Finding it hard to fit into those clothes after the holiday season? Considering going on a diet?
Read on. Chances are you could change your mind.
You see, diets are fine – as far as they go. The problem is, of course, that no-one can spend the rest of their life on a diet. Sooner or later, you are forced to come off it. And that’s when, for most of us, the weight just seems to pile back on.
Why is this? We were doing so very well and now we are not. What happened?
In order to understand, we have to recognise the basic flaw in our approach to weight management.
We need to realise that diets, though often effective in helping to shed the pounds in the short term, are pretty bad at helping us to keep them off.
The reason for this is simple:
Diets are just another word for denial. ‘Don’t eat this!’ ‘Don’t touch that!’ ‘Don’t have too much!’So you deny yourself and you keep on denying yourself until your weight loss program begins to deliver just what you want – a slimmed-down you.
And then it’s as if a feeling deep inside just calls out to you: ‘You have been so very good. You have done so very well – you deserve a little reward. Time and again you have denied yourself; you have lost some weight, so now you can just eat normally again…’
The problem is that ‘normal’ all too often means eating in the old way, the fattening way. And before you even fully realise it, back on go the pounds. It’s back to square one.
But now you feel even worse. You did so well. You did lose weight. But now you have just thrown it all away.
Then arrive those terrible feelings of failure. The vicious cycle of disappointment, self-recrimination, perhaps even self-pity – and putting food into your mouth so that you can compensate for those uncomfortable feelings just seems to take over.
You feel so very bad. ‘I’ve had enough of this!’, you think. ‘I feel bad and at least food makes me feel better, so I’ll just eat something. Heck, I can always go back on a diet…’
You know the rest of the story: the more you eat the worse you feel and the worse you feel the more you eat.
If this rings a bell with you then maybe what’s needed is a new and different approach, one not based on denial and diets.
When we experience difficulty managing our weight and there is no real medical reason for it, then the fact is that we are eating in a futile attempt to satisfy something other than hunger.
We are eating in an attempt to satisfy feelings and emotions. And no amount of food can do that because food can really only satisfy hunger.
You see, the reason why you have been having difficulty controlling your weight is because somewhere in the past your subconscious mind has taken on the false belief that food can satisfy uncomfortable feelings. Most often, the pattern of emotional eating has been established and ‘programmed’ into your mind when you were quite young.
Now, emotions and feelings are triggered in the subconscious mind. So it stands to reason that the only really effective way to tackle emotional eating is through the subconscious mind.
And this is where advanced transformational hypnotherapy can be of real help in bringing about permanent weight loss.
Through this kind of hypnotherapy, we can go directly to the underlying reasons of why a person overeats.
Once the reasons are uncovered, effectively dealt with and neutralised, the person is free to eat as he or she was intended to eat. They are released from the compulsion to eat in response to emotional needs and difficult feelings.
They become free to eat in a natural and truly normal manner.
The emotional and compulsive reasons for overeating having been dealt with and neutralized, powerful positive hypnotic suggestions are then ‘programmed’ into the subconscious mind, enabling the person to eat smaller amounts of nourishing food and yet feel pleasantly full and entirely satisfied.
Through the intervention of Advanced Transformational Hypnotherapy, the subconscious mind becomes the individual’s biggest ally, making weight management an entirely natural and painless process.
If you have had enough of deprivation, if you are tired of the vicious cycle of on-and-off dieting and self-recrimination then why not go to the root cause and eliminate your difficulty once and for all?
With Advanced Transformational Hypnotherapy you truly are able to get the lasting weight loss results you need – without the pain of denial.
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Painless Weight Loss – How to Lose Weight With a Hypnosis Weight Loss Program
November 20th, 2009Weight Loss without Dieting – How Hypnotherapy Can Help
November 17th, 2009The real problem with diets is that sooner or later you have to come off them.
Sure, they work in the short term. As long as you stick to all of that counting, measuring and weighing. The green days, the red days, the cabbage soup, the separation of carbs from protein, the ‘meal replacement’ sachets and bars can all be effective.
All of these things can indeed help you to lose weight – in the short term.
But what happens when the diet is over or when you just cannot stand yet another day of discipline and denial?
Well, I’m sure you know the rest of the story. On go the pounds – and the fat – and you end up feeling even worse than before because now you can add guilt and failure to the mix.
But why is this and does it have to be this way?
Well, the reason why diets just don’t work for very long is because they’re based on the principle of denial. Yes, the logic appears to be sound – fewer calories equal fewer inches.
