subconscious mind of the person being hypnotized, and the power of suggestion is such that the subject’s body and mind obey the “orders” of the hypnotizer, without even fully and consciously realizing why or how.
I experienced the power that hypnotism can have when I purchased some weight loss CD’s and attempted self hypnosis as a means to help control my ballooning appetite – and waistline, and was shocked at how it actually worked and gave me an unshakable sense of self control and “calm” that I’d never felt before.
My previous attempts at losing extra weight that I had gained were not pleasant experiences. I am not “overweight” by most standards, but I definitely fluctuate in the ten pound bracket up and down all of the time because I really do love food. Just experiencing the different tastes and textures of food is such an experience to me that I sometimes don’t realize that what I’m putting in my mouth is polluting my body and adding unnecessary extra weight.
Not only are the foods I choose wrong many times, but I also can tend to eat too much at one sitting, feeling bloated and moody afterwards. So, I wanted to take control of my eating habits again, and had always wanted to try self hypnosis to see if it could help me gain that quiet inner strength and that little voice guiding me to make the right decisions, and quelling my appetite.
And it did. The first time I listened to the it I was, as instructed in a deeply relaxed state which was accomplished by following the hypnotist’s instructions to take several deep breaths. The soothing voice was accompanied by what sounded like trance music, and I became so relaxed I actually dozed off (which she said was ok, in fact, expected).
I did it right before bed, and I woke up the next morning pretty much forgetting that I had listened to it. I went through my day without the usual cravings for sugar and high fat, high salt foods that usually litter my day at work due to stress or boredom with mundane tasks (can’t we all identify with that).
I tend to have somewhat of an oral fixation, especially when at work, meaning that I like to always be chewing or sipping on something. But I noticed this overwhelming urge did not hit me, and instead I just sipped on my water and some hot tea, and only ate when I was truly hungry. Strangely enough, I didn’t even have my usual mid-afternoon craving for chocolate.
Often times I’d be hitting up the candy machine for Peanut M&M’s around that time, and the afternoon came and went without the urge to eat chocolate. I thought this was a major accomplishment for me, but I also wondered if it wasn’t some of that “placebo effect” entering in.
Since I knew that I had listened to the hypnosis CD, was I actually “talking myself into” believing the hypnosis was cutting my appetite and shaping my food decisions as well as my intentions to work out?
Well, isn’t that what hypnosis is – that is, a placebo effect in itself? I suppose it doesn’t really matter, because the end result is that I saw a dramatic change in my eating habits, all seemingly without the pain of a constant internal struggle to not eat.
As far as the root cause of it, I really could care less. It accomplished the task of giving me a renewed sense of self control and eating to live, not living to eat, and that is all that matters in the end!
Weight Loss Help: How to Lose Weight With Self Hypnosis
October 22nd, 2009Weight loss help is available with the support of self-hypnosis. You can guide yourself to stop overeating and create new habits that help you lose fat and body mass while maintaining a healthy diet and exercise plan. Your gain is achieved through the death of your old habits and thought patterns.
Weight Self Help
You must take a proactive approach for change in order to achieve the weight control that you desire. People who fail to make the necessary changes are destined to be very aggravated and frustrated in their futile attempts to lose excess pounds. You already know what you need to do. Self-hypnosis provides the mental and behavioral support necessary to help you follow through.
The process of losing excess pounds is very simple. You merely need to take in fewer calories that you use on a daily basis. Biomechanical workings in your body automatically go to stored fat in order to get the necessary energy. Self-hypnosis helps you recognize that fat is nothing more than stored energy that needs to be used.
New Perspectives
When you obsess about something, you tend to attract that very thing. Your subconscious mind holds on to the fat because it is part of you in your core beliefs. This is obvious once you realize what it really means when you say “I am fat”.
This declaration is counterproductive in your attempts to lose pounds because your belief is that fat is part of who you are. This is not the case in reality. Fat is merely excess energy that needs to be used. You can strip away your emotional responses and your self-perception using hypnosis.
Behavioral Weight Loss Help
But you don’t have to give anything up. You simply need to take in fewer calories than you use. Self-hypnosis allows you to recognize that eating for false pleasure is temporary and it works against your true quest for pleasure. You can picture yourself at your goal and no food is going to be as good as the feeling of achieving this goal.
You can begin making the necessary changes in your behavior using the remarkable hypnosis recording by Joseph Clough found here – Weight Loss Help. Joseph is a respected hypontherapist who possesses a gift that he shares in each of his stellar recordings. “Stop Overeating” by clinically experienced hypnotherapist Debbie Williams is a fantastic recording that can also help you make changes in your behavior. This composition found here – Quit Overeating – offers the support that you need. Other excellent selections are available here – Weight Self Help. Just follow the links for more information.