But the reasons you overeat have very little to do with logic.
They have everything to do with feelings and emotions. And feelings and emotions spring from the subconscious mind.
You see, you use the conscious mind to decide that you need to lose weight. So then you resolutely and courageously force yourself to eat less, to deny what you really feel like doing.
Yet it is the subconscious mind that produces the feelings which compel you to eat more.
And the truth is that permanent weight loss can only happen when the emotional cues and ties that compel you to overeat have been properly understood and processed.
Usually these triggers and cues emanate from that part of the mind we call the subconscious.
If it is to produce a real and lasting affect, any change process, including weight loss, must be undertaken with the inclusion and consent of this powerful part of the mind.
It’s the subconscious mind that governs feelings of satisfaction and contentment. It’s the subconscious that tells us when we’ve really had enough to eat – and this permits us to continue eating far beyond that.
And it’s here that hypnosis can be of such tremendous value.
If you’ve had enough of on-again-off-again dieting, why not take the time to learn self-hypnosis and apply its principles to your own weight management programme.
Or you could find a good hypnotherapist who will work with you and your subconscious mind.
Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can enable you to eat in a more natural, balanced and reasonable manner – without the feelings of deprivation and denial that diets bring.
3 Secret Weight Loss Aids to Guarantee Weight Loss Success
November 16th, 2009There are three distinct types of weight loss aids:
1. Visual
2. Auditory and
3. Kinaesthetic aids
The bad news is: Willpower and self-discipline is essential if you want to lose weight successfully. And it is up to you, and you alone to discover the weight loss aids that will help you stick to your weight management program for the rest of you life.
Th good news is: There are a huge variety of weight reduction aids available to facilitate the task of shedding those surplus pound and keeping them off.
Visual Weight Loss Aids
Visual aids are extremely useful. A picture of yourself at your ideal weight can provide the visual stimulus you need. Or looking at the beautiful evening gown or snazzy bikini you want to fit into or even a picture of runners arriving at the finish line of the fun-run you want to complete… any of these may do the trick. Whatever your aim is is weight reduction or health gain, make your weight loss aids visual.
Put your picture up in a conspicuous place at work or at home where you can see it often. So that when you feel discouraged, this will remind you of your weight loss goal and will help you keep your commitment.
Auditory Weight Loss Aids
Auditory aids can be as powerful as visual ones, if not more powerful. For example, negative people bring you down and lower your self-esteem. Get these negative people out of your life. Surround yourself with positive people.
The most effective auditory weight management aids must be weight loss hypnosis cd ’s. These will motivate you and help you improve your attitude.
Weight loss hypnosis cd’s will allow you to see a clearer picture of your slimming goals, of what you really want and a fresh mind to know what steps to take to get there. Not knowing how or where to start your weight management program is very frustrating. Having a clear understanding of how to proceed is empowering and it will provide the extra drive needed to persevere.
There are many weight loss hypnosis CD ’s, MP3’s and other downloads available on the internet today. They are easy to use, some are even available for immediate download. They can be used in your own time and at your own pace. Some are more effective than others, so only buy from reputable dealers.
Kinaesthetic Weight Loss Aids
A powerful knaesthetic/tactile aid is to sign a weight loss contract. According to motivational researches, people who write their goals down are far more often triumphant than people who focus mentally on their slimming goals.
Putting something in writing somehow makes it more persuasive psychologically speaking. In the contract, you may also include a certain reward that you will give yourself once you have accomplished your goal.
Rather than wait for things to happen, be proactive and MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.
So put up your picture, download your recordings, and sign your contract:
I,__________________________ hereby vow to keep moving toward my weight loss goal of ______________________ (losing x pounds in x weeks) regardless of any obstacles or challenges I may face.
I understand that challenges are transitory and do not last forever. I vow to use all of my mental and physical resources to overcome them, and I refuse to be intimidated, discouraged or cowed by doubt.
I will persevere no matter what, knowing undeniably that I have the power to overcome any difficulty.
Signed and dated: ___________________________________________________________
Motivation failure happens to us all, but if you do not encourage yourself to use your opportunities, no one else will. It is most important to keep your eye on your weight management goals, find the appropriate weight loss aids to keep you going, and in no time, you shall reap the benefits.
Weight Loss – are You Fighting With yourself to Lose Weight?
November 11th, 2009Have you tried to lose weight in the past but failed? You may have been fighting yourself to do it. I’ll explain.
There are two main parts to our mind: the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious part of you wants to lose weight and look good this upcoming season. Meanwhile, the subconscious wants you to continue to eat all the foods that make you feel comfortable and happy. Unfortunately for you, those tend to be composed of sugar and carbohydrates which only make your waist line grow. In a scenario like this one, the person ends up yo-yo-dieting because their “Will Power” can only last so long – literally. Will Power only gives you a short burst of energy. Once it’s gone. It’s just gone. The only thing left behind is your emotional stress and frustration which can lead to a vicious cycle of weight rebounding.
That is the reason why the problem of losing weight needs to be tackled at the source of where the mental conflict is – in your subconscious. The subconscious is where all your habits and patterns lie such as not eating healthy, not liking to exercise and drinking only soda. Once you get this part of your mind in sink with your goals, change becomes easy because you’re no longer fighting with yourself.
Hypnosis Has Been Scientifically Proven To Work For Weight Loss.
Setting your mind to lose weight and motivating yourself to enjoy healthy habits is possible with Hypnosis. A significant number of studies (several of which are listed below), have demonstrated that adding hypnosis to a weight loss program significantly increases its success.
A 1996 study conducted at the University of Connecticut published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology found that, on average, people who used Hypnosis were able to lose 2.5 times more weight than a person not using Hypnosis. The authors went a step further by stating, “The correlation analysis indicated that the benefits of Hypnosis increased substantially over time.”
As someone who previously battled with keeping extra pounds off, I know that you need to have the correct frame of mind in order to be successful. You may have experienced occasions when you’ve dieted and exercised but then your will power wore off. In the end, you slipped back to your old patterns and rebounded in weight. This continuous vicious cycle affects you not just physically but emotionally because as your self-esteem spirals downwards you start to overeat; you start eating calorie laden comfort foods again and you get stuck in the same pattern.
This scenario happens to countless of Americans who fuel the diet industry with their purchases of diet pills and other fads in hope of achieving their weight loss goals. The problem, however, is that the more you rebound, the more you set yourself up for failure for the next time you try to diet.
In reality, the perfect equation for most people to lose weight is simple. It’s:
Weight Loss = The Right Mind Set + Healthy Eating + Exercise
That’s it. In life as in science, the simplest answer is often the correct answer.
Hypnosis can help you achieve the right state of mind by “cleaning up the mental clutter” that prevents you from holding a determined course to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle. It gives you the ability to naturally chose to eat healthy foods, to want to exercise and to be focused on achieving your weight loss goals. For some, it’s as simple as one session, while others see benefit from a series of sessions.
In a research article titled, Hypnotherapy in weight loss treatment, a group of researchers found that in a test group of 60 participants, those that did not use Hypnosis only lost .5 lbs while the group using Hypnosis lost 17lbs. Why? Because the people who had access to Hypnosis sessions were able to achieve that weight loss combination that eludes most people today.
More proof of the ability of Hypnosis to boost a person’s weight loss was shown in January of 2004, when Dateline aired “Losing it: Dateline ultimate diet challenge.” The show compared some of the most well known methods known to losing weight including the Atkin’s diet, Slim Fast, Weight Watchers, extreme exercise with calorie restrictions, working with a diet coach and Hypnosis.
The top two weight loss techniques that worked were Hypnosis and the Atkins diet. Unfortunately for the man who used the Atkin’s diet (Rick Burns), while he lost weight, he also became sick. “Rick developed a painful case of gout, a condition he’d had before, that he suspected was a result of the diet.” His diet had to be modified.
Marc Merlis, the man who did Hypnosis along with exercising and eating healthy continued to happily lose weight.
“After three months under Hypnosis, his wife had a nickname for him. Incredibly, “droopy drawers” had lost the most so far, a staggering 40 pounds. That’s when droopy’s wife got in on the action. She went to the hypnotist to quit smoking. And guess what? Smoke free, fat free. Five months in, for the Merlis’s things couldn’t be better. And at their son’s bar mitzvah this May, lifting Marc was a piece of cake.”
As long as Marc continued his Hypnosis routine, he was able to continue his path of losing weight. One of the things that I noticed about this weight loss challenge was how much the other contestants suffered by the calorie restrictions that they had to undergo. It’s hard to focus if you feel that you are starving. Hypnosis helps program your mind to think thin – this includes wanting to exercise and wanting to eat healthy so you’re not constantly struggling about what choices you have to make. An added plus to Hypnosis is that it helps you control your stress levels. This in turn helps you to lose weight.
Even highly respected consumer advocate John Stossel of ABC’s 20/20, who is known for debunking fraudulent claims, agrees that Hypnosis is no sham. In his best-selling book, “Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidty”, he makes a bold take on Hypnosis:
“Just when my skeptic’s antennae convince me I always know bunk when I see it, I get fooled. I assumed hypnosis in medicine was one more con game… “Hypnotherapy will help you lose weight!” C’mon, if it worked, there wouldn’t be all those overweight people around. Truth: Hypnosis works — if you let it!”
Smokers can also reap the benefits of Hypnosis for weight loss. A two-fold study stated that both nonsmokers and smokers alike experienced significant weight loss as well as decline in their Body Mass Index compared to the group who did not practice Hypnosis. In fact, the group who used Hypnosis continued to show lower post treatment weights. Non-invasive and relaxing, Hypnosis makes achieving your goals easy.
Hypnosis simply allows you to have better motivation and self control as well as a positive emotional association with your diet and exercise. You don’t just lose weight, you gain control of your own life, so that you can go out there and achieve all the other things that are on your list of goals.
Sasha Carrion, CHT
Helping You Achieve Your Goals
To Read A Deeper Explanation Of How My Hypnosis Program Works To Help You Lose Weight and Keep It Off, Go to: www.sashacarrion.com/WeightLossProgram.htm
Creating Your Own Weight Loss Program
November 3rd, 2009There are a couple of undeniable facts which one has to appreciate when embarking upon a weight loss program. It is abundantly clear if you are overweight is that to cut back upon calories input should help you to lose weight as should an increase in energy usage – more exercise. These are the bare basics of the issue. But there is something else which underpins this physical reality; you have to be willing to partake of the necessary steps to enable effective weight loss.
Human beings do what they want to do. This means that you have to make your own decision to take control of your eating and exercise routines. It has to be a real decision, one which involves clear commitment. In just taking this first step, you will be taking the most difficult step of all. You see, many would-be dieters do not take this step; they bypass it, and this is why so many diets fail. Unless you have made your own decision, coupled with a dedicated commitment, it would be very difficult to lose weight effectively. You will do what you choose to do.
In creating an effective weight loss program, as you bear in mind that you will only do what you want to do, the question to ask yourself is whether you are willing to follow this program or that? Do those rules appeal to you? There are hundreds of weight loss programs around and all will work for a certain number of people and yet not for others. A particular diet will work for you this year but not the net year and this s due to your attitude; your willingness to follow the rules.
This is why you should set your own rules and create your own weight loss program. If you set the rules, then you will be a willing participant and will lose weight easily. I met a gentleman the other day who had lost nearly 100 pounds in seven months on his own self-devised weight loss regime. He said “It’s easy; I just have 1500 calories a day. I haven’t cut anything out. I’ve built in one day a week when I can have a blow out; sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.” That’s it; one man’s very effective diet with rules he was willing to live with.
The conversation we had lead to me wondering why more people don’t create their own diet? After all, you yourself are more intimately aware of how your body functions than anyone else could ever be. You know what feels good or bad, what tastes good or bad, and also at what point you feel satisfied. Unless you are one of the minorities these days who have little knowledge of what constitutes good nutrition, then you are more than capable of creating your own weight loss program. In doing so you will elicit from yourself a greater level of commitment than you would give to someone else’s program, purely because you are in the driving seat instead of merely being a passenger on this train.
The fact remains that the one most important factor which determines whether a weight loss program will work or not is your own level of commitment to it. A diet has to be do-able by you, not just do-able by hundreds or thousands of others. You are unique so why not create your own unique weight loss program?
This would also explain the high success rate found by followers of hypnosis weight loss programs. Hypnosis helps you get your mind around the subject of weight loss and to get clearly focused upon your goal – to lose weight and achieve your perfect weight in a way which suits you. Hypnosis is a state of mind which is relaxing and also allows access to your subconscious mind. This part of your mind is the part which acts automatically and spontaneously; it is the part which plays host to habits.
With a little help from hypnosis you can relax and embed your clear and focused plan to lose weight within your subconscious mind, enabling your self-determined rules to become habitual and automatic. This makes your own weight loss program even easier to follow and therefore far more likely to be successful.
Roseanna Leaton, specialist in hypnosis mp3 downloads to make it easier to lose weight.
